Product Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Product Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Strategy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 526 281
Rank change year-on-year +44 -245 +129
Permanent jobs citing Product Strategy 466 532 2,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.51% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.53% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 331 298 781
10th Percentile £42,000 £47,245 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,200 £56,563 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Strategy.

Salary trend for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +80 418 £70,000 -6.67% 224
UK excluding London +49 325 £62,500 -3.85% 124
Work from Home +51 200 £65,000 -13.33% 85
London +61 122 £72,500 -14.71% 104
North of England +104 110 £70,000 - 34
South East +28 68 £60,000 -17.24% 34
North West +43 66 £73,805 +28.36% 16
South West +37 54 £60,000 -3.23% 8
Midlands +17 45 £59,556 +3.57% 23
Yorkshire +107 35 £67,500 -8.47% 16
West Midlands +24 30 £59,556 -4.71% 21
Scotland -54 20 £35,000 -36.36% 10
East Midlands -3 15 £42,000 -23.64% 2
Wales +24 14 £62,500 -26.47% 3
East of England -56 14 £115,000 +84.00% 12
North East +6 9 £70,000 - 4

Product Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.51%) Confluence
2 10 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 29 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.93%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.21%) InVision
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Sketch
6 1 (0.21%) Windchill
6 1 (0.21%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.07%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Data Workbench
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 86 (18.45%) SaaS
2 51 (10.94%) AWS
3 40 (8.58%) Azure
4 27 (5.79%) Amazon S3
5 25 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (5.36%) Amazon Kinesis
6 20 (4.29%) Power Platform
7 15 (3.22%) GitHub
8 14 (3.00%) Heroku
9 13 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.29%) GCP
13 5 (1.07%) Power Automate
14 4 (0.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (0.86%) Serverless
15 3 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.15%) 5G
2 8 (1.72%) Broadband
3 7 (1.50%) WAN
4 5 (1.07%) LAN
5 4 (0.86%) WLAN
6 3 (0.64%) Internet
7 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.21%) DECT
8 1 (0.21%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.21%) RFID
8 1 (0.21%) RS-232
8 1 (0.21%) RS-485
8 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (6.22%) MySQL
3 27 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 26 (5.58%) RDBMS
4 26 (5.58%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (3.43%) Tableau
7 15 (3.22%) Power BI
8 8 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (1.07%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (1.07%) QlikView
10 4 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.86%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.64%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.43%) Big Data
12 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.43%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 44 (9.44%) Git
2 31 (6.65%) JIRA
3 25 (5.36%) Postman
4 14 (3.00%) GitLab
5 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.21%) NUnit
General
1 166 (35.62%) Finance
1 166 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 112 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
3 100 (21.46%) Marketing
4 45 (9.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (9.44%) Banking
6 41 (8.80%) Legal
7 33 (7.08%) Retail
8 28 (6.01%) Law
9 21 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.58%) Retail Banking
12 11 (2.36%) Games
13 10 (2.15%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.72%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.50%) Back Office
15 7 (1.50%) Billing
15 7 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 175 (37.55%) Product Manager
2 75 (16.09%) Senior
3 72 (15.45%) Lead
4 41 (8.80%) Developer
5 36 (7.73%) Senior Manager
6 33 (7.08%) Product Owner
7 29 (6.22%) Technical Leader
8 28 (6.01%) Senior Product Manager
9 21 (4.51%) Senior Developer
10 19 (4.08%) Analyst
11 16 (3.43%) Lead Product Manager
12 14 (3.00%) Salesforce Developer
13 12 (2.58%) Insight Manager
13 12 (2.58%) Performance Manager
14 10 (2.15%) Account Manager
14 10 (2.15%) Digital Product Manager
14 10 (2.15%) Platform Manager
15 9 (1.93%) Consultant
15 9 (1.93%) Programme Manager
15 9 (1.93%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.36%) JSON
1 25 (5.36%) Spring
1 25 (5.36%) Spring Boot
2 20 (4.29%) React
3 16 (3.43%) REST
4 14 (3.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 14 (3.00%) Visualforce
5 13 (2.79%) .NET
5 13 (2.79%) Web Services
6 11 (2.36%) ASP.NET
7 10 (2.15%) React Native
8 9 (1.93%) Node.js
9 8 (1.72%) Laravel
9 8 (1.72%) Next.js
10 7 (1.50%) .NET Framework
10 7 (1.50%) CSS
10 7 (1.50%) HTML
11 6 (1.29%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (1.29%) Entity Framework
12 5 (1.07%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 94 (20.17%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.51%) Management Information System
3 29 (6.22%) Mobile App
4 27 (5.79%) Algorithms
5 26 (5.58%) Cloud Native
6 19 (4.08%) Data Structures
7 18 (3.86%) NHS
8 15 (3.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.58%) PMI
10 8 (1.72%) Blockchain
10 8 (1.72%) IoT
10 8 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.50%) Robotics
12 5 (1.07%) Blog
12 5 (1.07%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.86%) Media Streaming
14 3 (0.64%) Digital Media
14 3 (0.64%) e-Learning
14 3 (0.64%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.50%) Android
1 7 (1.50%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.29%) Windows
3 4 (0.86%) Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Debian
4 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (61.80%) Roadmaps
2 271 (58.15%) Agile
3 194 (41.63%) Product Roadmap
4 142 (30.47%) Problem-Solving
5 128 (27.47%) Product Management
6 113 (24.25%) Product Vision
7 107 (22.96%) Project Management
8 104 (22.32%) Scrum
9 95 (20.39%) Market Research
10 93 (19.96%) User Experience
11 89 (19.10%) Strategic Roadmap
12 86 (18.45%) Analytics
13 81 (17.38%) User Stories
14 79 (16.95%) DevOps
15 64 (13.73%) CI/CD
16 63 (13.52%) Decision-Making
17 62 (13.30%) Mentoring
17 62 (13.30%) Product Backlog
18 59 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
19 57 (12.23%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.73%) Python
2 34 (7.30%) SQL
3 31 (6.65%) PHP
4 30 (6.44%) Java
5 24 (5.15%) C#
6 19 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.00%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.72%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.86%) Bash
11 3 (0.64%) Go
11 3 (0.64%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.64%) R
11 3 (0.64%) Swift
11 3 (0.64%) VBA
12 2 (0.43%) Tcl
13 1 (0.21%) C++
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 83 (17.81%) Degree
2 34 (7.30%) Master's Degree
3 29 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (5.36%) MBA
5 12 (2.58%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.93%) CSPO
7 7 (1.50%) Security Cleared
8 6 (1.29%) IIBA
9 5 (1.07%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.86%) EMC Certification
11 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.21%) CISM
13 1 (0.21%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) MCAD
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.21%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.44%) QA
2 10 (2.15%) SLA
3 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.21%) DICOM
4 1 (0.21%) GDPR
4 1 (0.21%) HL7
4 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (6.22%) Terraform
2 11 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.22%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.72%) Virgin Media
4 6 (1.29%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.07%) EMC
5 5 (1.07%) Intel
5 5 (1.07%) SAP
6 4 (0.86%) Cadence
6 4 (0.86%) Databricks
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle
7 3 (0.64%) Adobe
7 3 (0.64%) Apple
8 2 (0.43%) BT
8 2 (0.43%) Zuora
9 1 (0.21%) Ariba
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco
9 1 (0.21%) Facebook
9 1 (0.21%) Pardot
9 1 (0.21%) Sun
9 1 (0.21%) Workday