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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 543 255
Rank change year-on-year +61 -288 +154
Permanent jobs citing Product Strategy 476 499 2,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.49% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.51% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 330 287 765
10th Percentile £41,925 £48,019 £43,500
25th Percentile £55,191 £56,875 £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 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,750
% change year-on-year -3.85% +7.00% +8.00%

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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +93 428 £67,500 -10.00% 198
UK excluding London +53 330 £62,500 -3.85% 115
Work from Home +47 200 £62,500 -16.67% 88
London +51 128 £72,500 -14.71% 92
North of England +106 109 £70,000 +7.69% 29
South East +3 68 £60,000 -17.24% 32
North West +45 65 £73,805 +28.36% 16
South West +21 56 £59,778 +2.62% 6
Midlands +5 48 £59,556 -0.74% 23
Yorkshire +103 35 £67,500 -6.90% 9
West Midlands +15 33 £61,028 -2.36% 19
Scotland -56 20 £35,000 -39.13% 9
East Midlands -4 15 £42,000 -23.64% 4
East of England -44 15 £115,000 +84.00% 11
Wales +17 14 £62,500 -13.79% 7
North East +4 9 £70,000 - 5

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 (4.41%) Confluence
2 12 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 32 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.21%) InVision
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Sketch
6 1 (0.21%) Windchill
6 1 (0.21%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Data Workbench
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 82 (17.23%) SaaS
2 49 (10.29%) AWS
3 36 (7.56%) Azure
4 27 (5.67%) Amazon S3
5 25 (5.25%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (5.25%) Amazon Kinesis
6 23 (4.83%) Power Platform
7 15 (3.15%) GitHub
8 14 (2.94%) Heroku
9 13 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.47%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.26%) GCP
12 6 (1.26%) SurveyMonkey
13 4 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.10%) 5G
2 8 (1.68%) Broadband
3 7 (1.47%) WAN
4 5 (1.05%) LAN
5 4 (0.84%) WLAN
6 3 (0.63%) Internet
7 2 (0.42%) 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 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (6.09%) MySQL
3 27 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 26 (5.46%) RDBMS
4 26 (5.46%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (3.57%) Tableau
7 16 (3.36%) Power BI
8 9 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (1.47%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (1.47%) QlikView
10 4 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.84%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.42%) Big Data
12 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.21%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 44 (9.24%) Git
2 31 (6.51%) JIRA
3 25 (5.25%) Postman
4 14 (2.94%) GitLab
5 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.21%) NUnit
General
1 175 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 171 (35.92%) Finance
3 120 (25.21%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (22.48%) Marketing
5 51 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (9.87%) Banking
7 43 (9.03%) Legal
8 33 (6.93%) Retail
9 32 (6.72%) Law
10 27 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.52%) Games
12 12 (2.52%) Retail Banking
13 11 (2.31%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.89%) Billing
14 9 (1.89%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.89%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.47%) Back Office
15 7 (1.47%) International Banking
15 7 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 179 (37.61%) Product Manager
2 72 (15.13%) Lead
3 71 (14.92%) Senior
4 40 (8.40%) Developer
5 35 (7.35%) Senior Manager
6 31 (6.51%) Product Owner
7 29 (6.09%) Technical Leader
8 27 (5.67%) Senior Product Manager
9 20 (4.20%) Senior Developer
10 19 (3.99%) Analyst
11 16 (3.36%) Lead Product Manager
12 14 (2.94%) Salesforce Developer
13 12 (2.52%) Insight Manager
13 12 (2.52%) Performance Manager
14 11 (2.31%) Account Manager
15 10 (2.10%) Digital Product Manager
15 10 (2.10%) Platform Manager
16 9 (1.89%) Consultant
17 8 (1.68%) Programme Manager
17 8 (1.68%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.25%) JSON
1 25 (5.25%) Spring
1 25 (5.25%) Spring Boot
2 16 (3.36%) React
2 16 (3.36%) REST
3 14 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
3 14 (2.94%) Visualforce
4 13 (2.73%) .NET
4 13 (2.73%) Web Services
5 11 (2.31%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.89%) HTML
7 8 (1.68%) Laravel
8 7 (1.47%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.26%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (1.26%) Entity Framework
9 6 (1.26%) Node.js
9 6 (1.26%) React Native
10 5 (1.05%) CSS
10 5 (1.05%) Next.js
10 5 (1.05%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 95 (19.96%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 29 (6.09%) Mobile App
4 27 (5.67%) Algorithms
5 26 (5.46%) Cloud Native
6 20 (4.20%) Data Structures
7 18 (3.78%) NHS
8 16 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.52%) PMI
11 9 (1.89%) Robotics
12 8 (1.68%) Blockchain
12 8 (1.68%) IoT
13 7 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
14 6 (1.26%) Blog
15 5 (1.05%) Social Media
16 4 (0.84%) Media Streaming
16 4 (0.84%) Onboarding
17 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
17 3 (0.63%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.47%) Android
1 7 (1.47%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.26%) Windows
3 4 (0.84%) Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Debian
4 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (61.55%) Roadmaps
2 272 (57.14%) Agile
3 197 (41.39%) Product Roadmap
4 144 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (28.15%) Product Management
6 117 (24.58%) Product Vision
7 107 (22.48%) Project Management
8 105 (22.06%) Scrum
9 98 (20.59%) Market Research
9 98 (20.59%) User Experience
10 89 (18.70%) Analytics
10 89 (18.70%) Strategic Roadmap
11 81 (17.02%) User Stories
12 80 (16.81%) DevOps
13 65 (13.66%) Product Backlog
14 64 (13.45%) CI/CD
15 59 (12.39%) Decision-Making
15 59 (12.39%) Mentoring
15 59 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
16 58 (12.18%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 37 (7.77%) Python
2 34 (7.14%) SQL
3 31 (6.51%) PHP
4 29 (6.09%) Java
5 20 (4.20%) C#
6 17 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 14 (2.94%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.47%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.84%) Bash
11 3 (0.63%) Go
11 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.63%) R
11 3 (0.63%) Swift
11 3 (0.63%) VBA
12 2 (0.42%) Tcl
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (19.75%) Degree
2 39 (8.19%) Master's Degree
3 30 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (5.04%) MBA
5 12 (2.52%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.89%) CSPO
7 7 (1.47%) Security Cleared
8 6 (1.26%) IIBA
9 5 (1.05%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.84%) EMC Certification
11 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.21%) CIPD
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%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.87%) QA
2 10 (2.10%) SLA
3 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.21%) DICOM
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) HL7
5 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (6.09%) Terraform
2 8 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 36 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.30%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.68%) Virgin Media
4 6 (1.26%) Qualtrics
4 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.05%) EMC
5 5 (1.05%) Intel
5 5 (1.05%) SAP
6 4 (0.84%) Cadence
6 4 (0.84%) Databricks
6 4 (0.84%) Oracle
7 3 (0.63%) Adobe
7 3 (0.63%) Apple
8 2 (0.42%) BT
8 2 (0.42%) Google
8 2 (0.42%) Pardot
8 2 (0.42%) Zuora
9 1 (0.21%) Facebook
9 1 (0.21%) IBM
9 1 (0.21%) Workday