Product Strategy Contracts in Birmingham

Product Strategy
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Product Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 64 75
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.57% 0.13% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.16% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +5.77% +36.84%
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £318 £650
% change year-on-year +62.20% -51.15% +36.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Product Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 633 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 82.85% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 418 530
10th Percentile £163 £250 £274
25th Percentile £375 £375 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -8.54% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £630
90th Percentile £700 £679 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 43 27
10th Percentile - £13.19 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £22.05 £26.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% +73.33% -14.19%
75th Percentile £29.00 £47.13 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -19.42% +26.98% +4.24%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Strategy in Birmingham

Product Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Strategy in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Product Strategy in Birmingham

Product Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Resilience Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scalability Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Twin
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft