Product Strategy Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Product Strategy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Product Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 109 125
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 +56
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 17 12 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.93% 0.59% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.65% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 9
10th Percentile £501 - £481
25th Percentile £509 £500 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £640 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -5.19% +40.63%
75th Percentile £775 £650 £713
90th Percentile £819 £665 £735
Central London median daily rate £625 £640 £675
% change year-on-year -2.34% -5.19% +41.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,656 1,860 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.20% 92.17% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,128 1,572
10th Percentile £343 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +54.29% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.88 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Product Strategy job vacancy trend in the City of London

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Strategy

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in the City of London

Product Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Strategy

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Strategy within the City of London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
Product Strategy
Central London

Product Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
2 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) dbt
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) Miro
3 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Postman
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.76%) Marketing
5 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Back Office
6 1 (5.88%) Front Office
6 1 (5.88%) Games
6 1 (5.88%) Legal
6 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Product Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Product Owner
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Product Manager
3 2 (11.76%) User Experience Researcher
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Commercial Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior User Experience Researcher
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
1 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
1 9 (52.94%) Roadmaps
2 7 (41.18%) Analytics
3 6 (35.29%) Product Roadmap
4 5 (29.41%) Business Strategy
5 4 (23.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (23.53%) Customer Experience
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Product Backlog
5 4 (23.53%) Product Management
5 4 (23.53%) Product Vision
5 4 (23.53%) User Stories
5 4 (23.53%) Wealth Management
6 3 (17.65%) AI
6 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Content Management
6 3 (17.65%) CRM
6 3 (17.65%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (17.65%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) MBA
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Hotjar
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.88%) Qualtrics
3 1 (5.88%) Workday