Product Strategy Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Product Strategy
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Product Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 54 59
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +28
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 8 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.04% 1.34% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.63% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £344 £538 £250
25th Percentile £357 £581 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £608 £650
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% -6.54% -
75th Percentile £403 £623 -
90th Percentile £426 - £813
England median daily rate £515 £610 £578
% change year-on-year -15.57% +5.63% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 612 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.25% 81.71% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 408 524
10th Percentile £227 £268 £208
25th Percentile £333 £361 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% -9.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £610
90th Percentile £626 £626 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 46
10th Percentile £15.20 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.74 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.16 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -33.36% +46.20%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.06 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.65
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.24% +50.20%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Product Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Product Strategy in the East Midlands

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Product Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Product Strategy

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 August 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -14 8 £381 -37.28% 1
Product Strategy
England

Product Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Product Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Product Owner
3 1 (12.50%) Commercial Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Product Management
1 8 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 8 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (87.50%) B2B
2 7 (87.50%) B2B Sales
2 7 (87.50%) Business Strategy
2 7 (87.50%) Customer Insight
2 7 (87.50%) Development Roadmap
2 7 (87.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) BCP
3 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Accounts Payable
4 3 (37.50%) Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Backlog Management
5 1 (12.50%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (12.50%) Product Backlog
5 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft