Product Strategy Contracts in England

Product Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 401 456
Rank change year-on-year +48 +55 +72
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 126 143 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.39% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.45% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 97 145
10th Percentile £389 £425 £416
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £560
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +9.82% +2.75%
75th Percentile £633 £706 £650
90th Percentile £763 £850 £739
UK median daily rate £544 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -9.38% +0.84% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 8
10th Percentile - £41.17 £69.28
25th Percentile £48.25 £48.56 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £67.50 £83.31
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -18.98% +71.77%
75th Percentile £61.53 £68.75 £83.40
90th Percentile £79.88 £77.55 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £67.50 £83.31
% change year-on-year -21.48% -18.98% +68.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,249 31,929 45,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.59% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,571 20,948 31,615
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 935 2,243 1,590
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.99
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.80 £36.33 £36.40
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% -0.18% +49.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Strategy in England

Product Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Strategy in England

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in England

Product Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Strategy in England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Strategy in England

Product Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Strategy in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Strategy in England

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
London +41 95 £550 -8.33% 536
North of England +10 11 £450 -47.06% 57
West Midlands +18 8 £515 +63.49% 21
Midlands +10 8 £515 -13.45% 36
North West +3 8 £450 -47.06% 33
South East +35 5 £438 -30.00% 97
South West +38 4 £600 -4.76% 21
East of England +28 3 £638 +0.39% 14
Yorkshire +19 2 £600 +6.67% 18
North East - 1 £775 - 6
Product Strategy
UK

Product Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (3.17%) CMS
1 4 (3.17%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.79%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Trello
2 1 (0.79%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Sketch
2 1 (0.79%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.70%) Azure
2 9 (7.14%) Figma
3 8 (6.35%) SaaS
4 4 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.17%) Azure Stack
5 3 (2.38%) AWS
5 3 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.38%) Miro
5 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.38%) Slack
6 2 (1.59%) GCP
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.79%) dbt
7 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) GitHub
7 1 (0.79%) IaaS
7 1 (0.79%) OCI
7 1 (0.79%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.79%) PaaS
7 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) Firewall
1 2 (1.59%) HTTP
1 2 (1.59%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.79%) BGP
2 1 (0.79%) DHCP
2 1 (0.79%) DNS
2 1 (0.79%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.79%) Internet
2 1 (0.79%) IPsec
2 1 (0.79%) Network Security
2 1 (0.79%) OSPF
2 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.79%) SSL
2 1 (0.79%) TACACS
2 1 (0.79%) VLAN
2 1 (0.79%) VPN
2 1 (0.79%) VSAN
2 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.38%) Mixpanel
1 3 (2.38%) Power BI
2 2 (1.59%) Tableau
3 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.79%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.79%) GIS
3 1 (0.79%) Looker
3 1 (0.79%) Metadata
3 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (12.70%) JIRA
2 3 (2.38%) Postman
3 2 (1.59%) ERwin
3 2 (1.59%) MagicDraw
4 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.79%) Eclipse
General
1 62 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.60%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (19.84%) Finance
4 19 (15.08%) Marketing
5 11 (8.73%) Banking
5 11 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.94%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (7.94%) Retail
7 9 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (6.35%) Legal
9 7 (5.56%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.17%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.38%) German Language
11 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.59%) Back Office
12 2 (1.59%) Military
13 1 (0.79%) Advertising
13 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (34.13%) Product Manager
2 20 (15.87%) Product Owner
3 18 (14.29%) Senior
4 12 (9.52%) Analyst
5 10 (7.94%) Designer
6 8 (6.35%) Lead
7 7 (5.56%) User Experience Researcher
8 6 (4.76%) Product Lead
8 6 (4.76%) Senior Designer
9 5 (3.97%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Product Designer
9 5 (3.97%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 4 (3.17%) DataOps Engineer
10 4 (3.17%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (3.17%) Senior Product Designer
10 4 (3.17%) Senior Product Owner
11 3 (2.38%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
1 1 (0.79%) ATL
1 1 (0.79%) EDI
1 1 (0.79%) Express.js
1 1 (0.79%) NgRx
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.79%) Playwright
1 1 (0.79%) REST
1 1 (0.79%) RESTful
1 1 (0.79%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (34.13%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.73%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.38%) Digital Signage
4 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.59%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.59%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (1.59%) IoT
5 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.79%) BYOD
6 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.79%) Life Science
6 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.79%) Robotics
6 1 (0.79%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Android
1 3 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (58.73%) Roadmaps
2 62 (49.21%) Agile
3 44 (34.92%) Product Management
4 39 (30.95%) Product Roadmap
4 39 (30.95%) User Experience
5 32 (25.40%) Product Vision
6 31 (24.60%) Analytics
7 30 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (20.63%) Decision-Making
9 24 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (19.05%) Product Backlog
10 22 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (15.87%) Scrum
12 19 (15.08%) Backlog Management
12 19 (15.08%) User Stories
13 18 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
14 17 (13.49%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 17 (13.49%) UX Design
15 15 (11.90%) Project Management
15 15 (11.90%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.35%) Python
2 6 (4.76%) SQL
3 4 (3.17%) Scala
4 3 (2.38%) R
5 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (8.73%) Degree
2 6 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.17%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.79%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (0.79%) CISSP
5 1 (0.79%) CSPO
5 1 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.79%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.38%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.38%) QA
2 2 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.59%) NCSC
2 2 (1.59%) PSD2
3 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.79%) Docker
1 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
1 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.79%) Nagios
2 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.76%) Cisco
3 3 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.38%) Logitech
3 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.59%) Nokia
4 2 (1.59%) Optimizely
4 2 (1.59%) Oracle
4 2 (1.59%) SAP
4 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.59%) VMware
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe
5 1 (0.79%) Arista
5 1 (0.79%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.79%) Ericsson
5 1 (0.79%) Google
5 1 (0.79%) Juniper
5 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.79%) Workday