Product Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

Product Strategy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 114 162
Rank change year-on-year +10 +48 +40
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 7 19 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.69% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.84% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 4
10th Percentile £423 £313 £580
25th Percentile £458 £473 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £595 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.45% -8.46% +36.84%
75th Percentile £558 £623 -
90th Percentile £583 £688 -
England median daily rate £550 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -10.57% +11.82% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £53.00 £67.50 £83.31
% change year-on-year -21.48% -18.98% +98.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Strategy in the Midlands

Product Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Product Strategy in the Midlands

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in the Midlands

Product Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Strategy in the Midlands

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +14 7 £515 +62.20% 36
Product Strategy
England

Product Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Product Manager
2 2 (28.57%) QA Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Backlog Management
3 3 (42.86%) Product Backlog
3 3 (42.86%) Product Management
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Business Case
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Scalability Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft