Product Strategy Contract Job Trends in the North East

Product Strategy
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Product Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £681 - -
England median daily rate £515 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -6.36% -3.08% -1.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 260 266 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 84.14% 91.41% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 97 151
10th Percentile £181 £320 £350
25th Percentile £367 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £638 £693 £626
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 11
10th Percentile £13.90 £13.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +19.90%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £32.93 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Product Strategy job vacancy trend in the North East

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy in the North East over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in the North East

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Tyne and Wear - 7 £500 - 6
Product Strategy
England

Product Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Product Management
1 4 (57.14%) Quality Management
1 4 (57.14%) Service Design
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
2 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (14.29%) Product Marketing
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001