Product Thinking Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Product Thinking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Product Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 179 -
Rank change year-on-year -69 - -
Contract jobs citing Product Thinking 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.026% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.029% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £603 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% - -
75th Percentile £755 £613 -
90th Percentile £765 - -
England median daily rate £520 £515 £345
% change year-on-year +0.97% +49.17% +15.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Product Thinking 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,083 3,446 3,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.78% 88.77% 84.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,634 2,197 2,232
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% -6.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £553 £584
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 202 286
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.26
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.45 £13.36
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.63 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +98.85% +1.71% -18.65%
75th Percentile £71.60 £43.39 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.50 £72.40 £68.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%

Product Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Product Thinking job vacancy trend in the North of England

Product Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Thinking

Product Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Thinking in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Thinking in the North of England

Product Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Thinking within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
North West - 6 £744 - 7
Yorkshire -49 2 - - 2
North East - 2 £563 -
Product Thinking
England

Product Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 5 (50.00%) Google Gemini
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Claude Code
2 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Principal Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Next.js
1 5 (50.00%) React
1 5 (50.00%) REST
2 4 (40.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Culture of Ownership
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) AI
2 6 (60.00%) Event-Driven
2 6 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) Monorepo
3 5 (50.00%) Observability
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Technical Debt
3 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Pair Programming
4 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform