Product Strategy Contracts in the South East

Product Strategy
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 192 188
Rank change year-on-year +38 -4 +60
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 7 7 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.21% 0.13% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.15% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 25
10th Percentile £431 £437 £340
25th Percentile £450 £456 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £497 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £565 £527 £625
90th Percentile £691 £541 £658
England median daily rate £513 £622 £550
% change year-on-year -17.54% +13.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,043 4,616 5,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.00% 82.72% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,889 2,707 3,573
10th Percentile £250 £263 £261
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 424 242
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.29 £22.02
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - +118.91%
75th Percentile £53.63 £70.00 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.38 £74.98
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Strategy in the South East

Product Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Product Strategy in the South East

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in the South East

Product Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Strategy in the South East

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 July 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 Sussex - 3 £444 - 5
East Sussex - 2 £619 - 5
Berkshire +20 1 - - 14
Thames Valley +14 1 - - 34
Middlesex - 1 £560 -
Product Strategy
England

Product Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (14.29%) CMS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Product Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Product Management
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Business Case
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Product Backlog
4 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Product Vision
4 1 (14.29%) Service Design
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow