Product Thinking Contract Job Trends in the South East

Product Thinking
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Product Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Thinking 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.049% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £432
% change year-on-year - +27.31% -33.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,557 3,557 4,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.42% 85.30% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,242 2,179 3,111
10th Percentile £222 £260 £214
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -0.58% +1.46%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £691
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 160 251
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.92 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.61 £27.00 £24.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £57.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.40% +8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £48.73 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%

Product Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Product Thinking job vacancy trend in the South East

Product Thinking
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 Thinking within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 November 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
Thames Valley - 2 £375 - 1
Berkshire - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £375 - 1
Product Thinking
England

Product Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Procurement Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Procurement Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Supply Chain Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) UI Designer
1 1 (50.00%) UI/UX Designer
1 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) RUP
2 1 (50.00%) SIAM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) TIBCO
1 1 (50.00%) webMethods