Product Vision Contract Job Trends in the South East

Product Vision
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Product Vision skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 150 189
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 +37
Contract jobs citing Product Vision 24 16 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.56% 0.48% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.54% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 9
10th Percentile £369 - £453
25th Percentile £402 £416 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £441 £535
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% -17.52% +4.90%
75th Percentile £603 £574 £688
90th Percentile £716 £575 £725
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £54.25 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Product Vision 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 3,629 2,988 4,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.22% 88.98% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,383 1,848 2,840
10th Percentile £226 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.40% +3.24%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 112 257
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.37 £18.30
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.56 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +24.29%
75th Percentile £54.38 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.63 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Product Vision
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Product Vision job vacancy trend in the South East

Product Vision
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Vision.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Vision

Product Vision
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Vision in the South East over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Vision in the South East

Product Vision
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 Vision within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Thames Valley 0 16 £565 -1.74% 12
Berkshire -1 12 £563 -2.17% 4
Hampshire - 5 £380 - 5
Buckinghamshire - 3 £565 - 4
Surrey -7 2 £575 - 5
East Sussex - 1 £485 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £500 - 4
Product Vision
England

Product Vision
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Data Mart
1 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Automotive
4 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Billing
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 2 (8.33%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Health Technology
6 1 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.17%) Publishing
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Product Manager
2 9 (37.50%) Product Owner
3 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Security Product Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Product Owner
5 1 (4.17%) ERP Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Product Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Scrum Master
5 1 (4.17%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (12.50%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) Educational Technology
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 17 (70.83%) Agile
3 11 (45.83%) Scrum
4 10 (41.67%) User Stories
5 8 (33.33%) Backlog Management
6 7 (29.17%) Product Backlog
6 7 (29.17%) Product Management
6 7 (29.17%) Product Strategy
6 7 (29.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
8 5 (20.83%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.83%) Sprint Planning
9 4 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
9 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (16.67%) DevOps
9 4 (16.67%) Fintech
9 4 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
9 4 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) C#
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) CSPO
2 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) PSD2
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
1 3 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) SAP