Product Strategy Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Product Strategy
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Product Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.80% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £443 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -19.42% +6.67% +2.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 933 334 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 92.74% 95.43% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 217 227
10th Percentile £350 £220 £298
25th Percentile £413 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £453
Median % change year-on-year - +7.62% -17.64%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 13
10th Percentile £15.27 £16.08 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.29 £17.38 £12.63
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +37.60% +24.46%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.36 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.07 £18.45 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Product Strategy job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Product Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Product Strategy

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in South Yorkshire

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 March 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
Sheffield - 8 £475 - 5
Product Strategy
Yorkshire

Product Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Advertising
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Product Owner
2 1 (12.50%) Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Product Lead
2 1 (12.50%) UI Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Onboarding
1 6 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Strategy
1 5 (62.50%) KYC
1 5 (62.50%) Product Backlog
1 5 (62.50%) Product Vision
1 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
1 5 (62.50%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) Minimum Viable Product
2 4 (50.00%) Objectives and Key Results
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
1 1 (12.50%) vRealize
1 1 (12.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware