Product Strategy Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Product Strategy
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Product Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 114 138
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 +41
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 3 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.17% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.43% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £479 £437 £319
25th Percentile £503 £456 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £497 £435
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% +14.31% -20.91%
75th Percentile £628 £522 £558
90th Percentile £656 £527 £598
South East median daily rate £488 £497 £580
% change year-on-year -1.96% -14.27% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,565 1,877 2,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.36% 86.34% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 1,070 1,613
10th Percentile £268 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 75 92
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.58 £16.44
25th Percentile £15.91 £27.63 £25.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.05 £54.47
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% +6.56% +182.97%
75th Percentile £46.70 £62.85 £68.44
90th Percentile £72.55 £75.09 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £58.49 £54.37
% change year-on-year -64.56% +7.58% +55.34%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Product Strategy job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Strategy

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in the Thames Valley

Product Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Strategy

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Berkshire +14 3 £563 +32.35% 36
Product Strategy
South East

Product Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 5G
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Product Management
1 2 (66.67%) Product Vision
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA