Product Vision Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Product Vision
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Product Vision skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 114 142
Rank change year-on-year -1 +28 +26
Contract jobs citing Product Vision 13 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.64% 0.47% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.54% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 2
10th Percentile £400 £478 £516
25th Percentile £425 £558 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% +8.04%
75th Percentile £713 - £547
90th Percentile £750 - £549
South East median daily rate £475 £508 £530
% change year-on-year -6.40% -4.25% +0.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,788 1,859 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.38% 88.27% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,089 1,510
10th Percentile £263 £296 £214
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 58 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.14 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.15 £32.90 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.97% +14.25% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.31 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.41 £71.24 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

Product Vision
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Product Vision job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Product Vision
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Product Vision
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Vision in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Vision in the Thames Valley

Product Vision
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 Vision within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 December 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 +1 12 £563 -2.17% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £500 - 4
Product Vision
South East

Product Vision
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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Mart
1 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Automotive
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Billing
3 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Publishing
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Product Manager
2 4 (30.77%) Product Owner
3 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Security Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Security Product Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Product Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
5 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Product Ownership
2 3 (23.08%) IoT
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Roadmaps
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) Backlog Management
4 6 (46.15%) Product Strategy
4 6 (46.15%) User Stories
5 5 (38.46%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (30.77%) Backlog Refinement
6 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (30.77%) Product Backlog
6 4 (30.77%) Scrum
6 4 (30.77%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (23.08%) Business Case
7 3 (23.08%) Commercial Awareness
7 3 (23.08%) DevOps
7 3 (23.08%) Digital Innovation
7 3 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
8 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
8 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
1 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks