Product Strategy Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Product Strategy
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Product Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £681 - -
North East median daily rate £500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 228 188 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.36% 91.26% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 78 103
10th Percentile £185 £321 £350
25th Percentile £372 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% -8.49%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £639 £671 £718
North East median daily rate £471 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.56% - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 7
10th Percentile £13.83 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +30.61%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £34.46 £70.00 £32.70
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +19.90%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Product Strategy job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Product Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Product Strategy

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in Tyne and Wear

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 15 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 6 £500 - 5
Gateshead - 1 £775 -
Product Strategy
North East

Product Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Product Management
1 4 (57.14%) Quality Management
1 4 (57.14%) Service Design
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
2 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (14.29%) Product Marketing
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001