Product Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Product Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 340 352
Rank change year-on-year +50 +12 +79
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 40 55 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.32% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 37 59
10th Percentile £406 £354 £390
25th Percentile £450 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £623 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +13.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £706 £601
90th Percentile £634 £850 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £56.40 - -
25th Percentile £67.39 £36.25 -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £37.50 £83.31
Median % change year-on-year +95.27% -54.99% -1.19%
75th Percentile £78.47 £38.75 £83.40
90th Percentile £81.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £67.50 £83.31
% change year-on-year -21.48% -18.98% +71.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Product Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Strategy in the UK excluding London

Product Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Product Strategy in the UK excluding London

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in the UK excluding London

Product Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Strategy in the UK excluding London

Product Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Strategy in the UK excluding London

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
North of England +9 11 £450 -47.06% 89
West Midlands +15 9 £515 +63.49% 38
Midlands +4 9 £515 -13.45% 55
North West +2 8 £450 -47.06% 60
Scotland +10 6 £569 +30.75% 30
South East +47 5 £444 -29.00% 143
South West +36 4 £600 -4.76% 27
East of England +28 4 £575 -9.45% 29
Yorkshire +9 2 £600 +6.67% 23
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 12
North East - 1 £775 - 7
Product Strategy
UK

Product Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) GCP
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) Figma
3 1 (2.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) HTTP
3 2 (5.00%) BGP
3 2 (5.00%) DHCP
3 2 (5.00%) DNS
3 2 (5.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (5.00%) IPsec
3 2 (5.00%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) OSPF
3 2 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (5.00%) SSL
3 2 (5.00%) TACACS
3 2 (5.00%) VLAN
3 2 (5.00%) VPN
3 2 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) GIS
1 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Humanities
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Product Owner
2 10 (25.00%) Product Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (7.50%) Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Lead
4 3 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Product Lead
4 3 (7.50%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Designer
5 2 (5.00%) Principal Security Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Product Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Service Designer
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (2.50%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.50%) Express.js
1 1 (2.50%) NgRx
1 1 (2.50%) Playwright
1 1 (2.50%) REST
1 1 (2.50%) RESTful
1 1 (2.50%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (55.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) BYOD
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.50%) Robotics
3 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 22 (55.00%) Agile
3 18 (45.00%) Product Management
4 17 (42.50%) Product Roadmap
5 16 (40.00%) Product Vision
6 14 (35.00%) Scrum
7 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (30.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 12 (30.00%) Product Backlog
9 11 (27.50%) Coaching
10 9 (22.50%) Backlog Management
10 9 (22.50%) Change Management
10 9 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (20.00%) Business Case
11 8 (20.00%) Migration
11 8 (20.00%) Product Requirements
11 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (17.50%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (17.50%) Strategic Roadmap
12 7 (17.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Cisco
2 4 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.50%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.00%) Arista
4 2 (5.00%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) Juniper
4 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds