Product Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Product Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 - 426
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Thinking 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £456 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £300
75th Percentile £650 - £325
90th Percentile £673 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £345 £300
% change year-on-year +59.30% +15.08% -52.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Product Thinking 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,687 15,011 19,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.11% 82.65% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,185 8,893 12,773
10th Percentile £238 £245 £260
25th Percentile £367 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,395 1,400 1,211
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +6.25% +77.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.30 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

Product Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Thinking in the UK excluding London

Product Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Thinking

Product Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Thinking in the UK excluding London

Product Thinking
DemandTrendContract 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 Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire - 2 £575 -
North of England - 2 £575 - 6
South East - 1 £375 - 14
South West - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £675 -
Product Thinking
UK

Product Thinking
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Procurement Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Supply Chain Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Product Management
2 3 (60.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Product Vision
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) Market Research
4 1 (20.00%) Objectives and Key Results
4 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) SIAM
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO
1 1 (20.00%) webMethods