Product Specialist Contracts

Product Specialist
UK

The median Product Specialist daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 553 663
Rank change year-on-year -10 +110 +175
Contract jobs requiring a Product Specialist 4 14 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.036% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.038% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 6
10th Percentile £468 £257 £355
25th Percentile £484 £372 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% -17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £575
90th Percentile - £689 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £275 £220
% change year-on-year +90.91% +25.00% -66.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,308 36,483 50,573
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 92.98% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,221 23,641 34,907
10th Percentile £281 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,493 2,092 1,520
10th Percentile £13.66 £14.16 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%
75th Percentile £54.01 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.15 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.03
% change year-on-year -41.51% +10.19% +85.83%

Product Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Product Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Specialist in the UK

Product Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Specialist.

Daily rate trend for Product Specialist in the UK

Product Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Specialist.

Hourly rate trend for Product Specialist in the UK

Product Specialist
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +21 4 £525 +31.25% 48
UK excluding London -3 2 £525 +90.91% 24
West Midlands -5 2 £525 -32.26% 3
Midlands -7 2 £525 -32.26% 4
Work from Home +21 1 - - 14
London +4 1 £463 +15.63% 31

Product Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 August 2025, Product Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Product Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) ResourceLink
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID

Product Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft