Product Strategy Contracts

Product Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 449 483
Rank change year-on-year +76 +34 +53
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 148 152 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.40% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 102 160
10th Percentile £393 £406 £413
25th Percentile £469 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.17% +0.85%
75th Percentile £638 £703 £650
90th Percentile £775 £848 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £620 £550
% change year-on-year -10.28% +12.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 7
10th Percentile £48.25 £41.17 £64.60
25th Percentile £49.62 £48.56 -
Median hourly rate £55.50 £67.50 £83.31
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -18.98% +96.02%
75th Percentile £77.58 £68.75 £83.36
90th Percentile £78.96 £77.55 £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.23 £37.50 £83.31
% change year-on-year +95.27% -54.99% +105.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Strategy over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +52 132 £550 -10.57% 661
London +49 100 £555 -8.26% 469
Work from Home +33 38 £538 -10.42% 292
UK excluding London +36 37 £556 -10.28% 220
North of England +21 11 £450 -47.06% 71
West Midlands +17 8 £464 +46.06% 30
Midlands +13 8 £464 -22.06% 46
North West +3 8 £450 -47.06% 48
South East +41 6 £438 -30.00% 37
South West +47 4 £600 -4.76% 24
Scotland +11 4 £600 +40.76% 20
East of England +34 3 £638 +0.39% 18
Yorkshire +15 2 £600 +6.67% 19
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 5
North East - 1 £775 - 4

Product Strategy
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 6 (4.05%) CMS
2 5 (3.38%) Confluence
3 2 (1.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Trello
2 1 (0.68%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Sketch
2 1 (0.68%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.81%) Azure
2 9 (6.08%) Figma
2 9 (6.08%) SaaS
3 6 (4.05%) Azure Stack
4 4 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.70%) Slack
5 3 (2.03%) AWS
5 3 (2.03%) Miro
6 2 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.68%) dbt
7 1 (0.68%) Discord
7 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.68%) npm
7 1 (0.68%) OCI
7 1 (0.68%) PaaS
7 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Internet
2 1 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.35%) Power BI
2 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.68%) Data Hub
2 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.68%) GIS
2 1 (0.68%) Looker
2 1 (0.68%) Metadata
2 1 (0.68%) Mixpanel
2 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (12.16%) JIRA
2 3 (2.03%) Postman
3 2 (1.35%) ERwin
3 2 (1.35%) MagicDraw
4 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.68%) Eclipse
General
1 79 (53.38%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (16.89%) Finance
4 21 (14.19%) Marketing
5 15 (10.14%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (8.11%) Banking
6 12 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.11%) Retail
7 11 (7.43%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (7.43%) Telecoms
8 9 (6.08%) Legal
9 4 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.70%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.03%) German Language
10 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.35%) Back Office
11 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.35%) Military
12 1 (0.68%) Front Office
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (33.11%) Product Manager
2 22 (14.86%) Product Owner
3 20 (13.51%) Senior
4 11 (7.43%) Analyst
4 11 (7.43%) Designer
5 10 (6.76%) Lead
6 6 (4.05%) Data Engineer
6 6 (4.05%) Operations Engineer
6 6 (4.05%) Product Lead
7 5 (3.38%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 5 (3.38%) DataOps Engineer
7 5 (3.38%) Product Designer
7 5 (3.38%) Senior Designer
7 5 (3.38%) Senior Manager
7 5 (3.38%) User Experience Researcher
8 4 (2.70%) Business Analyst
8 4 (2.70%) Change Manager
8 4 (2.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (2.70%) Project Manager
8 4 (2.70%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.03%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.68%) ATL
2 1 (0.68%) EDI
2 1 (0.68%) Express.js
2 1 (0.68%) Next.js
2 1 (0.68%) NgRx
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.68%) Playwright
2 1 (0.68%) REST
2 1 (0.68%) RESTful
2 1 (0.68%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (33.78%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.76%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.70%) FMCG
3 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.03%) Digital Signage
4 3 (2.03%) IoT
4 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.35%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.35%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (1.35%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.68%) BYOD
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.68%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.68%) Life Science
6 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.68%) Robotics
6 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.35%) Android
1 2 (1.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (56.08%) Roadmaps
2 75 (50.68%) Agile
3 44 (29.73%) Product Roadmap
4 43 (29.05%) Product Management
5 39 (26.35%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (26.35%) User Experience
6 36 (24.32%) Product Vision
7 33 (22.30%) Analytics
7 33 (22.30%) Decision-Making
8 28 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (18.24%) Product Backlog
10 25 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (16.22%) Backlog Management
12 22 (14.86%) Scrum
13 21 (14.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (13.51%) User Stories
15 19 (12.84%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 19 (12.84%) Strategic Thinking
16 17 (11.49%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 17 (11.49%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.08%) Python
2 6 (4.05%) Scala
3 5 (3.38%) SQL
4 3 (2.03%) R
5 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (10.81%) Degree
2 8 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.35%) CSPO
6 1 (0.68%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (0.68%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.05%) QA
3 3 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.35%) NCSC
4 2 (1.35%) PSD2
4 2 (1.35%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.38%) Cisco
3 3 (2.03%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.03%) Logitech
3 3 (2.03%) Nokia
3 3 (2.03%) Oracle
3 3 (2.03%) SAP
3 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.35%) Blue Prism
4 2 (1.35%) Rakuten
4 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.35%) VMware
5 1 (0.68%) Adobe
5 1 (0.68%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.68%) Ericsson
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.68%) Workday