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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 431 471
Rank change year-on-year +36 +40 +72
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 146 157 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.42% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 95 144
10th Percentile £364 £358 £415
25th Percentile £425 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +8.11% +0.91%
75th Percentile £600 £721 £641
90th Percentile £750 £845 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £623 £550
% change year-on-year -19.74% +13.27% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 16
10th Percentile £49.75 £45.25 £35.90
25th Percentile £51.50 £58.75 £50.19
Median hourly rate £62.33 £67.50 £83.31
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% -18.98% +83.10%
75th Percentile £73.97 £72.42 £83.40
90th Percentile £79.32 £79.01 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.32 £37.50 £83.40
% change year-on-year +90.17% -55.04% -1.08%

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 27,830 37,031 49,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 85.26% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,557 23,594 34,329
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,353 2,557 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +3.45% +39.42%
75th Percentile £53.95 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

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 29 June 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 29 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Top 16 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 29 June 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 +41 127 £513 -17.74% 1,126
London +47 76 £515 -14.17% 679
UK excluding London +41 55 £500 -19.74% 527
Work from Home +37 45 £506 -12.95% 451
Midlands +3 17 £403 -33.74% 97
North of England +3 16 £450 -47.06% 117
North West +2 14 £450 -47.06% 57
West Midlands +12 12 £483 +34.40% 58
East of England +31 7 £575 -9.45% 68
South East +50 6 £469 -14.77% 141
Scotland +1 6 £569 +30.75% 28
East Midlands -1 5 £402 -33.83% 35
South West +45 3 £600 -4.76% 57
Wales +7 1 £438 +6.19% 18
Yorkshire +4 1 - - 47
North East - 1 £775 - 13

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 (4.11%) CMS
1 6 (4.11%) Confluence
2 4 (2.74%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) SAS
3 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Trello
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.90%) Azure
2 12 (8.22%) SaaS
3 10 (6.85%) Figma
4 7 (4.79%) AWS
5 6 (4.11%) GCP
5 6 (4.11%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.74%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.05%) GitHub
9 2 (1.37%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.37%) IaaS
9 2 (1.37%) npm
9 2 (1.37%) PaaS
10 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.68%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.74%) Firewall
1 4 (2.74%) HTTP
2 3 (2.05%) Internet
2 3 (2.05%) Network Security
3 2 (1.37%) BGP
3 2 (1.37%) DHCP
3 2 (1.37%) DNS
3 2 (1.37%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.37%) IPsec
3 2 (1.37%) OSPF
3 2 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.37%) SSL
3 2 (1.37%) TACACS
3 2 (1.37%) VLAN
3 2 (1.37%) VPN
3 2 (1.37%) Wireless
4 1 (0.68%) LAN
4 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.68%) VSAN
4 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.16%) Mixpanel
2 6 (4.11%) Power BI
3 4 (2.74%) Looker
3 4 (2.74%) Tableau
4 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.37%) GIS
4 2 (1.37%) Metadata
4 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.68%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.68%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.68%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.68%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 19 (13.01%) JIRA
2 3 (2.05%) Postman
3 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.37%) ERwin
3 2 (1.37%) MagicDraw
4 1 (0.68%) Eclipse
General
1 72 (49.32%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (19.18%) Finance
4 19 (13.01%) Public Sector
5 18 (12.33%) Marketing
6 16 (10.96%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (8.90%) Banking
8 11 (7.53%) Retail
9 7 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (4.11%) Legal
11 3 (2.05%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.05%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.05%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.37%) Advertising
13 1 (0.68%) Back Office
13 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.68%) Local Government
13 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (34.93%) Product Manager
2 23 (15.75%) Product Owner
3 19 (13.01%) Senior
4 13 (8.90%) Analyst
4 13 (8.90%) Designer
5 9 (6.16%) User Experience Researcher
6 7 (4.79%) Data Analyst
6 7 (4.79%) Lead
6 7 (4.79%) Senior Manager
6 7 (4.79%) Senior Product Manager
7 6 (4.11%) Product Lead
8 5 (3.42%) Senior Designer
8 5 (3.42%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (3.42%) UX Designer
9 4 (2.74%) Change Manager
9 4 (2.74%) Digital Product Manager
10 3 (2.05%) Business Analyst
10 3 (2.05%) Pensions Analyst
10 3 (2.05%) Product Analyst
10 3 (2.05%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.37%) AngularJS
1 2 (1.37%) EDI
1 2 (1.37%) Express.js
1 2 (1.37%) Flash
1 2 (1.37%) LDAP
1 2 (1.37%) NgRx
1 2 (1.37%) Playwright
1 2 (1.37%) REST
1 2 (1.37%) RESTful
1 2 (1.37%) RxJS
1 2 (1.37%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.68%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 44 (30.14%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.22%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.74%) FMCG
3 4 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.05%) Digital Signage
5 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.37%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.37%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.68%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.68%) PMI
6 1 (0.68%) Robotics
6 1 (0.68%) Social Media
6 1 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.74%) Android
1 4 (2.74%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (57.53%) Roadmaps
2 68 (46.58%) Agile
3 54 (36.99%) Product Management
4 49 (33.56%) User Experience
5 48 (32.88%) Product Roadmap
6 39 (26.71%) Product Vision
7 38 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (22.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (20.55%) UX Design
10 26 (17.81%) Product Backlog
11 25 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (17.12%) Decision-Making
12 24 (16.44%) Analytics
13 22 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (15.07%) Strategic Roadmap
14 21 (14.38%) Backlog Management
14 21 (14.38%) Scrum
15 19 (13.01%) User Research
16 18 (12.33%) Change Management
17 17 (11.64%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.85%) SQL
2 8 (5.48%) Python
3 6 (4.11%) R
4 2 (1.37%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.68%) Bash
5 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (15.75%) Degree
2 5 (3.42%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.05%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.05%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.68%) ACCA
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.68%) CIMA
6 1 (0.68%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.48%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.74%) QA
4 3 (2.05%) GDPR
5 2 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.37%) PMO
5 2 (1.37%) PSD2
5 2 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (1.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) 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 5 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.37%) Nagios
2 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.79%) Google
3 6 (4.11%) Cisco
3 6 (4.11%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.11%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.74%) Hotjar
5 3 (2.05%) Amplitude
6 2 (1.37%) Apple
6 2 (1.37%) Arista
6 2 (1.37%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.37%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.37%) Juniper
6 2 (1.37%) Logitech
6 2 (1.37%) Okta
6 2 (1.37%) Optimizely
6 2 (1.37%) Oracle
6 2 (1.37%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.37%) VMware
7 1 (0.68%) Adobe
7 1 (0.68%) SAP