Product Thinking Contracts

Product Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Product Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Thinking over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 711 846
Rank change year-on-year +120 +135 -165
Contract jobs citing Product Thinking 9 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.003% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.004% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £370 - £534
25th Percentile £396 £275 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £300 £606
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -50.52% +40.17%
75th Percentile £475 £325 £633
90th Percentile £520 - £681
UK excluding London median daily rate - £300 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £46.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £37.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Product Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Thinking in the UK

Product Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Thinking in the UK

Product Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Thinking over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Thinking in the UK

Product Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Thinking in the UK

Product Thinking
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 +112 9 £440 +46.67% 1
London +113 7 £450 - 1
Work from Home - 3 £478 - 1

Product Thinking
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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) Miro
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Designer
2 4 (44.44%) Product Designer
3 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior User Researcher
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) UI Designer
4 1 (11.11%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (11.11%) User Researcher
4 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Interaction Design
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
2 5 (55.56%) Prototyping
3 4 (44.44%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Design Thinking
4 3 (33.33%) User Experience
4 3 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (22.22%) Epics
5 2 (22.22%) Iconography
5 2 (22.22%) Product Management
5 2 (22.22%) Product Vision
5 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (22.22%) Typography
5 2 (22.22%) User Research
5 2 (22.22%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree