Product Strategy Contracts in the West Midlands

Product Strategy
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 107 133
Rank change year-on-year +18 +26 +38
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 8 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.31% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.37% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £423 £311 -
25th Percentile £458 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £315 £650
Median % change year-on-year +63.49% -51.54% +36.84%
75th Percentile £558 £330 -
90th Percentile £583 £556 -
England median daily rate £550 £615 £560
% change year-on-year -10.57% +9.82% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £67.50 £83.31
% change year-on-year -22.22% -18.98% +71.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,200 1,619 2,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.37% 84.06% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 1,076 1,429
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £382 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 114 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.40
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +21.62% +9.39%
75th Percentile £24.22 £40.38 £27.13
90th Percentile £37.25 £58.00 £48.75
England median hourly rate £29.80 £36.33 £36.40
% change year-on-year -17.97% -0.18% +49.47%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Product Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Product Strategy in the West Midlands

Product Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Product Strategy in the West Midlands

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in the West Midlands

Product Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Strategy in the West Midlands

Product Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Birmingham +14 2 £600 -12.73% 8
Warwickshire -5 2 £400 +27.39% 5
Solihull - 2 - - 2
Staffordshire +2 1 - - 14
Worcestershire - 1 £515 -
Product Strategy
England

Product Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) BGP
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) IPsec
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) OSPF
2 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) TACACS
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Humanities
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Product Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Product Owner
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) QA Manager
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Product Backlog
2 5 (62.50%) Product Management
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 4 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 4 (50.00%) Product Requirements
4 3 (37.50%) Product Vision
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) Business Case
5 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Epics
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds