Product Thinking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Product Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Product Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 342 -
Rank change year-on-year +40 - -
Contract jobs citing Product Thinking 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.020% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.022% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £372 £419 -
25th Percentile £389 £433 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £478 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% - -
75th Percentile £496 £525 -
90th Percentile £514 £540 -
UK median daily rate £515 £440 £300
% change year-on-year +17.05% +46.67% -50.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Product Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Product Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Product Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Thinking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Product Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Product Thinking.

Product Thinking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Product Thinking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Product Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Product Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Product Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior UX Designer
2 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Content Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Copywriting
2 1 (50.00%) Iconography
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Typography
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) UX Research
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Facebook