Product Strategy Job Trends

Product Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 298 465
Rank change year-on-year -108 +167 +64
Permanent jobs citing Product Strategy 353 451 478
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 1.03% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.10% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 209 194 331
10th Percentile £54,000 £47,875 £42,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £55,194
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +19.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% +4.00% -7.41%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,871 40,971 82,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.97% 93.32% 85.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,937 22,765 59,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Strategy job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Strategy
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Strategy

Product Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -79 321 £80,000 +6.67% 249
UK excluding London -85 191 £77,500 +19.23% 129
Work from Home +43 151 £78,698 +21.07% 127
London -66 130 £95,000 +15.15% 143
North of England -92 67 £80,000 +3.23% 38
South East -7 47 £71,250 +14.00% 36
Yorkshire -40 38 £80,000 +3.23% 13
East of England +8 32 £105,000 +68.00% 13
North West -3 25 £80,000 +23.08% 20
Midlands -35 21 £61,538 -3.47% 19
West Midlands -21 18 £61,538 -1.54% 14
Scotland -2 11 £85,000 +6.25% 5
South West -59 11 £57,000 -6.74% 15
North East -90 4 £70,788 +4.87% 5
East Midlands -30 3 - - 5
Wales -45 2 £72,251 -6.77% 3

Product Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.40%) Confluence
2 11 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.13%) WordPress
5 3 (0.85%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (1.98%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (1.13%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.13%) Adobe Premiere
3 4 (1.13%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.85%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.85%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.57%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.28%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (14.73%) SaaS
2 32 (9.07%) Adobe Analytics
2 32 (9.07%) Azure
3 24 (6.80%) AWS
4 13 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.68%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.83%) OneDrive
6 9 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.55%) GCP
7 6 (1.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 6 (1.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 6 (1.70%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.42%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (1.13%) GitHub
10 3 (0.85%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.85%) Figma
10 3 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.57%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.35%) Broadband
2 5 (1.42%) LAN
2 5 (1.42%) WAN
3 3 (0.85%) Firewall
3 3 (0.85%) VPN
4 2 (0.57%) ATM
4 2 (0.57%) Frame Relay
4 2 (0.57%) MPLS
4 2 (0.57%) SNMP
4 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.57%) VoIP
5 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.28%) RFID
5 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.55%) Power BI
2 8 (2.27%) Metadata
3 7 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.70%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.70%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (1.42%) Big Data
5 5 (1.42%) DataStage
5 5 (1.42%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.42%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.42%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.42%) MySQL
5 5 (1.42%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.42%) Pentaho
5 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.85%) Tableau
7 2 (0.57%) Redis
7 2 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (11.61%) JIRA
2 4 (1.13%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.28%) JUnit
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 95 (26.91%) Finance
2 94 (26.63%) Marketing
3 91 (25.78%) Social Skills
4 56 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (10.20%) Games
6 32 (9.07%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (7.37%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (6.23%) Public Sector
9 21 (5.95%) Banking
10 20 (5.67%) Retail
11 19 (5.38%) Financial Institution
12 17 (4.82%) Law
13 11 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (3.12%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.55%) Legal
15 5 (1.42%) Advertising
15 5 (1.42%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.42%) Back Office
15 5 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (1.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 105 (29.75%) Product Manager
2 64 (18.13%) Lead
3 42 (11.90%) Senior
4 30 (8.50%) Product Owner
5 29 (8.22%) Senior Manager
6 24 (6.80%) Senior Product Manager
7 22 (6.23%) Business Sales Executive
7 22 (6.23%) New Business Sales Executive
7 22 (6.23%) Sales Executive
7 22 (6.23%) Solutions Sales Executive
8 19 (5.38%) Designer
8 19 (5.38%) Lead Designer
9 17 (4.82%) Product Lead
10 15 (4.25%) Data Manager
10 15 (4.25%) Systems Manager
11 14 (3.97%) Lead Service Designer
11 14 (3.97%) Marketing Manager
11 14 (3.97%) Product Marketing Manager
11 14 (3.97%) Service Designer
12 12 (3.40%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.13%) .NET
1 4 (1.13%) EDI
1 4 (1.13%) MFC
1 4 (1.13%) Next.js
1 4 (1.13%) React Native
2 3 (0.85%) AngularJS
2 3 (0.85%) React
2 3 (0.85%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (0.85%) Vue
3 2 (0.57%) Node.js
3 2 (0.57%) RESTful
3 2 (0.57%) Spring
3 2 (0.57%) Web Services
4 1 (0.28%) Flutter
4 1 (0.28%) MACH
4 1 (0.28%) Middleware
4 1 (0.28%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (0.28%) NestJS
4 1 (0.28%) Playwright
4 1 (0.28%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.96%) Product Ownership
2 37 (10.48%) Onboarding
3 34 (9.63%) Social Media
4 20 (5.67%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.97%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.40%) Reinsurance
7 9 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (2.55%) Life Science
8 7 (1.98%) Data Fabric
9 6 (1.70%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.42%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.42%) Media Streaming
10 5 (1.42%) Web Conferencing
11 4 (1.13%) Educational Technology
11 4 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.70%) Windows
2 3 (0.85%) Android
2 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (55.52%) Roadmaps
2 125 (35.41%) Agile
3 112 (31.73%) Product Roadmap
4 102 (28.90%) AI
4 102 (28.90%) Analytics
5 90 (25.50%) Decision-Making
6 74 (20.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 72 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (19.55%) Product Management
9 62 (17.56%) Product Vision
10 58 (16.43%) Mentoring
11 54 (15.30%) Customer Experience
12 53 (15.01%) B2B
13 52 (14.73%) User Experience
14 47 (13.31%) Strategic Roadmap
15 43 (12.18%) Business Strategy
16 42 (11.90%) Coaching
16 42 (11.90%) Storytelling
17 41 (11.61%) Workflow
18 40 (11.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.23%) Python
2 18 (5.10%) SQL
3 11 (3.12%) Java
4 5 (1.42%) C#
5 4 (1.13%) C++
6 3 (0.85%) Apex Code
6 3 (0.85%) Ruby
7 2 (0.57%) PHP
8 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.28%) Swift
8 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (10.20%) Degree
2 16 (4.53%) Master's Degree
3 8 (2.27%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.98%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.42%) MBA
6 4 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.13%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.13%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.57%) CCIE
8 2 (0.57%) CCNA
8 2 (0.57%) CCNP
8 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.57%) CSPO
9 1 (0.28%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.33%) Accessibility
2 32 (9.07%) WCAG
3 17 (4.82%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.13%) GDPR
4 4 (1.13%) QA
5 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) GMP
7 1 (0.28%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.42%) Terraform
3 2 (0.57%) OpenView
3 2 (0.57%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (11.61%) Salesforce
2 36 (10.20%) Adobe
3 28 (7.93%) HubSpot
3 28 (7.93%) Microsoft
4 25 (7.08%) ServiceNow
5 22 (6.23%) BMC
6 7 (1.98%) Oracle
7 5 (1.42%) Informatica
7 5 (1.42%) Talend
7 5 (1.42%) Workday
8 3 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.85%) Databricks
8 3 (0.85%) Google
8 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.85%) Tenable
9 2 (0.57%) ArcSight
9 2 (0.57%) Cisco
9 2 (0.57%) EMC
9 2 (0.57%) HP
9 2 (0.57%) Riverbed