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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 692 831
Rank change year-on-year +131 +139 -121
Contract jobs citing Product Thinking 6 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.004% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.004% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £316 - £460
25th Percentile £322 £275 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £300 £606
Median % change year-on-year +15.08% -50.52% +37.78%
75th Percentile £381 £325 £647
90th Percentile £395 - £680
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 36,764 50,288 79,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.53% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,622 34,810 55,795
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,524 1,667 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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
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 31 May 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 +99 6 £345 +15.08% 4
London +90 4 £312 - 3
Work from Home - 1 - - 2

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (16.67%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Local Government
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Product Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior User Researcher
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) UI Designer
3 1 (16.67%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (16.67%) User Researcher
3 1 (16.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Interaction Design
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) User Stories
2 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (33.33%) Iconography
3 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) Service Design
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Typography
3 2 (33.33%) User Research
3 2 (33.33%) UX Design
4 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (16.67%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (16.67%) Journey Map
4 1 (16.67%) Product Vision
4 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) UX Research
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree