Product Strategy Contracts with Work from Home Options

Product Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Product Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Strategy over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 377 453
Rank change year-on-year +86 +76 -32
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 54 93 165
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.38% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 61 130
10th Percentile £350 £420 £368
25th Percentile £481 £475 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £600 £553
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +8.60% +11.62%
75th Percentile £632 £650 £638
90th Percentile £754 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £598 £550
% change year-on-year +0.42% +8.64% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £83.31 £48.50
% change year-on-year -18.98% +71.77% -24.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Product Strategy 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Product Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Strategy.

Product Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Product Strategy over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Product Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Strategy.

Product Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Strategy
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) Azure
2 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 5 (9.26%) SaaS
4 4 (7.41%) Asana
5 3 (5.56%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (5.56%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.70%) AWS
6 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.70%) GCP
6 2 (3.70%) Miro
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.85%) Commercetools
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub
7 1 (1.85%) Heroku
7 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DHCP
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (1.85%) Big Data
2 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Automotive
4 6 (11.11%) Finance
4 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.41%) Back Office
6 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
7 3 (5.56%) Banking
7 3 (5.56%) Marketing
8 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.70%) Public Speaking
9 1 (1.85%) Advertising
9 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.85%) Legal
9 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Product Owner
1 12 (22.22%) Senior
2 9 (16.67%) Analyst
2 9 (16.67%) Product Manager
3 7 (12.96%) Business Analyst
3 7 (12.96%) Senior Product Owner
4 4 (7.41%) Lead
5 3 (5.56%) Debt Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 2 (3.70%) Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Data Strategist
6 2 (3.70%) Designer
6 2 (3.70%) UX Designer
7 1 (1.85%) Associate Director
7 1 (1.85%) Digital UX Designer
7 1 (1.85%) Project Manager
7 1 (1.85%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) ADO
1 2 (3.70%) React
2 1 (1.85%) .NET
2 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (1.85%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.85%) HTML
2 1 (1.85%) HTML5
2 1 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.85%) REST
2 1 (1.85%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.89%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.26%) Infotainment
3 3 (5.56%) Educational Technology
3 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.70%) Blockchain
4 2 (3.70%) Digital Signage
4 2 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.70%) IPTV
4 2 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Android
1 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) CentOS
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (51.85%) Agile
2 23 (42.59%) Roadmaps
3 20 (37.04%) Analytics
4 16 (29.63%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 12 (22.22%) Scrum
6 11 (20.37%) Product Vision
6 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (18.52%) Backlog Management
7 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (18.52%) Product Management
7 10 (18.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 8 (14.81%) Objectives and Key Results
8 8 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (12.96%) Business Case
9 7 (12.96%) Product Roadmap
9 7 (12.96%) User Stories
10 6 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
10 6 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.41%) Java
2 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (1.85%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.85%) Bash
3 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) PMO
2 5 (9.26%) QA
3 3 (5.56%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.85%) Nagios
1 1 (1.85%) Opsview
1 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Google
3 3 (5.56%) Adobe
4 2 (3.70%) Logitech
4 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.85%) VMware