Product Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Product Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Strategy over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 558 249
Rank change year-on-year +83 -309 +152
Permanent jobs citing Product Strategy 482 477 2,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.48% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.50% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 332 281 757
10th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £43,500
25th Percentile £55,188 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Strategy.

Salary trend for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Strategy over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

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 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +90 435 £67,500 -10.00% 237
UK excluding London +53 337 £62,500 -7.41% 133
Work from Home +55 204 £62,500 -16.67% 94
London +51 128 £72,500 -13.43% 124
North of England +108 114 £70,000 +7.69% 33
North West +42 69 £73,805 +28.36% 15
South East +11 67 £60,000 -17.24% 44
South West +20 57 £60,000 +3.00% 8
Midlands +8 50 £59,556 +3.57% 26
Yorkshire +96 36 £67,500 -3.57% 14
West Midlands +16 34 £62,500 +4.17% 22
Scotland -54 19 £50,000 -13.04% 9
East Midlands +5 16 £39,000 -29.09% 4
East of England -49 16 £115,000 +87.76% 12
Wales +20 14 £62,500 -13.79% 3
North East +2 9 £70,000 - 5

Product Strategy
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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (4.56%) Confluence
2 12 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.21%) Liferay
Applications
1 31 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.21%) InVision
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Sketch
6 1 (0.21%) Windchill
6 1 (0.21%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Data Workbench
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 83 (17.22%) SaaS
2 48 (9.96%) AWS
3 40 (8.30%) Azure
4 27 (5.60%) Amazon S3
5 25 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (5.19%) Amazon Kinesis
6 23 (4.77%) Power Platform
7 15 (3.11%) GitHub
8 14 (2.90%) Heroku
9 13 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.45%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.24%) GCP
12 6 (1.24%) SurveyMonkey
13 4 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.07%) 5G
2 8 (1.66%) Broadband
3 7 (1.45%) WAN
4 5 (1.04%) LAN
5 4 (0.83%) WLAN
6 2 (0.41%) Internet
6 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.21%) DECT
7 1 (0.21%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.21%) RFID
7 1 (0.21%) RS-232
7 1 (0.21%) RS-485
7 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (6.02%) MySQL
3 27 (5.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 26 (5.39%) RDBMS
4 26 (5.39%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (3.53%) Tableau
7 16 (3.32%) Power BI
8 9 (1.87%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (1.45%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (1.45%) QlikView
10 4 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.83%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.62%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.41%) Big Data
12 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.21%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 44 (9.13%) Git
2 32 (6.64%) JIRA
3 25 (5.19%) Postman
4 14 (2.90%) GitLab
5 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.21%) NUnit
General
1 174 (36.10%) Social Skills
2 171 (35.48%) Finance
3 119 (24.69%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (22.20%) Marketing
5 52 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (9.96%) Banking
7 44 (9.13%) Legal
8 39 (8.09%) Retail
9 33 (6.85%) Law
10 28 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.49%) Games
12 12 (2.49%) Retail Banking
13 11 (2.28%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.87%) Billing
14 9 (1.87%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.87%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.45%) Back Office
15 7 (1.45%) International Banking
15 7 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 178 (36.93%) Product Manager
2 72 (14.94%) Lead
2 72 (14.94%) Senior
3 40 (8.30%) Developer
4 35 (7.26%) Senior Manager
5 32 (6.64%) Product Owner
6 29 (6.02%) Technical Leader
7 27 (5.60%) Senior Product Manager
8 21 (4.36%) Analyst
9 20 (4.15%) Senior Developer
10 16 (3.32%) Lead Product Manager
11 14 (2.90%) Salesforce Developer
12 12 (2.49%) Insight Manager
12 12 (2.49%) Performance Manager
13 11 (2.28%) Account Manager
13 11 (2.28%) Digital Product Manager
14 10 (2.07%) Platform Manager
15 9 (1.87%) Consultant
15 9 (1.87%) Project Manager
16 8 (1.66%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.19%) JSON
1 25 (5.19%) Spring
1 25 (5.19%) Spring Boot
2 16 (3.32%) React
2 16 (3.32%) REST
3 14 (2.90%) .NET
3 14 (2.90%) Lightning Web Components
3 14 (2.90%) Visualforce
4 13 (2.70%) Web Services
5 11 (2.28%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.87%) HTML
7 8 (1.66%) Laravel
8 7 (1.45%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.24%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (1.24%) Entity Framework
9 6 (1.24%) Node.js
9 6 (1.24%) React Native
10 5 (1.04%) CSS
10 5 (1.04%) Next.js
10 5 (1.04%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 99 (20.54%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.26%) Management Information System
3 31 (6.43%) Mobile App
4 28 (5.81%) Algorithms
5 26 (5.39%) Cloud Native
6 21 (4.36%) Data Structures
7 18 (3.73%) NHS
8 17 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.49%) PMI
11 9 (1.87%) Robotics
12 8 (1.66%) Blockchain
13 7 (1.45%) IoT
13 7 (1.45%) Social Media
14 6 (1.24%) Blog
14 6 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
15 4 (0.83%) Media Streaming
15 4 (0.83%) Onboarding
16 3 (0.62%) Low-Code
16 3 (0.62%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.45%) Android
1 7 (1.45%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.24%) Windows
3 4 (0.83%) Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Debian
4 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (61.62%) Roadmaps
2 276 (57.26%) Agile
3 197 (40.87%) Product Roadmap
4 144 (29.88%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (28.63%) Product Management
6 119 (24.69%) Product Vision
7 109 (22.61%) Project Management
8 104 (21.58%) Scrum
9 98 (20.33%) Market Research
9 98 (20.33%) User Experience
10 92 (19.09%) Analytics
11 88 (18.26%) Strategic Roadmap
12 83 (17.22%) DevOps
13 82 (17.01%) User Stories
14 67 (13.90%) CI/CD
15 66 (13.69%) Product Backlog
16 59 (12.24%) Acceptance Criteria
16 59 (12.24%) Mentoring
17 58 (12.03%) Decision-Making
17 58 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.47%) Python
2 35 (7.26%) SQL
3 31 (6.43%) PHP
4 29 (6.02%) Java
5 20 (4.15%) C#
6 17 (3.53%) JavaScript
7 14 (2.90%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.66%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.66%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.83%) Bash
10 3 (0.62%) Go
10 3 (0.62%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.62%) R
10 3 (0.62%) Swift
11 2 (0.41%) Tcl
11 2 (0.41%) VBA
12 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (19.50%) Degree
2 39 (8.09%) Master's Degree
3 30 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (4.98%) MBA
5 13 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.87%) CSPO
7 7 (1.45%) Security Cleared
8 6 (1.24%) IIBA
9 5 (1.04%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.83%) EMC Certification
11 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.21%) CIPD
13 1 (0.21%) CISM
13 1 (0.21%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) MCAD
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.21%) PMP
13 1 (0.21%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.37%) QA
2 10 (2.07%) SLA
3 3 (0.62%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.21%) DICOM
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) HL7
5 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (6.02%) Terraform
2 8 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) FTK
Vendors
1 36 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.22%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.66%) Virgin Media
4 6 (1.24%) Qualtrics
4 6 (1.24%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.04%) BT
5 5 (1.04%) EMC
5 5 (1.04%) Intel
5 5 (1.04%) SAP
6 4 (0.83%) Cadence
6 4 (0.83%) Databricks
6 4 (0.83%) Google
6 4 (0.83%) Oracle
7 3 (0.62%) Adobe
7 3 (0.62%) Apple
8 2 (0.41%) Pardot
8 2 (0.41%) Zuora
9 1 (0.21%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.21%) Cellebrite
9 1 (0.21%) Facebook