Product Strategy Contracts

Product Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 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 415 474 535
Rank change year-on-year +59 +61 +14
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 156 218 332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.43% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 147 245
10th Percentile £398 £420 £405
25th Percentile £497 £500 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £704 £650 £638
90th Percentile £850 £739 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £623 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +13.27% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 9
10th Percentile £41.17 £69.28 -
25th Percentile £48.56 - £24.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £83.31 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.98% +71.77% -14.16%
75th Percentile £68.75 £83.40 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.55 - £68.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £83.31 £84.31
% change year-on-year -54.99% -1.19% +105.63%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Strategy over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Strategy in the UK

Product Strategy
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +56 144 £618 +2.92% 253
London +79 90 £600 - 131
UK excluding London +29 55 £623 +13.27% 141
Work from Home +70 54 £598 -0.42% 101
North of England +7 20 £850 +54.55% 37
Midlands +35 18 £595 -8.46% 28
North West +30 18 £850 +47.83% 15
East Midlands +18 10 £608 -6.54% 3
West Midlands +26 6 £315 -51.54% 25
South East +15 5 £625 +36.61% 43
Scotland +39 4 £435 -22.15% 9
Wales - 4 £412 - 3
South West +1 2 £630 -1.18% 8
East of England +1 2 £635 -2.31% 15
Yorkshire -19 2 £563 +2.27% 18

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 4 (2.56%) SAS
2 3 (1.92%) Confluence
3 2 (1.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
1 4 (2.56%) SPSS
2 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.28%) Softmar
3 1 (0.64%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (13.46%) Azure
2 11 (7.05%) Power Platform
3 10 (6.41%) AWS
4 8 (5.13%) SaaS
5 5 (3.21%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.56%) Asana
7 3 (1.92%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.92%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.28%) dbt
8 2 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.28%) GCP
8 2 (1.28%) Miro
8 2 (1.28%) PaaS
9 1 (0.64%) Commercetools
9 1 (0.64%) OCI
9 1 (0.64%) SAP Fieldglass
9 1 (0.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.54%) Firewall
2 16 (10.26%) VPN
3 3 (1.92%) DHCP
3 3 (1.92%) DNS
3 3 (1.92%) SSL
4 2 (1.28%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.64%) Network Security
5 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.05%) Power BI
2 3 (1.92%) Big Data
2 3 (1.92%) Data Mining
2 3 (1.92%) Tableau
3 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (8.97%) JIRA
2 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.64%) Git
2 1 (0.64%) GitLab
2 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.15%) Finance
3 21 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.54%) Marketing
5 17 (10.90%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (8.97%) Legal
7 10 (6.41%) Automotive
8 8 (5.13%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.49%) Banking
10 6 (3.85%) Back Office
11 4 (2.56%) Advertising
11 4 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.56%) Retail
11 4 (2.56%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.92%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.28%) German Language
13 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.28%) Local Government
13 2 (1.28%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 30 (19.23%) Product Owner
2 26 (16.67%) Architect
2 26 (16.67%) Lead
2 26 (16.67%) Product Manager
2 26 (16.67%) Senior
3 17 (10.90%) Analyst
4 16 (10.26%) Technical Architect
4 16 (10.26%) Technical Leader
5 15 (9.62%) Lead Architect
6 14 (8.97%) Business Analyst
7 11 (7.05%) Senior Product Owner
8 6 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (3.85%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (3.21%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.21%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.21%) Designer
10 4 (2.56%) Senior Manager
10 4 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.56%) Technical Manager
10 4 (2.56%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.26%) Node.js
2 2 (1.28%) ADO
2 2 (1.28%) LDAP
2 2 (1.28%) React
3 1 (0.64%) .NET
3 1 (0.64%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.64%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.64%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.64%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.64%) HTML
3 1 (0.64%) HTML5
3 1 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.64%) OAuth
3 1 (0.64%) REST
3 1 (0.64%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 65 (41.67%) Product Ownership
2 13 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.21%) Infotainment
5 5 (3.21%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.56%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.92%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.92%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.28%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.28%) IoT
8 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.18%) Android
1 19 (12.18%) Apple iOS
2 18 (11.54%) Windows
3 17 (10.90%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.21%) Linux
5 1 (0.64%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (50.64%) Agile
1 79 (50.64%) Roadmaps
2 43 (27.56%) Product Management
3 41 (26.28%) Product Roadmap
4 34 (21.79%) Strategic Roadmap
5 33 (21.15%) Analytics
6 32 (20.51%) Product Vision
7 30 (19.23%) Scrum
8 29 (18.59%) DevOps
9 27 (17.31%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 25 (16.03%) User Experience
10 25 (16.03%) User Stories
11 24 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (15.38%) Risk Management
12 23 (14.74%) Backlog Management
13 22 (14.10%) Requirements Gathering
14 21 (13.46%) Decision-Making
15 20 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (11.54%) Data Analysis
16 18 (11.54%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.26%) Python
2 7 (4.49%) SQL
3 4 (2.56%) Java
3 4 (2.56%) R
4 3 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.28%) C
5 2 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.28%) Go
6 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.38%) Degree
2 24 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.49%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.28%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.28%) CBAP
5 2 (1.28%) CSPO
5 2 (1.28%) MBA
5 2 (1.28%) PgMP
5 2 (1.28%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.28%) PMP
6 1 (0.64%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) IIBA
6 1 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.05%) PMO
2 8 (5.13%) QA
3 5 (3.21%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.56%) NIST
5 3 (1.92%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.64%) NCSC
7 1 (0.64%) RMADS
7 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.21%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.92%) Docker
3 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.64%) Nagios
2 1 (0.64%) Opsview
2 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.41%) Google
3 5 (3.21%) Apple
3 5 (3.21%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.92%) Adobe
4 3 (1.92%) Citrix
5 2 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.28%) Concur
5 2 (1.28%) Logitech
5 2 (1.28%) SAP
5 2 (1.28%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.28%) Zoho
6 1 (0.64%) Ariba
6 1 (0.64%) Databricks
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle
6 1 (0.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.64%) VMware