Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager salary in the UK is £68,338 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 297 266
Rank change year-on-year -93 -31 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Manager 668 1,144 2,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 1.18% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.29% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 437 554 1,042
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,792 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,338 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% -3.57% +11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.82% - +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Product Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Manager over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -87 610 £70,000 +3.70% 253
UK excluding London -81 411 £57,965 -10.82% 134
Work from Home -95 292 £65,000 -7.14% 126
London -37 245 £80,000 +6.67% 123
North of England -44 117 £57,965 -10.82% 38
South East -54 81 £60,000 - 42
South West -1 74 £57,500 -11.54% 7
Midlands -13 70 £58,700 +17.40% 16
North West -64 64 £57,965 -10.82% 30
West Midlands +1 51 £61,000 +22.00% 14
Yorkshire +38 32 £65,000 - 7
Scotland -47 32 £66,500 +2.31% 8
East of England -20 23 £55,000 -15.38% 12
North East -1 21 £57,965 -10.82% 1
East Midlands -15 19 £45,000 -29.41% 2
Wales 0 10 £52,738 -18.86% 7
Northern Ireland +24 6 £90,000 +89.47% 3

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Product Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 378 (56.59%) Agile
2 316 (47.31%) Roadmaps
3 246 (36.83%) Product Management
4 221 (33.08%) Finance
5 184 (27.54%) Product Roadmap
6 179 (26.80%) Product Strategy
7 170 (25.45%) Product Ownership
8 165 (24.70%) Social Skills
9 142 (21.26%) Analytics
10 138 (20.66%) Product Vision
11 119 (17.81%) Marketing
12 113 (16.92%) User Research
13 101 (15.12%) Degree
14 94 (14.07%) User Experience
15 93 (13.92%) User Stories
16 91 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
17 90 (13.47%) Market Research
18 88 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
19 85 (12.72%) DevOps
20 82 (12.28%) Project Management
21 81 (12.13%) Artificial Intelligence
21 81 (12.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 79 (11.83%) Product Backlog
23 78 (11.68%) Scrum
24 76 (11.38%) Customer Experience
25 75 (11.23%) Acceptance Criteria
26 72 (10.78%) Actionable Insight
27 71 (10.63%) Coaching
28 70 (10.48%) Mentoring
29 69 (10.33%) SaaS

Product Manager Skill Set
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 18 (2.69%) Confluence
2 4 (0.60%) Apache
3 2 (0.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 24 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (2.25%) Endur
2 12 (1.80%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Data Workbench
Cloud Services
1 69 (10.33%) SaaS
2 42 (6.29%) AWS
3 34 (5.09%) Azure
4 27 (4.04%) Power Platform
5 11 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.05%) Power Automate
9 6 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.90%) Miro
10 5 (0.75%) dbt
11 4 (0.60%) Collibra
12 3 (0.45%) GCP
12 3 (0.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 3 (0.45%) SuccessFactors
13 2 (0.30%) IaaS
13 2 (0.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 2 (0.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.20%) Wireless
2 4 (0.60%) WAN
3 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.30%) 5G
5 1 (0.15%) DECT
5 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.15%) Internet
5 1 (0.15%) LAN
5 1 (0.15%) RFID
5 1 (0.15%) RS-232
5 1 (0.15%) RS-485
5 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.29%) Tableau
2 20 (2.99%) Power BI
3 12 (1.80%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
5 9 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.20%) HDInsight
7 7 (1.05%) Big Data
7 7 (1.05%) Looker
8 5 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.60%) Apache Arrow
9 4 (0.60%) Dremio
9 4 (0.60%) QlikView
10 2 (0.30%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.30%) Metadata
10 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (4.94%) JIRA
General
1 221 (33.08%) Finance
2 165 (24.70%) Social Skills
3 119 (17.81%) Marketing
4 88 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (12.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (8.98%) Retail
7 57 (8.53%) Legal
8 40 (5.99%) Front Office
9 36 (5.39%) Law
10 30 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (3.74%) Banking
12 18 (2.69%) Manufacturing
13 17 (2.54%) Public Sector
14 15 (2.25%) Telecoms
15 14 (2.10%) Investment Banking
16 13 (1.95%) Games
17 12 (1.80%) Electronics
17 12 (1.80%) Financial Institution
18 9 (1.35%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.14%) Web Services
2 4 (0.60%) XML
2 4 (0.60%) YAML
3 3 (0.45%) Middleware
4 2 (0.30%) .NET
5 1 (0.15%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.15%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (0.15%) Kafka
5 1 (0.15%) Laravel
5 1 (0.15%) Next.js
5 1 (0.15%) Pandas
5 1 (0.15%) React
5 1 (0.15%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 170 (25.45%) Product Ownership
2 43 (6.44%) Derivative
3 40 (5.99%) Equities
3 40 (5.99%) Fixed Income
3 40 (5.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 40 (5.99%) Hedge funds
4 20 (2.99%) Algorithms
4 20 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.84%) NHS
6 16 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.50%) Reinsurance
8 10 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.35%) Robotics
10 7 (1.05%) PMI
11 5 (0.75%) Housing Association
12 4 (0.60%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.35%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.45%) Android
3 2 (0.30%) Linux
3 2 (0.30%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (56.59%) Agile
2 316 (47.31%) Roadmaps
3 246 (36.83%) Product Management
4 184 (27.54%) Product Roadmap
5 179 (26.80%) Product Strategy
6 142 (21.26%) Analytics
7 138 (20.66%) Product Vision
8 113 (16.92%) User Research
9 94 (14.07%) User Experience
10 93 (13.92%) User Stories
11 91 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
12 90 (13.47%) Market Research
13 85 (12.72%) DevOps
14 82 (12.28%) Project Management
15 81 (12.13%) Artificial Intelligence
16 79 (11.83%) Product Backlog
17 78 (11.68%) Scrum
18 76 (11.38%) Customer Experience
19 75 (11.23%) Acceptance Criteria
20 72 (10.78%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 65 (9.73%) SQL
2 43 (6.44%) Python
3 3 (0.45%) R
4 2 (0.30%) C#
5 1 (0.15%) Java
5 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 101 (15.12%) Degree
2 64 (9.58%) Security Cleared
3 63 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.44%) Master's Degree
5 21 (3.14%) MBA
6 10 (1.50%) CSPO
7 8 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.90%) IIBA
9 4 (0.60%) CLAS
9 4 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.15%) CISSP
11 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.15%) MCAD
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.15%) PMP
11 1 (0.15%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.24%) QA
2 10 (1.50%) GDPR
3 6 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.30%) GMP
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.15%) PMO
6 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.15%) Firmware
1 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (5.84%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.34%) Salesforce
3 12 (1.80%) Databricks
4 11 (1.65%) SAP
5 10 (1.50%) ServiceNow
6 6 (0.90%) Google
7 4 (0.60%) Bloomberg
7 4 (0.60%) Intel
8 3 (0.45%) Cadence
9 2 (0.30%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle
9 2 (0.30%) Twitter
9 2 (0.30%) VMware
9 2 (0.30%) Zuora
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe
10 1 (0.15%) Avaya
10 1 (0.15%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.15%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.15%) Huawei
10 1 (0.15%) Pardot