Product Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Product Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 219 169
Rank change year-on-year -71 -50 +104
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 960 1,790 3,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.71% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.79% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 531 553 1,222
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +4.09% +7.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -93 754 £67,500 -3.57% 400
UK excluding London -78 598 £57,500 -8.00% 211
London -50 315 £80,000 +6.67% 202
Work from Home -85 310 £67,500 -3.57% 206
Scotland -6 150 £66,250 +1.92% 15
North of England -49 118 £62,500 +4.17% 49
South East -112 107 £60,000 -11.11% 75
Midlands +14 93 £57,500 +15.00% 25
North West -34 74 £62,500 +4.17% 29
South West +48 73 £54,043 -1.74% 13
West Midlands +31 71 £57,500 +15.00% 16
East of England -79 44 £57,500 -17.86% 32
Yorkshire +21 32 £56,250 -19.64% 16
East Midlands -14 22 £65,000 +18.18% 9
North East -5 12 £73,805 +6.96% 6
Northern Ireland +15 8 £62,500 +31.58% 6
Wales -29 5 £52,738 -27.26% 7

Product Management
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 44 (4.58%) Apache
2 29 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 28 (2.92%) Confluence
4 13 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.52%) CMS
6 5 (0.52%) nginx
6 5 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (3.33%) UserZoom
2 31 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.73%) InDesign
6 7 (0.73%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.42%) InVision
7 4 (0.42%) Sketch
8 2 (0.21%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.04%) Shopify
2 6 (0.63%) Endur
2 6 (0.63%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 5 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.21%) CA PPM
4 2 (0.21%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.10%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.10%) Data Workbench
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.10%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 134 (13.96%) AWS
2 129 (13.44%) SaaS
3 115 (11.98%) Azure
4 74 (7.71%) Figma
5 64 (6.67%) SurveyMonkey
6 39 (4.06%) Power Platform
7 36 (3.75%) GCP
8 23 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
9 19 (1.98%) GitHub
10 17 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (1.67%) Google Analytics
12 13 (1.35%) PaaS
13 12 (1.25%) dbt
14 10 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (0.94%) Serverless
16 8 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (0.83%) Azure App Service
16 8 (0.83%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.60%) Network Security
2 20 (2.08%) 5G
3 18 (1.88%) DSL
4 15 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.46%) WAN
6 13 (1.35%) Firewall
7 12 (1.25%) HTTP
7 12 (1.25%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.04%) MQTT
9 8 (0.83%) Broadband
9 8 (0.83%) Multicast
10 7 (0.73%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.73%) VoIP
11 4 (0.42%) Unicast
11 4 (0.42%) VLAN
11 4 (0.42%) Wireless
12 3 (0.31%) DNS
12 3 (0.31%) Internet
13 2 (0.21%) 3G
13 2 (0.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.75%) Big Data
3 28 (2.92%) DB2
4 23 (2.40%) MongoDB
4 23 (2.40%) Tableau
5 22 (2.29%) Power BI
6 21 (2.19%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.46%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (1.25%) Apache Arrow
8 12 (1.25%) Apache Ignite
8 12 (1.25%) Dremio
9 10 (1.04%) Flink
10 9 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.73%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.63%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 67 (6.98%) JIRA
2 42 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.71%) Git
4 15 (1.56%) GitLab
5 9 (0.94%) Moq
5 9 (0.94%) NUnit
6 5 (0.52%) Postman
6 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 428 (44.58%) Finance
2 376 (39.17%) Social Skills
3 307 (31.98%) Marketing
4 210 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
5 209 (21.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (18.85%) Law
7 107 (11.15%) Presentation Skills
8 82 (8.54%) Legal
9 64 (6.67%) Banking
10 49 (5.10%) Retail
11 46 (4.79%) Investment Banking
12 37 (3.85%) Front Office
13 36 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (3.33%) Social Science
16 30 (3.13%) Manufacturing
17 29 (3.02%) Electronics
18 27 (2.81%) Public Sector
19 25 (2.60%) Financial Institution
19 25 (2.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 249 (25.94%) Product Manager
2 124 (12.92%) Senior
3 114 (11.88%) Lead
4 84 (8.75%) Product Owner
5 73 (7.60%) Senior Manager
6 64 (6.67%) Software Engineering Director
7 58 (6.04%) Developer
8 57 (5.94%) Architect
9 51 (5.31%) Analyst
9 51 (5.31%) Senior Product Manager
10 36 (3.75%) User Experience Researcher
11 35 (3.65%) Business Analyst
11 35 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (3.54%) Technology Director
13 33 (3.44%) Software Developer
14 32 (3.33%) Project Manager
15 30 (3.13%) Product Analyst
16 29 (3.02%) Business Manager
16 29 (3.02%) Consultant
17 25 (2.60%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.83%) React
2 49 (5.10%) HTML
3 48 (5.00%) .NET
4 43 (4.48%) AngularJS
5 37 (3.85%) CSS
6 32 (3.33%) Node.js
6 32 (3.33%) RESTful
7 26 (2.71%) Kafka
7 26 (2.71%) Web Services
8 22 (2.29%) Apache NiFi
9 21 (2.19%) .NET Framework
10 18 (1.88%) .NET Core
10 18 (1.88%) ASP.NET Web API
11 17 (1.77%) Razor View Engine
12 16 (1.67%) JSON
13 15 (1.56%) HTML5
14 14 (1.46%) jQuery
14 14 (1.46%) REST
14 14 (1.46%) Spring
15 13 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 213 (22.19%) Product Ownership
2 74 (7.71%) Cloud Native
3 47 (4.90%) Management Information System
4 36 (3.75%) Derivative
4 36 (3.75%) Equities
4 36 (3.75%) Fixed Income
4 36 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (3.75%) Hedge funds
5 30 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 29 (3.02%) Public Cloud
7 24 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 22 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 22 (2.29%) IoT
8 22 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.29%) Taxonomies
9 21 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.08%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.88%) Digital Media
11 18 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.92%) Windows
2 27 (2.81%) Linux
3 18 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.04%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.10%) Android
7 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (52.29%) Agile
2 387 (40.31%) Roadmaps
3 259 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
4 238 (24.79%) Analytics
5 227 (23.65%) User Experience
6 186 (19.38%) Product Roadmap
7 150 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 148 (15.42%) Project Management
9 139 (14.48%) Software Engineering
10 134 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 133 (13.85%) Artificial Intelligence
12 128 (13.33%) DevOps
12 128 (13.33%) Product Strategy
13 122 (12.71%) Decision-Making
14 119 (12.40%) Scrum
15 118 (12.29%) User Research
16 111 (11.56%) Product Vision
17 110 (11.46%) Machine Learning
18 101 (10.52%) Strategic Thinking
19 99 (10.31%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 141 (14.69%) SQL
2 113 (11.77%) Python
3 86 (8.96%) JavaScript
4 71 (7.40%) Java
5 56 (5.83%) C#
6 38 (3.96%) R
7 31 (3.23%) Scala
8 24 (2.50%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.88%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.77%) Ruby
11 15 (1.56%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.46%) C++
13 8 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.73%) PHP
15 6 (0.63%) C
15 6 (0.63%) VB
16 5 (0.52%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
18 2 (0.21%) Delphi
18 2 (0.21%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 298 (31.04%) Degree
2 95 (9.90%) Master's Degree
3 42 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (4.38%) PhD
4 28 (2.92%) MBA
5 26 (2.71%) Security Cleared
6 20 (2.08%) CISSP
7 19 (1.98%) CSPO
7 19 (1.98%) SC Cleared
8 14 (1.46%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.73%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.63%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.63%) IIBA
13 5 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.52%) CISA
13 5 (0.52%) GIAC
13 5 (0.52%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (8.96%) QA
2 44 (4.58%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 28 (2.92%) SLA
5 13 (1.35%) PMO
6 6 (0.63%) GDPR
6 6 (0.63%) NIST
7 3 (0.31%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.31%) JTAG
7 3 (0.31%) WCAG
8 2 (0.21%) PSD2
9 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.10%) GMP
9 1 (0.10%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (2.50%) Docker
2 10 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 8 (0.83%) KVM
4 6 (0.63%) Firmware
5 4 (0.42%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.94%) Terraform
3 6 (0.63%) Grafana
4 5 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (0.52%) Kibana
4 5 (0.52%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.10%) Ansible
5 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 108 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.67%) Qualtrics
3 52 (5.42%) Databricks
4 34 (3.54%) Google
5 26 (2.71%) Oracle
6 24 (2.50%) Sybase
7 20 (2.08%) Cisco
8 19 (1.98%) Cognos
9 18 (1.88%) Alteryx
9 18 (1.88%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.56%) Dell
10 15 (1.56%) SAP
11 12 (1.25%) IBM
12 11 (1.15%) VMware
13 10 (1.04%) Splunk
14 9 (0.94%) Salesforce
15 8 (0.83%) Meraki
15 8 (0.83%) Virgin Media
16 7 (0.73%) Adobe
16 7 (0.73%) Apple