Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager salary in the UK is £67,919 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 305 298
Rank change year-on-year -83 -7 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Manager 663 1,209 2,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 1.15% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 1.26% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 436 542 1,024
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,889 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,625 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,919 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -0.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £60,249 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.79% -3.60% +13.64%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 26 April 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 26 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 -66 610 £70,000 +0.80% 246
UK excluding London -72 420 £57,965 -3.79% 129
Work from Home -98 278 £65,000 -7.14% 128
London -54 233 £77,500 +6.90% 123
North of England -37 118 £57,965 -15.40% 30
South East -1 99 £60,000 - 39
Midlands -6 71 £58,700 +17.40% 24
South West +2 67 £57,500 -11.54% 8
North West -56 63 £57,965 -16.53% 16
West Midlands +10 51 £60,500 +21.00% 20
Yorkshire +58 34 £51,498 -24.84% 11
Scotland -56 32 £74,500 +11.19% 6
East of England +7 22 £55,000 -24.14% 16
North East +7 21 £57,965 -15.99% 3
East Midlands -14 20 £45,000 -23.40% 4
Wales +3 8 £52,738 +20.80% 4
Northern Ireland +29 5 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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.

1 375 (56.56%) Agile
2 319 (48.11%) Roadmaps
3 251 (37.86%) Product Management
4 210 (31.67%) Finance
5 186 (28.05%) Product Roadmap
6 173 (26.09%) Product Strategy
7 165 (24.89%) Social Skills
8 154 (23.23%) Product Ownership
9 132 (19.91%) Analytics
10 128 (19.31%) Product Vision
11 124 (18.70%) Marketing
12 113 (17.04%) Degree
13 110 (16.59%) User Research
14 94 (14.18%) User Experience
15 92 (13.88%) User Stories
15 92 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
16 90 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
17 89 (13.42%) DevOps
17 89 (13.42%) Project Management
18 87 (13.12%) Market Research
19 80 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
20 76 (11.46%) Scrum
21 75 (11.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 71 (10.71%) Actionable Insight
23 70 (10.56%) Mentoring
23 70 (10.56%) Coaching
23 70 (10.56%) Product Backlog
24 69 (10.41%) Customer Experience
24 69 (10.41%) Acceptance Criteria
25 68 (10.26%) 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 (2.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 21 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.81%) Endur
1 12 (1.81%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Data Workbench
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (10.26%) SaaS
2 37 (5.58%) Azure
3 33 (4.98%) AWS
4 20 (3.02%) Power Platform
5 11 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.90%) Miro
10 4 (0.60%) Collibra
10 4 (0.60%) GCP
10 4 (0.60%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.45%) Azure Functions
11 3 (0.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.45%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (0.45%) Serverless
11 3 (0.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.21%) Wireless
2 4 (0.60%) WAN
3 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.30%) 5G
4 2 (0.30%) Internet
4 2 (0.30%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.15%) DECT
5 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.15%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) LAN
5 1 (0.15%) PBX
5 1 (0.15%) RFID
5 1 (0.15%) RS-232
5 1 (0.15%) RS-485
5 1 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.41%) Power BI
1 16 (2.41%) Tableau
2 10 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.36%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.21%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.21%) HDInsight
5 7 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
5 7 (1.06%) Looker
6 5 (0.75%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.60%) QlikView
8 3 (0.45%) Big Data
8 3 (0.45%) Metadata
9 2 (0.30%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (5.28%) JIRA
2 2 (0.30%) Git
General
1 210 (31.67%) Finance
2 165 (24.89%) Social Skills
3 124 (18.70%) Marketing
4 90 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (11.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (8.60%) Retail
7 55 (8.30%) Legal
8 33 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
8 33 (4.98%) Law
9 32 (4.83%) Front Office
10 30 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (3.92%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.87%) Banking
13 18 (2.71%) Telecoms
14 17 (2.56%) Public Sector
15 13 (1.96%) Games
16 11 (1.66%) Electronics
17 10 (1.51%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.17%) Web Services
2 4 (0.60%) Middleware
2 4 (0.60%) XML
2 4 (0.60%) YAML
3 2 (0.30%) .NET
3 2 (0.30%) Kafka
4 1 (0.15%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.15%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (0.15%) Laravel
4 1 (0.15%) Next.js
4 1 (0.15%) Node.js
4 1 (0.15%) OAuth
4 1 (0.15%) Pandas
4 1 (0.15%) React
4 1 (0.15%) React Native
4 1 (0.15%) RESTEasy
Miscellaneous
1 154 (23.23%) Product Ownership
2 35 (5.28%) Derivative
3 32 (4.83%) Equities
3 32 (4.83%) Fixed Income
3 32 (4.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 32 (4.83%) Hedge funds
4 20 (3.02%) Algorithms
4 20 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 18 (2.71%) NHS
6 16 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (1.66%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.51%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.90%) PMI
11 6 (0.90%) Robotics
12 5 (0.75%) Housing Association
13 4 (0.60%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.66%) 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
1 375 (56.56%) Agile
2 319 (48.11%) Roadmaps
3 251 (37.86%) Product Management
4 186 (28.05%) Product Roadmap
5 173 (26.09%) Product Strategy
6 132 (19.91%) Analytics
7 128 (19.31%) Product Vision
8 110 (16.59%) User Research
9 94 (14.18%) User Experience
10 92 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
10 92 (13.88%) User Stories
11 89 (13.42%) DevOps
11 89 (13.42%) Project Management
12 87 (13.12%) Market Research
13 80 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
14 76 (11.46%) Scrum
15 71 (10.71%) Actionable Insight
16 70 (10.56%) Coaching
16 70 (10.56%) Mentoring
16 70 (10.56%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 55 (8.30%) SQL
2 34 (5.13%) Python
3 3 (0.45%) R
4 2 (0.30%) C#
4 2 (0.30%) Java
5 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.15%) Ruby
5 1 (0.15%) Scala
5 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 113 (17.04%) Degree
2 64 (9.65%) Security Cleared
3 63 (9.50%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 20 (3.02%) MBA
6 10 (1.51%) CSPO
7 8 (1.21%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.06%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.90%) IIBA
10 5 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.60%) CLAS
12 3 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.15%) CISSP
13 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.15%) MCAD
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.15%) PMP
13 1 (0.15%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.03%) QA
2 12 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.36%) GDPR
4 5 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.30%) GMP
6 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
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%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (5.73%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.37%) Salesforce
3 12 (1.81%) Databricks
4 11 (1.66%) SAP
5 8 (1.21%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.06%) Google
7 5 (0.75%) Intel
8 4 (0.60%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.45%) Cadence
10 2 (0.30%) Apple
10 2 (0.30%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.30%) Twitter
10 2 (0.30%) VMware
10 2 (0.30%) Zuora
11 1 (0.15%) Dataiku
11 1 (0.15%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (0.15%) Facebook
11 1 (0.15%) Huawei
11 1 (0.15%) Meraki
11 1 (0.15%) Pardot