Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 307 293
Rank change year-on-year -78 -14 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Manager 668 1,165 2,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 1.12% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.23% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 434 515 1,038
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,150 £46,600
25th Percentile £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.39% -4.00% +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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 4 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 4 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 -69 614 £70,000 - 229
UK excluding London -55 420 £57,965 -3.39% 119
Work from Home -86 281 £65,000 -7.14% 126
London -59 237 £80,000 +9.22% 121
North of England -40 118 £57,965 -13.40% 22
South East -19 95 £60,000 - 33
South West +14 71 £57,500 -11.54% 10
Midlands +5 71 £58,700 +17.40% 25
North West -48 65 £57,965 -16.53% 14
West Midlands +1 51 £59,850 +19.70% 21
Yorkshire +57 32 £65,000 -0.54% 5
Scotland -56 32 £74,500 +29.57% 4
East of England +6 22 £55,000 -24.14% 14
North East +4 21 £57,965 -15.99% 3
East Midlands -9 20 £45,000 -23.40% 4
Wales +9 8 £52,738 +11.03% 10
Northern Ireland +29 5 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 379 (56.74%) Agile
2 324 (48.50%) Roadmaps
3 253 (37.87%) Product Management
4 217 (32.49%) Finance
5 189 (28.29%) Product Roadmap
6 177 (26.50%) Product Strategy
7 170 (25.45%) Social Skills
8 161 (24.10%) Product Ownership
9 140 (20.96%) Analytics
10 132 (19.76%) Product Vision
11 125 (18.71%) Marketing
12 111 (16.62%) Degree
12 111 (16.62%) User Research
13 98 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (14.37%) Analytical Skills
15 94 (14.07%) User Experience
16 92 (13.77%) User Stories
17 90 (13.47%) Project Management
18 89 (13.32%) Market Research
18 89 (13.32%) DevOps
19 82 (12.28%) Artificial Intelligence
20 80 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 76 (11.38%) Scrum
22 75 (11.23%) Product Backlog
23 72 (10.78%) Customer Experience
23 72 (10.78%) Actionable Insight
24 71 (10.63%) Acceptance Criteria
24 71 (10.63%) Coaching
25 70 (10.48%) Mentoring
26 67 (10.03%) 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 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 23 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.35%) 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 (1.80%) Endur
1 12 (1.80%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Data Workbench
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (10.03%) SaaS
2 37 (5.54%) Azure
3 35 (5.24%) AWS
4 23 (3.44%) 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 4 (0.60%) Collibra
10 4 (0.60%) GCP
11 3 (0.45%) Azure API Management
11 3 (0.45%) Azure Event Grid
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%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.20%) 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 18 (2.69%) Tableau
2 16 (2.40%) Power BI
3 10 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
4 9 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.20%) HDInsight
6 7 (1.05%) Looker
7 5 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.60%) QlikView
9 3 (0.45%) Big Data
9 3 (0.45%) Metadata
10 2 (0.30%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (5.24%) JIRA
2 2 (0.30%) Git
General
1 217 (32.49%) Finance
2 170 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 125 (18.71%) Marketing
4 96 (14.37%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (8.53%) Legal
6 57 (8.53%) Retail
7 38 (5.69%) Law
8 34 (5.09%) Front Office
9 32 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (3.89%) Manufacturing
12 21 (3.14%) Banking
13 17 (2.54%) Public Sector
13 17 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.95%) Games
15 12 (1.80%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.65%) Electronics
17 10 (1.50%) Investment Banking
18 9 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.14%) 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
1 161 (24.10%) Product Ownership
2 37 (5.54%) Derivative
3 34 (5.09%) Equities
3 34 (5.09%) Fixed Income
3 34 (5.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 34 (5.09%) Hedge funds
4 20 (2.99%) Algorithms
4 20 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.84%) NHS
6 16 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 14 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.50%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.35%) Robotics
12 6 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (0.90%) PMI
13 5 (0.75%) Housing Association
14 4 (0.60%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.65%) 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
1 379 (56.74%) Agile
2 324 (48.50%) Roadmaps
3 253 (37.87%) Product Management
4 189 (28.29%) Product Roadmap
5 177 (26.50%) Product Strategy
6 140 (20.96%) Analytics
7 132 (19.76%) Product Vision
8 111 (16.62%) User Research
9 98 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (14.07%) User Experience
11 92 (13.77%) User Stories
12 90 (13.47%) Project Management
13 89 (13.32%) DevOps
13 89 (13.32%) Market Research
14 82 (12.28%) Artificial Intelligence
15 76 (11.38%) Scrum
16 75 (11.23%) Product Backlog
17 72 (10.78%) Actionable Insight
17 72 (10.78%) Customer Experience
18 71 (10.63%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 57 (8.53%) SQL
2 36 (5.39%) 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
1 111 (16.62%) Degree
2 64 (9.58%) Security Cleared
3 63 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.99%) MBA
6 10 (1.50%) CSPO
7 8 (1.20%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.05%) 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 (5.99%) QA
2 12 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.35%) 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 40 (5.99%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.34%) Salesforce
3 12 (1.80%) Databricks
4 11 (1.65%) SAP
5 8 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.05%) 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