Product Requirements
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Product Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Requirements over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 644 549 530
Rank change year-on-year -95 -19 +100
Permanent jobs citing Product Requirements 264 490 954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.47% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.49% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 195 165 259
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £92,500 £97,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Requirements 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 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Requirements within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -25 250 £60,000 -11.11% 126
UK excluding London -161 157 £47,500 -13.64% 76
South East +23 112 £39,000 -22.00% 30
London +90 94 £85,000 +13.33% 46
Work from Home -7 89 £56,000 -6.67% 49
North of England -63 26 £47,500 -13.64% 14
Yorkshire +61 25 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Midlands +2 8 £50,000 +5.26% 8
West Midlands +29 5 £57,500 +43.75% 6
East of England -12 5 £45,600 -27.04% 18
South West -28 5 £60,000 +20.00% 3
East Midlands -12 3 £42,500 -22.73% 2
North West -53 1 £100,000 +90.48% 5
Scotland -90 1 £48,000 - 3

Product Requirements
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 9 (3.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.38%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.41%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (2.27%) InVision
2 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.27%) Sketch
3 1 (0.38%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.50%) SaaS
2 24 (9.09%) Azure
3 13 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.89%) AWS
6 4 (1.52%) GitHub
6 4 (1.52%) Miro
6 4 (1.52%) PaaS
7 2 (0.76%) Asana
7 2 (0.76%) GCP
8 1 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.38%) Collibra
8 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.38%) IaaS
8 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.41%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.27%) Intranet
3 2 (0.76%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
4 1 (0.38%) LAN
4 1 (0.38%) LTE
4 1 (0.38%) NAS
4 1 (0.38%) SAN
4 1 (0.38%) WAN
4 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.38%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.76%) Data Mining
2 2 (0.76%) MySQL
2 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.38%) Metadata
3 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.38%) Power BI
3 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.17%) JIRA
2 4 (1.52%) JMeter
2 4 (1.52%) Maven
3 2 (0.76%) Git
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) MSTest
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
4 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (26.89%) Manufacturing
2 70 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 61 (23.11%) Electronics
5 55 (20.83%) Marketing
6 35 (13.26%) Finance
7 17 (6.44%) Legal
8 11 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.65%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.27%) Retail
12 4 (1.52%) Games
13 3 (1.14%) Advertising
13 3 (1.14%) Digital Health
13 3 (1.14%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.14%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 64 (24.24%) Product Manager
2 51 (19.32%) Product Owner
3 39 (14.77%) Quality Engineer
4 27 (10.23%) Senior
5 25 (9.47%) Architect
6 24 (9.09%) Lead
7 21 (7.95%) QA Engineer
8 18 (6.82%) QC Engineer
9 17 (6.44%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (5.68%) Developer
11 13 (4.92%) Lead Architect
11 13 (4.92%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 12 (4.55%) Software Engineer
13 11 (4.17%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.79%) Senior Architect
15 9 (3.41%) QA Technician
16 8 (3.03%) Senior Technical Architect
16 8 (3.03%) Technical Architect
17 7 (2.65%) C# Developer
17 7 (2.65%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.92%) .NET
2 12 (4.55%) .NET Framework
2 12 (4.55%) Web Services
3 11 (4.17%) ASP.NET
3 11 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
3 11 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
3 11 (4.17%) Entity Framework
3 11 (4.17%) RESTful
4 10 (3.79%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.89%) Smart Contracts
6 3 (1.14%) Hibernate
6 3 (1.14%) JDBC
6 3 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.14%) React
6 3 (1.14%) REST
6 3 (1.14%) Spring
6 3 (1.14%) Struts
6 3 (1.14%) Symfony
7 2 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.76%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (23.86%) Product Ownership
2 22 (8.33%) NHS
3 20 (7.58%) Algorithms
4 12 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.79%) Podcast
6 8 (3.03%) Reinsurance
7 7 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.27%) Blockchain
8 6 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.52%) Media Streaming
10 3 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.14%) Robotics
11 2 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.76%) Molecular Biology
11 2 (0.76%) PMI
11 2 (0.76%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.52%) Android
1 4 (1.52%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.14%) Windows
3 2 (0.76%) Debian
3 2 (0.76%) Linux
4 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (46.21%) Roadmaps
2 121 (45.83%) Agile
3 104 (39.39%) Product Roadmap
4 73 (27.65%) Collaborative Working
5 71 (26.89%) Market Research
6 68 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (25.38%) User Stories
8 63 (23.86%) Scrum
9 57 (21.59%) Product Strategy
10 55 (20.83%) FMEA
10 55 (20.83%) Internal Audit
10 55 (20.83%) Product Management
11 53 (20.08%) Acceptance Criteria
12 52 (19.70%) Product Vision
13 50 (18.94%) Product Backlog
14 42 (15.91%) User Experience
15 41 (15.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 40 (15.15%) Customer Requirements
17 34 (12.88%) Backlog Management
18 33 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.91%) SQL
2 15 (5.68%) C#
3 11 (4.17%) Java
4 5 (1.89%) C++
4 5 (1.89%) Python
5 3 (1.14%) C
5 3 (1.14%) PHP
5 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.76%) R
7 1 (0.38%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (20.08%) Degree
2 17 (6.44%) Master's Degree
3 12 (4.55%) MBA
4 5 (1.89%) CSPO
5 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.38%) CIPD
6 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.38%) ISEB
6 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (26.52%) QA
2 18 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.76%) MISRA
4 2 (0.76%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) GMP
5 1 (0.38%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (4.92%) Firmware
2 11 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (4.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.27%) Adobe
2 6 (2.27%) Hotjar
3 4 (1.52%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.14%) Micro Focus
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle
5 2 (0.76%) Google
5 2 (0.76%) Informatica
5 2 (0.76%) Murex
5 2 (0.76%) SAP
6 1 (0.38%) Apple
6 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.38%) Cisco
6 1 (0.38%) EMC
6 1 (0.38%) Facebook
6 1 (0.38%) IBM
6 1 (0.38%) Meraki
6 1 (0.38%) Palo Alto