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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 222 172
Rank change year-on-year -70 -50 +101
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 962 1,792 3,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.71% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.79% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 535 555 1,219
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,875 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
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 26 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 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 -92 756 £67,500 -3.57% 405
UK excluding London -88 599 £57,500 -8.00% 214
London -42 316 £80,000 +6.67% 205
Work from Home -82 310 £67,500 -3.57% 205
Scotland -4 150 £66,250 +1.92% 15
North of England -52 119 £62,500 +4.17% 49
South East -114 109 £60,000 -11.11% 77
Midlands +11 93 £57,500 +15.00% 24
North West -39 74 £62,500 +4.17% 30
West Midlands +30 71 £57,500 +15.00% 15
South West +24 71 £54,043 -1.74% 14
East of England -75 44 £57,500 -17.86% 33
Yorkshire +25 33 £52,500 -25.00% 15
East Midlands -17 22 £65,000 +18.18% 9
North East -3 12 £73,805 +6.96% 6
Northern Ireland +10 8 £62,500 +31.58% 6
Wales -34 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 (4.57%) Apache
2 29 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 28 (2.91%) 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 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (2.39%) 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 (0.62%) Endur
2 6 (0.62%) 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
1 135 (14.03%) AWS
2 129 (13.41%) SaaS
3 115 (11.95%) Azure
4 74 (7.69%) Figma
5 64 (6.65%) SurveyMonkey
6 38 (3.95%) Power Platform
7 36 (3.74%) GCP
8 23 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
9 19 (1.98%) GitHub
10 17 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (1.66%) 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 (1.87%) 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 (5.09%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.74%) Big Data
3 28 (2.91%) DB2
4 23 (2.39%) MongoDB
4 23 (2.39%) Tableau
5 22 (2.29%) Power BI
6 21 (2.18%) 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 (0.62%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 67 (6.96%) JIRA
2 42 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.70%) 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
1 426 (44.28%) Finance
2 376 (39.09%) Social Skills
3 306 (31.81%) Marketing
4 209 (21.73%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (21.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 179 (18.61%) Law
7 107 (11.12%) Presentation Skills
8 82 (8.52%) Legal
9 63 (6.55%) Banking
10 49 (5.09%) Retail
11 45 (4.68%) Investment Banking
12 37 (3.85%) Front Office
13 36 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (3.33%) Social Science
16 30 (3.12%) Manufacturing
17 29 (3.01%) Electronics
18 27 (2.81%) Public Sector
19 25 (2.60%) Financial Institution
19 25 (2.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 251 (26.09%) Product Manager
2 126 (13.10%) Senior
3 113 (11.75%) Lead
4 84 (8.73%) Product Owner
5 75 (7.80%) Senior Manager
6 64 (6.65%) Software Engineering Director
7 58 (6.03%) Developer
8 57 (5.93%) Architect
9 52 (5.41%) Senior Product Manager
10 51 (5.30%) Analyst
11 36 (3.74%) User Experience Researcher
12 35 (3.64%) Business Analyst
12 35 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (3.53%) Technology Director
14 33 (3.43%) Software Developer
15 32 (3.33%) Project Manager
16 30 (3.12%) Product Analyst
17 29 (3.01%) Business Manager
17 29 (3.01%) Consultant
18 25 (2.60%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.82%) React
2 48 (4.99%) .NET
2 48 (4.99%) HTML
3 44 (4.57%) AngularJS
4 36 (3.74%) CSS
5 32 (3.33%) Node.js
5 32 (3.33%) RESTful
6 26 (2.70%) Kafka
6 26 (2.70%) Web Services
7 22 (2.29%) Apache NiFi
8 21 (2.18%) .NET Framework
9 18 (1.87%) .NET Core
9 18 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
10 17 (1.77%) Razor View Engine
11 16 (1.66%) JSON
12 15 (1.56%) HTML5
13 14 (1.46%) jQuery
13 14 (1.46%) REST
13 14 (1.46%) Spring
14 13 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 211 (21.93%) Product Ownership
2 74 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 47 (4.89%) Management Information System
4 36 (3.74%) Derivative
4 36 (3.74%) Equities
4 36 (3.74%) Fixed Income
4 36 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (3.74%) Hedge funds
5 30 (3.12%) Mobile App
6 29 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 24 (2.49%) Virtual Team
8 23 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.29%) IoT
9 22 (2.29%) Taxonomies
10 21 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (2.08%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.87%) Digital Media
12 18 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.91%) Windows
2 27 (2.81%) Linux
3 18 (1.87%) 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
1 504 (52.39%) Agile
2 387 (40.23%) Roadmaps
3 258 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
4 237 (24.64%) Analytics
5 227 (23.60%) User Experience
6 186 (19.33%) Product Roadmap
7 150 (15.59%) Mentoring
8 148 (15.38%) Project Management
9 140 (14.55%) Software Engineering
10 134 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 133 (13.83%) Artificial Intelligence
12 129 (13.41%) DevOps
13 127 (13.20%) Product Strategy
14 122 (12.68%) Decision-Making
15 119 (12.37%) Scrum
16 117 (12.16%) User Research
17 110 (11.43%) Product Vision
18 109 (11.33%) Machine Learning
19 101 (10.50%) Strategic Thinking
20 99 (10.29%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 141 (14.66%) SQL
2 113 (11.75%) Python
3 85 (8.84%) JavaScript
4 71 (7.38%) Java
5 56 (5.82%) C#
6 38 (3.95%) R
7 31 (3.22%) Scala
8 25 (2.60%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.87%) 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 (0.62%) C
15 6 (0.62%) VB
16 5 (0.52%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
18 2 (0.21%) Delphi
18 2 (0.21%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 300 (31.19%) Degree
2 96 (9.98%) Master's Degree
3 43 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (4.37%) PhD
5 28 (2.91%) MBA
6 26 (2.70%) Security Cleared
7 20 (2.08%) CISSP
8 19 (1.98%) CSPO
8 19 (1.98%) SC Cleared
9 14 (1.46%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.73%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.62%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.62%) IIBA
14 5 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.52%) CISA
14 5 (0.52%) GIAC
14 5 (0.52%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (8.94%) QA
2 43 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 28 (2.91%) SLA
5 13 (1.35%) PMO
6 6 (0.62%) GDPR
6 6 (0.62%) 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 (2.49%) Docker
2 10 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 8 (0.83%) KVM
4 6 (0.62%) 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 (3.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.94%) Terraform
3 6 (0.62%) 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
1 107 (11.12%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.65%) Qualtrics
3 52 (5.41%) Databricks
4 34 (3.53%) Google
5 26 (2.70%) Oracle
6 24 (2.49%) Sybase
7 20 (2.08%) Cisco
8 19 (1.98%) Cognos
9 18 (1.87%) Alteryx
9 18 (1.87%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.56%) Dell
10 15 (1.56%) SAP
11 12 (1.25%) IBM
12 11 (1.14%) 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