Product Requirements Job Trends in the Midlands

Product Requirements
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Product Requirements skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 224 220
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +108
Permanent jobs citing Product Requirements 3 16 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.039% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 9
10th Percentile - - £50,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £29,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 -
90th Percentile - £70,300 £89,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -31.43% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Product Requirements falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,328 5,757 4,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.33% 90.41% 86.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,508 2,513 4,092
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Requirements relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Product Requirements job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Product Requirements
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Product Requirements.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Product Requirements

Product Requirements
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Requirements within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
West Midlands +14 3 £65,000 +15.56% 4
Product Requirements
England

Product Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CASB
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Netskope