Product Discovery Job Trends in the South East

Product Discovery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Product Discovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 299 264
Rank change year-on-year +34 -35 +161
Permanent jobs citing Product Discovery 4 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.039% 0.031% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.036% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,768 - £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,535 - £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.67%
75th Percentile £78,303 - £102,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £59,684 £82,500
% change year-on-year +25.66% -27.66% +48.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Product Discovery 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,437 8,389 6,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.87% 86.97% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,043 4,261 4,695
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Product Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Discovery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Product Discovery job vacancy trend in the South East

Product Discovery
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Discovery

Product Discovery
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Discovery within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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
East Sussex - 3 £75,535 -
Thames Valley - 1 - - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Product Discovery
England

Product Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Ant
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) Nightwatchjs
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (75.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) User Research
4 1 (25.00%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat