Product Manager Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 268 326
Rank change year-on-year -49 +58 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Manager 211 354 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.97% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.04% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 95 151 170
10th Percentile £42,227 £45,000 £47,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £54,610 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,636 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,396 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £73,805 £73,805
% change year-on-year -5.15% - +5.44%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 38,055 33,958 30,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.42% 92.95% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 23,081 16,702 23,207
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
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 £68,750 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -2.50%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Product Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Product Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Product Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Product Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North of England +4 103 £73,750 -0.07% 30
North East +15 53 £77,217 +28.70% 1
South East 0 51 £62,500 -3.85% 39
Yorkshire -15 29 £75,000 +1.62% 15
North West -2 21 £70,000 -5.15% 15
Midlands -34 17 £64,500 +7.50% 18
Northern Ireland +4 12 £75,000 +26.20% 1
West Midlands -7 11 £67,500 +12.50% 7
South West -21 11 £42,500 -20.93% 12
Wales +5 9 £55,000 -14.21% 3
East Midlands -21 6 £50,000 -16.67% 11
East of England +9 5 £58,500 -19.31% 12
Scotland -8 3 £59,359 -0.12% 7
Product Manager
UK

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 January 2026, Product Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 109 (51.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 93 (44.08%) Roadmaps
3 88 (41.71%) Decision-Making
4 82 (38.86%) Degree
5 80 (37.91%) Agile
6 79 (37.44%) Project Management
7 69 (32.70%) Project Delivery
8 67 (31.75%) Chemistry
8 67 (31.75%) Commercialisation
8 67 (31.75%) Community of Practice
8 67 (31.75%) Product Management
9 48 (22.75%) Product Roadmap
10 45 (21.33%) Product Strategy
11 32 (15.17%) SaaS
12 31 (14.69%) AI
13 30 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (13.74%) Product Vision
15 28 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (12.32%) User Experience
17 23 (10.90%) Analytics
18 21 (9.95%) Scrum
19 20 (9.48%) B2B
19 20 (9.48%) Strategic Thinking
20 19 (9.00%) Market Research
21 18 (8.53%) Product Backlog
22 17 (8.06%) Backlog Management
23 14 (6.64%) Azure
23 14 (6.64%) Business Case
23 14 (6.64%) Machine Learning
23 14 (6.64%) User Stories

Product Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (1.90%) Confluence
2 2 (0.95%) CICS
3 1 (0.47%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (15.17%) SaaS
2 14 (6.64%) Azure
3 12 (5.69%) AWS
4 7 (3.32%) GCP
5 6 (2.84%) PaaS
6 3 (1.42%) Azure AI
6 3 (1.42%) Vertex AI
7 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.95%) Miro
8 1 (0.47%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.47%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.47%) Serverless
8 1 (0.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.42%) Wireless
2 2 (0.95%) GPRS
2 2 (0.95%) LTE
2 2 (0.95%) Modbus
3 1 (0.47%) 4G
3 1 (0.47%) 5G
3 1 (0.47%) Broadband
3 1 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.95%) DB2
1 2 (0.95%) Metadata
2 1 (0.47%) GIS
2 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (4.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 104 (49.29%) Marketing
2 80 (37.91%) Manufacturing
3 71 (33.65%) Finance
4 54 (25.59%) Social Skills
5 29 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (9.48%) Legal
7 18 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (7.58%) Electronics
9 12 (5.69%) Retail
10 11 (5.21%) Automotive
11 7 (3.32%) Law
12 5 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.42%) Advertising
14 3 (1.42%) Back Office
14 3 (1.42%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.95%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.47%) Games
16 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.37%) Qt
2 4 (1.90%) JSON
2 4 (1.90%) OAuth
2 4 (1.90%) REST
2 4 (1.90%) SAML
2 4 (1.90%) SOAP
2 4 (1.90%) XML
3 2 (0.95%) .NET
4 1 (0.47%) HTML
4 1 (0.47%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 67 (31.75%) FMCG
2 24 (11.37%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.32%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.84%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.84%) IoT
6 5 (2.37%) Arduino
6 5 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.37%) Raspberry Pi
7 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.95%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.95%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.95%) NB-IoT
9 2 (0.95%) Robotics
9 2 (0.95%) Smart Home
9 2 (0.95%) VSAM
10 1 (0.47%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.84%) Linux
2 2 (0.95%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (51.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 93 (44.08%) Roadmaps
3 88 (41.71%) Decision-Making
4 80 (37.91%) Agile
5 79 (37.44%) Project Management
6 69 (32.70%) Project Delivery
7 67 (31.75%) Chemistry
7 67 (31.75%) Commercialisation
7 67 (31.75%) Community of Practice
7 67 (31.75%) Product Management
8 48 (22.75%) Product Roadmap
9 45 (21.33%) Product Strategy
10 31 (14.69%) AI
11 30 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (13.74%) Product Vision
13 28 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (12.32%) User Experience
15 23 (10.90%) Analytics
16 21 (9.95%) Scrum
17 20 (9.48%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.37%) SQL
2 2 (0.95%) COBOL
2 2 (0.95%) JCL
3 1 (0.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 82 (38.86%) Degree
2 10 (4.74%) Master's Degree
2 10 (4.74%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 5 (2.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 5 (2.37%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
5 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.84%) ISO 9001
1 6 (2.84%) QA
2 5 (2.37%) ISO 13485
3 3 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.95%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 8 (3.79%) Google
1 8 (3.79%) Salesforce
2 7 (3.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.42%) Foundry
3 3 (1.42%) Sage
4 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.47%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.47%) Hotjar
5 1 (0.47%) iManage