Product Thinking Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Product Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Product Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 568 -
Rank change year-on-year +53 - -
Permanent jobs citing Product Thinking 4 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.005% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.006% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £54,375 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,188 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £69,688 -
90th Percentile - £72,125 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% -34.09% +37.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Product Thinking 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,358 32,735 28,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.41% 88.29% 90.60%
Number of salaries quoted 19,061 14,979 20,952
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Product Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Thinking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Product Thinking job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Product Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Thinking

Product Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Thinking in the UK excluding London

Product Thinking
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 Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 3 £45,000 -
North West - 2 £45,000 -
South East - 1 £85,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £85,000 -
Product Thinking
UK

Product Thinking
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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Miro
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Product Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Product Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Framer.js
1 2 (50.00%) Jest
1 2 (50.00%) Next.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility