Product Engineer Jobs

Product Engineer
UK

The median Product Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 889 915
Rank change year-on-year +260 +26 +233
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Engineer 73 18 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.017% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.018% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 34
10th Percentile £27,900 £32,300 £39,375
25th Percentile £35,250 £39,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £66,895
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -17.78% +44.64%
75th Percentile £74,375 - £77,715
90th Percentile £87,500 £71,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -9.09% -20.80% +63.40%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

Product Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Product Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Engineer in the UK

Product Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Engineer.

Salary trend for Product Engineer in the UK

Product Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Engineer over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Engineer in the UK

Product Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
England +225 72 £50,000 -9.09% 111
UK excluding London +237 69 £50,000 -9.09% 60
Midlands +124 60 - - 7
West Midlands +94 39 - - 5
East Midlands - 21 - - 2
London +106 4 £57,750 -16.00% 65
South West +104 4 - - 8
South East - 3 - - 11
Work from Home +116 1 £50,000 -9.09% 60
East of England +49 1 £50,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

Product Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Product Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Product Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (91.78%) Degree
2 62 (84.93%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (82.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 60 (82.19%) CESG Certified Professional
3 60 (82.19%) Cyber Resilience
3 60 (82.19%) NIST
3 60 (82.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (82.19%) Security Testing
3 60 (82.19%) JSP 440
3 60 (82.19%) RMADS
3 60 (82.19%) CISSP
3 60 (82.19%) Project Management
3 60 (82.19%) CISM
3 60 (82.19%) Risk Management
3 60 (82.19%) Information Security
4 7 (9.59%) Python
5 6 (8.22%) Electronics
5 6 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (5.48%) HND
7 4 (5.48%) Unix
7 4 (5.48%) Windows
7 4 (5.48%) WAN
7 4 (5.48%) B2B
7 4 (5.48%) LabVIEW
7 4 (5.48%) MATLAB
7 4 (5.48%) Git
7 4 (5.48%) Test Automation
7 4 (5.48%) GitHub

Product Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.37%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.48%) GitHub
2 1 (1.37%) AWS
2 1 (1.37%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) 5G
1 4 (5.48%) SD-WAN
1 4 (5.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Git
1 4 (5.48%) LabVIEW
2 1 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 6 (8.22%) Electronics
2 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Banking
4 2 (2.74%) Finance
4 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.74%) Law
4 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.37%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Military
5 1 (1.37%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) pytest
2 2 (2.74%) Kafka
3 1 (1.37%) Django
3 1 (1.37%) NestJS
3 1 (1.37%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Self-Driving Car
1 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.74%) Client/Server
2 2 (2.74%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Unix
1 4 (5.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (84.93%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (82.19%) Cyber Resilience
2 60 (82.19%) Information Security
2 60 (82.19%) Project Management
2 60 (82.19%) Risk Management
2 60 (82.19%) Security Testing
3 6 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (5.48%) B2B
4 4 (5.48%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (5.48%) Manual Testing
4 4 (5.48%) Physics
4 4 (5.48%) Test Assurance
4 4 (5.48%) Test Automation
5 3 (4.11%) Software Engineering
5 3 (4.11%) User Experience
6 2 (2.74%) Mentoring
6 2 (2.74%) Microservices
6 2 (2.74%) SDLC
6 2 (2.74%) UX Design
6 2 (2.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.59%) Python
2 4 (5.48%) MATLAB
3 3 (4.11%) C++
3 3 (4.11%) Java
4 2 (2.74%) C#
4 2 (2.74%) Go
4 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.37%) Rust
5 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (91.78%) Degree
2 60 (82.19%) BPSS Clearance
2 60 (82.19%) CESG Certified Professional
2 60 (82.19%) CISM
2 60 (82.19%) CISSP
3 4 (5.48%) HND
4 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (82.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 60 (82.19%) JSP 440
1 60 (82.19%) NIST
1 60 (82.19%) RMADS
2 1 (1.37%) GAMP
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.11%) Terraform
2 2 (2.74%) Mesos
Vendors
1 2 (2.74%) EMC
2 1 (1.37%) Adobe
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.37%) Rockwell
2 1 (1.37%) Siemens