Product Governance Job Trends

Product Governance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 662 763 745
Rank change year-on-year +101 -18 +409
Permanent jobs citing Product Governance 18 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.006% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.007% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £66,250 - £68,250
25th Percentile £71,875 £72,500 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.45% -19.44%
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £91,750 - £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +3.45% +32.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Governance 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,296 59,619 53,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.01% 82.18% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 24,598 32,082 40,930
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Product Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Product Governance job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Governance
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Governance

Product Governance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Governance over the 6 months to 9 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Governance in the UK

Product Governance
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Governance within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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 +109 14 £82,500 +10.00% 11
UK excluding London +89 14 £78,750 +5.00% 7
South East - 9 £65,000 - 6
Work from Home - 5 £82,500 - 10
London +63 4 £82,500 - 8
Scotland - 4 - -
East Midlands - 1 £92,500 -
Midlands - 1 £92,500 -

Product Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (5.56%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
1 12 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 4 (22.22%) dbt
3 4 (22.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Power BI
2 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
General
1 18 (100.00%) Finance
2 12 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Marketing
5 3 (16.67%) Law
6 1 (5.56%) Back Office
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Governance Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) IT Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) IT Governance Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Product Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Project Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Project Governance Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Transformation Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Change Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Process Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) AI
2 12 (66.67%) Coaching
2 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) Project Management
3 9 (50.00%) Agile
4 8 (44.44%) Analytical Thinking
4 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (44.44%) Creative Thinking
4 8 (44.44%) Data Management
4 8 (44.44%) IT Governance
4 8 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 8 (44.44%) Waterfall
5 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Asset Management
6 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Product Management
6 4 (22.22%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) PMO
1 8 (44.44%) QA
2 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce