Product Management Jobs

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Product Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 304 222
Rank change year-on-year +181 -82 -58
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 1,360 960 1,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.47% 0.97% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 1.13% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 318 531 528
10th Percentile £45,875 £41,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £114,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,502 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management 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 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +201 1,307 £70,000 +2.43% 1,473
Work from Home +262 953 £65,000 -7.14% 735
UK excluding London +94 533 £65,000 +13.04% 502
London +152 482 £80,000 - 1,118
South East +190 254 £70,000 +14.29% 181
East of England +79 81 £65,000 +13.04% 53
South West +95 67 £60,000 +11.02% 40
North of England +4 59 £80,100 +26.14% 98
Midlands +33 58 £60,000 +4.35% 73
West Midlands +26 38 £62,500 +8.70% 45
North West -36 36 £80,100 +28.16% 61
East Midlands +40 20 £52,500 -19.23% 23
Yorkshire +51 13 £32,500 -49.02% 30
Scotland -13 11 £45,000 -32.08% 37
North East +44 10 £82,500 +11.78% 7
Wales +38 3 £59,857 +13.50% 10

Product Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (1.10%) Confluence
2 7 (0.51%) CMS
3 5 (0.37%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.29%) Kentico
4 4 (0.29%) WordPress
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.22%) SAS
6 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.074%) Apache
7 1 (0.074%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.074%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.074%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.074%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.074%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.074%) Solana
7 1 (0.074%) Umbraco
Applications
1 28 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.66%) Trello
4 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Productboard
6 1 (0.074%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 269 (19.78%) AWS
2 216 (15.88%) Pulumi
3 96 (7.06%) Azure
4 63 (4.63%) SaaS
5 30 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (2.21%) GCP
6 19 (1.40%) Serverless
7 17 (1.25%) PaaS
8 15 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (1.10%) Vertex AI
9 13 (0.96%) AWS KMS
9 13 (0.96%) GitHub
10 12 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (0.88%) Power Platform
11 9 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (0.44%) Google Analytics
14 5 (0.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 772 (56.76%) Broadband
2 17 (1.25%) Network Security
3 10 (0.74%) 5G
4 9 (0.66%) WAN
5 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.44%) Multicast
6 6 (0.44%) SAN
7 5 (0.37%) BGP
7 5 (0.37%) IPsec
7 5 (0.37%) MPLS
7 5 (0.37%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) DNS
8 3 (0.22%) Firewall
8 3 (0.22%) LTE
8 3 (0.22%) VPN
9 2 (0.15%) 3G
9 2 (0.15%) 4G
9 2 (0.15%) Modbus
9 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (16.69%) NoSQL
2 226 (16.62%) Relational Database
3 224 (16.47%) RDBMS
4 26 (1.91%) Data Mining
5 14 (1.03%) SQL Server
6 13 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.88%) Power BI
8 10 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.44%) DB2
10 5 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.37%) Tableau
11 4 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.22%) MySQL
13 2 (0.15%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.074%) Big Data
14 1 (0.074%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.074%) GIS
14 1 (0.074%) Metadata
14 1 (0.074%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 215 (15.81%) Jaeger
2 38 (2.79%) JIRA
3 12 (0.88%) Git
4 9 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.51%) Gradle
5 7 (0.51%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.29%) GitLab
7 2 (0.15%) PROIV
7 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.074%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.074%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.074%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.074%) Subversion
General
1 829 (60.96%) Social Skills
2 240 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 159 (11.69%) Finance
4 140 (10.29%) Law
5 127 (9.34%) Marketing
6 111 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (6.10%) Multimedia
8 55 (4.04%) Retail
9 39 (2.87%) Electronics
10 34 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.06%) Public Sector
13 23 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.62%) Banking
14 22 (1.62%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.40%) Legal
16 9 (0.66%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 599 (44.04%) Lead
2 287 (21.10%) Team Leader
3 179 (13.16%) Product Manager
4 153 (11.25%) Systems Engineer
5 120 (8.82%) Senior
6 98 (7.21%) Engineering Manager
7 50 (3.68%) Senior Manager
8 41 (3.01%) Product Owner
9 36 (2.65%) Architect
9 36 (2.65%) Developer
10 35 (2.57%) Senior Product Manager
11 21 (1.54%) Analyst
12 16 (1.18%) Product Lead
13 15 (1.10%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (1.10%) Security Engineer
13 15 (1.10%) Senior Developer
14 13 (0.96%) AWS Architect
14 13 (0.96%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.88%) Lead Developer
16 11 (0.81%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (16.91%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (15.81%) OpenTelemetry
3 20 (1.47%) Kafka
4 15 (1.10%) YAML
5 13 (0.96%) REST
6 11 (0.81%) .NET
7 9 (0.66%) RESTful
8 8 (0.59%) FastAPI
9 7 (0.51%) Flask
9 7 (0.51%) Node.js
9 7 (0.51%) React
9 7 (0.51%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 7 (0.51%) WebSockets
10 6 (0.44%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.44%) CSS
11 4 (0.29%) Express.js
11 4 (0.29%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.29%) SOAP
12 3 (0.22%) FHIR
12 3 (0.22%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.44%) Product Ownership
2 30 (2.21%) Algorithms
3 28 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 21 (1.54%) PMI
5 21 (1.54%) Security Posture
6 20 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.25%) FMCG
9 16 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.03%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.59%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.59%) Onboarding
11 8 (0.59%) Self-Driving Car
12 7 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.51%) Mobile Games
12 7 (0.51%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.44%) IoT
13 6 (0.44%) Replication
14 5 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 225 (16.54%) Linux
2 216 (15.88%) Unix
3 14 (1.03%) Android
3 14 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.88%) Windows
5 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.15%) CentOS
8 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.074%) Debian
9 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,013 (74.49%) Roadmaps
2 830 (61.03%) Mentoring
3 789 (58.01%) High Availability
4 727 (53.46%) Problem-Solving
5 676 (49.71%) Computer Science
6 557 (40.96%) Broadcast Engineering
7 499 (36.69%) Agile
8 351 (25.81%) DevOps
9 250 (18.38%) Containerisation
10 233 (17.13%) Resource Management
11 231 (16.99%) Cost Optimisation
11 231 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 229 (16.84%) Performance Optimisation
13 227 (16.69%) Continuous Integration
14 216 (15.88%) GitOps
15 215 (15.81%) Budget Control
15 215 (15.81%) Task Automation
16 179 (13.16%) Analytics
17 117 (8.60%) Product Strategy
18 111 (8.16%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 247 (18.16%) Java
2 230 (16.91%) Python
3 226 (16.62%) JavaScript
4 215 (15.81%) Bash
4 215 (15.81%) Go
5 37 (2.72%) SQL
6 18 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.10%) C#
8 9 (0.66%) Kotlin
8 9 (0.66%) Swift
9 8 (0.59%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.51%) Objective-C
11 4 (0.29%) R
12 3 (0.22%) C++
13 2 (0.15%) XAML
14 1 (0.074%) C
14 1 (0.074%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.074%) PHP
14 1 (0.074%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 761 (55.96%) Degree
2 612 (45.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 234 (17.21%) AWS Certification
4 27 (1.99%) Master's Degree
5 21 (1.54%) PMI Certification
6 19 (1.40%) Security Cleared
7 16 (1.18%) SC Cleared
8 15 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (0.88%) CSPO
10 10 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.37%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.37%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.29%) MBA
14 3 (0.22%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.22%) HNC
14 3 (0.22%) PMP
15 2 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.12%) QA
2 20 (1.47%) GDPR
3 18 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.18%) SLA
5 15 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 15 (1.10%) NCSC
5 15 (1.10%) NIST
6 11 (0.81%) PMO
7 7 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
9 3 (0.22%) PMBOK
10 2 (0.15%) GMP
10 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.074%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.074%) GAMP
11 1 (0.074%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.074%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 245 (18.01%) Docker
2 8 (0.59%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 251 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 242 (17.79%) Terraform
3 231 (16.99%) Prometheus
4 219 (16.10%) Ansible
5 216 (15.88%) Argo
6 215 (15.81%) Kustomize
7 17 (1.25%) Grafana
8 3 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.074%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.074%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.074%) WSUS
Vendors
1 251 (18.46%) Google
2 96 (7.06%) Microsoft
3 42 (3.09%) SAP
4 25 (1.84%) Databricks
5 21 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.10%) OpenAI
6 15 (1.10%) Oracle
7 7 (0.51%) Cisco
7 7 (0.51%) New Relic
7 7 (0.51%) YouTube
8 6 (0.44%) Carbon Black
8 6 (0.44%) IBM
8 6 (0.44%) Symantec
9 4 (0.29%) Ahrefs
9 4 (0.29%) Hotjar
9 4 (0.29%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.22%) Foundry
10 3 (0.22%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.22%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.22%) VMware