Product Manager Jobs

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 370 246
Rank change year-on-year -18 -124 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Manager 592 697 2,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.86% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.94% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 344 491 1,111
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,625 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -10.82% +7.44% +10.00%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Manager over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 -21 534 £70,000 +0.72% 68
UK excluding London -37 345 £57,965 -10.82% 58
Work from Home -33 265 £65,000 - 33
London +43 231 £80,000 +6.67% 27
North of England -65 82 £57,965 -10.82% 12
South East -16 75 £60,000 -4.00% 12
South West +22 70 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Midlands -6 52 £58,700 +6.73% 11
North West -65 52 £57,965 -10.82% 8
West Midlands +8 38 £58,700 +17.40% 7
Scotland -27 30 £46,034 -29.18% 5
Yorkshire +28 20 £57,500 -11.54% 4
East of England +3 19 £55,000 -15.38% 6
East Midlands -24 14 £41,250 -36.54% 4
Wales +34 13 £64,108 -1.37% 3
North East -8 10 £57,965 -10.82% 1
Northern Ireland +25 6 £90,000 +80.00% 6

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Product Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 331 (55.91%) Agile
2 293 (49.49%) Roadmaps
3 215 (36.32%) Product Management
4 180 (30.41%) Finance
5 167 (28.21%) Social Skills
6 166 (28.04%) Product Strategy
7 156 (26.35%) Product Roadmap
8 146 (24.66%) Product Ownership
9 121 (20.44%) Marketing
10 119 (20.10%) Analytics
11 112 (18.92%) Product Vision
12 108 (18.24%) Market Research
13 102 (17.23%) User Experience
14 96 (16.22%) User Research
15 89 (15.03%) User Stories
16 87 (14.70%) Degree
17 80 (13.51%) DevOps
17 80 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
18 79 (13.34%) Decision-Making
19 78 (13.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 77 (13.01%) Strategic Roadmap
21 75 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
22 74 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
23 73 (12.33%) Project Management
24 68 (11.49%) Security Cleared
25 67 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
26 64 (10.81%) Product Backlog
26 64 (10.81%) SC Cleared
27 63 (10.64%) Retail
28 61 (10.30%) Requirements Analysis

Product Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (2.36%) Apache
1 14 (2.36%) Confluence
2 3 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (3.38%) NEC Housing
2 15 (2.53%) Endur
3 6 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.51%) Shopify
5 2 (0.34%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 52 (8.78%) SaaS
2 44 (7.43%) AWS
3 36 (6.08%) Power Platform
4 21 (3.55%) Figma
5 20 (3.38%) Azure
6 15 (2.53%) dbt
7 9 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.18%) Power Automate
10 5 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.51%) GCP
11 3 (0.51%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.34%) Contentsquare
12 2 (0.34%) IaaS
12 2 (0.34%) Miro
12 2 (0.34%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.84%) SD-WAN
1 5 (0.84%) WAN
2 3 (0.51%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.34%) 5G
3 2 (0.34%) Broadband
3 2 (0.34%) MPLS
3 2 (0.34%) Wireless
4 1 (0.17%) 3G
4 1 (0.17%) GPRS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
4 1 (0.17%) Modbus
4 1 (0.17%) RS-232
4 1 (0.17%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.24%) Tableau
2 29 (4.90%) Power BI
3 22 (3.72%) Data Lake
4 15 (2.53%) Big Data
5 14 (2.36%) Apache Arrow
5 14 (2.36%) Dremio
6 10 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
7 9 (1.52%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.35%) HDInsight
9 5 (0.84%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.68%) Looker
10 4 (0.68%) QlikView
11 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (6.42%) JIRA
General
1 180 (30.41%) Finance
2 167 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 121 (20.44%) Marketing
4 78 (13.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (10.64%) Retail
7 40 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
8 38 (6.42%) Legal
9 36 (6.08%) Front Office
10 33 (5.57%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (5.24%) Banking
11 31 (5.24%) Law
12 29 (4.90%) Public Sector
13 24 (4.05%) Investment Banking
14 21 (3.55%) Local Government
15 20 (3.38%) Police
15 20 (3.38%) Social Housing
16 14 (2.36%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.86%) Games
18 9 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.53%) Web Services
2 4 (0.68%) XML
2 4 (0.68%) YAML
3 2 (0.34%) .NET
4 1 (0.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.17%) Kafka
4 1 (0.17%) Middleware
4 1 (0.17%) Pandas
4 1 (0.17%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 146 (24.66%) Product Ownership
2 39 (6.59%) Derivative
3 37 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 36 (6.08%) Equities
4 36 (6.08%) Fixed Income
4 36 (6.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (6.08%) Hedge funds
5 22 (3.72%) NHS
6 21 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.03%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.35%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.18%) Robotics
13 5 (0.84%) Blockchain
13 5 (0.84%) Housing Association
14 4 (0.68%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.17%) Android
1 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.17%) Linux
1 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
1 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (55.91%) Agile
2 293 (49.49%) Roadmaps
3 215 (36.32%) Product Management
4 166 (28.04%) Product Strategy
5 156 (26.35%) Product Roadmap
6 119 (20.10%) Analytics
7 112 (18.92%) Product Vision
8 108 (18.24%) Market Research
9 102 (17.23%) User Experience
10 96 (16.22%) User Research
11 89 (15.03%) User Stories
12 80 (13.51%) DevOps
12 80 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
13 79 (13.34%) Decision-Making
14 77 (13.01%) Strategic Roadmap
15 74 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
16 73 (12.33%) Project Management
17 67 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
18 64 (10.81%) Product Backlog
19 61 (10.30%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 60 (10.14%) SQL
2 43 (7.26%) Python
3 2 (0.34%) C#
3 2 (0.34%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.17%) Java
4 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.17%) Rust
4 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (14.70%) Degree
2 68 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 64 (10.81%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.24%) DBS Check
5 17 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.36%) MBA
7 7 (1.18%) CSPO
8 6 (1.01%) IIBA
9 4 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.17%) CISSP
11 1 (0.17%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.17%) MCAD
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.90%) QA
2 23 (3.89%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.18%) GDPR
4 6 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (0.84%) SLA
6 2 (0.34%) GMP
6 2 (0.34%) PMO
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.34%) Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 29 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.38%) NEC
3 19 (3.21%) Salesforce
4 11 (1.86%) SAP
5 10 (1.69%) Databricks
5 10 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 5 (0.84%) Google
7 3 (0.51%) Cadence
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle
8 2 (0.34%) Ariba
8 2 (0.34%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.34%) Twitter
8 2 (0.34%) VMware
8 2 (0.34%) Zuora
9 1 (0.17%) Concur
9 1 (0.17%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.17%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.17%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.17%) OpenText
9 1 (0.17%) Pardot