Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 346 216 343
Rank change year-on-year -130 +127 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Manager 452 2,141 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 1.75% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.84% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 354 900 954
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,649 £46,400
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,914 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +3.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 49,872 116,646 121,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 95.43% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36,454 73,520 84,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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 -109 425 £75,000 +5.63% 234
London -57 224 £80,000 +3.23% 115
UK excluding London -135 207 £65,000 - 118
Work from Home -80 194 £72,500 +3.57% 117
South East -3 84 £70,000 +21.74% 25
North of England -50 39 £61,250 -11.21% 44
Midlands +28 31 £60,000 -8.95% 21
South West -23 30 £62,500 -1.96% 14
West Midlands +52 21 £60,000 -8.95% 16
North West +21 20 £65,000 -6.40% 26
Yorkshire -12 14 £55,249 -19.36% 10
Scotland -20 13 £79,000 +26.40% 4
East Midlands +17 10 £65,000 -3.70% 5
East of England +33 7 £72,500 +11.54% 9
North East +12 5 £55,000 - 8
Wales -16 3 £55,238 +8.01% 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2023, 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.

1 262 (57.96%) Roadmaps
2 225 (49.78%) Agile
3 159 (35.18%) Product Management
4 122 (26.99%) Finance
5 108 (23.89%) Product Ownership
5 108 (23.89%) Social Skills
6 96 (21.24%) Product Roadmap
7 85 (18.81%) Marketing
8 78 (17.26%) User Experience
9 68 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (14.60%) Analytics
10 66 (14.60%) Scrum
11 64 (14.16%) Degree
12 63 (13.94%) Product Vision
13 62 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
14 61 (13.50%) Product Strategy
15 52 (11.50%) Project Management
16 51 (11.28%) User Stories
17 50 (11.06%) SaaS
18 49 (10.84%) Strategic Roadmap
19 46 (10.18%) Decision-Making
20 43 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
21 42 (9.29%) Artificial Intelligence
22 40 (8.85%) Data Science
22 40 (8.85%) Customer Experience
23 37 (8.19%) Product Backlog
24 36 (7.96%) Machine Learning
25 34 (7.52%) Derivative
25 34 (7.52%) Asset Management
25 34 (7.52%) Front Office

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 7 (1.55%) Confluence
2 3 (0.66%) Drupal
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.22%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Distributed Ledger
2 6 (1.33%) Endur
3 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.44%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (11.06%) SaaS
2 19 (4.20%) Azure
3 16 (3.54%) AWS
4 6 (1.33%) PaaS
5 4 (0.88%) dbt
5 4 (0.88%) IaaS
6 3 (0.66%) GCP
6 3 (0.66%) Google Analytics
6 3 (0.66%) Serverless
7 2 (0.44%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (0.44%) Azure API Management
7 2 (0.44%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (0.44%) Azure Functions
7 2 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (0.44%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (0.44%) Miro
7 2 (0.44%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.55%) PBX
1 7 (1.55%) VoIP
2 4 (0.88%) Internet
3 3 (0.66%) Unified Communications
3 3 (0.66%) Wireless
4 2 (0.44%) 4G
4 2 (0.44%) 5G
5 1 (0.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.22%) Intranet
5 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.98%) Data Lake
1 18 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.44%) Metadata
2 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.44%) Power BI
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.22%) Data Mart
3 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.22%) Metabase
3 1 (0.22%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (4.65%) JIRA
2 4 (0.88%) Git
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.22%) Redmine
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 122 (26.99%) Finance
2 108 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 85 (18.81%) Marketing
4 62 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.52%) Front Office
5 34 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.53%) Retail
7 21 (4.65%) Law
8 18 (3.98%) Public Sector
9 14 (3.10%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.21%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.33%) Advertising
13 6 (1.33%) Legal
14 5 (1.11%) Publishing
15 4 (0.88%) Automotive
16 3 (0.66%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.99%) Velocity
2 5 (1.11%) Web Services
3 3 (0.66%) Middleware
3 3 (0.66%) Node.js
4 2 (0.44%) .NET
4 2 (0.44%) Kafka
4 2 (0.44%) OAuth
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.22%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.22%) HTML
5 1 (0.22%) JTS
5 1 (0.22%) RESTEasy
5 1 (0.22%) Spring
5 1 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (23.89%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.52%) Derivative
2 34 (7.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 32 (7.08%) Equities
4 31 (6.86%) Fixed Income
4 31 (6.86%) Hedge funds
5 21 (4.65%) Marketing Technology
6 11 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.99%) Blog
9 8 (1.77%) Blockchain
10 7 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.55%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.33%) FMCG
11 6 (1.33%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.88%) Social Media
14 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
15 2 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.75%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.44%) Android
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (57.96%) Roadmaps
2 225 (49.78%) Agile
3 159 (35.18%) Product Management
4 96 (21.24%) Product Roadmap
5 78 (17.26%) User Experience
6 68 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 66 (14.60%) Analytics
7 66 (14.60%) Scrum
8 63 (13.94%) Product Vision
9 61 (13.50%) Product Strategy
10 52 (11.50%) Project Management
11 51 (11.28%) User Stories
12 49 (10.84%) Strategic Roadmap
13 46 (10.18%) Decision-Making
14 43 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (9.29%) Artificial Intelligence
16 40 (8.85%) Customer Experience
16 40 (8.85%) Data Science
17 37 (8.19%) Product Backlog
18 36 (7.96%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.65%) SQL
2 6 (1.33%) Python
3 3 (0.66%) Ruby
4 2 (0.44%) Java
4 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (14.16%) Degree
2 13 (2.88%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.43%) SC Cleared
4 4 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.44%) CSPO
5 2 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.75%) QA
2 20 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.66%) WCAG
6 2 (0.44%) MiFID
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.22%) SCCM
2 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (4.42%) Salesforce
2 16 (3.54%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.99%) Google
4 5 (1.11%) Oracle
4 5 (1.11%) SAP
5 3 (0.66%) Siebel
6 2 (0.44%) Adobe
6 2 (0.44%) Facebook
6 2 (0.44%) Intel
6 2 (0.44%) Workday
7 1 (0.22%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.22%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.22%) Instagram
7 1 (0.22%) Marketo
7 1 (0.22%) Meraki
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.22%) TikTok
7 1 (0.22%) Twitter
7 1 (0.22%) YouTube