Product Planning Job Trends

Product Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 761 734
Rank change year-on-year +96 -27 +359
Permanent jobs citing Product Planning 7 10 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.013% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.016% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £59,750 £58,500 £44,528
25th Percentile £63,125 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £91,750 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -11.54% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Planning 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 44,107 61,151 54,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.15% 81.78% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 24,402 33,284 41,954
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -2.88% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Product Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Planning in the UK

Product Planning
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Planning

Product Planning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Planning over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Planning in the UK

Product Planning
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +99 7 £70,000 -12.50% 11
London +77 7 £70,000 -12.50% 6
Work from Home +66 5 £70,000 +16.67% 11

Product Planning
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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
1 3 (42.86%) Mixpanel
1 3 (42.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Browser DevTools
General
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Product Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Podcast
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) A/B Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Insight
2 3 (42.86%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) Product Management
2 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (42.86%) User Experience
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Product Vision
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Supplier Enablement
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Amplitude