Product Requirements
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Product Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Requirements over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 648 575 529
Rank change year-on-year -73 -46 +122
Permanent jobs citing Product Requirements 258 452 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.45% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.47% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 188 157 240
10th Percentile £38,500 £33,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% +1.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £57,442
% change year-on-year -5.00% -12.96% +9.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Requirements is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Requirements within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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 -19 244 £60,000 -5.88% 110
UK excluding London -128 158 £47,500 -5.00% 65
South East +12 114 £39,000 -17.89% 25
Work from Home -10 91 £56,000 -6.67% 51
London +64 87 £85,000 +17.24% 43
Yorkshire +61 25 £47,500 - 3
North of England -45 25 £47,500 - 8
Midlands -6 7 £42,500 -10.53% 10
East of England -1 6 £57,800 -7.52% 15
South West -30 5 £60,000 +20.00% 5
West Midlands +15 4 £51,250 +28.13% 7
East Midlands -15 3 £42,500 -22.73% 3
Scotland -89 1 £48,000 -

Product Requirements
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 9 (3.49%) Confluence
2 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.39%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.49%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (2.33%) InVision
2 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.33%) Sketch
3 1 (0.39%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (1.94%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.79%) SaaS
2 24 (9.30%) Azure
3 13 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.94%) AWS
6 4 (1.55%) GitHub
6 4 (1.55%) Miro
6 4 (1.55%) PaaS
7 2 (0.78%) GCP
8 1 (0.39%) Asana
8 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.39%) Collibra
8 1 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.39%) IaaS
8 1 (0.39%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.49%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.33%) Intranet
3 2 (0.78%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.39%) Firewall
4 1 (0.39%) LAN
4 1 (0.39%) LTE
4 1 (0.39%) NAS
4 1 (0.39%) SAN
4 1 (0.39%) WAN
4 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.39%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.78%) Data Mining
1 2 (0.78%) MySQL
1 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.39%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.39%) Metadata
2 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.39%) Power BI
2 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.26%) JIRA
2 4 (1.55%) JMeter
2 4 (1.55%) Maven
3 2 (0.78%) Git
3 2 (0.78%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.39%) MSTest
4 1 (0.39%) Selenium
4 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (27.52%) Manufacturing
2 70 (27.13%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (25.19%) Social Skills
4 61 (23.64%) Electronics
5 54 (20.93%) Marketing
6 31 (12.02%) Finance
7 17 (6.59%) Legal
8 11 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.71%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.33%) Retail
12 4 (1.55%) Digital Health
12 4 (1.55%) Digital Healthcare
12 4 (1.55%) Games
12 4 (1.55%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.78%) Advertising
14 1 (0.39%) Automotive
14 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (24.81%) Product Manager
2 50 (19.38%) Product Owner
3 39 (15.12%) Quality Engineer
4 27 (10.47%) Senior
5 22 (8.53%) Lead
6 21 (8.14%) QA Engineer
7 20 (7.75%) Architect
8 18 (6.98%) QC Engineer
9 16 (6.20%) Developer
10 12 (4.65%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.26%) Lead Architect
11 11 (4.26%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.26%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.49%) QA Technician
13 8 (3.10%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.10%) Senior Technical Architect
13 8 (3.10%) Technical Architect
14 7 (2.71%) C# Developer
14 7 (2.71%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.81%) .NET
2 14 (5.43%) Web Services
3 12 (4.65%) .NET Framework
4 11 (4.26%) ASP.NET
4 11 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 11 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
4 11 (4.26%) Entity Framework
4 11 (4.26%) RESTful
5 10 (3.88%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.94%) Smart Contracts
7 4 (1.55%) React
8 3 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.16%) Symfony
9 2 (0.78%) Django
9 2 (0.78%) Qt
9 2 (0.78%) XML
10 1 (0.39%) CSS
10 1 (0.39%) HTML
10 1 (0.39%) Kafka
10 1 (0.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (23.26%) Product Ownership
2 22 (8.53%) NHS
3 20 (7.75%) Algorithms
4 12 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.88%) Podcast
6 7 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.71%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.33%) Blockchain
7 6 (2.33%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.55%) Media Streaming
9 3 (1.16%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.16%) Robotics
9 3 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.78%) IoT
10 2 (0.78%) Molecular Biology
10 2 (0.78%) PMI
10 2 (0.78%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.55%) Android
1 4 (1.55%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.16%) Windows
3 2 (0.78%) Debian
3 2 (0.78%) Linux
4 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (45.74%) Roadmaps
2 116 (44.96%) Agile
3 102 (39.53%) Product Roadmap
4 73 (28.29%) Collaborative Working
5 69 (26.74%) Market Research
6 66 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (25.19%) User Stories
8 61 (23.64%) Scrum
9 58 (22.48%) Product Strategy
10 55 (21.32%) FMEA
10 55 (21.32%) Internal Audit
11 53 (20.54%) Product Management
12 52 (20.16%) Acceptance Criteria
13 51 (19.77%) Product Vision
14 47 (18.22%) Product Backlog
15 43 (16.67%) User Experience
16 39 (15.12%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 38 (14.73%) Customer Requirements
18 33 (12.79%) Backlog Management
18 33 (12.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.73%) SQL
2 17 (6.59%) C#
3 9 (3.49%) Java
4 7 (2.71%) Python
5 5 (1.94%) C++
6 3 (1.16%) C
6 3 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.16%) PHP
6 3 (1.16%) R
7 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.39%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.39%) Rust
8 1 (0.39%) Scala
8 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (20.93%) Degree
2 17 (6.59%) Master's Degree
3 12 (4.65%) MBA
4 5 (1.94%) CSPO
5 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.39%) CIPD
6 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.39%) ISEB
6 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (27.13%) QA
2 19 (7.36%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.78%) MISRA
4 2 (0.78%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.39%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) GMP
5 1 (0.39%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (5.04%) Firmware
2 11 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.33%) Adobe
2 6 (2.33%) Hotjar
3 5 (1.94%) Oracle
4 4 (1.55%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.16%) Micro Focus
6 2 (0.78%) Google
6 2 (0.78%) SAP
7 1 (0.39%) Apple
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco
7 1 (0.39%) EMC
7 1 (0.39%) Facebook
7 1 (0.39%) IBM
7 1 (0.39%) Meraki
7 1 (0.39%) Palo Alto