Product Thinking Jobs

Product Thinking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Product Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 909 957
Rank change year-on-year +210 +48 +164
Permanent jobs citing Product Thinking 10 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.003% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £109,060 - £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £131,666 - £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.57%
75th Percentile £146,300 - £95,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £131,666 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Thinking 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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Product Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Thinking in the UK

Product Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Thinking in the UK

Product Thinking
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 +165 10 £131,666 - 43
Work from Home +126 10 £131,666 - 22
UK excluding London - 10 £131,666 - 37
North of England - 10 £131,666 - 11
North West - 7 £131,666 - 9
Yorkshire - 3 - - 2

Product Thinking
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) Cloud Composer
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (100.00%) Banking
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (40.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (30.00%) Economics
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Observability
5 3 (30.00%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (30.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (30.00%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Go
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Google