Product Engineer Jobs

Product Engineer
UK

The median Product Engineer salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 886 898 1142
Rank change year-on-year +12 +244 -247
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Engineer 21 49 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.052% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.057% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 9 32 52
10th Percentile £33,900 £38,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £57,375 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £66,895 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -28.99% +44.64% -19.57%
75th Percentile £55,000 £77,715 £81,563
90th Percentile £63,000 - £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £69,447 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.80% +63.40% -

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Product Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Engineer in the UK

Product Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Engineer in the UK

Product Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Engineer in the UK

Product Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +14 21 £47,500 -26.92% 62
UK excluding London -44 16 £55,000 -20.80% 53
South West -18 12 £55,000 -6.34% 9
Work from Home +18 6 £55,000 -20.80% 9
London +99 5 £46,250 -28.85% 9
East of England - 2 - - 5
South East -8 1 - - 15
Midlands - 1 £36,000 - 6
West Midlands - 1 £36,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Product Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
2 10 (47.62%) GitHub
3 9 (42.86%) Degree
3 9 (42.86%) Windows
3 9 (42.86%) Python
3 9 (42.86%) LabVIEW
3 9 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
4 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (38.10%) pytest
4 8 (38.10%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (38.10%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (38.10%) B2B
4 8 (38.10%) MATLAB
4 8 (38.10%) HND
4 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (38.10%) Unix
4 8 (38.10%) Git
5 6 (28.57%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
7 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (14.29%) Business Strategy
7 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 3 (14.29%) Synthetic Environment
7 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
7 3 (14.29%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (14.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) AWS

Product Engineer 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 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) GitHub
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Internet
1 2 (9.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) LabVIEW
2 8 (38.10%) Git
3 3 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (14.29%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (38.10%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Games
4 1 (4.76%) Aviation
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) pytest
2 2 (9.52%) MSMQ
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) 3D Printing
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.76%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.76%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
3 9 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
4 8 (38.10%) B2B
5 6 (28.57%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Business Development
6 3 (14.29%) Business Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
6 3 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Synthetic Environment
6 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
7 2 (9.52%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (9.52%) System Testing
8 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (4.76%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) MATLAB
3 3 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) C
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Degree
2 8 (38.10%) HND
3 3 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) HNC
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) EMC
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.76%) Netskope
1 1 (4.76%) Okta
1 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
1 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
1 1 (4.76%) Splunk