Product Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Product Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Management over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 227 160
Rank change year-on-year -75 -67 +118
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 943 1,593 4,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 1.62% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.69% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 525 508 1,253
10th Percentile £39,532 £50,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,125 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management 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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -90 733 £67,500 -3.57% 404
UK excluding London -74 584 £57,500 -8.00% 245
London -46 315 £80,000 +6.67% 168
Work from Home -76 312 £67,500 -3.57% 228
Scotland +13 154 £60,000 -7.69% 17
North of England -48 117 £63,500 +5.83% 63
Midlands +5 92 £57,500 +15.00% 44
South East -119 92 £60,000 -7.69% 78
South West +38 76 £54,043 -1.74% 22
North West -46 72 £63,000 +5.00% 44
West Midlands +21 71 £57,500 +15.00% 28
East of England -79 36 £56,250 -19.64% 19
Yorkshire +17 33 £60,000 -7.69% 16
East Midlands -5 21 £65,000 +18.18% 16
North East -8 12 £73,805 +6.96% 3
Northern Ireland +13 10 £67,500 +42.11% 4
Wales -32 7 £52,738 -29.68% 7

Product Management
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 44 (4.67%) Apache
2 29 (3.08%) Confluence
3 28 (2.97%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.53%) CMS
6 5 (0.53%) nginx
7 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (3.39%) UserZoom
2 27 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.42%) Sketch
7 3 (0.32%) InVision
8 2 (0.21%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.06%) Shopify
2 5 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.42%) CA PPM
4 2 (0.21%) Endur
4 2 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.21%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.21%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 1 (0.11%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.11%) Data Workbench
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.11%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (15.06%) AWS
2 127 (13.47%) SaaS
3 118 (12.51%) Azure
4 75 (7.95%) Figma
5 64 (6.79%) SurveyMonkey
6 33 (3.50%) Power Platform
7 32 (3.39%) GCP
8 24 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
9 23 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (1.91%) GitHub
11 17 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (1.38%) Google Analytics
13 12 (1.27%) dbt
13 12 (1.27%) PaaS
14 10 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (0.85%) Google Tag Manager
15 8 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.65%) Network Security
2 22 (2.33%) 5G
3 18 (1.91%) DSL
3 18 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.59%) WAN
5 14 (1.48%) HTTP
6 13 (1.38%) MQTT
6 13 (1.38%) SD-WAN
7 11 (1.17%) Firewall
8 9 (0.95%) Broadband
9 8 (0.85%) Multicast
10 7 (0.74%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.74%) VoIP
11 4 (0.42%) Unicast
11 4 (0.42%) VLAN
11 4 (0.42%) Wireless
12 3 (0.32%) Internet
13 2 (0.21%) IPsec
13 2 (0.21%) LAN
13 2 (0.21%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.82%) Big Data
3 28 (2.97%) DB2
4 23 (2.44%) Tableau
5 21 (2.23%) Data Lake
6 19 (2.01%) MongoDB
7 14 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.48%) Power BI
8 12 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (1.27%) Apache Arrow
8 12 (1.27%) Apache Ignite
8 12 (1.27%) Dremio
9 10 (1.06%) Flink
10 9 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.74%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.53%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.53%) Metadata
12 5 (0.53%) MySQL
12 5 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (7.32%) JIRA
2 44 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.65%) Git
4 16 (1.70%) GitLab
5 9 (0.95%) Moq
5 9 (0.95%) NUnit
6 5 (0.53%) Postman
6 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.53%) webpack
7 1 (0.11%) JUnit
7 1 (0.11%) Selenium
7 1 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 436 (46.24%) Finance
2 375 (39.77%) Social Skills
3 308 (32.66%) Marketing
4 213 (22.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 200 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
6 187 (19.83%) Law
7 111 (11.77%) Presentation Skills
8 80 (8.48%) Legal
9 66 (7.00%) Banking
10 52 (5.51%) Retail
11 48 (5.09%) Investment Banking
12 41 (4.35%) Front Office
13 35 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (3.61%) Electronics
15 33 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
16 32 (3.39%) Social Science
17 29 (3.08%) Public Sector
18 25 (2.65%) Financial Institution
18 25 (2.65%) Telecoms
19 17 (1.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 241 (25.56%) Product Manager
2 117 (12.41%) Lead
3 116 (12.30%) Senior
4 87 (9.23%) Product Owner
5 71 (7.53%) Senior Manager
6 65 (6.89%) Software Engineering Director
7 62 (6.57%) Architect
8 55 (5.83%) Developer
9 54 (5.73%) Analyst
10 50 (5.30%) Senior Product Manager
11 40 (4.24%) Business Analyst
12 36 (3.82%) User Experience Researcher
13 35 (3.71%) Product Analyst
13 35 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (3.71%) Technology Director
14 33 (3.50%) Software Developer
15 32 (3.39%) Business Manager
16 29 (3.08%) Finance Business Analyst
16 29 (3.08%) Financial Analyst
16 29 (3.08%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.15%) React
2 52 (5.51%) HTML
3 51 (5.41%) .NET
4 47 (4.98%) AngularJS
5 38 (4.03%) CSS
6 34 (3.61%) RESTful
7 31 (3.29%) Node.js
8 28 (2.97%) Kafka
9 26 (2.76%) Web Services
10 22 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
11 21 (2.23%) .NET Framework
12 18 (1.91%) .NET Core
12 18 (1.91%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (1.80%) Razor View Engine
14 15 (1.59%) HTML5
14 15 (1.59%) JSON
14 15 (1.59%) Spring
15 14 (1.48%) ASP.NET
15 14 (1.48%) jQuery
16 13 (1.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 217 (23.01%) Product Ownership
2 71 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 50 (5.30%) Management Information System
4 40 (4.24%) Derivative
4 40 (4.24%) Equities
4 40 (4.24%) Fixed Income
4 40 (4.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (4.24%) Hedge funds
5 30 (3.18%) Mobile App
6 29 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 25 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 24 (2.55%) IoT
9 23 (2.44%) Robotics
9 23 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (2.33%) Onboarding
10 22 (2.33%) Taxonomies
11 21 (2.23%) Algorithms
12 20 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (1.91%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.91%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.97%) Windows
2 27 (2.86%) Linux
3 18 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (53.13%) Agile
2 380 (40.30%) Roadmaps
3 242 (25.66%) Analytics
4 237 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
5 224 (23.75%) User Experience
6 179 (18.98%) Product Roadmap
7 149 (15.80%) Mentoring
8 143 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (14.95%) Artificial Intelligence
9 141 (14.95%) Software Engineering
10 138 (14.63%) Product Strategy
10 138 (14.63%) Project Management
11 132 (14.00%) DevOps
12 125 (13.26%) Decision-Making
13 124 (13.15%) Scrum
14 122 (12.94%) User Research
15 115 (12.20%) Machine Learning
16 112 (11.88%) Product Vision
17 104 (11.03%) Data Analytics
17 104 (11.03%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 149 (15.80%) SQL
2 118 (12.51%) Python
3 87 (9.23%) JavaScript
4 69 (7.32%) Java
5 57 (6.04%) C#
6 38 (4.03%) R
7 30 (3.18%) Scala
8 23 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.01%) C++
10 18 (1.91%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.59%) Ruby
12 14 (1.48%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.06%) C
14 8 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.64%) PHP
16 5 (0.53%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.21%) Bash
17 2 (0.21%) Delphi
17 2 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 299 (31.71%) Degree
2 96 (10.18%) Master's Degree
3 46 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (4.67%) PhD
5 28 (2.97%) MBA
6 27 (2.86%) Security Cleared
7 21 (2.23%) CISSP
8 20 (2.12%) CSPO
9 19 (2.01%) SC Cleared
10 16 (1.70%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.74%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.64%) CISA
14 6 (0.64%) GIAC
14 6 (0.64%) IIBA
14 6 (0.64%) JNCIA
15 5 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (9.65%) QA
2 34 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.39%) Actionable Recommendations
4 28 (2.97%) SLA
5 15 (1.59%) PMO
6 8 (0.85%) GDPR
7 6 (0.64%) NIST
8 3 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.32%) JTAG
8 3 (0.32%) WCAG
9 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.21%) PSD2
10 1 (0.11%) GMP
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (2.12%) Docker
2 10 (1.06%) Firmware
3 9 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.85%) KVM
5 6 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.42%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.17%) Terraform
3 6 (0.64%) Grafana
4 5 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (0.53%) Kibana
4 5 (0.53%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.11%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) FTK
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 111 (11.77%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.79%) Qualtrics
3 52 (5.51%) Databricks
4 33 (3.50%) Google
5 23 (2.44%) Oracle
6 20 (2.12%) Sybase
7 19 (2.01%) Cognos
8 18 (1.91%) Alteryx
8 18 (1.91%) Cisco
8 18 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.59%) SAP
10 13 (1.38%) Dell
11 11 (1.17%) IBM
11 11 (1.17%) Splunk
12 10 (1.06%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.06%) VMware
13 8 (0.85%) Virgin Media
14 7 (0.74%) Meraki
15 6 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
15 6 (0.64%) iManage