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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 224 164
Rank change year-on-year -88 -60 +116
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 946 1,667 4,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 1.68% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.76% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 526 512 1,236
10th Percentile £40,500 £50,000 £45,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £113,750 £100,000
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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 18 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 18 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 -97 736 £67,500 -3.57% 415
UK excluding London -90 585 £57,500 -8.00% 255
London -44 316 £80,000 +6.67% 200
Work from Home -73 315 £67,500 -3.57% 240
Scotland +7 154 £60,000 -7.69% 16
North of England -46 119 £63,000 +5.00% 60
Midlands +3 93 £57,502 +15.00% 40
South East -144 90 £60,000 -11.11% 87
South West +26 76 £54,043 -1.74% 17
North West -41 74 £62,500 +4.17% 38
West Midlands +23 72 £57,500 +15.00% 29
East of England -89 38 £57,500 -17.86% 30
Yorkshire +20 33 £60,000 - 18
East Midlands -6 21 £65,000 +18.18% 11
North East -9 12 £73,805 +6.96% 4
Northern Ireland +6 9 £67,500 +42.11% 2
Wales -34 6 £52,738 -29.68% 12

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 (4.65%) Apache
2 29 (3.07%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.07%) Confluence
3 13 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.53%) CMS
5 5 (0.53%) nginx
6 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (3.38%) UserZoom
2 27 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (1.69%) 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 3 (0.32%) Endur
4 3 (0.32%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.11%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.11%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (15.01%) AWS
2 128 (13.53%) SaaS
3 118 (12.47%) Azure
4 75 (7.93%) Figma
5 64 (6.77%) SurveyMonkey
6 34 (3.59%) GCP
7 33 (3.49%) Power Platform
8 23 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
8 23 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (2.01%) GitHub
10 17 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.37%) Google Analytics
12 12 (1.27%) dbt
12 12 (1.27%) PaaS
13 10 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.85%) Azure App Service
14 8 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.85%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.64%) Network Security
2 22 (2.33%) 5G
3 18 (1.90%) DSL
4 17 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.59%) WAN
6 13 (1.37%) HTTP
6 13 (1.37%) SD-WAN
7 12 (1.27%) MQTT
8 11 (1.16%) Firewall
9 9 (0.95%) Broadband
10 8 (0.85%) Multicast
11 7 (0.74%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.74%) VoIP
12 5 (0.53%) Wireless
13 4 (0.42%) Unicast
13 4 (0.42%) VLAN
14 3 (0.32%) Internet
15 2 (0.21%) 3G
15 2 (0.21%) BGP
15 2 (0.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.02%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.81%) Big Data
3 28 (2.96%) DB2
4 23 (2.43%) Tableau
5 21 (2.22%) Data Lake
6 20 (2.11%) MongoDB
7 15 (1.59%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.48%) Power BI
9 12 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.27%) Apache Arrow
9 12 (1.27%) Apache Ignite
9 12 (1.27%) Dremio
10 10 (1.06%) Flink
11 9 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (0.95%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.63%) Metadata
13 5 (0.53%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.53%) MySQL
13 5 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (7.40%) JIRA
2 44 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.64%) Git
4 16 (1.69%) 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
1 440 (46.51%) Finance
2 374 (39.53%) Social Skills
3 308 (32.56%) Marketing
4 214 (22.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 200 (21.14%) Analytical Skills
6 186 (19.66%) Law
7 110 (11.63%) Presentation Skills
8 81 (8.56%) Legal
9 66 (6.98%) Banking
10 53 (5.60%) Retail
11 48 (5.07%) Investment Banking
12 41 (4.33%) Front Office
13 35 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (3.59%) Electronics
14 34 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (3.38%) Social Science
16 29 (3.07%) Public Sector
17 26 (2.75%) Telecoms
18 25 (2.64%) Financial Institution
19 19 (2.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 242 (25.58%) Product Manager
2 117 (12.37%) Lead
2 117 (12.37%) Senior
3 86 (9.09%) Product Owner
4 71 (7.51%) Senior Manager
5 65 (6.87%) Software Engineering Director
6 60 (6.34%) Architect
7 56 (5.92%) Developer
8 54 (5.71%) Analyst
9 50 (5.29%) Senior Product Manager
10 40 (4.23%) Business Analyst
11 36 (3.81%) User Experience Researcher
12 35 (3.70%) Product Analyst
12 35 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
12 35 (3.70%) Technology Director
13 33 (3.49%) Business Manager
13 33 (3.49%) Software Developer
14 29 (3.07%) Finance Business Analyst
14 29 (3.07%) Financial Analyst
14 29 (3.07%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.13%) React
2 53 (5.60%) HTML
3 50 (5.29%) .NET
4 46 (4.86%) AngularJS
5 39 (4.12%) CSS
6 33 (3.49%) RESTful
7 30 (3.17%) Node.js
8 28 (2.96%) Kafka
9 26 (2.75%) Web Services
10 22 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
11 21 (2.22%) .NET Framework
12 18 (1.90%) .NET Core
12 18 (1.90%) 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 (1.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 216 (22.83%) Product Ownership
2 72 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 50 (5.29%) Management Information System
4 40 (4.23%) Derivative
4 40 (4.23%) Equities
4 40 (4.23%) Fixed Income
4 40 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (4.23%) Hedge funds
5 30 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 29 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 24 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (2.54%) IoT
8 22 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.33%) Robotics
8 22 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (2.33%) Taxonomies
9 21 (2.22%) Algorithms
10 20 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.11%) Virtual Team
11 18 (1.90%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.96%) Windows
2 27 (2.85%) Linux
3 18 (1.90%) 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 (52.96%) Agile
2 383 (40.49%) Roadmaps
3 244 (25.79%) Analytics
4 237 (25.05%) Problem-Solving
5 226 (23.89%) User Experience
6 179 (18.92%) Product Roadmap
7 149 (15.75%) Mentoring
8 142 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (14.90%) Artificial Intelligence
9 141 (14.90%) Software Engineering
10 140 (14.80%) Project Management
11 138 (14.59%) Product Strategy
12 135 (14.27%) DevOps
13 125 (13.21%) Decision-Making
14 124 (13.11%) User Research
15 123 (13.00%) Scrum
16 116 (12.26%) Machine Learning
17 112 (11.84%) Product Vision
18 104 (10.99%) Strategic Roadmap
19 103 (10.89%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 149 (15.75%) SQL
2 118 (12.47%) Python
3 88 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 71 (7.51%) Java
5 57 (6.03%) C#
6 38 (4.02%) R
7 31 (3.28%) Scala
8 23 (2.43%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.90%) C++
9 18 (1.90%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.59%) Ruby
11 14 (1.48%) PowerShell
12 9 (0.95%) C
13 8 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.63%) PHP
15 5 (0.53%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.32%) VB
17 2 (0.21%) Delphi
17 2 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.21%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 299 (31.61%) Degree
2 97 (10.25%) Master's Degree
3 47 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (4.65%) PhD
5 28 (2.96%) MBA
6 26 (2.75%) Security Cleared
7 21 (2.22%) CISSP
8 19 (2.01%) CSPO
8 19 (2.01%) SC Cleared
9 16 (1.69%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.74%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.74%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.63%) CISA
13 6 (0.63%) GIAC
13 6 (0.63%) IIBA
13 6 (0.63%) JNCIA
14 5 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (9.62%) QA
2 35 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 28 (2.96%) SLA
5 15 (1.59%) PMO
6 8 (0.85%) GDPR
7 6 (0.63%) 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/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (2.22%) Docker
2 10 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.95%) Firmware
4 8 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.85%) KVM
5 5 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.42%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.06%) Terraform
3 6 (0.63%) 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 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.77%) Qualtrics
3 52 (5.50%) Databricks
4 33 (3.49%) Google
5 24 (2.54%) Oracle
6 21 (2.22%) Sybase
7 19 (2.01%) Cognos
8 18 (1.90%) Alteryx
8 18 (1.90%) Cisco
8 18 (1.90%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.69%) SAP
10 14 (1.48%) Dell
11 12 (1.27%) IBM
12 11 (1.16%) Splunk
12 11 (1.16%) VMware
13 9 (0.95%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.85%) Virgin Media
15 7 (0.74%) Apple
15 7 (0.74%) Meraki
16 6 (0.63%) Juniper