Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager salary in the UK is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 318 274
Rank change year-on-year -72 -44 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Manager 664 1,098 2,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.10% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.21% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 435 490 1,035
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,875 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.39% -4.00% +13.64%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Manager over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 -64 607 £70,000 - 244
UK excluding London -58 412 £57,965 -3.39% 139
Work from Home -63 289 £65,000 -7.14% 135
London -47 240 £80,000 +6.67% 129
North of England -37 118 £57,965 -11.06% 35
South East -34 82 £60,000 - 39
South West +16 74 £57,500 -6.50% 10
Midlands -14 70 £58,700 +17.40% 22
North West -61 65 £57,965 -17.19% 22
West Midlands +4 51 £61,000 +22.00% 17
Scotland -51 33 £66,500 +23.72% 9
Yorkshire +50 32 £65,000 - 11
East of England -8 23 £55,000 -24.14% 9
North East +6 21 £57,965 -15.99% 2
East Midlands -16 19 £45,000 -23.40% 5
Wales +7 9 £52,738 -18.86% 13
Northern Ireland +34 5 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Product Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 377 (56.78%) Agile
2 318 (47.89%) Roadmaps
3 242 (36.45%) Product Management
4 218 (32.83%) Finance
5 181 (27.26%) Product Roadmap
6 176 (26.51%) Product Strategy
7 168 (25.30%) Product Ownership
8 164 (24.70%) Social Skills
9 140 (21.08%) Analytics
10 136 (20.48%) Product Vision
11 122 (18.37%) Marketing
12 114 (17.17%) User Research
13 99 (14.91%) Degree
14 92 (13.86%) User Experience
15 91 (13.70%) User Stories
16 90 (13.55%) Market Research
17 89 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
18 87 (13.10%) DevOps
19 85 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
20 83 (12.50%) Project Management
20 83 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 81 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
22 78 (11.75%) Product Backlog
23 77 (11.60%) Scrum
24 75 (11.30%) Customer Experience
25 73 (10.99%) Acceptance Criteria
26 72 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
27 71 (10.69%) Coaching
28 70 (10.54%) Mentoring
29 68 (10.24%) SaaS

Product Manager 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 18 (2.71%) Confluence
2 2 (0.30%) Apache
2 2 (0.30%) CMS
3 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 23 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (2.41%) Endur
2 12 (1.81%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Data Workbench
Cloud Services
1 68 (10.24%) SaaS
2 38 (5.72%) AWS
3 35 (5.27%) Azure
4 25 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 11 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.05%) Power Automate
9 6 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.90%) Miro
10 4 (0.60%) Collibra
11 3 (0.45%) dbt
11 3 (0.45%) GCP
11 3 (0.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (0.45%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.30%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.30%) IaaS
12 2 (0.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.20%) Wireless
2 4 (0.60%) WAN
3 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.30%) 5G
5 1 (0.15%) DECT
5 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.15%) Internet
5 1 (0.15%) LAN
5 1 (0.15%) RFID
5 1 (0.15%) RS-232
5 1 (0.15%) RS-485
5 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.01%) Tableau
2 18 (2.71%) Power BI
3 10 (1.51%) Data Lake
3 10 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.36%) BusinessObjects
4 9 (1.36%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.20%) HDInsight
6 7 (1.05%) Looker
7 5 (0.75%) Big Data
7 5 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.60%) QlikView
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Arrow
9 2 (0.30%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.30%) Dremio
9 2 (0.30%) Metadata
9 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (5.12%) JIRA
General
1 218 (32.83%) Finance
2 164 (24.70%) Social Skills
3 122 (18.37%) Marketing
4 85 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 61 (9.19%) Retail
7 57 (8.58%) Legal
8 38 (5.72%) Front Office
9 37 (5.57%) Law
10 31 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (3.46%) Banking
12 17 (2.56%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.56%) Public Sector
13 16 (2.41%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.96%) Games
15 12 (1.81%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.81%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.66%) Electronics
17 8 (1.20%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.16%) Web Services
2 4 (0.60%) XML
2 4 (0.60%) YAML
3 3 (0.45%) Middleware
4 2 (0.30%) .NET
5 1 (0.15%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.15%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (0.15%) Kafka
5 1 (0.15%) Laravel
5 1 (0.15%) Next.js
5 1 (0.15%) Pandas
5 1 (0.15%) React
5 1 (0.15%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 168 (25.30%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.17%) Derivative
3 38 (5.72%) Equities
3 38 (5.72%) Fixed Income
3 38 (5.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 38 (5.72%) Hedge funds
4 20 (3.01%) Algorithms
4 20 (3.01%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.86%) NHS
6 16 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.66%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.51%) Reinsurance
9 10 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.36%) Robotics
11 7 (1.05%) PMI
12 5 (0.75%) Housing Association
13 4 (0.60%) Educational Technology
13 4 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.66%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.45%) Android
3 2 (0.30%) Linux
3 2 (0.30%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (56.78%) Agile
2 318 (47.89%) Roadmaps
3 242 (36.45%) Product Management
4 181 (27.26%) Product Roadmap
5 176 (26.51%) Product Strategy
6 140 (21.08%) Analytics
7 136 (20.48%) Product Vision
8 114 (17.17%) User Research
9 92 (13.86%) User Experience
10 91 (13.70%) User Stories
11 90 (13.55%) Market Research
12 89 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
13 87 (13.10%) DevOps
14 83 (12.50%) Project Management
15 81 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
16 78 (11.75%) Product Backlog
17 77 (11.60%) Scrum
18 75 (11.30%) Customer Experience
19 73 (10.99%) Acceptance Criteria
20 72 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 61 (9.19%) SQL
2 39 (5.87%) Python
3 3 (0.45%) R
4 2 (0.30%) C#
5 1 (0.15%) Java
5 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (14.91%) Degree
2 64 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 63 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.16%) Master's Degree
5 20 (3.01%) MBA
6 10 (1.51%) CSPO
7 8 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.90%) IIBA
9 4 (0.60%) CLAS
9 4 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.15%) APMG
11 1 (0.15%) CISSP
11 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.15%) MCAD
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.15%) PMP
11 1 (0.15%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.27%) QA
2 10 (1.51%) GDPR
3 6 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.30%) GMP
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.15%) PMO
6 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (5.87%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.37%) Salesforce
3 12 (1.81%) Databricks
4 11 (1.66%) SAP
5 10 (1.51%) ServiceNow
6 6 (0.90%) Google
7 4 (0.60%) Bloomberg
7 4 (0.60%) Intel
8 3 (0.45%) Cadence
9 2 (0.30%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle
9 2 (0.30%) Twitter
9 2 (0.30%) VMware
9 2 (0.30%) Zuora
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe
10 1 (0.15%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.15%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.15%) Huawei
10 1 (0.15%) Pardot
10 1 (0.15%) Sun