Product Requirements
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Product Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Requirements over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 647 583 523
Rank change year-on-year -64 -60 +141
Permanent jobs citing Product Requirements 242 442 1,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.44% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.46% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 183 161 234
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £43,225
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% +1.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £99,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £48,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.56% -18.75% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Requirements 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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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% +10.53%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Requirements 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 -48 229 £60,000 -9.43% 125
UK excluding London -139 147 £47,500 -2.56% 74
South East +17 102 £39,000 -17.89% 36
Work from Home -1 90 £56,000 -6.67% 62
London +59 83 £85,000 +17.24% 56
Yorkshire +56 25 £47,500 - 3
North of England -59 25 £47,500 - 8
Midlands -3 7 £42,500 -10.53% 10
East of England -13 6 £57,800 -7.52% 12
South West -29 6 £58,750 +17.50% 8
West Midlands +16 4 £51,250 +28.13% 6
East Midlands -17 3 £42,500 -22.73% 4
Scotland -86 1 £48,000 - 4

Product Requirements
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 8 (3.31%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.72%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (2.48%) InVision
2 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.48%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 32 (13.22%) SaaS
2 22 (9.09%) Azure
3 13 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.65%) Miro
5 4 (1.65%) PaaS
6 3 (1.24%) AWS
6 3 (1.24%) GitHub
7 1 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.41%) Collibra
7 1 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.41%) GCP
7 1 (0.41%) IaaS
7 1 (0.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.72%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.48%) Intranet
3 2 (0.83%) Internet
4 1 (0.41%) DNS
4 1 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) NAS
4 1 (0.41%) NGN
4 1 (0.41%) SAN
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.83%) Data Mining
1 2 (0.83%) MySQL
1 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.41%) Power BI
2 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.13%) JIRA
2 4 (1.65%) JMeter
2 4 (1.65%) Maven
3 2 (0.83%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.41%) Git
4 1 (0.41%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) MSTest
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
4 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 60 (24.79%) Electronics
2 58 (23.97%) Manufacturing
3 54 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (21.90%) Marketing
5 52 (21.49%) Social Skills
6 32 (13.22%) Finance
7 17 (7.02%) Legal
8 11 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.89%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.89%) Retail
11 4 (1.65%) Digital Health
11 4 (1.65%) Digital Healthcare
11 4 (1.65%) Games
11 4 (1.65%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.83%) Advertising
13 1 (0.41%) Automotive
13 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (22.31%) Product Manager
2 48 (19.83%) Product Owner
3 39 (16.12%) Quality Engineer
4 27 (11.16%) Senior
5 22 (9.09%) Lead
6 21 (8.68%) QA Engineer
7 20 (8.26%) Architect
8 18 (7.44%) QC Engineer
9 16 (6.61%) Developer
10 12 (4.96%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.55%) Lead Architect
11 11 (4.55%) Software Developer
11 11 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.13%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.72%) QA Technician
14 8 (3.31%) Senior Architect
14 8 (3.31%) Senior Technical Architect
14 8 (3.31%) Technical Architect
15 7 (2.89%) C# Developer
15 7 (2.89%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.79%) .NET
1 14 (5.79%) Web Services
2 12 (4.96%) .NET Framework
3 11 (4.55%) ASP.NET
3 11 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
3 11 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
3 11 (4.55%) Entity Framework
3 11 (4.55%) RESTful
4 10 (4.13%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.07%) Smart Contracts
6 4 (1.65%) React
7 3 (1.24%) Django
7 3 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.24%) Symfony
8 2 (0.83%) Qt
8 2 (0.83%) XML
9 1 (0.41%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.41%) CSS
9 1 (0.41%) Node.js
9 1 (0.41%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.55%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.09%) NHS
3 20 (8.26%) Algorithms
4 12 (4.96%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.13%) Podcast
6 8 (3.31%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.48%) Blockchain
8 6 (2.48%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.65%) Media Streaming
9 4 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.24%) Robotics
11 2 (0.83%) IoT
11 2 (0.83%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.83%) Molecular Biology
11 2 (0.83%) PMI
11 2 (0.83%) Sports Betting
12 1 (0.41%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.65%) Android
1 4 (1.65%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.24%) Windows
3 2 (0.83%) Debian
3 2 (0.83%) Linux
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (47.11%) Agile
2 101 (41.74%) Roadmaps
3 86 (35.54%) Product Roadmap
4 66 (27.27%) Market Research
5 63 (26.03%) User Stories
6 61 (25.21%) Collaborative Working
7 58 (23.97%) Scrum
8 57 (23.55%) Product Strategy
9 55 (22.73%) FMEA
9 55 (22.73%) Internal Audit
10 53 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (20.25%) Acceptance Criteria
12 46 (19.01%) Product Vision
13 44 (18.18%) Product Backlog
14 42 (17.36%) User Experience
15 40 (16.53%) Product Management
16 37 (15.29%) Customer Requirements
17 36 (14.88%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 32 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (13.22%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.05%) SQL
2 17 (7.02%) C#
3 8 (3.31%) Java
4 6 (2.48%) Python
5 5 (2.07%) C++
6 3 (1.24%) C
6 3 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.24%) PHP
6 3 (1.24%) R
7 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.83%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.41%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.41%) Rust
8 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (17.77%) Degree
2 17 (7.02%) Master's Degree
3 12 (4.96%) MBA
4 5 (2.07%) CSPO
5 2 (0.83%) ISEB
5 2 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.41%) CIPD
6 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (28.93%) QA
2 7 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.48%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) MISRA
4 2 (0.83%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) GMP
5 1 (0.41%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (4.96%) Firmware
2 11 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (4.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.48%) Adobe
2 6 (2.48%) Hotjar
3 5 (2.07%) Oracle
4 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.24%) Micro Focus
6 2 (0.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco
7 1 (0.41%) Google
7 1 (0.41%) Meraki
7 1 (0.41%) Palo Alto