Product Owner
UK

The median Product Owner salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 438 397
Rank change year-on-year -121 -41 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 374 680 1,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.70% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.76% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 291 504 1,029
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,400
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,719 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,437 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% +10.00%

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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Owner over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Owner within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -101 335 £65,000 +4.00% 67
London +74 176 £85,000 +21.43% 32
UK excluding London -199 169 £60,000 +6.19% 37
Work from Home -83 146 £62,783 +0.45% 36
North of England -16 44 £62,783 +14.15% 7
Midlands -50 38 £63,750 +34.21% 12
South East -67 38 £65,000 +8.33% 7
North West -8 28 £62,641 +13.89% 5
West Midlands -32 23 £62,500 +38.89% 8
South West -54 23 £55,000 -10.58% 7
Scotland -65 17 £55,000 -12.00% 4
East Midlands -20 15 £70,000 +27.27% 4
Yorkshire +29 12 £65,000 +9.20% 2
East of England -22 7 £48,750 -11.36%
North East -6 4 £62,783 +9.19%
Wales -5 2 £42,500 -39.29%

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Product Owner 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 Owner in the job title.

1 374 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 274 (73.26%) Agile
3 193 (51.60%) Roadmaps
4 131 (35.03%) Social Skills
5 124 (33.16%) Scrum
6 119 (31.82%) User Stories
7 115 (30.75%) Finance
8 109 (29.14%) Product Backlog
9 107 (28.61%) Product Roadmap
10 99 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
11 90 (24.06%) Product Management
11 90 (24.06%) Product Vision
12 85 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
13 80 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 73 (19.52%) SQL
15 70 (18.72%) Analytics
16 65 (17.38%) Acceptance Criteria
17 63 (16.84%) User Experience
18 62 (16.58%) Backlog Management
18 62 (16.58%) Backlog Prioritisation
19 55 (14.71%) Machine Learning
20 53 (14.17%) Artificial Intelligence
21 50 (13.37%) Sprint Planning
22 49 (13.10%) JIRA
23 45 (12.03%) Product Requirements
24 44 (11.76%) AWS
25 40 (10.70%) Python
25 40 (10.70%) Requirements Gathering
26 39 (10.43%) DevOps
27 37 (9.89%) Mentoring

Product Owner 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 27 (7.22%) Confluence
2 5 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.80%) CMS
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) Documentum
Applications
1 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.07%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.07%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.07%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.07%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.80%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.53%) Magento
4 2 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.76%) AWS
2 35 (9.36%) Azure
3 25 (6.68%) SaaS
4 16 (4.28%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.14%) GCP
6 7 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.60%) Power Automate
7 6 (1.60%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.07%) Collibra
9 4 (1.07%) dbt
9 4 (1.07%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.80%) PaaS
11 2 (0.53%) Bloomreach
11 2 (0.53%) Miro
11 2 (0.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 1 (0.27%) Figma
12 1 (0.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.41%) Network Security
2 4 (1.07%) Internet
3 3 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.94%) Tableau
2 10 (2.67%) Power BI
3 7 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.34%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.07%) Big Data
6 3 (0.80%) Metadata
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.27%) MS Access
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (13.10%) JIRA
2 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
General
1 131 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 115 (30.75%) Finance
3 99 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.63%) Front Office
5 33 (8.82%) Retail
6 32 (8.56%) Marketing
7 22 (5.88%) Banking
8 15 (4.01%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.48%) Legal
10 11 (2.94%) Law
11 9 (2.41%) Automotive
11 9 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.41%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.60%) Local Government
13 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.34%) Advertising
14 5 (1.34%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.34%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.34%) .NET
1 5 (1.34%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (0.80%) .NET Framework
2 3 (0.80%) Kafka
3 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (0.53%) Entity Framework
3 2 (0.53%) HTML
3 2 (0.53%) HTML5
3 2 (0.53%) Middleware
3 2 (0.53%) XML
4 1 (0.27%) EDI
4 1 (0.27%) Laravel
4 1 (0.27%) Next.js
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.27%) React
4 1 (0.27%) React Native
4 1 (0.27%) REST
4 1 (0.27%) RESTful
4 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 374 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 36 (9.63%) Derivative
2 36 (9.63%) Equities
2 36 (9.63%) Fixed Income
2 36 (9.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (9.63%) Hedge funds
3 5 (1.34%) Algorithms
3 5 (1.34%) Blockchain
3 5 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (1.34%) Mobile App
3 5 (1.34%) NHS
3 5 (1.34%) Reinsurance
3 5 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.07%) FMCG
4 4 (1.07%) Life Science
4 4 (1.07%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.07%) PMI
5 3 (0.80%) Low-Code
5 3 (0.80%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.60%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (73.26%) Agile
2 193 (51.60%) Roadmaps
3 124 (33.16%) Scrum
4 119 (31.82%) User Stories
5 109 (29.14%) Product Backlog
6 107 (28.61%) Product Roadmap
7 90 (24.06%) Product Management
7 90 (24.06%) Product Vision
8 85 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 70 (18.72%) Analytics
11 65 (17.38%) Acceptance Criteria
12 63 (16.84%) User Experience
13 62 (16.58%) Backlog Management
13 62 (16.58%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 55 (14.71%) Machine Learning
15 53 (14.17%) Artificial Intelligence
16 50 (13.37%) Sprint Planning
17 45 (12.03%) Product Requirements
18 40 (10.70%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 73 (19.52%) SQL
2 40 (10.70%) Python
3 7 (1.87%) C#
4 3 (0.80%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.53%) C
5 2 (0.53%) C++
5 2 (0.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.53%) R
5 2 (0.53%) Tcl
6 1 (0.27%) PHP
6 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (8.29%) Degree
2 20 (5.35%) CSPO
3 19 (5.08%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.87%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.07%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.53%) MBA
8 1 (0.27%) CIPD
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.81%) QA
2 9 (2.41%) NCSC
2 9 (2.41%) NIST
3 8 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.80%) PSD2
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 22 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.21%) ServiceNow
3 11 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.67%) SAP
5 9 (2.41%) Splunk
6 7 (1.87%) Genesys
6 7 (1.87%) Google
7 5 (1.34%) YouTube
8 3 (0.80%) Freshdesk
8 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.80%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.53%) Adobe
9 2 (0.53%) Databricks
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle
10 1 (0.27%) Epicor
10 1 (0.27%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.27%) iManage
10 1 (0.27%) Okta
10 1 (0.27%) OpenText
10 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud