Product Owner Jobs in England

Product Owner
UK > England

The median Product Owner salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 422 377
Rank change year-on-year -88 -45 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 336 664 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.74% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.80% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 267 482 897
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,525 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,290 £90,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,041 82,556 127,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,522 52,365 74,626
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Owner within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +36 176 £85,000 +21.43% 44
North of England +2 48 £62,783 +14.15% 6
South East -78 38 £65,000 +8.33% 23
Midlands -59 37 £63,750 +32.81% 15
North West +7 31 £60,237 +9.52% 4
West Midlands -32 23 £62,500 +38.89% 13
South West -64 23 £55,000 -10.58% 6
East Midlands -22 14 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Yorkshire +45 13 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East of England 0 6 £48,750 -11.36%
North East -4 4 £62,783 +9.19%
Product Owner
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 across the England region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 336 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 257 (76.49%) Agile
3 181 (53.87%) Roadmaps
4 119 (35.42%) Social Skills
5 115 (34.23%) User Stories
6 112 (33.33%) Scrum
7 107 (31.85%) Finance
7 107 (31.85%) Product Backlog
8 102 (30.36%) Product Roadmap
9 97 (28.87%) Analytical Skills
10 93 (27.68%) Product Vision
11 81 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
11 81 (24.11%) Product Management
12 72 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 72 (21.43%) SQL
13 68 (20.24%) Backlog Management
14 67 (19.94%) Acceptance Criteria
15 65 (19.35%) Analytics
16 59 (17.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 53 (15.77%) Machine Learning
18 52 (15.48%) User Experience
19 50 (14.88%) Artificial Intelligence
20 48 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
21 47 (13.99%) Product Requirements
21 47 (13.99%) JIRA
22 42 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
23 39 (11.61%) Epics
24 38 (11.31%) Decision-Making
25 37 (11.01%) DevOps
25 37 (11.01%) Mentoring

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.04%) Confluence
2 5 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.89%) CMS
3 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.30%) Documentum
4 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.19%) Trello
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.19%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.19%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.19%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.89%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.60%) Magento
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (10.71%) AWS
2 28 (8.33%) Azure
3 17 (5.06%) SaaS
4 16 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.79%) Power Automate
5 6 (1.79%) PowerApps
6 4 (1.19%) Collibra
6 4 (1.19%) dbt
6 4 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.19%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (0.89%) GCP
7 3 (0.89%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.60%) Bloomreach
8 2 (0.60%) Figma
8 2 (0.60%) Miro
8 2 (0.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.30%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.68%) Network Security
2 4 (1.19%) Internet
3 3 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.98%) Power BI
2 9 (2.68%) Tableau
3 7 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.19%) Big Data
4 4 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.89%) Metadata
5 3 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.30%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.30%) MS Access
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (13.99%) JIRA
General
1 119 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 107 (31.85%) Finance
3 97 (28.87%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.12%) Front Office
5 29 (8.63%) Retail
6 25 (7.44%) Marketing
7 22 (6.55%) Banking
8 17 (5.06%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.98%) Legal
9 10 (2.98%) Tech for Good
10 9 (2.68%) Law
10 9 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.38%) Automotive
11 8 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.49%) Advertising
13 5 (1.49%) Back Office
13 5 (1.49%) Games
14 3 (0.89%) Local Government
14 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.49%) .NET
1 5 (1.49%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (0.89%) .NET Framework
2 3 (0.89%) HTML
2 3 (0.89%) Kafka
3 2 (0.60%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.60%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (0.60%) Entity Framework
3 2 (0.60%) HTML5
3 2 (0.60%) XML
4 1 (0.30%) CSS
4 1 (0.30%) EDI
4 1 (0.30%) Laravel
4 1 (0.30%) Next.js
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.30%) React
4 1 (0.30%) React Native
4 1 (0.30%) REST
4 1 (0.30%) RESTful
4 1 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 336 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 34 (10.12%) Derivative
2 34 (10.12%) Equities
2 34 (10.12%) Fixed Income
2 34 (10.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (10.12%) Hedge funds
3 5 (1.49%) Algorithms
3 5 (1.49%) Blockchain
3 5 (1.49%) Reinsurance
4 4 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.19%) FMCG
4 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.19%) Life Science
4 4 (1.19%) Low-Code
4 4 (1.19%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.19%) PMI
4 4 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.89%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.38%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.60%) Linux
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (76.49%) Agile
2 181 (53.87%) Roadmaps
3 115 (34.23%) User Stories
4 112 (33.33%) Scrum
5 107 (31.85%) Product Backlog
6 102 (30.36%) Product Roadmap
7 93 (27.68%) Product Vision
8 81 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (24.11%) Product Management
9 72 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 68 (20.24%) Backlog Management
11 67 (19.94%) Acceptance Criteria
12 65 (19.35%) Analytics
13 59 (17.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 53 (15.77%) Machine Learning
15 52 (15.48%) User Experience
16 50 (14.88%) Artificial Intelligence
17 48 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
18 47 (13.99%) Product Requirements
19 42 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 72 (21.43%) SQL
2 35 (10.42%) Python
3 7 (2.08%) C#
4 3 (0.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.60%) C
5 2 (0.60%) C++
5 2 (0.60%) PHP
5 2 (0.60%) R
5 2 (0.60%) Tcl
6 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (8.93%) Degree
2 19 (5.65%) CSPO
3 13 (3.87%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.08%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.08%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.19%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.60%) MBA
6 2 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.30%) CIPD
7 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.36%) QA
2 9 (2.68%) NCSC
2 9 (2.68%) NIST
3 8 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.89%) PSD2
5 2 (0.60%) GDPR
5 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
Vendors
1 24 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.87%) ServiceNow
3 10 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.68%) Splunk
5 7 (2.08%) Genesys
6 6 (1.79%) Google
6 6 (1.79%) SAP
7 5 (1.49%) YouTube
8 3 (0.89%) Freshdesk
8 3 (0.89%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.60%) Adobe
9 2 (0.60%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.30%) Ahrefs
10 1 (0.30%) Facebook
10 1 (0.30%) iManage
10 1 (0.30%) Instagram
10 1 (0.30%) OpenText
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle
10 1 (0.30%) Pega
10 1 (0.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud