Product Owner Jobs in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Owner salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 392 412
Rank change year-on-year -200 +20 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 170 435 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.72% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.81% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 133 273 428
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £39,156
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,700 £85,000 £69,125
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 66,781 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,253 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
North of England -8 48 £62,783 +14.15% 9
South East -55 38 £65,000 +8.33% 24
Midlands -47 37 £63,750 +32.81% 10
North West +7 31 £60,237 +9.52% 6
West Midlands -26 23 £62,500 +38.89% 6
South West -74 22 £55,000 -10.58% 7
Scotland -74 17 £55,000 -12.00% 5
East Midlands -21 14 £70,000 +27.27% 4
Yorkshire +36 13 £65,000 +8.33% 3
East of England -4 6 £48,750 -11.36%
North East -3 4 £62,783 +9.19%
Wales +3 2 £42,500 -37.04% 1
Product Owner
UK

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 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 UK excluding London region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 170 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 118 (69.41%) Agile
3 101 (59.41%) Roadmaps
4 57 (33.53%) Product Roadmap
5 56 (32.94%) Social Skills
6 53 (31.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 52 (30.59%) User Stories
8 51 (30.00%) Scrum
9 47 (27.65%) Product Vision
10 46 (27.06%) Product Backlog
11 44 (25.88%) Finance
12 43 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
14 34 (20.00%) JIRA
15 32 (18.82%) Mentoring
16 29 (17.06%) Project Management
17 28 (16.47%) User Experience
18 27 (15.88%) Backlog Prioritisation
19 25 (14.71%) Coaching
20 24 (14.12%) DevOps
20 24 (14.12%) Sprint Planning
21 23 (13.53%) Customer Service
21 23 (13.53%) Backlog Management
21 23 (13.53%) Analytics
22 22 (12.94%) Acceptance Criteria
22 22 (12.94%) Retail
23 21 (12.35%) Marketing
24 18 (10.59%) Azure
24 18 (10.59%) E-Commerce
24 18 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (7.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Trello
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.18%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.18%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.59%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.59%) Azure
2 14 (8.24%) SaaS
3 9 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.94%) AWS
5 4 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.35%) Collibra
5 4 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.35%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.35%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.18%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.59%) Figma
7 1 (0.59%) GCP
7 1 (0.59%) GitHub
7 1 (0.59%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (0.59%) PaaS
7 1 (0.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.29%) Network Security
2 3 (1.76%) Internet
2 3 (1.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.53%) Tableau
2 5 (2.94%) Power BI
3 4 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.76%) Metadata
4 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.59%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) DBeaver
General
1 56 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.88%) Finance
3 38 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.94%) Retail
5 21 (12.35%) Marketing
6 17 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.71%) Banking
8 7 (4.12%) Tech for Good
9 6 (3.53%) Legal
9 6 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.94%) Automotive
10 5 (2.94%) Back Office
10 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.35%) Law
12 3 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.18%) Games
13 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.76%) Kafka
2 2 (1.18%) .NET
2 2 (1.18%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.18%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.18%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (1.18%) Entity Framework
2 2 (1.18%) HTML
2 2 (1.18%) HTML5
2 2 (1.18%) Middleware
2 2 (1.18%) XML
3 1 (0.59%) RESTful
3 1 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 170 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.35%) FMCG
3 4 (2.35%) PMI
4 3 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.76%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.18%) Life Science
5 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.18%) NHS
5 2 (1.18%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.59%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.59%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.59%) Tandem
6 1 (0.59%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.59%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.18%) Linux
1 2 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (69.41%) Agile
2 101 (59.41%) Roadmaps
3 57 (33.53%) Product Roadmap
4 53 (31.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 52 (30.59%) User Stories
6 51 (30.00%) Scrum
7 47 (27.65%) Product Vision
8 46 (27.06%) Product Backlog
9 43 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (18.82%) Mentoring
11 29 (17.06%) Project Management
12 28 (16.47%) User Experience
13 27 (15.88%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 25 (14.71%) Coaching
15 24 (14.12%) DevOps
15 24 (14.12%) Sprint Planning
16 23 (13.53%) Analytics
16 23 (13.53%) Backlog Management
16 23 (13.53%) Customer Service
17 22 (12.94%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.06%) SQL
2 5 (2.94%) C#
3 4 (2.35%) Python
4 2 (1.18%) C
4 2 (1.18%) C++
4 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.18%) R
4 2 (1.18%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (8.24%) Degree
2 9 (5.29%) CSPO
3 8 (4.71%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.35%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.59%) CIPD
6 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.29%) NCSC
1 9 (5.29%) NIST
2 5 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.35%) QA
4 2 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.59%) GDPR
Vendors
1 13 (7.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.47%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.29%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.29%) Splunk
4 7 (4.12%) Genesys
5 5 (2.94%) YouTube
6 4 (2.35%) Google
6 4 (2.35%) SAP
7 3 (1.76%) Freshdesk
7 3 (1.76%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.18%) Databricks
9 1 (0.59%) Adobe
9 1 (0.59%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.59%) Okta
9 1 (0.59%) Pega
9 1 (0.59%) Sitecore