Product Ownership Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Product Ownership
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 54 26
Rank change year-on-year +23 -28 -12
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 12 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedfordshire 2.27% 0.25% 2.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.23% 0.59% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £58,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +44.44%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £68,125
90th Percentile - - £69,250
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +19.82%

All Generic Skills
Bedfordshire

Product Ownership falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 372 169 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 70.45% 42.14% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 53 42 66
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,043 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -16.45% +17.81%
75th Percentile £55,250 £55,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £62,375 £93,750
East of England median annual salary £47,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.55% +4.76% -

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Ownership relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Ownership within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. 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
Bedford +11 2 - - 1
Biggleswade - 1 - -
Dunstable - 1 - -
Henlow - 1 - -
Leighton Buzzard - 1 - -
Luton - 1 £55,000 - 1
Product Ownership
East of England

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (83.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) JIRA
2 10 (83.33%) Bitbucket
2 10 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 10 (83.33%) GitLab
2 10 (83.33%) Maven
2 10 (83.33%) Selenium
2 10 (83.33%) SonarQube
2 10 (83.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (91.67%) Finance
2 10 (83.33%) Banking
2 10 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Business Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Lead Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Digital Product Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) CSS
1 10 (83.33%) Hibernate
1 10 (83.33%) HTML
1 10 (83.33%) JPA
1 10 (83.33%) Kafka
1 10 (83.33%) React
1 10 (83.33%) Redux
1 10 (83.33%) Spring
1 10 (83.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (91.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (91.67%) SDLC
3 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (83.33%) Clean Code
3 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 10 (83.33%) DevOps
3 10 (83.33%) Front End Development
3 10 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (83.33%) Microservices
3 10 (83.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 10 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 10 (83.33%) TDD
3 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Kanban
5 1 (8.33%) QMS
5 1 (8.33%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Solace
2 1 (8.33%) Google