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 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 420 394
Rank change year-on-year -101 -26 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 331 701 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.75% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.82% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 265 494 889
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,027 £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 £87,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £99,000 £95,000 £90,000
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 80,250 85,781 125,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,143 54,189 75,436
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +34 172 £85,000 +21.43% 44
North of England -11 44 £62,783 +14.15% 9
Midlands -42 39 £62,500 +30.21% 10
South East -61 39 £65,000 +8.33% 17
North West +7 30 £58,348 +6.09% 7
West Midlands -33 24 £62,500 +38.89% 6
South West -72 22 £55,000 -10.58% 11
East Midlands -15 15 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Yorkshire +40 10 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East of England +8 6 £48,750 -11.36% 2
North East 0 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 25 April 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.

1 331 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 252 (76.13%) Agile
3 179 (54.08%) Roadmaps
4 117 (35.35%) User Stories
5 116 (35.05%) Social Skills
6 111 (33.53%) Scrum
7 110 (33.23%) Product Backlog
8 101 (30.51%) Product Roadmap
8 101 (30.51%) Finance
9 95 (28.70%) Analytical Skills
9 95 (28.70%) Product Vision
10 80 (24.17%) Product Management
11 79 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (21.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 68 (20.54%) SQL
13 68 (20.54%) Backlog Management
14 67 (20.24%) Acceptance Criteria
15 64 (19.34%) Analytics
16 60 (18.13%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 51 (15.41%) Machine Learning
18 50 (15.11%) User Experience
19 48 (14.50%) Artificial Intelligence
19 48 (14.50%) Product Requirements
19 48 (14.50%) Sprint Planning
20 46 (13.90%) JIRA
21 43 (12.99%) Requirements Gathering
22 41 (12.39%) Epics
23 37 (11.18%) Decision-Making
24 36 (10.88%) DevOps
25 35 (10.57%) Backlog Refinement

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 (8.16%) Confluence
2 4 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.60%) CMS
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.30%) Documentum
4 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.21%) Trello
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.21%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.21%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.21%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.91%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.60%) Magento
5 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (9.97%) AWS
2 29 (8.76%) Azure
3 17 (5.14%) SaaS
4 15 (4.53%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.51%) Power Automate
5 5 (1.51%) PowerApps
6 4 (1.21%) Collibra
6 4 (1.21%) dbt
6 4 (1.21%) Google Analytics
6 4 (1.21%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (0.91%) PaaS
8 2 (0.60%) Bloomreach
8 2 (0.60%) Figma
8 2 (0.60%) Miro
8 2 (0.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.60%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.30%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.72%) Network Security
2 3 (0.91%) VPN
3 2 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.02%) Power BI
2 7 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.51%) Tableau
4 4 (1.21%) Big Data
4 4 (1.21%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.91%) Metadata
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 46 (13.90%) JIRA
General
1 116 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 101 (30.51%) Finance
3 95 (28.70%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.37%) Front Office
5 27 (8.16%) Retail
6 22 (6.65%) Marketing
7 20 (6.04%) Banking
8 17 (5.14%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.02%) Law
10 9 (2.72%) Legal
10 9 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.72%) Tech for Good
11 8 (2.42%) Automotive
11 8 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.51%) Advertising
13 5 (1.51%) Back Office
13 5 (1.51%) Games
14 3 (0.91%) Local Government
14 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.51%) .NET
1 5 (1.51%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (0.91%) .NET Framework
2 3 (0.91%) HTML
2 3 (0.91%) 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
1 331 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 31 (9.37%) Derivative
2 31 (9.37%) Equities
2 31 (9.37%) Fixed Income
2 31 (9.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (9.37%) Hedge funds
3 5 (1.51%) Algorithms
3 5 (1.51%) Blockchain
3 5 (1.51%) Reinsurance
4 4 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.21%) FMCG
4 4 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.21%) Life Science
4 4 (1.21%) Low-Code
4 4 (1.21%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.21%) PMI
4 4 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.91%) PropTech
6 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.42%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.60%) Linux
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (76.13%) Agile
2 179 (54.08%) Roadmaps
3 117 (35.35%) User Stories
4 111 (33.53%) Scrum
5 110 (33.23%) Product Backlog
6 101 (30.51%) Product Roadmap
7 95 (28.70%) Product Vision
8 80 (24.17%) Product Management
9 79 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
10 72 (21.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 68 (20.54%) Backlog Management
12 67 (20.24%) Acceptance Criteria
13 64 (19.34%) Analytics
14 60 (18.13%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 51 (15.41%) Machine Learning
16 50 (15.11%) User Experience
17 48 (14.50%) Artificial Intelligence
17 48 (14.50%) Product Requirements
17 48 (14.50%) Sprint Planning
18 43 (12.99%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 68 (20.54%) SQL
2 32 (9.67%) Python
3 5 (1.51%) C#
4 3 (0.91%) C++
4 3 (0.91%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.60%) C
5 2 (0.60%) PHP
5 2 (0.60%) R
5 2 (0.60%) Tcl
6 1 (0.30%) Java
6 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (9.06%) Degree
2 19 (5.74%) CSPO
3 10 (3.02%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.11%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.11%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.21%) 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 (5.44%) QA
2 9 (2.72%) NCSC
2 9 (2.72%) NIST
3 6 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.91%) PSD2
5 2 (0.60%) GDPR
5 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
Vendors
1 26 (7.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.63%) ServiceNow
3 9 (2.72%) Salesforce
3 9 (2.72%) Splunk
4 7 (2.11%) Genesys
5 5 (1.51%) Google
5 5 (1.51%) SAP
5 5 (1.51%) YouTube
6 3 (0.91%) Freshdesk
6 3 (0.91%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.60%) Adobe
8 1 (0.30%) Ahrefs
8 1 (0.30%) Facebook
8 1 (0.30%) iManage
8 1 (0.30%) Instagram
8 1 (0.30%) OpenText
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle
8 1 (0.30%) Pega
8 1 (0.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.30%) Sitecore