Product Ownership Job Trends in England

Product Ownership
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 134 130
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 -68
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 887 1,006 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.52% 2.25% 2.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.58% 5.94% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 591 640 1,160
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,495 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -2.41%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,351 16,925 23,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.22% 37.82% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,916 7,953 17,804
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,619 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.61% -14.62%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,571
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.57% -14.51%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in England

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in England over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
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 Ownership within the England region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. 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 +29 463 £82,500 -2.94% 141
South East -15 122 £70,000 +7.69% 102
North of England -75 100 £61,418 -1.73% 79
Midlands +5 91 £57,500 -6.12% 49
West Midlands +17 70 £57,500 -8.00% 38
North West -24 61 £61,459 +3.41% 49
East of England +13 45 £58,800 -9.54% 26
South West -23 41 £55,000 -15.38% 29
Yorkshire -73 28 £55,000 -27.87% 24
East Midlands -29 18 £53,750 -10.42% 11
North East -3 11 £50,000 -15.87% 7
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 55 (6.20%) Confluence
2 18 (2.03%) CMS
3 16 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.68%) nginx
7 3 (0.34%) Apache
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.23%) Mendix
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) MTS
8 2 (0.23%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (2.93%) Adobe XD
2 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.68%) Trello
5 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.34%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.24%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.68%) Shopify
4 5 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.45%) Maximo
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) Actimize
7 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 199 (22.44%) Azure
2 163 (18.38%) AWS
3 99 (11.16%) SaaS
4 64 (7.22%) GCP
5 60 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (5.86%) GitHub
7 50 (5.64%) Figma
8 46 (5.19%) Power Platform
9 32 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (2.37%) Google Analytics
10 21 (2.37%) Power Automate
10 21 (2.37%) Serverless
11 20 (2.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 16 (1.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 15 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.58%) Miro
15 13 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
18 10 (1.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.79%) DNS
2 6 (0.68%) SD-WAN
2 6 (0.68%) WAN
3 5 (0.56%) RTP
4 4 (0.45%) Broadband
4 4 (0.45%) HTTP
4 4 (0.45%) LAN
5 3 (0.34%) LTE
6 2 (0.23%) AMQP
6 2 (0.23%) Firewall
6 2 (0.23%) GSM
6 2 (0.23%) MQTT
6 2 (0.23%) Network Security
6 2 (0.23%) VLAN
6 2 (0.23%) VPN
7 1 (0.11%) 5G
7 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.11%) RFID
7 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.11%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.85%) NoSQL
2 38 (4.28%) MySQL
3 34 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 31 (3.49%) Power BI
5 28 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.59%) DynamoDB
7 21 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 21 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (1.92%) Big Data
10 16 (1.80%) Metadata
11 14 (1.58%) BusinessObjects
11 14 (1.58%) Hadoop
12 13 (1.47%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.13%) DataStage
14 10 (1.13%) Neo4j
14 10 (1.13%) Pentaho
15 9 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 95 (10.71%) JIRA
2 67 (7.55%) Git
3 25 (2.82%) Balsamiq
3 25 (2.82%) Selenium
4 24 (2.71%) Axure RP
5 16 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 13 (1.47%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.35%) Jenkins
8 11 (1.24%) GitLab
8 11 (1.24%) Robot Framework
8 11 (1.24%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.90%) Snyk
10 7 (0.79%) Postman
11 6 (0.68%) JUnit
12 5 (0.56%) git-flow
12 5 (0.56%) TestNG
12 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.45%) TestRail
13 4 (0.45%) Vite
13 4 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 321 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 281 (31.68%) Finance
3 176 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (13.53%) Law
5 105 (11.84%) Banking
6 90 (10.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 78 (8.79%) Marketing
8 65 (7.33%) Public Sector
9 61 (6.88%) Retail
10 50 (5.64%) Financial Institution
11 35 (3.95%) Legal
12 32 (3.61%) Back Office
13 15 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.47%) Advertising
15 12 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.13%) Electronics
17 8 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.79%) Front Office
18 7 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 208 (23.45%) Product Owner
2 115 (12.97%) Developer
3 114 (12.85%) Senior
4 105 (11.84%) Lead
5 92 (10.37%) Analyst
6 67 (7.55%) Product Manager
7 66 (7.44%) Business Analyst
8 59 (6.65%) Designer
9 46 (5.19%) Architect
10 41 (4.62%) Software Engineer
11 28 (3.16%) Senior Developer
12 25 (2.82%) Senior Manager
12 25 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (2.37%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (2.37%) IT Manager
13 21 (2.37%) Product Designer
13 21 (2.37%) Technical Product Owner
14 20 (2.25%) Consultant
15 19 (2.14%) Digital Product Owner
16 18 (2.03%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.57%) .NET
2 56 (6.31%) CSS
3 55 (6.20%) HTML
4 53 (5.98%) React
5 49 (5.52%) REST
6 31 (3.49%) AngularJS
7 28 (3.16%) Kafka
8 25 (2.82%) RESTful
9 23 (2.59%) Node.js
10 22 (2.48%) SOAP
10 22 (2.48%) Vue
11 16 (1.80%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (1.69%) GraphQL
13 13 (1.47%) Jest
14 12 (1.35%) Web Services
15 11 (1.24%) EDI
16 10 (1.13%) Blazor
16 10 (1.13%) Tailwind CSS
17 9 (1.01%) gRPC
17 9 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.62%) Cloud Native
2 38 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
3 35 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (3.72%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.04%) Mobile App
6 22 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (1.80%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.69%) Reinsurance
11 14 (1.58%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.35%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
15 10 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 8 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.90%) PMI
18 7 (0.79%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.69%) Windows
2 14 (1.58%) Linux
3 4 (0.45%) Android
3 4 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) CentOS
4 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (62.34%) Agile
2 270 (30.44%) Roadmaps
3 223 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 211 (23.79%) Scrum
5 207 (23.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 156 (17.59%) Analytics
7 154 (17.36%) CI/CD
8 151 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 146 (16.46%) DevOps
10 144 (16.23%) User Experience
10 144 (16.23%) User Stories
11 136 (15.33%) Mentoring
12 123 (13.87%) Product Roadmap
13 106 (11.95%) Microservices
14 105 (11.84%) Software Engineering
15 103 (11.61%) AI
16 102 (11.50%) Decision-Making
17 91 (10.26%) Product Backlog
18 87 (9.81%) Backlog Management
18 87 (9.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 94 (10.60%) SQL
2 87 (9.81%) JavaScript
3 85 (9.58%) Python
4 73 (8.23%) Java
5 69 (7.78%) C#
6 42 (4.74%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.03%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.58%) Go
8 14 (1.58%) PHP
9 12 (1.35%) SOQL
10 10 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.01%) Bash
12 4 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
12 4 (0.45%) SOSL
13 3 (0.34%) R
14 2 (0.23%) Rust
14 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.11%) ABAP
15 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (13.98%) Degree
2 99 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 57 (6.43%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.24%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.24%) ISTQB
7 11 (1.24%) PMI Certification
8 8 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.56%) CSPO
10 5 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.56%) MBA
10 5 (0.56%) PMP
11 4 (0.45%) CBAP
12 3 (0.34%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.34%) IBM Certification
12 3 (0.34%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.23%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (11.16%) QA
2 64 (7.22%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.40%) WCAG
4 29 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 18 (2.03%) PMO
6 12 (1.35%) SLA
7 9 (1.01%) SEPA
8 8 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.56%) GDPR
9 5 (0.56%) MiFID
9 5 (0.56%) PERC
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.34%) NCSC
10 3 (0.34%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) Section 508
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.11%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 42 (4.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (4.28%) Terraform
2 36 (4.06%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.03%) Grafana
4 13 (1.47%) Ansible
5 6 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.45%) Kubeflow
7 3 (0.34%) logstash
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.23%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) Nessus
9 1 (0.11%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.11%) Nmap
9 1 (0.11%) SCCM
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.98%) Salesforce
3 43 (4.85%) ServiceNow
4 34 (3.83%) SAP
5 33 (3.72%) Oracle
6 31 (3.49%) Adobe
7 25 (2.82%) Google
8 13 (1.47%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.35%) Workday
10 10 (1.13%) Informatica
10 10 (1.13%) Talend
11 8 (0.90%) Black Duck
11 8 (0.90%) Coverity
12 6 (0.68%) Databricks
12 6 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.68%) Splunk
13 5 (0.56%) GoldenSource
14 4 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.45%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.45%) IBM