Product Ownership Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Product Ownership
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 84 64
Rank change year-on-year +13 -20 +6
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 19 16 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 1.12% 1.33% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.88% 3.13% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 19 7 7
10th Percentile - - £36,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +44.44% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £67,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £77,750 £68,000 £92,000
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +34.02% -15.65%

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 490 511 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 28.94% 42.51% 30.54%
Number of salaries quoted 194 205 186
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £31,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £67,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,500 £82,500
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in Hertfordshire

Product Ownership
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Ownership within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Watford +10 17 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £55,000 - 1
Stevenage - 1 £65,000 - 1
Product Ownership
East of England

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 5 (26.32%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) MySQL
2 14 (73.68%) Amazon Redshift
2 14 (73.68%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
General
1 15 (78.95%) Social Skills
2 10 (52.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Games
3 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
2 12 (63.16%) Report Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Product Owner
3 2 (10.53%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Head of Delivery
4 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Business Intelligence
1 14 (73.68%) ETL
2 13 (68.42%) ETL Development
3 10 (52.63%) Data Visualisation
3 10 (52.63%) Visualisation
4 9 (47.37%) Data Management
4 9 (47.37%) Decision-Making
4 9 (47.37%) Translating Business Requirements
5 7 (36.84%) DevOps
6 6 (31.58%) Agile
7 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
8 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
9 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
10 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (10.53%) ITSM
10 2 (10.53%) Service Management
10 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
10 2 (10.53%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) SAP
2 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) OpenText