Product Ownership Job Trends in Manchester

Product Ownership
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 92 61
Rank change year-on-year +1 -31 -3
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 40 65 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.38% 2.45% 3.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.67% 6.77% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26 47 81
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,750 £54,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +21.21%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,068 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,822 £96,539
North West median annual salary £67,500 £59,430 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.58% -8.57% +15.23%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,091 960 949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.59% 36.19% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 505 441 737
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,409
90th Percentile £88,250 £86,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Manchester

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in Manchester

Product Ownership
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Ownership within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 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
Oldham - 1 £50,000 -
Product Ownership
North West

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (5.00%) CMS
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) SaaS
3 8 (20.00%) AWS
4 7 (17.50%) Power Platform
5 6 (15.00%) Snowflake
6 5 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (7.50%) Serverless
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.50%) dbt
9 1 (2.50%) GitHub
9 1 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (2.50%) Google Analytics
9 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Data Vault
1 6 (15.00%) Power BI
2 5 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Git
1 7 (17.50%) JIRA
2 5 (12.50%) GitLab
3 4 (10.00%) JUnit
4 2 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Marketing
4 4 (10.00%) Advertising
5 3 (7.50%) Law
5 3 (7.50%) Legal
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Electronics
6 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.00%) Retail
6 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Military
7 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) Lead
3 6 (15.00%) Snowflake Developer
4 5 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Lead C# Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Product Owner
6 3 (7.50%) Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Team Leader
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Designer
7 2 (5.00%) Development Team Leader
7 2 (5.00%) Graduate
7 2 (5.00%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) QA Leader
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) .NET
2 9 (22.50%) React
3 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
4 6 (15.00%) CSS
4 6 (15.00%) HTML
4 6 (15.00%) Kafka
5 5 (12.50%) REST
6 4 (10.00%) gRPC
6 4 (10.00%) RESTful
6 4 (10.00%) Spring
6 4 (10.00%) Spring Batch
6 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
7 3 (7.50%) Snowpark
8 2 (5.00%) Node.js
9 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (2.50%) Blazor
9 1 (2.50%) EDI
9 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
9 1 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) Cybercrime
2 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) Agile
2 15 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 11 (27.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (27.50%) Microservices
4 10 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 10 (25.00%) User Experience
5 9 (22.50%) AI
5 9 (22.50%) Coaching
5 9 (22.50%) Scrum
5 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
5 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (17.50%) Machine Learning
7 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.00%) Data Management
7 6 (15.00%) Data Science
7 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) C#
2 9 (22.50%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) Python
3 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (15.00%) ANSI SQL
4 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.50%) Java
6 2 (5.00%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Sitecore