Product Ownership Job Trends in the North of England

Product Ownership
England > North of England

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 82 142
Rank change year-on-year -70 +60 -63
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 193 319 307
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 4.21% 1.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.11% 9.72% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 149 165 251
10th Percentile £44,972 £43,050 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,208 £71,991 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +24.20% -10.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,822 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -4.58%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,694 3,283 5,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.55% 43.28% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,493 1,427 3,934
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,113 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,716 £35,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,400 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in the North of England

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in the North of England

Product Ownership
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North West -57 113 £66,250 -5.36% 53
Yorkshire -65 56 £59,500 -23.23% 39
North East -27 24 £52,500 +13.98% 23
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 14 (7.25%) Confluence
2 6 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.55%) JBoss
3 3 (1.55%) SAS
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.52%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.87%) Azure
2 28 (14.51%) AWS
3 17 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (8.29%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.22%) SaaS
6 10 (5.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 8 (4.15%) GCP
7 8 (4.15%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 6 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.11%) Serverless
10 5 (2.59%) GitHub
10 5 (2.59%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.07%) Apigee
11 4 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.07%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (2.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.59%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.55%) Broadband
2 3 (1.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.63%) NoSQL
1 7 (3.63%) Power BI
2 6 (3.11%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.59%) Metadata
3 5 (2.59%) Tableau
4 4 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.55%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.04%) Big Data
6 2 (1.04%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (10.36%) JIRA
2 13 (6.74%) Git
3 10 (5.18%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.63%) GitLab
5 5 (2.59%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.59%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.59%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.07%) fastlane
6 4 (2.07%) Maven
6 4 (2.07%) Selenium
7 3 (1.55%) JUnit
8 2 (1.04%) Android Studio
8 2 (1.04%) Crashlytics
8 2 (1.04%) Gradle
8 2 (1.04%) Xcode
9 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.52%) Gatling
9 1 (0.52%) JMeter
9 1 (0.52%) Postman
9 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 39 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.65%) Finance
3 32 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.44%) Public Sector
5 23 (11.92%) Retail
6 17 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (6.22%) Banking
7 12 (6.22%) Law
8 11 (5.70%) Marketing
9 10 (5.18%) Advertising
10 8 (4.15%) Legal
11 6 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.07%) Games
12 4 (2.07%) Publishing
13 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.04%) Local Government
13 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Digital Economy
14 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (18.65%) Analyst
2 34 (17.62%) Product Owner
3 30 (15.54%) Business Analyst
4 23 (11.92%) Developer
4 23 (11.92%) Lead
5 21 (10.88%) Product Manager
6 20 (10.36%) Senior
7 14 (7.25%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.22%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (6.22%) Principal Software Engineer
9 9 (4.66%) Lead Developer
10 8 (4.15%) Architect
11 7 (3.63%) Scrum Master
12 6 (3.11%) C# Developer
13 5 (2.59%) Data Manager
13 5 (2.59%) Data Scientist
13 5 (2.59%) Digital Product Owner
13 5 (2.59%) Lead C# Developer
13 5 (2.59%) Product Analyst
13 5 (2.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.22%) REST
2 11 (5.70%) .NET
2 11 (5.70%) AngularJS
2 11 (5.70%) Node.js
3 10 (5.18%) React
3 10 (5.18%) RESTful
4 9 (4.66%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.11%) Spring
6 5 (2.59%) EDI
6 5 (2.59%) Gherkin
7 4 (2.07%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.07%) CSS
7 4 (2.07%) HTML
7 4 (2.07%) Jest
7 4 (2.07%) SOAP
8 3 (1.55%) gRPC
8 3 (1.55%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (1.55%) NestJS
8 3 (1.55%) Next.js
8 3 (1.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.66%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.07%) Low-Code
4 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.04%) CMDB
5 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.04%) Over-the-Top Content
5 2 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.04%) Social Media
6 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.52%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.55%) Android
1 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (54.92%) Agile
2 58 (30.05%) Roadmaps
3 49 (25.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (23.83%) Mentoring
5 42 (21.76%) Coaching
6 41 (21.24%) Scrum
7 40 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (17.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 32 (16.58%) AI
9 32 (16.58%) Product Roadmap
10 31 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (15.54%) Analytics
11 30 (15.54%) User Experience
12 29 (15.03%) DevOps
13 28 (14.51%) CI/CD
14 25 (12.95%) Software Engineering
15 24 (12.44%) Kanban
16 23 (11.92%) User Stories
17 21 (10.88%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 20 (10.36%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.29%) TypeScript
2 15 (7.77%) Java
2 15 (7.77%) Python
3 12 (6.22%) C#
3 12 (6.22%) JavaScript
4 10 (5.18%) SQL
5 5 (2.59%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.55%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.55%) Bash
6 3 (1.55%) Groovy
6 3 (1.55%) Ruby
6 3 (1.55%) SOQL
6 3 (1.55%) SOSL
7 2 (1.04%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (1.04%) Scala
7 2 (1.04%) Swift
8 1 (0.52%) Bicep
8 1 (0.52%) C
8 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (5.70%) Degree
2 9 (4.66%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.63%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.59%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.04%) CIPD
6 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.04%) IIBA
6 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.18%) QA
3 9 (4.66%) GDPR
4 8 (4.15%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.11%) WCAG
6 3 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.04%) PMO
8 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (4.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.18%) Terraform
2 4 (2.07%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.04%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.81%) Salesforce
3 8 (4.15%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.07%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.07%) SAP
5 2 (1.04%) Adobe
5 2 (1.04%) Apple
5 2 (1.04%) Foundry
5 2 (1.04%) Google
6 1 (0.52%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle
6 1 (0.52%) Progress
6 1 (0.52%) Splunk