Product Owner Jobs in the North West

Product Owner
England > North West

The median Product Owner salary in the North West is £60,237 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 258 269
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 31 38 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.31% 0.49% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.54% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 29 27 33
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,237 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 - £63,750
90th Percentile £71,915 £67,100 £67,250
England median annual salary £65,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.40% +4.17% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 9,328 6,982 8,962
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.17% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,169 4,074 5,367
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £81,450
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Product Owner in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the North West

Product Owner
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in the North West.

Salary trend for Product Owner in the North West

Product Owner
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in the North West

Product Owner
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Owner within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Manchester +9 14 £55,000 - 3
Cheshire +6 10 £58,348 -4.74% 2
Lancashire -10 3 £62,783 +32.17%
Merseyside +2 2 £64,750 +43.89%
Cumbria -12 2 £54,250 - 1
Product Owner
England

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 North West region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 20 (64.52%) Agile
3 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
3 15 (48.39%) Roadmaps
4 13 (41.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (41.94%) Project Management
5 10 (32.26%) Public Sector
6 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (29.03%) DevOps
6 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
6 9 (29.03%) JIRA
7 7 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (22.58%) Workflow
7 7 (22.58%) Finance
7 7 (22.58%) CRM
7 7 (22.58%) Scrum
7 7 (22.58%) Backlog Management
7 7 (22.58%) Product Roadmap
8 6 (19.35%) NCSC
8 6 (19.35%) NIST
8 6 (19.35%) Zero Trust
8 6 (19.35%) Coaching
8 6 (19.35%) ITSM
8 6 (19.35%) ServiceNow
8 6 (19.35%) Splunk
8 6 (19.35%) SIEM
8 6 (19.35%) Marketing
8 6 (19.35%) Network Security
9 5 (16.13%) Analytics

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (3.23%) CMS
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.23%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) Collibra
2 1 (3.23%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) Google Data Studio
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
2 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
2 1 (3.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) JIRA
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Public Sector
3 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (22.58%) Finance
5 6 (19.35%) Marketing
6 4 (12.90%) Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Automotive
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 31 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Online Banking
3 1 (3.23%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Agile
2 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (48.39%) Roadmaps
3 13 (41.94%) Project Management
3 13 (41.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (29.03%) DevOps
4 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
5 7 (22.58%) Backlog Management
5 7 (22.58%) CRM
5 7 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (22.58%) Product Roadmap
5 7 (22.58%) Scrum
5 7 (22.58%) Workflow
6 6 (19.35%) Coaching
6 6 (19.35%) ITSM
6 6 (19.35%) SIEM
6 6 (19.35%) Zero Trust
7 5 (16.13%) Analytics
7 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
7 5 (16.13%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) NCSC
1 6 (19.35%) NIST
2 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) ServiceNow
1 6 (19.35%) Splunk
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Freshdesk
4 2 (6.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) Sitecore