Product Ownership Jobs in the North West

Product Ownership
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 134 105
Rank change year-on-year +42 -29 -41
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 294 176 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.77% 1.70% 3.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.57% 5.54% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 140 137 159
10th Percentile £52,950 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,176 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £57,965 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -4.98% +6.09%
75th Percentile £77,813 £67,968 £75,625
90th Percentile £90,822 £76,750 £95,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +3.17%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,541 3,176 3,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.56% 30.70% 41.64%
Number of salaries quoted 891 2,284 1,462
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £32,860
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
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 Ownership within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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 +41 118 £74,870 +36.13% 196
Lancashire -1 102 £57,560 -0.70% 42
Cheshire +44 56 - - 107
Merseyside +37 16 £82,500 +65.00% 47
Cumbria -69 2 £72,500 +16.94% 1
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
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 46 (15.65%) Confluence
2 5 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.36%) CMS
4 2 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.70%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 65 (22.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (22.11%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.68%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (46.26%) Azure
2 132 (44.90%) AWS
3 48 (16.33%) GCP
4 10 (3.40%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.38%) Cloud Composer
6 6 (2.04%) Figma
6 6 (2.04%) Miro
6 6 (2.04%) SaaS
7 4 (1.36%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.36%) Serverless
7 4 (1.36%) Slack
8 3 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.02%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.02%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.68%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.34%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) HTTP
2 2 (0.68%) Broadband
3 1 (0.34%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (38.44%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.74%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.38%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.36%) Power Query
5 4 (1.36%) PowerPivot
6 3 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.02%) Power BI
7 1 (0.34%) Big Data
7 1 (0.34%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 125 (42.52%) JIRA
2 110 (37.41%) GitLab
2 110 (37.41%) Selenium
3 109 (37.07%) Bitbucket
3 109 (37.07%) Cucumber
3 109 (37.07%) Maven
3 109 (37.07%) SonarQube
3 109 (37.07%) Sonatype Nexus
4 65 (22.11%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (1.36%) Balsamiq
5 4 (1.36%) Git
5 4 (1.36%) JUnit
6 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.34%) ESLint
6 1 (0.34%) Postman
6 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.34%) Storybook
6 1 (0.34%) TestRail
6 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 157 (53.40%) Finance
2 131 (44.56%) Banking
3 113 (38.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (25.17%) Retail
5 70 (23.81%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (23.81%) Investment Banking
6 50 (17.01%) Social Skills
7 10 (3.40%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.36%) Billing
11 4 (1.36%) Games
12 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.02%) Law
12 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.68%) Marketing
13 2 (0.68%) Publishing
14 1 (0.34%) Legal
Job Titles
1 125 (42.52%) Software Engineer
2 65 (22.11%) Platform Engineer
2 65 (22.11%) Systems Engineer
3 25 (8.50%) Lead
4 23 (7.82%) Senior
5 17 (5.78%) Product Owner
6 14 (4.76%) Analyst
7 11 (3.74%) Product Manager
8 10 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (3.40%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 10 (3.40%) Security Engineer
9 8 (2.72%) Lead Software Engineer
10 6 (2.04%) Architect
10 6 (2.04%) Developer
11 5 (1.70%) Business Analyst
11 5 (1.70%) Digital Product Owner
11 5 (1.70%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (1.70%) Principal Software Engineer
11 5 (1.70%) Requirements Manager
11 5 (1.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (42.86%) React
2 120 (40.82%) Kafka
3 114 (38.78%) CSS
4 113 (38.44%) HTML
4 113 (38.44%) Spring
4 113 (38.44%) Spring Boot
5 109 (37.07%) JPA
5 109 (37.07%) Redux
6 80 (27.21%) REST
7 74 (25.17%) RESTful
8 71 (24.15%) Jest
9 70 (23.81%) CSS3
9 70 (23.81%) HTML5
9 70 (23.81%) Sass
10 39 (13.27%) Hibernate
11 11 (3.74%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.70%) .NET
13 4 (1.36%) GraphQL
13 4 (1.36%) Lambda Expressions
13 4 (1.36%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 109 (37.07%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (3.74%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.72%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.38%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.70%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.36%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.68%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.68%) PropTech
8 2 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.38%) Linux
1 7 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (85.37%) Agile
2 137 (46.60%) DevOps
3 134 (45.58%) Software Engineering
4 130 (44.22%) CI/CD
5 126 (42.86%) Microservices
6 120 (40.82%) SDLC
7 117 (39.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 116 (39.46%) Containerisation
9 113 (38.44%) Performance Optimisation
10 111 (37.76%) Front End Development
10 111 (37.76%) Test Automation
11 88 (29.93%) User Experience
12 83 (28.23%) Mentoring
13 80 (27.21%) Migration
14 72 (24.49%) Strategic Thinking
15 70 (23.81%) Responsive Web Design
16 66 (22.45%) ArchiMate
16 66 (22.45%) TOGAF
17 65 (22.11%) MODAF
17 65 (22.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 121 (41.16%) JavaScript
2 120 (40.82%) Java
3 117 (39.80%) SQL
4 91 (30.95%) TypeScript
5 11 (3.74%) Python
6 6 (2.04%) C#
7 4 (1.36%) VB
8 3 (1.02%) Go
Qualifications
1 94 (31.97%) Degree
2 80 (27.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 65 (22.11%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (38.78%) QA
2 70 (23.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 118 (40.14%) Docker
2 7 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (41.16%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (0.34%) Grafana
3 1 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 109 (37.07%) Solace
2 65 (22.11%) Sparx
3 15 (5.10%) Google
4 9 (3.06%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.72%) Bloomberg
6 5 (1.70%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.70%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.36%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.02%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.68%) SAP
9 2 (0.68%) Siebel
9 2 (0.68%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.34%) Databricks
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle
10 1 (0.34%) Sage
10 1 (0.34%) Workday