Product Ownership Job Trends in Scotland

Product Ownership
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 61 99
Rank change year-on-year +11 +38 -57
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 106 66 224
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.30% 3.42% 3.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.18% 11.09% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 12 25 66
10th Percentile - £54,315 £38,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £42,766
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,000 £58,263
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +13.28% -7.09%
75th Percentile £74,500 £146,300 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,475 - £92,644
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £61,875
% change year-on-year - +13.13% -4.81%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 804 595 3,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.05% 30.81% 50.13%
Number of salaries quoted 419 329 846
10th Percentile £26,700 £36,200 £28,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £43,750 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,360 £71,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £93,778 £82,500
UK median annual salary £58,446 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% +9.09% -15.38%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Scotland

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in Scotland

Product Ownership
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Ownership within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Edinburgh +6 49 £62,500 -38.29% 14
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - -
West Lothian +6 11 £50,000 - 1
Stirling - 9 - -
Fife - 6 - - 1
Lanarkshire -3 5 - - 1
North Lanarkshire -6 4 - -
South Lanarkshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
Glasgow -15 3 £85,000 +33.33% 1
Midlothian - 2 - - 5
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (2.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (11.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (46.23%) Azure
2 35 (33.02%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (28.30%) GitHub
4 18 (16.98%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (13.21%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (11.32%) Power Platform
7 10 (9.43%) Datadog
7 10 (9.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 10 (9.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 9 (8.49%) AWS
9 8 (7.55%) Salesforce Einstein
10 4 (3.77%) GCP
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.89%) Figma
12 2 (1.89%) Firebase
12 2 (1.89%) Miro
12 2 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 35 (33.02%) Broadband
2 3 (2.83%) BGP
2 3 (2.83%) Firewall
2 3 (2.83%) LAN
2 3 (2.83%) MPLS
2 3 (2.83%) WAN
2 3 (2.83%) Wireless
3 2 (1.89%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (32.08%) Jenkins
2 32 (30.19%) GitLab
2 32 (30.19%) SonarQube
3 6 (5.66%) JIRA
4 3 (2.83%) fastlane
4 3 (2.83%) Postman
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (1.89%) Xcode
6 1 (0.94%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.94%) Appium
6 1 (0.94%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.94%) Gradle
6 1 (0.94%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.94%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.94%) TestRail
6 1 (0.94%) XCTest
6 1 (0.94%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (40.57%) Marketing
2 42 (39.62%) Finance
2 42 (39.62%) Social Skills
3 37 (34.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (30.19%) Games
5 12 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.32%) Billing
6 9 (8.49%) Legal
7 4 (3.77%) Local Government
8 3 (2.83%) Banking
8 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.89%) Retail
10 1 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.94%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (30.19%) Architect
2 31 (29.25%) Salesforce Architect
3 24 (22.64%) Analyst
4 22 (20.75%) Senior
5 18 (16.98%) Salesforce Engineer
5 18 (16.98%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 18 (16.98%) Technical Architect
6 12 (11.32%) Applications Support
6 12 (11.32%) Applications Support Analyst
6 12 (11.32%) Support Analyst
7 10 (9.43%) Development Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) Salesforce Solution Architect
8 9 (8.49%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (7.55%) Business Analyst
9 8 (7.55%) Product Owner
9 8 (7.55%) Senior Development Engineer
10 7 (6.60%) Change Analyst
10 7 (6.60%) Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Network Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (48.11%) REST
2 50 (47.17%) Lightning Web Components
2 50 (47.17%) SOAP
3 32 (30.19%) Visualforce
4 10 (9.43%) .NET
4 10 (9.43%) ADO
5 4 (3.77%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.77%) Node.js
5 4 (3.77%) React
5 4 (3.77%) React Native
6 2 (1.89%) RESTful
6 2 (1.89%) SwiftUI
7 1 (0.94%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (0.94%) Android SDK
7 1 (0.94%) Core Data
7 1 (0.94%) iOS SDK
7 1 (0.94%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (0.94%) Retrofit
7 1 (0.94%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Management Information System
2 11 (10.38%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.60%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.83%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.94%) Equities
7 1 (0.94%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Android
1 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (85.85%) Agile
2 80 (75.47%) DevOps
3 70 (66.04%) CI/CD
4 67 (63.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (41.51%) Roadmaps
6 41 (38.68%) Scrum
7 40 (37.74%) Asset Management
8 38 (35.85%) Coaching
9 36 (33.96%) Technical Analysis
10 35 (33.02%) Technology Roadmap
11 32 (30.19%) Community of Practice
11 32 (30.19%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
11 32 (30.19%) Continuous Delivery
11 32 (30.19%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (30.19%) Design Patterns
11 32 (30.19%) Event-Driven
11 32 (30.19%) OO
11 32 (30.19%) PLM
11 32 (30.19%) Static Code Analysis
11 32 (30.19%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 50 (47.17%) Apex Code
2 32 (30.19%) SOQL
2 32 (30.19%) SOSL
3 16 (15.09%) Python
4 14 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.72%) Java
5 5 (4.72%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.89%) Bash
7 2 (1.89%) SQL
7 2 (1.89%) Swift
8 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) Degree
2 12 (11.32%) HND
3 7 (6.60%) PMI Certification
3 7 (6.60%) PMP
4 4 (3.77%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.94%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.15%) Accessibility
2 12 (11.32%) QA
2 12 (11.32%) SLA
3 3 (2.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (9.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (14.15%) Terraform
2 13 (12.26%) Grafana
2 13 (12.26%) Prometheus
3 10 (9.43%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.83%) Ansible
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (48.11%) Salesforce
2 35 (33.02%) Splunk
3 12 (11.32%) Adobe
3 12 (11.32%) Freshdesk
3 12 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.32%) Nintex
4 3 (2.83%) F5
4 3 (2.83%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.83%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.89%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle
5 2 (1.89%) SAP
5 2 (1.89%) Workday
6 1 (0.94%) Apple
6 1 (0.94%) Google