Product Ownership Job Trends in the South East

Product Ownership
England > South East

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 148 144
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 -31
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 186 179 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.09% 2.03% 1.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.42% 4.79% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 129 66 144
10th Percentile £43,000 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,903
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% -0.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,375 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,500 £87,500 £87,050
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,154 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.24% +0.24% -

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,207 3,738 4,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.68% 42.43% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,901 1,773 2,725
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,375 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,988 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in the South East

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the South East over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Ownership within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Thames Valley -4 74 £60,000 -3.61% 46
Buckinghamshire +25 40 £57,500 +9.52% 12
Hampshire -38 40 £62,500 -3.85% 10
Surrey -3 35 £65,678 +11.79% 21
Oxfordshire -6 20 £62,500 +4.17% 10
Kent -13 19 £55,000 +46.67% 4
Berkshire -39 14 £75,000 +15.38% 25
West Sussex -25 11 £75,000 -9.09% 5
East Sussex -22 3 £80,000 +60.00% 3
Middlesex +26 2 - - 1
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.15%) CMS
3 3 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.61%) Confluence
3 3 (1.61%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.54%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.61%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (1.08%) SAP BPC
3 2 (1.08%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 72 (38.71%) Azure
2 36 (19.35%) AWS
3 23 (12.37%) GCP
4 21 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (9.14%) GitHub
6 15 (8.06%) SaaS
7 10 (5.38%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (4.84%) Power Automate
8 9 (4.84%) Serverless
9 8 (4.30%) Figma
9 8 (4.30%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.76%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
14 2 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (1.08%) PaaS
14 2 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) MQTT
2 4 (2.15%) Broadband
3 1 (0.54%) HTTP
3 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.38%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.84%) Metadata
3 8 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.69%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.08%) MySQL
6 2 (1.08%) Power BI
6 2 (1.08%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.54%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.54%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (22.58%) Git
2 16 (8.60%) JIRA
3 12 (6.45%) GitLab
3 12 (6.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (3.76%) Selenium
5 6 (3.23%) Eclipse
5 6 (3.23%) Eclipse RCP
6 5 (2.69%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.69%) Postman
6 5 (2.69%) Zephyr
7 4 (2.15%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.61%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.61%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.61%) JUnit
8 3 (1.61%) Mockito
9 1 (0.54%) Appium
9 1 (0.54%) JetBrains Rider
9 1 (0.54%) JMeter
9 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 47 (25.27%) Finance
3 31 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.60%) Aerospace
5 11 (5.91%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (5.38%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.30%) Italian Language
8 8 (4.30%) Japanese Language
9 7 (3.76%) Marketing
9 7 (3.76%) Retail
10 6 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.69%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.15%) Games
13 3 (1.61%) Law
13 3 (1.61%) Social Science
14 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.08%) Electronics
14 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (18.28%) Senior
2 28 (15.05%) Product Owner
3 25 (13.44%) Software Engineer
4 21 (11.29%) Analyst
4 21 (11.29%) Architect
5 20 (10.75%) Developer
6 18 (9.68%) Lead
7 13 (6.99%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.38%) Product Manager
10 8 (4.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (4.30%) Senior Manager
11 7 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
13 5 (2.69%) .NET Developer
14 4 (2.15%) Lead Developer
14 4 (2.15%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.20%) REST
2 30 (16.13%) .NET
3 16 (8.60%) React
4 13 (6.99%) RESTful
5 12 (6.45%) Kafka
5 12 (6.45%) SOAP
6 11 (5.91%) Web Services
7 9 (4.84%) Gherkin
7 9 (4.84%) HTML
8 8 (4.30%) ASP.NET
8 8 (4.30%) OAuth
8 8 (4.30%) Playwright
9 7 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (3.76%) CSS
9 7 (3.76%) JSON
10 6 (3.23%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.69%) Node.js
11 5 (2.69%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.69%) Twisted
11 5 (2.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.14%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.99%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.38%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.84%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.76%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (3.23%) Life Science
8 6 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (3.23%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.69%) IoT
9 5 (2.69%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.69%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.69%) Robotics
9 5 (2.69%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.15%) Taxonomies
10 4 (2.15%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (1.61%) CMDB
11 3 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (58.06%) Agile
2 60 (32.26%) Scrum
3 57 (30.65%) DevOps
4 55 (29.57%) CI/CD
5 43 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (23.12%) Software Engineering
5 43 (23.12%) Test Automation
6 42 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (17.74%) Roadmaps
9 32 (17.20%) Decision-Making
10 31 (16.67%) AI
11 28 (15.05%) User Experience
12 27 (14.52%) Computer Science
13 26 (13.98%) Microservices
14 25 (13.44%) User Stories
15 24 (12.90%) Mentoring
16 23 (12.37%) SDLC
17 22 (11.83%) Coaching
17 22 (11.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.89%) C#
2 30 (16.13%) Python
3 28 (15.05%) JavaScript
4 19 (10.22%) TypeScript
5 18 (9.68%) Java
6 15 (8.06%) C++
7 14 (7.53%) SQL
8 7 (3.76%) C
8 7 (3.76%) Rust
9 6 (3.23%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.61%) Go
11 2 (1.08%) PHP
12 1 (0.54%) Bash
12 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (24.19%) Degree
2 28 (15.05%) Security Cleared
3 25 (13.44%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.91%) ICAEW
6 10 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.76%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.61%) CSPO
8 3 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.08%) CISA
9 2 (1.08%) CISM
9 2 (1.08%) CISSP
9 2 (1.08%) CRISC
9 2 (1.08%) CSQA
9 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (22.58%) QA
2 6 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.69%) GDPR
3 5 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.69%) WCAG
4 3 (1.61%) GRC
4 3 (1.61%) SLA
5 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 41 (22.04%) Docker
2 5 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.08%) Firmware
4 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (13.44%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.60%) Terraform
3 8 (4.30%) Ansible
4 4 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.61%) Grafana
5 3 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.54%) Podman
6 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.38%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.84%) Google
3 9 (4.84%) SAP
4 6 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.15%) Adobe
6 3 (1.61%) Databricks
6 3 (1.61%) Infor
6 3 (1.61%) Oracle
6 3 (1.61%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.08%) Informatica
7 2 (1.08%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco
8 1 (0.54%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.54%) IBM
8 1 (0.54%) iManage
8 1 (0.54%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.54%) Talend
8 1 (0.54%) Veracode