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 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 147 134
Rank change year-on-year -33 -13 -65
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 97 189 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.03% 1.65% 2.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.03% 5.00% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 55 116 117
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,250 £74,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,650 £96,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 3,201 3,781 2,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.06% 33.10% 33.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 1,681 1,794
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -1.57%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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
Thames Valley -25 38 £52,500 -19.23% 19
Hampshire +32 21 £91,000 +65.45% 13
Berkshire -24 18 £56,000 -8.57% 6
Buckinghamshire +14 16 £52,500 -23.36% 9
Kent +17 12 £37,500 -55.88% 5
West Sussex +11 11 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Middlesex +2 6 £37,500 - 1
Surrey -24 6 £42,500 -34.62% 8
East Sussex +17 4 £50,000 - 1
Oxfordshire +9 4 £60,000 -14.29% 4
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 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) CMS
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (43.30%) Azure
2 23 (23.71%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (15.46%) AWS
4 8 (8.25%) GCP
5 7 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (7.22%) GitHub
6 6 (6.19%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.19%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (6.19%) SaaS
6 6 (6.19%) Serverless
7 5 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.12%) Figma
8 4 (4.12%) Google Analytics
9 3 (3.09%) Collibra
9 3 (3.09%) Google Ads
10 2 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.06%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) DNS
2 2 (2.06%) GSM
2 2 (2.06%) LTE
3 1 (1.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (7.22%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.19%) SAP BW
4 5 (5.15%) DynamoDB
4 5 (5.15%) MySQL
5 4 (4.12%) Power BI
6 3 (3.09%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.09%) Metadata
6 3 (3.09%) SAP HANA
7 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.06%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.06%) Tableau
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (11.34%) JIRA
2 8 (8.25%) Selenium
3 7 (7.22%) Git
3 7 (7.22%) Robot Framework
4 5 (5.15%) git-flow
4 5 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.15%) Snyk
5 4 (4.12%) Axure RP
5 4 (4.12%) Balsamiq
6 3 (3.09%) ERwin
6 3 (3.09%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.06%) GitLab
7 2 (2.06%) TestRail
8 1 (1.03%) Appium
8 1 (1.03%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.03%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 54 (55.67%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.77%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.46%) Finance
4 14 (14.43%) Marketing
5 10 (10.31%) Law
6 8 (8.25%) Retail
7 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (5.15%) Legal
9 3 (3.09%) Advertising
9 3 (3.09%) General Ledger
9 3 (3.09%) Military
9 3 (3.09%) Publishing
10 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.06%) Automotive
10 2 (2.06%) Electronics
11 1 (1.03%) Banking
11 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.03%) Games
11 1 (1.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Product Owner
2 19 (19.59%) Lead
3 17 (17.53%) Senior
4 13 (13.40%) Analyst
5 9 (9.28%) Test Analyst
6 7 (7.22%) Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Product Manager
7 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Programme Manager
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Tester
9 4 (4.12%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Data Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Data Model Manager
10 3 (3.09%) SAP Data Manager
10 3 (3.09%) SAP Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Security Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Tester
10 3 (3.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) .NET
2 7 (7.22%) CSS
2 7 (7.22%) React
3 6 (6.19%) HTML
3 6 (6.19%) Kafka
4 5 (5.15%) AWS CDK
4 5 (5.15%) Material-UI
4 5 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (4.12%) ADO
6 2 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.06%) Playwright
7 1 (1.03%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.03%) Jest
7 1 (1.03%) JSON
7 1 (1.03%) Next.js
7 1 (1.03%) OpenID
7 1 (1.03%) SAML
7 1 (1.03%) SOAP
7 1 (1.03%) Spring
7 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Cloud Native
1 8 (8.25%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.15%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.09%) IoT
4 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.06%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.03%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.03%) NHS
5 1 (1.03%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.43%) Windows
2 6 (6.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (86.60%) Agile
2 43 (44.33%) Scrum
3 38 (39.18%) DevOps
4 37 (38.14%) Roadmaps
5 30 (30.93%) CI/CD
6 28 (28.87%) Mentoring
7 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (25.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (22.68%) Analytics
9 21 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (21.65%) User Stories
10 19 (19.59%) Decision-Making
11 18 (18.56%) Backlog Refinement
12 14 (14.43%) Software Testing
13 13 (13.40%) Acceptance Criteria
13 13 (13.40%) Computer Science
13 13 (13.40%) Data Modelling
13 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (13.40%) Sprint Planning
14 12 (12.37%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.62%) SQL
2 9 (9.28%) C#
3 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.15%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.09%) Java
5 3 (3.09%) Python
6 2 (2.06%) Bash
7 1 (1.03%) Korn
7 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (24.74%) Degree
2 14 (14.43%) ISTQB
2 14 (14.43%) Master's Degree
2 14 (14.43%) Security Cleared
3 13 (13.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (12.37%) ISEB
5 8 (8.25%) PMI Certification
5 8 (8.25%) PMP
6 7 (7.22%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.09%) SAP Certification
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.65%) QA
2 9 (9.28%) Software Quality Assurance
3 7 (7.22%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.12%) WCAG
5 3 (3.09%) GDPR
6 1 (1.03%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.25%) Terraform
2 6 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.15%) Ansible
4 2 (2.06%) Grafana
4 2 (2.06%) Nessus
4 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.37%) Google
3 6 (6.19%) SAP
4 5 (5.15%) Black Duck
4 5 (5.15%) Coverity
5 4 (4.12%) Adobe
6 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.06%) Databricks
8 1 (1.03%) OneLogin