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 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 142 139
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 -65
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 97 186 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.99% 1.75% 2.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.13% 5.11% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 57 117 115
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% +0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,000 £74,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,150 £95,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +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 3,097 3,642 2,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.70% 34.36% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 1,622 1,689
10th Percentile £26,500 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -34 40 £52,500 -19.23% 59
Hampshire +38 21 £91,000 +65.45% 23
Berkshire -17 19 £56,000 -10.40% 30
Buckinghamshire +9 18 £52,500 -21.64% 12
Kent +15 13 £37,500 -55.88% 11
West Sussex +8 8 £67,500 -14.29% 13
East Sussex +13 6 £65,000 +30.00% 7
Middlesex +2 5 £37,500 - 3
Surrey -33 5 £42,500 -34.62% 15
Oxfordshire +2 3 £60,000 -14.29% 17
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 3 (3.09%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.15%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.33%) Azure
2 24 (24.74%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (15.46%) AWS
4 7 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (7.22%) GCP
4 7 (7.22%) GitHub
5 6 (6.19%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (6.19%) SaaS
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.15%) Figma
6 5 (5.15%) Serverless
7 4 (4.12%) Google Analytics
7 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.09%) Collibra
8 3 (3.09%) Google Ads
8 3 (3.09%) Miro
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.19%) DNS
2 2 (2.06%) GSM
2 2 (2.06%) LTE
3 1 (1.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (6.19%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.19%) SAP BW
3 5 (5.15%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.15%) MySQL
4 4 (4.12%) Power BI
5 3 (3.09%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.09%) Metadata
5 3 (3.09%) SAP HANA
6 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.06%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.06%) Tableau
7 1 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Git
1 10 (10.31%) Selenium
2 9 (9.28%) JIRA
2 9 (9.28%) Robot Framework
3 7 (7.22%) Snyk
4 5 (5.15%) Axure RP
4 5 (5.15%) Balsamiq
4 5 (5.15%) git-flow
5 3 (3.09%) ERwin
5 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.09%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.06%) GitLab
6 2 (2.06%) TestRail
7 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.03%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.03%) TestNG
7 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 53 (54.64%) Social Skills
2 29 (29.90%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (16.49%) Finance
4 13 (13.40%) Marketing
5 12 (12.37%) Law
6 8 (8.25%) Retail
7 7 (7.22%) Public Sector
8 6 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.12%) Legal
10 3 (3.09%) Advertising
10 3 (3.09%) General Ledger
10 3 (3.09%) Military
10 3 (3.09%) Publishing
11 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
11 2 (2.06%) Automotive
11 2 (2.06%) Electronics
11 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Product Owner
2 19 (19.59%) Lead
3 17 (17.53%) Senior
4 13 (13.40%) Analyst
5 10 (10.31%) Product Manager
6 8 (8.25%) Test Analyst
7 6 (6.19%) Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Tester
9 4 (4.12%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.12%) Designer
10 3 (3.09%) Business Analyst
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%) Senior Tester
10 3 (3.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) .NET
2 7 (7.22%) CSS
3 6 (6.19%) HTML
3 6 (6.19%) React
4 5 (5.15%) AWS CDK
4 5 (5.15%) Kafka
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%) OAuth
7 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.03%) OpenID
7 1 (1.03%) REST
7 1 (1.03%) SAML
7 1 (1.03%) SOAP
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 2 (2.06%) IoT
3 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.06%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.03%) NHS
4 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.43%) Windows
2 6 (6.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (83.51%) Agile
2 46 (47.42%) Scrum
3 39 (40.21%) Roadmaps
4 38 (39.18%) DevOps
5 29 (29.90%) CI/CD
6 26 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (25.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (24.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (23.71%) Analytics
10 22 (22.68%) Mentoring
11 20 (20.62%) User Stories
12 18 (18.56%) Decision-Making
13 16 (16.49%) Backlog Refinement
14 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (14.43%) Sprint Planning
15 13 (13.40%) Product Management
15 13 (13.40%) Software Testing
15 13 (13.40%) Test Automation
15 13 (13.40%) Test Management
15 13 (13.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.59%) SQL
2 9 (9.28%) C#
3 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.12%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.06%) Bash
5 2 (2.06%) Python
6 1 (1.03%) Java
6 1 (1.03%) Korn
Qualifications
1 20 (20.62%) Degree
2 19 (19.59%) Security Cleared
3 14 (14.43%) Master's Degree
4 13 (13.40%) ISTQB
5 11 (11.34%) ISEB
6 9 (9.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (9.28%) DV Cleared
6 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.12%) PMI Certification
7 4 (4.12%) PMP
8 3 (3.09%) SAP Certification
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.59%) QA
2 8 (8.25%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.25%) Software Quality Assurance
3 5 (5.15%) WCAG
4 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.09%) GDPR
5 1 (1.03%) GRC
5 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (9.28%) Terraform
2 7 (7.22%) Ansible
3 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
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 25 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.34%) Google
3 7 (7.22%) Black Duck
3 7 (7.22%) Coverity
4 6 (6.19%) SAP
5 5 (5.15%) Adobe
6 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.06%) Databricks
8 1 (1.03%) OneLogin