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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 128 151
Rank change year-on-year -9 +23 -68
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 178 177 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.23% 2.31% 1.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.09% 5.70% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 116 72 168
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,125 £42,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,375 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +1.56% +2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,625 £83,750
England median annual salary £69,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.43% +12.00% -3.85%

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 3,499 3,107 5,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.09% 40.61% 34.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,241 1,429 3,792
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,400 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -9 75 £55,000 -15.38% 38
Buckinghamshire +27 46 £52,500 -14.29% 8
Hampshire -27 35 £76,250 +17.31% 12
Surrey -14 21 £63,857 -8.78% 7
West Sussex -19 16 £67,500 -20.59% 1
Kent -16 15 £82,500 - 2
Berkshire -43 15 £70,000 +8.11% 25
Oxfordshire -8 14 £62,500 -10.71% 8
East Sussex -10 12 £80,000 +60.00% 3
Middlesex +41 1 - - 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 (5.62%) CMS
2 8 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.12%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.56%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (29.78%) Azure
2 32 (17.98%) AWS
3 17 (9.55%) GCP
4 16 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.74%) GitHub
6 7 (3.93%) Figma
6 7 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.93%) SaaS
7 6 (3.37%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.37%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.81%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.69%) Benchling
9 3 (1.69%) Serverless
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.56%) dbt
10 1 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.93%) MQTT
2 5 (2.81%) Broadband
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.37%) MongoDB
1 6 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.69%) Metadata
4 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.56%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (0.56%) Power BI
5 1 (0.56%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (16.85%) Git
2 12 (6.74%) JIRA
3 10 (5.62%) GitLab
3 10 (5.62%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (3.93%) Selenium
5 6 (3.37%) Postman
5 6 (3.37%) Zephyr
6 5 (2.81%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.81%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.69%) JUnit
7 3 (1.69%) Mockito
7 3 (1.69%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.69%) Snyk
8 2 (1.12%) Appium
8 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.12%) JMeter
8 2 (1.12%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 43 (24.16%) Finance
3 30 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.49%) Law
5 8 (4.49%) Legal
6 7 (3.93%) Retail
7 5 (2.81%) Games
8 4 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.25%) Marketing
9 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Social Science
9 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.12%) Electronics
10 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Publishing
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 41 (23.03%) Senior
2 21 (11.80%) Analyst
2 21 (11.80%) Lead
2 21 (11.80%) Product Owner
3 18 (10.11%) Product Manager
3 18 (10.11%) Software Engineer
4 14 (7.87%) Architect
4 14 (7.87%) Business Analyst
5 13 (7.30%) Designer
5 13 (7.30%) Product Designer
5 13 (7.30%) Senior Designer
5 13 (7.30%) Senior Product Designer
6 11 (6.18%) Senior Manager
7 10 (5.62%) Developer
8 8 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.93%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.37%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 5 (2.81%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.55%) .NET
2 16 (8.99%) REST
3 12 (6.74%) RESTful
4 11 (6.18%) Kafka
4 11 (6.18%) React
5 9 (5.06%) Playwright
6 8 (4.49%) Gherkin
6 8 (4.49%) Web Services
7 6 (3.37%) SOAP
8 5 (2.81%) .NET Framework
8 5 (2.81%) Django
8 5 (2.81%) JSON
8 5 (2.81%) Twisted
8 5 (2.81%) WebSockets
9 4 (2.25%) JWT
9 4 (2.25%) OAuth
9 4 (2.25%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.25%) Razor View Engine
9 4 (2.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.30%) Mobile App
2 12 (6.74%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.74%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.81%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.81%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (2.25%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.69%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.69%) Life Science
6 3 (1.69%) LIMS
6 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.69%) Robotics
6 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.11%) Linux
2 2 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (67.98%) Agile
2 64 (35.96%) Scrum
3 45 (25.28%) CI/CD
4 44 (24.72%) DevOps
5 43 (24.16%) Roadmaps
6 40 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (20.79%) Test Automation
9 29 (16.29%) Software Engineering
10 27 (15.17%) User Stories
11 25 (14.04%) Mentoring
12 23 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (12.36%) Decision-Making
14 21 (11.80%) AI
14 21 (11.80%) Analytics
14 21 (11.80%) Product Roadmap
15 20 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (11.24%) User Experience
15 20 (11.24%) User Research
16 19 (10.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 25 (14.04%) C#
2 24 (13.48%) Python
3 17 (9.55%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.43%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.30%) Java
6 10 (5.62%) SQL
7 8 (4.49%) C++
8 7 (3.93%) Rust
9 4 (2.25%) C
10 3 (1.69%) Go
10 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.56%) ABAP
11 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) SOQL
11 1 (0.56%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 42 (23.60%) Degree
2 33 (18.54%) Security Cleared
3 22 (12.36%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.18%) ICAEW
5 9 (5.06%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.49%) ISTQB
7 7 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.12%) CISA
9 2 (1.12%) CISM
9 2 (1.12%) CISSP
9 2 (1.12%) CRISC
9 2 (1.12%) CSQA
9 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (20.22%) QA
2 9 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.81%) WCAG
5 4 (2.25%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.69%) NCSC
6 3 (1.69%) PMO
7 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.12%) GRC
7 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (15.73%) Docker
2 5 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.62%) Ansible
2 10 (5.62%) Terraform
3 4 (2.25%) Grafana
3 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.56%) Podman
4 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.18%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.06%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.25%) Adobe
5 3 (1.69%) Black Duck
5 3 (1.69%) Coverity
5 3 (1.69%) LabVantage
5 3 (1.69%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.12%) Infor
6 2 (1.12%) OneTrust
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle
6 2 (1.12%) SAP
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.56%) Splunk
7 1 (0.56%) Workday