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 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 152 155
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -36
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 191 152 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.04% 1.69% 1.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.22% 4.10% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 136 61 123
10th Percentile £46,250 £33,750 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,563 £70,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £89,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -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 4,527 3,709 4,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.70% 41.30% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,115 1,766 2,135
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,988 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -12.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +27 83 £62,500 -3.10% 116
Surrey +9 44 £70,000 +16.67% 41
Buckinghamshire +30 42 £57,500 +12.20% 23
Hampshire -45 38 £62,500 -3.85% 22
Oxfordshire -12 26 £62,500 +4.17% 29
Berkshire -17 15 £67,500 +3.85% 64
Kent -15 12 £55,000 +46.67% 10
West Sussex -26 11 £75,000 -6.25% 23
Middlesex +13 2 - - 3
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 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.57%) CMS
2 3 (1.57%) Confluence
2 3 (1.57%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.05%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.52%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.57%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (1.05%) SAP BPC
3 2 (1.05%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 73 (38.22%) Azure
2 27 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (13.09%) AWS
4 21 (10.99%) SaaS
5 16 (8.38%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.85%) GCP
7 14 (7.33%) GitHub
8 9 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (4.71%) Power Automate
8 9 (4.71%) Serverless
9 8 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (4.19%) Figma
9 8 (4.19%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.66%) Anthropic Claude
10 7 (3.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.57%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) MQTT
2 1 (0.52%) Broadband
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.85%) Metadata
2 13 (6.81%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.76%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.19%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.19%) Power BI
6 7 (3.66%) Amazon QuickSight
6 7 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.66%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.66%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (3.66%) Star Schema
7 5 (2.62%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.57%) MySQL
8 3 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.05%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.52%) GIS
10 1 (0.52%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (24.08%) Git
2 15 (7.85%) JIRA
3 12 (6.28%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (5.76%) GitLab
5 6 (3.14%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.14%) Eclipse
5 6 (3.14%) Eclipse RCP
5 6 (3.14%) Selenium
6 4 (2.09%) Postman
6 4 (2.09%) Zephyr
7 3 (1.57%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.57%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.05%) MLflow
9 1 (0.52%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.52%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.52%) JetBrains Rider
9 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 44 (23.04%) Finance
3 38 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.42%) Aerospace
5 16 (8.38%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (6.28%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.71%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.71%) Retail
8 8 (4.19%) Italian Language
8 8 (4.19%) Japanese Language
9 7 (3.66%) Marketing
10 6 (3.14%) Games
10 6 (3.14%) Law
11 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.57%) Social Science
13 2 (1.05%) Aviation
13 2 (1.05%) Electronics
13 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (20.42%) Senior
2 32 (16.75%) Product Owner
3 25 (13.09%) Developer
4 23 (12.04%) Software Engineer
5 20 (10.47%) Architect
6 19 (9.95%) Analyst
7 15 (7.85%) Lead
8 12 (6.28%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.76%) Product Manager
9 11 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Digital Product Manager
11 8 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (3.66%) .NET Developer
12 7 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Digital Product Owner
12 7 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.66%) Integration Manager
12 7 (3.66%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.37%) .NET
2 32 (16.75%) REST
3 17 (8.90%) SOAP
4 14 (7.33%) Terraform
5 13 (6.81%) HTML
5 13 (6.81%) React
6 11 (5.76%) CSS
6 11 (5.76%) RESTful
7 10 (5.24%) ASP.NET
7 10 (5.24%) Gherkin
7 10 (5.24%) Kafka
8 9 (4.71%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.19%) OAuth
10 7 (3.66%) JSON
10 7 (3.66%) Playwright
10 7 (3.66%) Web Services
11 6 (3.14%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.62%) JWT
12 5 (2.62%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.62%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.42%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.33%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.33%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (6.81%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.24%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.66%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.66%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (3.14%) Life Science
7 6 (3.14%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.62%) IoT
8 5 (2.62%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.62%) Robotics
8 5 (2.62%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.09%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.57%) CMDB
10 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.57%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.57%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.99%) Linux
2 7 (3.66%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (60.73%) Agile
2 67 (35.08%) Scrum
3 63 (32.98%) DevOps
4 62 (32.46%) CI/CD
5 49 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (24.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (23.56%) Software Engineering
8 41 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (19.37%) Decision-Making
9 37 (19.37%) Test Automation
10 35 (18.32%) Computer Science
10 35 (18.32%) Roadmaps
11 31 (16.23%) Analytics
12 30 (15.71%) AI
13 29 (15.18%) User Experience
14 24 (12.57%) Clean Code
15 23 (12.04%) Event-Driven
15 23 (12.04%) Microservices
15 23 (12.04%) SDLC
16 22 (11.52%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 51 (26.70%) C#
2 32 (16.75%) JavaScript
3 31 (16.23%) Python
4 22 (11.52%) SQL
5 17 (8.90%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.85%) C++
6 15 (7.85%) Java
7 7 (3.66%) C
8 6 (3.14%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.62%) Rust
10 3 (1.57%) PHP
11 1 (0.52%) Bash
11 1 (0.52%) Go
11 1 (0.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (28.27%) Degree
2 31 (16.23%) Security Cleared
3 28 (14.66%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.76%) ICAEW
6 9 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (4.19%) CSPO
8 6 (3.14%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.05%) CISA
10 2 (1.05%) CISM
10 2 (1.05%) CISSP
10 2 (1.05%) CRISC
10 2 (1.05%) CSQA
10 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.05%) PhD
11 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (18.85%) QA
2 16 (8.38%) GDPR
3 14 (7.33%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.76%) Accessibility
5 10 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (4.71%) WCAG
7 7 (3.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.57%) GRC
8 3 (1.57%) SLA
9 2 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (17.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) Firmware
2 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.14%) Ansible
3 4 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Podman
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.28%) Google
3 9 (4.71%) SAP
3 9 (4.71%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.19%) Informatica
5 7 (3.66%) Talend
6 4 (2.09%) Adobe
7 3 (1.57%) Databricks
7 3 (1.57%) Infor
7 3 (1.57%) Oracle
7 3 (1.57%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.05%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.05%) Thales
9 1 (0.52%) Cisco
9 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.52%) IBM
9 1 (0.52%) iManage
9 1 (0.52%) Veracode