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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 133 159
Rank change year-on-year -19 +26 -83
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 128 153 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.11% 1.92% 1.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.87% 5.70% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70 96 131
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,250 £93,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%

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 3,307 2,682 4,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.56% 33.58% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,744 1,184 2,870
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,677 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,173
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.28% -15.12%

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 February 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 22 February 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 -21 57 £55,000 -21.43% 30
Buckinghamshire +10 31 £52,500 -21.64% 6
Hampshire +8 21 £90,000 +57.89% 7
Berkshire -23 21 £63,000 - 17
West Sussex +4 14 £65,000 -13.33% 6
Kent - 14 £67,500 - 8
East Sussex +3 12 £80,000 +60.00% 2
Surrey -36 7 £70,000 +7.69% 13
Oxfordshire -13 5 £87,500 +25.00% 11
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 7 (5.47%) CMS
2 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.78%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.78%) SAP IS-U
1 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.56%) Azure
2 24 (18.75%) AWS
3 11 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.59%) GCP
4 7 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (5.47%) SaaS
5 6 (4.69%) Figma
5 6 (4.69%) GitHub
6 5 (3.91%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (3.91%) Serverless
7 4 (3.13%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.34%) Benchling
8 3 (2.34%) Collibra
8 3 (2.34%) Google Ads
8 3 (2.34%) Miro
8 3 (2.34%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.47%) DNS
2 3 (2.34%) MQTT
3 2 (1.56%) Broadband
3 2 (1.56%) GSM
3 2 (1.56%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.69%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.69%) SAP BW
3 5 (3.91%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.91%) MySQL
4 3 (2.34%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.34%) Metadata
4 3 (2.34%) Power BI
4 3 (2.34%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.78%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (10.94%) Git
2 12 (9.38%) Selenium
3 10 (7.81%) Robot Framework
4 8 (6.25%) Snyk
5 7 (5.47%) JIRA
6 6 (4.69%) GitLab
7 5 (3.91%) Axure RP
7 5 (3.91%) Balsamiq
7 5 (3.91%) git-flow
8 4 (3.13%) Jenkins
9 3 (2.34%) ERwin
9 3 (2.34%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (1.56%) Appium
10 2 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.56%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.56%) JUnit
10 2 (1.56%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.56%) TestRail
11 1 (0.78%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 59 (46.09%) Social Skills
2 36 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (24.22%) Finance
4 13 (10.16%) Law
5 11 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (8.59%) Legal
6 10 (7.81%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.47%) Marketing
8 4 (3.13%) Publishing
9 3 (2.34%) Advertising
9 3 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.34%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.34%) Retail
10 2 (1.56%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.56%) Automotive
10 2 (1.56%) Electronics
10 2 (1.56%) Games
10 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.78%) Billing
11 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (18.75%) Product Owner
1 24 (18.75%) Senior
2 17 (13.28%) Designer
2 17 (13.28%) Product Manager
3 14 (10.94%) Lead
4 13 (10.16%) Product Designer
4 13 (10.16%) Senior Designer
4 13 (10.16%) Senior Product Designer
5 10 (7.81%) Analyst
6 7 (5.47%) Developer
7 6 (4.69%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (4.69%) Senior Developer
7 6 (4.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (3.91%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Head of Technology
8 5 (3.91%) Legal Analyst
9 4 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.13%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.03%) .NET
2 8 (6.25%) Kafka
3 7 (5.47%) CSS
3 7 (5.47%) React
4 6 (4.69%) HTML
5 5 (3.91%) AWS CDK
5 5 (3.91%) Material-UI
5 5 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.13%) REST
7 3 (2.34%) Playwright
8 2 (1.56%) ADO
8 2 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.56%) RESTful
8 2 (1.56%) SOAP
8 2 (1.56%) Web Services
9 1 (0.78%) Hibernate
9 1 (0.78%) JPA
9 1 (0.78%) OAuth
9 1 (0.78%) SAML
9 1 (0.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.16%) Mobile App
2 9 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.34%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (2.34%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (2.34%) Life Science
5 3 (2.34%) LIMS
5 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.56%) IoT
6 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.78%) CMDB
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.25%) Linux
2 7 (5.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (74.22%) Agile
2 53 (41.41%) Scrum
3 47 (36.72%) Roadmaps
4 34 (26.56%) Analytics
5 30 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (20.31%) CI/CD
8 22 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (16.41%) DevOps
9 21 (16.41%) Product Roadmap
10 20 (15.63%) User Stories
11 19 (14.84%) Mentoring
11 19 (14.84%) Strategic Thinking
11 19 (14.84%) User Research
12 17 (13.28%) Test Automation
13 16 (12.50%) Product Backlog
14 15 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (11.72%) Product Management
15 14 (10.94%) E-Commerce
15 14 (10.94%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.03%) TypeScript
2 7 (5.47%) SQL
3 6 (4.69%) C#
3 6 (4.69%) Python
4 5 (3.91%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.34%) Java
5 3 (2.34%) Rust
6 2 (1.56%) Bash
7 1 (0.78%) ABAP
7 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.78%) SOQL
7 1 (0.78%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 27 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.97%) Degree
3 13 (10.16%) DV Cleared
4 12 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.69%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.13%) PMI Certification
7 4 (3.13%) PMP
8 3 (2.34%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.34%) SAP Certification
9 2 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.50%) QA
2 10 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.91%) WCAG
5 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.34%) NCSC
5 3 (2.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.78%) GRC
6 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (10.16%) Terraform
2 11 (8.59%) Ansible
3 6 (4.69%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.91%) Grafana
4 5 (3.91%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.56%) Nessus
6 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (7.03%) Salesforce
2 8 (6.25%) Black Duck
2 8 (6.25%) Coverity
2 8 (6.25%) SAP
3 6 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.91%) Adobe
5 4 (3.13%) Google
6 3 (2.34%) LabVantage
7 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle
8 1 (0.78%) Splunk
8 1 (0.78%) Workday