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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 121 153
Rank change year-on-year -22 +32 -78
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 159 152 291
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.10% 2.14% 1.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.34% 5.99% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 98 65 173
10th Percentile £49,043 £49,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,688 £73,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.77% +15.19% -4.32%

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 3,661 2,537 5,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.21% 35.69% 34.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,003 1,355 3,775
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,001 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -10.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 2 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 2 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 -19 68 £55,000 -21.43% 27
Buckinghamshire +12 42 £52,500 -21.64% 7
Hampshire -9 31 £78,000 +30.00% 10
Kent -27 17 £82,500 - 3
Berkshire -43 16 £70,000 +11.11% 16
West Sussex -13 15 £65,000 -18.75% 4
East Sussex -15 14 £80,000 +60.00% 2
Surrey -32 11 £75,000 +7.14% 6
Oxfordshire -15 10 £52,500 -25.00% 5
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 11 (6.92%) CMS
2 4 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.89%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.63%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.63%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.16%) Azure
2 27 (16.98%) AWS
3 13 (8.18%) GCP
4 12 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (6.29%) Figma
6 6 (3.77%) GitHub
6 6 (3.77%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.14%) SaaS
8 4 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.52%) Google Analytics
8 4 (2.52%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.89%) Benchling
9 3 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.89%) Miro
9 3 (1.89%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.26%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.14%) Broadband
2 4 (2.52%) MQTT
3 2 (1.26%) DNS
3 2 (1.26%) GSM
3 2 (1.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.77%) MongoDB
1 6 (3.77%) NoSQL
1 6 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.89%) Metadata
2 3 (1.89%) Power BI
3 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.63%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (0.63%) MySQL
3 1 (0.63%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.63%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (13.21%) Git
2 10 (6.29%) GitLab
3 8 (5.03%) JIRA
3 8 (5.03%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.77%) Selenium
5 5 (3.14%) Axure RP
5 5 (3.14%) Balsamiq
6 4 (2.52%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.89%) JUnit
7 3 (1.89%) Mockito
7 3 (1.89%) Snyk
7 3 (1.89%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.26%) Appium
8 2 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.26%) JMeter
8 2 (1.26%) Postman
8 2 (1.26%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.63%) git-flow
9 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 63 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 39 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (23.27%) Finance
4 14 (8.81%) Law
5 13 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (7.55%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.03%) Legal
7 8 (5.03%) Marketing
8 5 (3.14%) Games
9 4 (2.52%) Electronics
9 4 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.89%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.89%) Automotive
10 3 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.89%) Retail
10 3 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.26%) Publishing
12 1 (0.63%) Billing
12 1 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 36 (22.64%) Senior
2 24 (15.09%) Product Owner
3 21 (13.21%) Product Manager
4 17 (10.69%) Designer
5 14 (8.81%) Lead
5 14 (8.81%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.18%) Analyst
6 13 (8.18%) Product Designer
6 13 (8.18%) Senior Designer
6 13 (8.18%) Senior Product Designer
7 12 (7.55%) Architect
8 11 (6.92%) Senior Manager
9 9 (5.66%) Business Analyst
10 8 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.40%) Developer
12 6 (3.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 5 (3.14%) Consultant
13 5 (3.14%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) REST
2 11 (6.92%) .NET
3 10 (6.29%) React
4 9 (5.66%) RESTful
5 8 (5.03%) Kafka
5 8 (5.03%) Web Services
6 5 (3.14%) Django
6 5 (3.14%) SOAP
6 5 (3.14%) Twisted
6 5 (3.14%) WebSockets
7 4 (2.52%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.89%) CSS
8 3 (1.89%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.89%) HTML
8 3 (1.89%) JSON
8 3 (1.89%) Middleware
8 3 (1.89%) Spring
8 3 (1.89%) XML
8 3 (1.89%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.18%) Mobile App
2 11 (6.92%) Algorithms
2 11 (6.92%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.14%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.14%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.52%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (2.52%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.89%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.89%) Life Science
6 3 (1.89%) LIMS
6 3 (1.89%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.26%) IoT
7 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.43%) Linux
2 2 (1.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (69.81%) Agile
2 51 (32.08%) Scrum
3 46 (28.93%) Roadmaps
4 38 (23.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (22.64%) CI/CD
5 36 (22.64%) DevOps
5 36 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (18.24%) Analytics
7 28 (17.61%) Test Automation
8 25 (15.72%) Product Roadmap
9 22 (13.84%) User Research
10 21 (13.21%) Decision-Making
10 21 (13.21%) User Stories
11 20 (12.58%) Product Backlog
11 20 (12.58%) Software Engineering
11 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (12.58%) Strategic Thinking
12 19 (11.95%) Mentoring
12 19 (11.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.84%) Python
2 17 (10.69%) C#
3 12 (7.55%) TypeScript
4 11 (6.92%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.03%) C++
5 8 (5.03%) Java
5 8 (5.03%) SQL
6 4 (2.52%) Rust
7 3 (1.89%) Go
7 3 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.63%) ABAP
8 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.63%) Bash
8 1 (0.63%) SOQL
8 1 (0.63%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 33 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.13%) Degree
3 22 (13.84%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.77%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.89%) ICAEW
7 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.26%) CSQA
7 2 (1.26%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.26%) PMP
8 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.87%) QA
2 10 (6.29%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (5.03%) WCAG
5 3 (1.89%) NCSC
5 3 (1.89%) PMO
6 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (15.72%) Docker
2 5 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.03%) Terraform
3 7 (4.40%) Ansible
4 5 (3.14%) Grafana
4 5 (3.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (8.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.29%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.66%) Adobe
4 6 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.52%) Google
6 3 (1.89%) Black Duck
6 3 (1.89%) Coverity
6 3 (1.89%) LabVantage
6 3 (1.89%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.26%) Infor
7 2 (1.26%) SAP
8 1 (0.63%) Databricks
8 1 (0.63%) IBM
8 1 (0.63%) Informatica
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle
8 1 (0.63%) Splunk
8 1 (0.63%) Workday