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 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 140 140
Rank change year-on-year -35 0 -69
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 104 189 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.21% 1.68% 2.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.32% 5.10% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 58 116 116
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,653 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% +1.09% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £75,250 £74,000
90th Percentile £89,175 £95,000 £81,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +0.72% +6.92%

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 3,135 3,708 2,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 36.37% 32.90% 33.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,749 1,616 1,818
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £31,895
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.17% -4.00% -0.79%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -39 35 £55,500 -14.62% 137
Hampshire +25 32 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Berkshire -16 21 £65,000 +6.12% 105
West Sussex +6 11 £70,000 -6.67% 2
Kent +32 10 £37,500 -55.88% 2
Buckinghamshire -1 10 £47,500 -30.66% 18
Middlesex - 8 £37,500 -
Surrey -11 6 £42,500 -34.62% 7
Oxfordshire +14 4 £60,000 -14.29% 14
East Sussex +6 4 £50,000 -
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 (6.73%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (38.46%) Azure
2 23 (22.12%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (14.42%) AWS
4 7 (6.73%) GCP
5 6 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (5.77%) GitHub
5 6 (5.77%) Serverless
6 5 (4.81%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (3.85%) SaaS
8 3 (2.88%) Collibra
8 3 (2.88%) Google Ads
8 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.96%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) DNS
2 2 (1.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.77%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.77%) SAP BW
3 4 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.85%) MySQL
4 3 (2.88%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.88%) Metadata
4 3 (2.88%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.92%) Power BI
5 2 (1.92%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.96%) Redis
6 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (10.58%) JIRA
2 7 (6.73%) Git
2 7 (6.73%) Selenium
3 6 (5.77%) Robot Framework
4 5 (4.81%) Snyk
5 4 (3.85%) git-flow
5 4 (3.85%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.88%) ERwin
6 3 (2.88%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.96%) Appium
8 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.96%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.96%) JUnit
8 1 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.96%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.96%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.96%) TestNG
8 1 (0.96%) TestRail
8 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (49.04%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (14.42%) Marketing
4 13 (12.50%) Finance
5 8 (7.69%) Retail
6 6 (5.77%) Law
7 5 (4.81%) Legal
8 3 (2.88%) Advertising
8 3 (2.88%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.88%) Military
8 3 (2.88%) Publishing
9 2 (1.92%) Games
9 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.96%) Banking
10 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Local Government
10 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (21.15%) Product Owner
2 19 (18.27%) Developer
2 19 (18.27%) Lead
3 17 (16.35%) Senior
4 14 (13.46%) Analyst
5 12 (11.54%) Software Developer
6 10 (9.62%) Test Analyst
7 6 (5.77%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.81%) Product Manager
8 5 (4.81%) Programme Manager
8 5 (4.81%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.85%) Tester
10 3 (2.88%) Data Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Data Model Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Engineering Manager
10 3 (2.88%) SAP Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Security Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.62%) .NET
2 7 (6.73%) React
3 6 (5.77%) Kafka
4 5 (4.81%) CSS
5 4 (3.85%) ADO
5 4 (3.85%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.85%) HTML
5 4 (3.85%) Material-UI
5 4 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.92%) JSON
6 2 (1.92%) Node.js
6 2 (1.92%) Playwright
6 2 (1.92%) REST
7 1 (0.96%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.96%) OAuth
7 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.96%) OpenID
7 1 (0.96%) SAML
7 1 (0.96%) SOAP
7 1 (0.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.92%) Sports Betting
4 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.96%) Clustering
4 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.96%) FMCG
4 1 (0.96%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (0.96%) IoT
4 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.96%) NHS
4 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.96%) SCADA
4 1 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.42%) Windows
2 6 (5.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (87.50%) Agile
2 46 (44.23%) Scrum
3 39 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 38 (36.54%) DevOps
5 35 (33.65%) User Stories
6 30 (28.85%) CI/CD
7 28 (26.92%) Mentoring
8 26 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
9 25 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
11 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (20.19%) Decision-Making
13 19 (18.27%) Backlog Refinement
14 17 (16.35%) Analytics
15 16 (15.38%) Sprint Retrospective
16 14 (13.46%) Computer Science
16 14 (13.46%) Kanban
16 14 (13.46%) Requirements Gathering
16 14 (13.46%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (21.15%) SQL
2 8 (7.69%) C#
3 7 (6.73%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.88%) Java
6 2 (1.92%) Python
7 1 (0.96%) Bash
7 1 (0.96%) Korn
7 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (20.19%) Degree
2 14 (13.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (13.46%) ISTQB
2 14 (13.46%) Master's Degree
3 13 (12.50%) ISEB
4 10 (9.62%) Security Cleared
5 8 (7.69%) PMI Certification
5 8 (7.69%) PMP
6 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.88%) SAP Certification
9 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.96%) CISSP
10 1 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.23%) QA
2 10 (9.62%) Software Quality Assurance
3 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.96%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (4.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.73%) Terraform
2 5 (4.81%) Ansible
2 5 (4.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.96%) Grafana
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.96%) Nessus
3 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.65%) Google
3 6 (5.77%) SAP
4 5 (4.81%) Black Duck
4 5 (4.81%) Coverity
5 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.92%) Databricks
7 1 (0.96%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.96%) VMware