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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 131 155
Rank change year-on-year -24 +24 -80
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 130 142 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.11% 1.86% 1.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.92% 5.62% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 73 89 142
10th Percentile £50,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,000 £89,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £70,500 £70,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year +0.71% +8.53% -4.44%

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 3,318 2,527 4,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.38% 33.18% 33.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 1,161 3,030
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,750 £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 £64,750
90th Percentile £77,900 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -15 57 £55,000 -21.43% 42
Buckinghamshire +14 31 £52,500 -20.45% 10
Berkshire -17 21 £63,000 +0.40% 28
Hampshire +8 20 £90,000 +57.89% 18
Kent +2 15 £75,000 - 12
East Sussex +2 13 £80,000 +60.00% 6
West Sussex -1 13 £65,000 -13.33% 9
Surrey -31 8 £70,000 +7.69% 12
Oxfordshire -9 5 £87,500 +25.00% 8
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 (5.38%) CMS
2 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.77%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.77%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.77%) SAP IS-U
1 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.69%) Azure
2 25 (19.23%) AWS
3 12 (9.23%) GCP
4 11 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (5.38%) SaaS
6 6 (4.62%) Figma
6 6 (4.62%) GitHub
7 5 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (3.85%) Serverless
8 4 (3.08%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.31%) Benchling
9 3 (2.31%) Collibra
9 3 (2.31%) Miro
9 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.38%) DNS
2 4 (3.08%) MQTT
3 3 (2.31%) Broadband
4 2 (1.54%) GSM
4 2 (1.54%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (5.38%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.62%) SAP BW
4 5 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.85%) MySQL
5 3 (2.31%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.31%) Metadata
5 3 (2.31%) Power BI
5 3 (2.31%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.77%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (11.54%) Git
2 13 (10.00%) Selenium
3 10 (7.69%) Robot Framework
4 8 (6.15%) Snyk
5 7 (5.38%) GitLab
5 7 (5.38%) JIRA
6 5 (3.85%) Axure RP
6 5 (3.85%) Balsamiq
6 5 (3.85%) git-flow
7 4 (3.08%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.31%) Appium
8 3 (2.31%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.31%) ERwin
8 3 (2.31%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (2.31%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.54%) JMeter
9 2 (1.54%) JUnit
9 2 (1.54%) Postman
9 2 (1.54%) TestRail
General
1 58 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.46%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (24.62%) Finance
4 13 (10.00%) Law
5 11 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.69%) Legal
6 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.62%) Marketing
8 4 (3.08%) Publishing
9 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.31%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.31%) Retail
10 2 (1.54%) Advertising
10 2 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.54%) Automotive
10 2 (1.54%) Electronics
10 2 (1.54%) Games
10 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.77%) Billing
11 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (18.46%) Senior
2 22 (16.92%) Product Owner
3 19 (14.62%) Product Manager
4 17 (13.08%) Designer
5 14 (10.77%) Lead
6 13 (10.00%) Product Designer
6 13 (10.00%) Senior Designer
6 13 (10.00%) Senior Product Designer
7 10 (7.69%) Analyst
8 7 (5.38%) Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Business Analyst
9 6 (4.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.85%) Head of Technology
10 5 (3.85%) Legal Analyst
11 4 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.08%) Senior Manager
11 4 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) .NET
2 9 (6.92%) Kafka
3 7 (5.38%) CSS
3 7 (5.38%) React
4 6 (4.62%) HTML
5 5 (3.85%) AWS CDK
5 5 (3.85%) Material-UI
5 5 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.08%) Playwright
6 4 (3.08%) REST
7 2 (1.54%) ADO
7 2 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.54%) RESTful
7 2 (1.54%) SOAP
7 2 (1.54%) Web Services
8 1 (0.77%) Jest
8 1 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.77%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.77%) Vue
8 1 (0.77%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 9 (6.92%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.15%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.31%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (2.31%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (2.31%) Life Science
5 3 (2.31%) LIMS
5 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.54%) IoT
6 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.77%) CMDB
7 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.77%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.77%) Social Media
7 1 (0.77%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.15%) Linux
2 7 (5.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (73.08%) Agile
2 52 (40.00%) Scrum
3 48 (36.92%) Roadmaps
4 35 (26.92%) Analytics
5 31 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (20.77%) CI/CD
8 22 (16.92%) Product Roadmap
9 21 (16.15%) DevOps
9 21 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (16.15%) Strategic Thinking
10 19 (14.62%) Mentoring
10 19 (14.62%) User Research
10 19 (14.62%) User Stories
11 18 (13.85%) Product Backlog
11 18 (13.85%) Test Automation
12 16 (12.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 15 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
13 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (11.54%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.69%) TypeScript
2 8 (6.15%) SQL
3 7 (5.38%) Python
4 6 (4.62%) C#
5 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.08%) Java
6 4 (3.08%) Rust
7 2 (1.54%) Bash
8 1 (0.77%) ABAP
8 1 (0.77%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.77%) SOQL
8 1 (0.77%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.46%) Degree
3 13 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 13 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.62%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.08%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.08%) PMP
7 3 (2.31%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.31%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.85%) QA
2 10 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.85%) WCAG
5 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.31%) NCSC
5 3 (2.31%) PMO
6 1 (0.77%) GRC
6 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (6.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (10.77%) Terraform
2 12 (9.23%) Ansible
3 7 (5.38%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.62%) Grafana
4 6 (4.62%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.54%) Nessus
6 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (6.92%) Salesforce
2 8 (6.15%) Black Duck
2 8 (6.15%) Coverity
2 8 (6.15%) SAP
3 6 (4.62%) Adobe
3 6 (4.62%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.08%) Google
5 3 (2.31%) LabVantage
6 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle
7 1 (0.77%) Splunk
7 1 (0.77%) Workday