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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 146 142
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 -71
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 93 187 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.01% 1.66% 1.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.70% 5.08% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 51 115 113
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £61,305 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +2.18% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,750 £95,750 £82,100
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 3,448 3,680 2,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 37.40% 32.75% 33.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,762 1,610 1,799
10th Percentile £26,888 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £40,160
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £78,725 £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 13 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 13 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 -35 34 £55,000 -15.38% 28
Hampshire +23 22 £91,000 +65.45% 7
Berkshire -26 18 £56,000 -8.57% 6
Buckinghamshire -6 12 £50,000 -27.01% 13
West Sussex +7 11 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Kent +14 10 £37,500 -55.88% 2
Middlesex - 7 £37,500 - 1
Surrey -23 6 £42,500 -34.62% 6
Oxfordshire +9 4 £60,000 -14.29% 9
East Sussex +5 4 £50,000 - 1
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 6 (6.45%) Confluence
2 2 (2.15%) CMS
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (45.16%) Azure
2 24 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (16.13%) AWS
4 8 (8.60%) GCP
5 7 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (7.53%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (7.53%) GitHub
5 7 (7.53%) Serverless
6 6 (6.45%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.45%) SaaS
7 5 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (4.30%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.23%) Collibra
9 3 (3.23%) Google Ads
10 2 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.15%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) DNS
2 1 (1.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (7.53%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.45%) SAP BW
4 5 (5.38%) DynamoDB
4 5 (5.38%) MySQL
5 3 (3.23%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.23%) Metadata
5 3 (3.23%) Power BI
5 3 (3.23%) SAP HANA
6 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.08%) Redis
7 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.90%) JIRA
2 8 (8.60%) Selenium
3 7 (7.53%) Git
3 7 (7.53%) Robot Framework
4 5 (5.38%) git-flow
4 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.38%) Snyk
5 3 (3.23%) ERwin
5 3 (3.23%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (2.15%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.15%) GitLab
6 2 (2.15%) TestRail
7 1 (1.08%) Appium
7 1 (1.08%) Axure RP
7 1 (1.08%) Balsamiq
7 1 (1.08%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.08%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (1.08%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.08%) TestNG
7 1 (1.08%) WebDriver
General
1 52 (55.91%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (16.13%) Marketing
4 14 (15.05%) Finance
5 8 (8.60%) Retail
6 7 (7.53%) Law
7 5 (5.38%) Legal
8 3 (3.23%) Advertising
8 3 (3.23%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.23%) Military
8 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.23%) Publishing
9 2 (2.15%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.08%) Banking
10 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.08%) Games
10 1 (1.08%) Local Government
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (23.66%) Product Owner
2 19 (20.43%) Lead
3 18 (19.35%) Senior
4 14 (15.05%) Analyst
5 10 (10.75%) Test Analyst
6 8 (8.60%) Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Product Manager
9 5 (5.38%) Programme Manager
9 5 (5.38%) Tester
10 4 (4.30%) Delivery Manager
11 3 (3.23%) Data Manager
11 3 (3.23%) Data Model Manager
11 3 (3.23%) SAP Data Manager
11 3 (3.23%) SAP Manager
11 3 (3.23%) Security Manager
11 3 (3.23%) Senior Tester
11 3 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.83%) .NET
2 8 (8.60%) React
3 6 (6.45%) CSS
3 6 (6.45%) Kafka
4 5 (5.38%) AWS CDK
4 5 (5.38%) HTML
4 5 (5.38%) Material-UI
4 5 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (4.30%) ADO
6 2 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.15%) JSON
6 2 (2.15%) Node.js
6 2 (2.15%) Playwright
6 2 (2.15%) REST
7 1 (1.08%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.08%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.08%) Jest
7 1 (1.08%) Next.js
7 1 (1.08%) OAuth
7 1 (1.08%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) Cloud Native
1 8 (8.60%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.15%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.08%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.08%) IoT
4 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.08%) NHS
4 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.13%) Windows
2 6 (6.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (86.02%) Agile
2 44 (47.31%) Scrum
3 39 (41.94%) DevOps
4 36 (38.71%) Roadmaps
5 31 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 28 (30.11%) Mentoring
7 25 (26.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (23.66%) User Stories
10 21 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (21.51%) Decision-Making
12 19 (20.43%) Analytics
12 19 (20.43%) Backlog Refinement
13 15 (16.13%) Software Testing
14 13 (13.98%) Acceptance Criteria
14 13 (13.98%) Computer Science
14 13 (13.98%) Data Modelling
14 13 (13.98%) Kanban
14 13 (13.98%) Requirements Gathering
14 13 (13.98%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.66%) SQL
2 9 (9.68%) C#
3 8 (8.60%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.23%) Java
5 3 (3.23%) Python
6 2 (2.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.08%) Korn
7 1 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) Degree
2 15 (16.13%) ISTQB
3 14 (15.05%) Master's Degree
4 13 (13.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (13.98%) ISEB
5 11 (11.83%) Security Cleared
6 8 (8.60%) PMI Certification
6 8 (8.60%) PMP
7 7 (7.53%) DV Cleared
8 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
9 3 (3.23%) SAP Certification
10 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (22.58%) QA
2 10 (10.75%) Software Quality Assurance
3 4 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.30%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.23%) GDPR
5 1 (1.08%) GRC
5 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.60%) Terraform
2 6 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.38%) Ansible
4 2 (2.15%) Grafana
4 2 (2.15%) Nessus
4 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.75%) Google
3 6 (6.45%) SAP
4 5 (5.38%) Black Duck
4 5 (5.38%) Coverity
5 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.15%) Databricks
7 1 (1.08%) Adobe
7 1 (1.08%) OneLogin