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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 137 138
Rank change year-on-year -40 +1 -73
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 99 181 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.95% 1.95% 1.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.11% 5.53% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 57 114 102
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,571
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,250 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +1.98% +5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,250 £95,000 £81,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 3,181 3,272 2,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.67% 35.24% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,615 1,423 1,692
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,509 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +2.74% -0.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -31 42 £52,500 -25.00% 25
Buckinghamshire +6 20 £52,500 -21.64% 9
Hampshire +34 19 £91,000 +65.45% 9
Berkshire -18 19 £56,000 -10.40% 8
Kent - 13 £37,500 - 8
West Sussex +12 12 £65,000 -13.33% 12
East Sussex +8 6 £80,000 +60.00% 1
Middlesex +3 4 £37,500 -
Surrey -35 4 £42,500 -34.62% 5
Oxfordshire -3 3 £85,000 +21.43% 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 5 (5.05%) CMS
2 2 (2.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.05%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.36%) Azure
2 19 (19.19%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (16.16%) AWS
4 7 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (7.07%) GitHub
5 6 (6.06%) GCP
5 6 (6.06%) SaaS
6 5 (5.05%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.05%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.05%) Figma
6 5 (5.05%) Serverless
7 4 (4.04%) Google Analytics
8 3 (3.03%) Collibra
8 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.03%) Google Ads
8 3 (3.03%) Miro
8 3 (3.03%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.07%) DNS
2 2 (2.02%) GSM
2 2 (2.02%) LTE
3 1 (1.01%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (6.06%) SAP BW
3 5 (5.05%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.05%) MySQL
3 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.03%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.03%) Metadata
4 3 (3.03%) Power BI
4 3 (3.03%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (11.11%) Selenium
2 10 (10.10%) Git
2 10 (10.10%) Robot Framework
3 8 (8.08%) Snyk
4 7 (7.07%) JIRA
5 5 (5.05%) Axure RP
5 5 (5.05%) Balsamiq
5 5 (5.05%) git-flow
6 3 (3.03%) ERwin
6 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.03%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.02%) GitLab
7 2 (2.02%) TestRail
8 1 (1.01%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.01%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (1.01%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.01%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.01%) TestNG
8 1 (1.01%) WebDriver
General
1 54 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 32 (32.32%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (23.23%) Finance
4 14 (14.14%) Law
5 11 (11.11%) Marketing
6 9 (9.09%) Legal
7 8 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
9 5 (5.05%) Retail
10 3 (3.03%) Advertising
10 3 (3.03%) General Ledger
10 3 (3.03%) Publishing
11 2 (2.02%) Aerospace
11 2 (2.02%) Automotive
11 2 (2.02%) Electronics
12 1 (1.01%) Banking
12 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.01%) Games
12 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (25.25%) Product Owner
2 17 (17.17%) Lead
3 14 (14.14%) Analyst
4 13 (13.13%) Product Manager
5 10 (10.10%) Senior
6 7 (7.07%) Test Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) Developer
7 6 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.05%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Designer
9 4 (4.04%) Head of Technology
10 3 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 3 (3.03%) Data Manager
10 3 (3.03%) Data Model Manager
10 3 (3.03%) SAP Data Manager
10 3 (3.03%) SAP Manager
10 3 (3.03%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) .NET
2 7 (7.07%) CSS
3 6 (6.06%) HTML
3 6 (6.06%) React
4 5 (5.05%) AWS CDK
4 5 (5.05%) Kafka
4 5 (5.05%) Material-UI
4 5 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (3.03%) ADO
6 2 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.02%) Playwright
7 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.01%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.01%) Jest
7 1 (1.01%) OAuth
7 1 (1.01%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.01%) OpenID
7 1 (1.01%) REST
7 1 (1.01%) RESTful
7 1 (1.01%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Cloud Native
1 8 (8.08%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.02%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (2.02%) IoT
3 2 (2.02%) Life Science
3 2 (2.02%) LIMS
3 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.02%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.14%) Windows
2 7 (7.07%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (77.78%) Agile
2 46 (46.46%) Scrum
3 43 (43.43%) Roadmaps
4 29 (29.29%) DevOps
5 28 (28.28%) CI/CD
6 27 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (23.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (22.22%) Analytics
8 22 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (20.20%) Mentoring
10 18 (18.18%) User Stories
11 15 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (15.15%) Test Automation
12 14 (14.14%) Backlog Refinement
12 14 (14.14%) Decision-Making
12 14 (14.14%) Sprint Planning
12 14 (14.14%) User Experience
13 13 (13.13%) Product Management
13 13 (13.13%) Product Roadmap
13 13 (13.13%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.16%) SQL
2 8 (8.08%) C#
3 7 (7.07%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.02%) Bash
5 2 (2.02%) Python
6 1 (1.01%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.19%) Degree
3 11 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 11 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 9 (9.09%) ISTQB
5 8 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (7.07%) ISEB
6 7 (7.07%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.03%) PMI Certification
7 3 (3.03%) PMP
7 3 (3.03%) SAP Certification
8 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.18%) QA
2 9 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 7 (7.07%) Software Quality Assurance
4 5 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.05%) WCAG
5 3 (3.03%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.02%) NCSC
6 2 (2.02%) PMO
7 1 (1.01%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (2.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.10%) Terraform
2 8 (8.08%) Ansible
3 2 (2.02%) Grafana
3 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.02%) Nessus
3 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.08%) Black Duck
2 8 (8.08%) Coverity
3 7 (7.07%) Google
4 6 (6.06%) SAP
5 5 (5.05%) Adobe
6 2 (2.02%) Databricks
6 2 (2.02%) LabVantage
6 2 (2.02%) Salesforce