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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 120 154
Rank change year-on-year -20 +34 -74
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 171 180 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.19% 2.33% 1.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.08% 6.09% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 110 77 168
10th Percentile £48,500 £50,750 £42,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,500 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,250 £82,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -4.58%

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 3,365 2,956 5,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.41% 38.28% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,117 1,426 3,745
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +6.12% -13.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £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 15 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 15 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 -18 71 £55,000 -16.03% 37
Buckinghamshire +19 44 £53,750 -12.24% 12
Hampshire -22 32 £77,500 +19.23% 17
Surrey -21 19 £64,428 -7.96% 6
West Sussex -14 16 £65,000 -21.21% 4
Kent -17 16 £82,500 - 1
Berkshire -46 15 £70,000 +8.11% 23
East Sussex -11 14 £80,000 +60.00% 3
Oxfordshire -4 12 £58,750 -16.07% 6
Middlesex +42 1 - - 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 10 (5.85%) CMS
2 6 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.75%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.58%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.58%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (26.32%) Azure
2 29 (16.96%) AWS
3 14 (8.19%) GCP
4 13 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.26%) Figma
5 9 (5.26%) GitHub
6 6 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.92%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.92%) SaaS
8 4 (2.34%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.75%) Benchling
10 2 (1.17%) Miro
10 2 (1.17%) Serverless
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.58%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.51%) MQTT
2 5 (2.92%) Broadband
3 2 (1.17%) DNS
4 1 (0.58%) GSM
4 1 (0.58%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.51%) MongoDB
1 6 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.75%) Metadata
4 2 (1.17%) Power BI
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.58%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (0.58%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.58%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (15.20%) Git
2 10 (5.85%) GitLab
3 9 (5.26%) JIRA
3 9 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.51%) Selenium
5 4 (2.34%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.34%) Postman
5 4 (2.34%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.75%) Axure RP
6 3 (1.75%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.75%) JUnit
6 3 (1.75%) Mockito
6 3 (1.75%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.75%) Snyk
7 2 (1.17%) Appium
7 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.17%) JMeter
7 2 (1.17%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (33.92%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.56%) Finance
3 35 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.02%) Law
5 11 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.85%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.68%) Legal
8 5 (2.92%) Games
8 5 (2.92%) Marketing
8 5 (2.92%) Retail
9 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.75%) Electronics
10 3 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.17%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.17%) Automotive
11 2 (1.17%) Publishing
11 2 (1.17%) Social Science
12 1 (0.58%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 39 (22.81%) Senior
2 22 (12.87%) Product Owner
3 21 (12.28%) Product Manager
4 18 (10.53%) Lead
5 17 (9.94%) Analyst
5 17 (9.94%) Software Engineer
6 16 (9.36%) Designer
7 14 (8.19%) Architect
8 13 (7.60%) Product Designer
8 13 (7.60%) Senior Designer
8 13 (7.60%) Senior Product Designer
9 12 (7.02%) Business Analyst
10 11 (6.43%) Senior Manager
11 8 (4.68%) Developer
11 8 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 5 (2.92%) IT Manager
13 5 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.36%) REST
2 14 (8.19%) .NET
3 12 (7.02%) RESTful
4 10 (5.85%) Kafka
4 10 (5.85%) React
5 8 (4.68%) Web Services
6 6 (3.51%) Playwright
6 6 (3.51%) SOAP
7 5 (2.92%) Django
7 5 (2.92%) Gherkin
7 5 (2.92%) JSON
7 5 (2.92%) Twisted
7 5 (2.92%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.34%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.34%) Middleware
8 4 (2.34%) OAuth
8 4 (2.34%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.34%) XML
8 4 (2.34%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.60%) Mobile App
2 12 (7.02%) Algorithms
3 11 (6.43%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.92%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.92%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.34%) Video\Live Streaming
6 4 (2.34%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.75%) Biopharmaceutical
7 3 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.75%) Life Science
7 3 (1.75%) LIMS
7 3 (1.75%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.17%) NHS
8 2 (1.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (69.59%) Agile
2 60 (35.09%) Scrum
3 46 (26.90%) Roadmaps
4 40 (23.39%) CI/CD
5 39 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (22.81%) DevOps
6 38 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (18.13%) Test Automation
8 26 (15.20%) Software Engineering
9 25 (14.62%) Product Roadmap
10 24 (14.04%) Analytics
10 24 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (14.04%) User Stories
11 22 (12.87%) Mentoring
11 22 (12.87%) User Research
12 21 (12.28%) Decision-Making
12 21 (12.28%) Product Backlog
13 20 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 20 (11.70%) Strategic Thinking
13 20 (11.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (13.45%) Python
2 21 (12.28%) C#
3 15 (8.77%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.60%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.02%) Java
6 10 (5.85%) SQL
7 8 (4.68%) C++
8 6 (3.51%) Rust
9 3 (1.75%) Go
9 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.17%) C
11 1 (0.58%) ABAP
11 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.58%) SOQL
11 1 (0.58%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 39 (22.81%) Degree
2 32 (18.71%) Security Cleared
3 21 (12.28%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.68%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.68%) ICAEW
5 7 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.51%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.17%) CISA
7 2 (1.17%) CISM
7 2 (1.17%) CISSP
7 2 (1.17%) CRISC
7 2 (1.17%) CSQA
7 2 (1.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (19.30%) QA
2 9 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.09%) WCAG
4 3 (1.75%) NCSC
4 3 (1.75%) PMO
5 2 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.17%) GRC
5 2 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (15.79%) Docker
2 5 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (8.19%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.26%) Ansible
2 9 (5.26%) Terraform
3 4 (2.34%) Grafana
3 4 (2.34%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.58%) Podman
4 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.43%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.09%) Adobe
3 7 (4.09%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.75%) Black Duck
4 3 (1.75%) Coverity
4 3 (1.75%) LabVantage
4 3 (1.75%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.17%) Infor
5 2 (1.17%) OneTrust
5 2 (1.17%) Oracle
5 2 (1.17%) SAP
6 1 (0.58%) Databricks
6 1 (0.58%) Google
6 1 (0.58%) IBM
6 1 (0.58%) Informatica
6 1 (0.58%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.58%) Splunk
6 1 (0.58%) Workday