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 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 173 166
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 -33
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 211 128 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.11% 1.43% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.27% 3.57% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 146 68 117
10th Percentile £48,750 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,188 £70,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.11%

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 4,947 3,581 3,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.11% 40.07% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,373 1,807 1,782
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £41,228
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -2.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.08%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +28 87 £62,500 +4.17% 109
Surrey +8 46 £70,000 +64.71% 21
Hampshire -36 46 £62,500 -3.85% 43
Buckinghamshire +29 42 £60,000 +26.32% 19
Oxfordshire -20 24 £62,500 +4.17% 26
Berkshire +1 21 £67,500 +3.85% 66
Kent -14 15 £55,000 +46.67% 10
West Sussex -33 13 £75,000 -6.25% 26
Middlesex +10 3 - -
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 9 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.90%) Confluence
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.95%) CMS
4 2 (0.95%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.95%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Trello
3 1 (0.47%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (4.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.42%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.95%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.47%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 77 (36.49%) Azure
2 31 (14.69%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (13.74%) SaaS
4 25 (11.85%) AWS
5 19 (9.00%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.11%) GitHub
7 14 (6.64%) GCP
8 9 (4.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (4.27%) Figma
8 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (4.27%) Serverless
9 8 (3.79%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (3.79%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.79%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.37%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) MQTT
2 1 (0.47%) 4G
2 1 (0.47%) 5G
2 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.47%) HTTP
2 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.47%) UWB
2 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.06%) Metadata
1 17 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.69%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.21%) Power BI
5 10 (4.74%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.27%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.27%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (4.27%) Star Schema
7 5 (2.37%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.90%) MySQL
9 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.95%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.47%) GIS
10 1 (0.47%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (23.70%) Git
2 17 (8.06%) JIRA
3 15 (7.11%) GitLab
4 12 (5.69%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (3.32%) Selenium
6 6 (2.84%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.84%) Eclipse
6 6 (2.84%) Eclipse RCP
7 4 (1.90%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.90%) Postman
8 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.42%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.95%) MLflow
10 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.47%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.47%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.47%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 67 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 54 (25.59%) Finance
3 40 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.32%) Aerospace
5 17 (8.06%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (6.16%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.69%) Marketing
7 12 (5.69%) Retail
8 11 (5.21%) Italian Language
8 11 (5.21%) Japanese Language
9 8 (3.79%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.32%) Law
11 5 (2.37%) Games
11 5 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.42%) Aviation
13 3 (1.42%) Legal
13 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.42%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 43 (20.38%) Senior
2 34 (16.11%) Product Owner
3 27 (12.80%) Developer
4 23 (10.90%) Architect
5 22 (10.43%) Analyst
5 22 (10.43%) Software Engineer
6 15 (7.11%) Business Analyst
7 14 (6.64%) Lead
8 13 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.74%) Product Manager
10 9 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.79%) .NET Developer
11 8 (3.79%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.32%) Digital Product Owner
12 7 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.32%) Integration Manager
12 7 (3.32%) Senior Business Analyst
12 7 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.96%) .NET
2 28 (13.27%) REST
3 16 (7.58%) SOAP
4 14 (6.64%) HTML
4 14 (6.64%) Terraform
5 12 (5.69%) ASP.NET
5 12 (5.69%) CSS
5 12 (5.69%) React
6 11 (5.21%) ASP.NET Core
7 10 (4.74%) Gherkin
7 10 (4.74%) Kafka
7 10 (4.74%) RESTful
8 8 (3.79%) Playwright
9 7 (3.32%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.32%) OAuth
9 7 (3.32%) Web Services
10 6 (2.84%) Blazor
10 6 (2.84%) JSON
10 6 (2.84%) Vue
11 5 (2.37%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.90%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (8.06%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (6.16%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.79%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.84%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (2.84%) IoT
6 6 (2.84%) Life Science
6 6 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.84%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.37%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.37%) Robotics
8 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.90%) PKI
8 4 (1.90%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.42%) CMDB
9 3 (1.42%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.48%) Linux
2 9 (4.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (60.66%) Agile
2 68 (32.23%) CI/CD
2 68 (32.23%) Scrum
3 63 (29.86%) DevOps
4 51 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (22.27%) Software Engineering
6 47 (22.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (19.91%) Analytics
7 42 (19.91%) Decision-Making
8 41 (19.43%) Roadmaps
9 39 (18.48%) AI
10 38 (18.01%) Computer Science
11 35 (16.59%) Test Automation
12 34 (16.11%) User Experience
13 28 (13.27%) Clean Code
14 27 (12.80%) UX Design
15 26 (12.32%) User Stories
16 25 (11.85%) SDLC
16 25 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 57 (27.01%) C#
2 33 (15.64%) JavaScript
3 31 (14.69%) Python
4 22 (10.43%) SQL
5 16 (7.58%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.11%) C++
6 15 (7.11%) Java
7 7 (3.32%) C
8 6 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.37%) Rust
10 4 (1.90%) PHP
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
11 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (27.96%) Degree
2 36 (17.06%) Security Cleared
3 33 (15.64%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.21%) CSPO
7 10 (4.74%) ICAEW
8 5 (2.37%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.90%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.42%) CISSP
11 2 (0.95%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.95%) CISA
11 2 (0.95%) CISM
11 2 (0.95%) CRISC
11 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.95%) PhD
12 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.47%) CSQA
12 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.74%) QA
2 18 (8.53%) GDPR
3 15 (7.11%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.21%) Accessibility
5 9 (4.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.79%) WCAG
7 3 (1.42%) GRC
7 3 (1.42%) SLA
8 2 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.47%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (15.64%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (9.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.84%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) Podman
4 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.64%) Google
3 10 (4.74%) Informatica
3 10 (4.74%) SAP
4 9 (4.27%) Talend
5 8 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.37%) Adobe
7 3 (1.42%) Oracle
7 3 (1.42%) Thales
8 2 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.95%) Databricks
8 2 (0.95%) Infor
8 2 (0.95%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco
9 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.47%) IBM
9 1 (0.47%) Siemens
9 1 (0.47%) Splunk