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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 160 151
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 -19
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 206 131 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.09% 1.46% 1.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.20% 3.62% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 144 67 116
10th Percentile £47,500 £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 £77,500 £71,250 £82,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 4,905 3,621 4,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.99% 40.27% 32.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,370 1,788 1,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,250 £40,000
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 £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.76%

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 8 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 8 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 +37 85 £62,500 +4.17% 124
Surrey +14 47 £70,000 +64.71% 15
Hampshire -44 46 £62,500 -3.85% 39
Buckinghamshire +30 41 £60,000 +26.32% 27
Oxfordshire -8 26 £62,500 +4.17% 31
Berkshire +2 18 £70,000 +7.69% 68
Kent -20 13 £55,000 +46.67% 11
West Sussex -32 11 £75,000 -6.25% 28
Middlesex +6 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 8 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.46%) CMS
2 3 (1.46%) Confluence
2 3 (1.46%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.97%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Trello
3 1 (0.49%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.46%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.97%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.49%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.49%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.49%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 77 (37.38%) Azure
2 30 (14.56%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (12.62%) SaaS
4 22 (10.68%) AWS
5 17 (8.25%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.80%) GCP
6 14 (6.80%) GitHub
7 9 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (4.37%) Serverless
8 8 (3.88%) Figma
8 8 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.40%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (3.40%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.40%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (2.43%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.94%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.43%) MQTT
2 1 (0.49%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.25%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.77%) Metadata
3 14 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.83%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.85%) Power BI
6 9 (4.37%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.37%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.37%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (4.37%) Star Schema
7 5 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.94%) MySQL
9 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.97%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.49%) GIS
10 1 (0.49%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (23.79%) Git
2 15 (7.28%) JIRA
3 13 (6.31%) GitLab
4 12 (5.83%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (3.40%) Selenium
6 6 (2.91%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.91%) Eclipse
6 6 (2.91%) Eclipse RCP
7 4 (1.94%) Postman
8 3 (1.46%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.46%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.46%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.46%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.97%) MLflow
10 1 (0.49%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.49%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.49%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.49%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.49%) JMeter
10 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 54 (26.21%) Finance
3 40 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.65%) Aerospace
5 17 (8.25%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (6.31%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.34%) Italian Language
7 11 (5.34%) Japanese Language
7 11 (5.34%) Marketing
7 11 (5.34%) Retail
8 7 (3.40%) Law
8 7 (3.40%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.43%) Games
9 5 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.46%) Automotive
11 3 (1.46%) Legal
11 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 42 (20.39%) Senior
2 33 (16.02%) Product Owner
3 27 (13.11%) Developer
4 24 (11.65%) Architect
5 22 (10.68%) Software Engineer
6 21 (10.19%) Analyst
7 15 (7.28%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (6.80%) Business Analyst
8 14 (6.80%) Lead
9 10 (4.85%) Product Manager
10 9 (4.37%) .NET Developer
10 9 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.88%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.40%) Digital Product Manager
12 7 (3.40%) Digital Product Owner
12 7 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.40%) Integration Manager
12 7 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.42%) .NET
2 28 (13.59%) REST
3 16 (7.77%) SOAP
4 14 (6.80%) HTML
4 14 (6.80%) Terraform
5 12 (5.83%) CSS
6 11 (5.34%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.34%) RESTful
7 10 (4.85%) ASP.NET Core
7 10 (4.85%) Gherkin
7 10 (4.85%) React
8 9 (4.37%) Kafka
9 7 (3.40%) OAuth
9 7 (3.40%) Playwright
9 7 (3.40%) Web Services
10 6 (2.91%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.91%) JSON
11 5 (2.43%) Node.js
11 5 (2.43%) Swagger
11 5 (2.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.68%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (7.77%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (6.31%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.37%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.88%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.91%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.91%) Life Science
7 6 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.91%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.43%) IoT
8 5 (2.43%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.43%) Robotics
9 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.94%) PKI
9 4 (1.94%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.94%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.46%) CMDB
10 3 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.71%) Linux
2 9 (4.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (59.71%) Agile
2 67 (32.52%) CI/CD
3 66 (32.04%) Scrum
4 63 (30.58%) DevOps
5 49 (23.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (22.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 45 (21.84%) Software Engineering
8 40 (19.42%) Analytics
8 40 (19.42%) Decision-Making
8 40 (19.42%) Roadmaps
9 37 (17.96%) Computer Science
10 36 (17.48%) AI
11 34 (16.50%) Test Automation
12 31 (15.05%) User Experience
13 29 (14.08%) Clean Code
14 24 (11.65%) User Stories
14 24 (11.65%) UX Design
15 23 (11.17%) Microservices
15 23 (11.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 56 (27.18%) C#
2 31 (15.05%) JavaScript
3 30 (14.56%) Python
4 22 (10.68%) SQL
5 15 (7.28%) C++
5 15 (7.28%) Java
6 14 (6.80%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.40%) C
8 5 (2.43%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.43%) Rust
9 4 (1.94%) PHP
10 1 (0.49%) Bash
10 1 (0.49%) Ruby
10 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (28.16%) Degree
2 33 (16.02%) Security Cleared
3 30 (14.56%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.34%) CSPO
5 11 (5.34%) ICAEW
6 5 (2.43%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.97%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.97%) CISA
8 2 (0.97%) CISM
8 2 (0.97%) CISSP
8 2 (0.97%) CRISC
8 2 (0.97%) CSQA
8 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.97%) PhD
9 1 (0.49%) CIMA
9 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.08%) QA
2 18 (8.74%) GDPR
3 15 (7.28%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.34%) Accessibility
5 9 (4.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.37%) WCAG
6 3 (1.46%) GRC
6 3 (1.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (15.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.91%) Ansible
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) Podman
4 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.80%) Google
3 10 (4.85%) Informatica
3 10 (4.85%) SAP
4 9 (4.37%) Talend
5 8 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.91%) Adobe
7 3 (1.46%) Oracle
7 3 (1.46%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.97%) Databricks
8 2 (0.97%) Infor
8 2 (0.97%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.97%) Thales
9 1 (0.49%) Cisco
9 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.49%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) iManage
9 1 (0.49%) NVIDIA