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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 140 145
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -35
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 189 179 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.10% 2.03% 1.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.48% 4.80% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 131 66 145
10th Percentile £43,125 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,900
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,154 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.24% +0.24% -

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 4,215 3,732 4,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.64% 42.27% 33.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,918 1,765 2,712
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,352 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,988 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% -11.54%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

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 August 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 August 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 -4 77 £60,000 -3.61% 66
Buckinghamshire +22 42 £56,250 +7.14% 15
Hampshire -35 41 £62,500 -3.85% 10
Surrey +4 36 £65,678 +11.79% 25
Oxfordshire -9 21 £62,500 +4.17% 18
Kent -15 18 £55,000 +46.67% 5
Berkshire -35 14 £75,000 +15.38% 34
West Sussex -26 10 £75,000 -9.09% 8
East Sussex -25 3 £80,000 +60.00% 5
Middlesex +27 2 - - 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 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.12%) CMS
3 3 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.59%) Confluence
3 3 (1.59%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.53%) UserZoom
2 1 (0.53%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.59%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (1.06%) SAP BPC
3 2 (1.06%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 74 (39.15%) Azure
2 36 (19.05%) AWS
3 23 (12.17%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (12.17%) GCP
4 17 (8.99%) GitHub
5 15 (7.94%) SaaS
6 11 (5.82%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.76%) Figma
7 9 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.76%) Power Automate
7 9 (4.76%) Serverless
8 8 (4.23%) PowerApps
9 7 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.70%) MQTT
2 4 (2.12%) Broadband
3 1 (0.53%) HTTP
3 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.82%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.29%) Metadata
3 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.65%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.59%) Power BI
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.06%) MySQL
7 2 (1.06%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.06%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.53%) GIS
8 1 (0.53%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.53%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (23.28%) Git
2 16 (8.47%) JIRA
3 12 (6.35%) GitLab
3 12 (6.35%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (3.70%) Selenium
5 6 (3.17%) Eclipse
5 6 (3.17%) Eclipse RCP
6 5 (2.65%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.65%) Postman
6 5 (2.65%) Zephyr
7 4 (2.12%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.59%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.59%) JUnit
8 3 (1.59%) Mockito
9 1 (0.53%) Appium
9 1 (0.53%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.53%) JetBrains Rider
9 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.81%) Finance
3 33 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.47%) Aerospace
5 12 (6.35%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (5.82%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.23%) Italian Language
8 8 (4.23%) Japanese Language
9 7 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.70%) Marketing
9 7 (3.70%) Retail
10 5 (2.65%) Law
11 4 (2.12%) Games
11 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.59%) Social Science
13 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.06%) Electronics
13 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (17.99%) Senior
2 29 (15.34%) Product Owner
3 25 (13.23%) Software Engineer
4 21 (11.11%) Analyst
4 21 (11.11%) Architect
4 21 (11.11%) Developer
5 18 (9.52%) Lead
6 13 (6.88%) Business Analyst
7 11 (5.82%) Product Manager
7 11 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (3.70%) Senior Manager
9 7 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (3.17%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 6 (3.17%) Senior Business Analyst
11 5 (2.65%) Digital Product Manager
12 4 (2.12%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.46%) REST
2 31 (16.40%) .NET
3 16 (8.47%) React
4 13 (6.88%) RESTful
4 13 (6.88%) SOAP
5 12 (6.35%) Kafka
5 12 (6.35%) Web Services
6 11 (5.82%) HTML
7 9 (4.76%) ASP.NET
7 9 (4.76%) CSS
7 9 (4.76%) Gherkin
8 8 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (4.23%) OAuth
8 8 (4.23%) Playwright
9 7 (3.70%) JSON
10 6 (3.17%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.65%) JWT
11 5 (2.65%) NestJS
11 5 (2.65%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.99%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.88%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.88%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (3.17%) Life Science
6 6 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.65%) IoT
7 5 (2.65%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.65%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.65%) Robotics
7 5 (2.65%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.12%) Taxonomies
8 4 (2.12%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.59%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.17%) Linux
2 2 (1.06%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (58.20%) Agile
2 61 (32.28%) Scrum
3 59 (31.22%) DevOps
4 57 (30.16%) CI/CD
5 44 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (22.75%) Software Engineering
6 43 (22.75%) Test Automation
7 37 (19.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (17.99%) Roadmaps
9 33 (17.46%) Decision-Making
10 31 (16.40%) AI
11 30 (15.87%) User Experience
12 27 (14.29%) Computer Science
13 26 (13.76%) Microservices
14 25 (13.23%) User Stories
15 23 (12.17%) Mentoring
15 23 (12.17%) SDLC
15 23 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 22 (11.64%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.63%) C#
2 31 (16.40%) Python
3 30 (15.87%) JavaScript
4 19 (10.05%) TypeScript
5 18 (9.52%) Java
6 15 (7.94%) C++
6 15 (7.94%) SQL
7 7 (3.70%) C
7 7 (3.70%) Rust
8 6 (3.17%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.59%) Go
10 2 (1.06%) PHP
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (24.87%) Degree
2 30 (15.87%) Security Cleared
3 27 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.82%) ICAEW
6 10 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.70%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.12%) CSPO
9 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.06%) CISA
10 2 (1.06%) CISM
10 2 (1.06%) CISSP
10 2 (1.06%) CRISC
10 2 (1.06%) CSQA
11 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (22.22%) QA
2 8 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.70%) GDPR
3 7 (3.70%) WCAG
4 6 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.59%) GRC
5 3 (1.59%) SLA
6 2 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 41 (21.69%) Docker
2 5 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.06%) Firmware
4 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (13.23%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.47%) Terraform
3 8 (4.23%) Ansible
4 4 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.59%) Grafana
5 3 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.53%) Podman
6 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.82%) Google
3 10 (5.29%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.76%) SAP
5 6 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.65%) Adobe
7 3 (1.59%) Databricks
7 3 (1.59%) Infor
7 3 (1.59%) Informatica
7 3 (1.59%) Oracle
7 3 (1.59%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.06%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.06%) Talend
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco
9 1 (0.53%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) iManage
9 1 (0.53%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.53%) Veracode