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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 143 141
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -28
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 198 173 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.12% 1.91% 1.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.56% 4.61% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 139 67 140
10th Percentile £43,125 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £76,875 £69,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.85%

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 4,339 3,749 4,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.57% 41.38% 33.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,007 1,823 2,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,375 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £50,024
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -7.04% -11.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% -10.00%

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 30 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 30 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 +7 83 £62,500 +0.40% 44
Buckinghamshire +27 43 £55,000 +4.76% 13
Surrey +20 43 £70,000 +19.15% 14
Hampshire -46 42 £62,500 -3.85% 11
Oxfordshire -3 24 £62,500 +4.17% 5
Berkshire -33 16 £70,000 +7.69% 27
Kent -8 15 £55,000 +46.67% 4
West Sussex -22 11 £75,000 -6.25% 7
Middlesex +16 2 - -
East Sussex -21 1 £80,000 +60.00% 2
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 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.02%) CMS
3 3 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.52%) Confluence
3 3 (1.52%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.01%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.51%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (4.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.52%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (1.01%) SAP BPC
3 2 (1.01%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 76 (38.38%) Azure
2 32 (16.16%) AWS
3 27 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (10.10%) SaaS
5 19 (9.60%) GCP
6 16 (8.08%) GitHub
7 14 (7.07%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.55%) Figma
8 9 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (4.55%) Power Automate
8 9 (4.55%) Serverless
9 8 (4.04%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.54%) Anthropic Claude
10 7 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.52%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.53%) MQTT
2 3 (1.52%) Broadband
3 1 (0.51%) HTTP
3 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.57%) Metadata
1 13 (6.57%) MongoDB
2 11 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.03%) Power BI
7 5 (2.53%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (2.53%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.52%) MySQL
9 2 (1.01%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.51%) GIS
10 1 (0.51%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (23.23%) Git
2 16 (8.08%) JIRA
3 12 (6.06%) Visual Studio Code
4 10 (5.05%) GitLab
5 6 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.03%) Eclipse
5 6 (3.03%) Eclipse RCP
5 6 (3.03%) Selenium
6 5 (2.53%) Zephyr
7 4 (2.02%) Postman
8 3 (1.52%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.01%) JUnit
9 2 (1.01%) Mockito
10 1 (0.51%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.51%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.51%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 48 (24.24%) Finance
3 38 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.08%) Aerospace
4 16 (8.08%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.55%) Retail
7 8 (4.04%) Games
7 8 (4.04%) Italian Language
7 8 (4.04%) Japanese Language
7 8 (4.04%) Marketing
8 6 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.03%) Law
9 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.02%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.52%) Social Science
11 2 (1.01%) Electronics
11 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 39 (19.70%) Senior
2 30 (15.15%) Product Owner
3 25 (12.63%) Software Engineer
4 24 (12.12%) Developer
5 21 (10.61%) Architect
6 20 (10.10%) Analyst
7 17 (8.59%) Lead
8 13 (6.57%) Business Analyst
9 12 (6.06%) Product Manager
10 11 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 11 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (3.54%) .NET Developer
12 7 (3.54%) Digital Product Manager
12 7 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.54%) Senior Manager
12 7 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (3.03%) Senior Business Analyst
13 6 (3.03%) Senior Developer
14 5 (2.53%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.18%) .NET
2 34 (17.17%) REST
3 15 (7.58%) React
3 15 (7.58%) SOAP
4 14 (7.07%) Terraform
5 13 (6.57%) HTML
5 13 (6.57%) RESTful
6 11 (5.56%) CSS
6 11 (5.56%) Web Services
7 10 (5.05%) ASP.NET
7 10 (5.05%) Gherkin
7 10 (5.05%) Kafka
8 9 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.04%) OAuth
10 7 (3.54%) JSON
10 7 (3.54%) Playwright
11 6 (3.03%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.53%) Node.js
12 5 (2.53%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.08%) Enterprise Software
1 16 (8.08%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.57%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (5.05%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.54%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.54%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (3.03%) Life Science
7 6 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.53%) IoT
8 5 (2.53%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.53%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.53%) Robotics
8 5 (2.53%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.02%) Taxonomies
9 4 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.02%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.52%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.62%) Linux
2 5 (2.53%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (59.60%) Agile
2 65 (32.83%) DevOps
2 65 (32.83%) Scrum
3 61 (30.81%) CI/CD
4 49 (24.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 49 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (23.23%) Software Engineering
6 44 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 43 (21.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (19.19%) Decision-Making
9 35 (17.68%) Roadmaps
10 31 (15.66%) AI
10 31 (15.66%) User Experience
11 30 (15.15%) Computer Science
12 27 (13.64%) Analytics
13 24 (12.12%) Microservices
13 24 (12.12%) SDLC
14 23 (11.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (11.62%) User Stories
14 23 (11.62%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.24%) C#
2 34 (17.17%) JavaScript
3 31 (15.66%) Python
4 19 (9.60%) TypeScript
5 18 (9.09%) SQL
6 17 (8.59%) Java
7 15 (7.58%) C++
8 7 (3.54%) C
9 6 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.53%) Rust
11 3 (1.52%) Go
11 3 (1.52%) PHP
12 1 (0.51%) Bash
12 1 (0.51%) Ruby
12 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (25.25%) Degree
2 29 (14.65%) Security Cleared
3 26 (13.13%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.56%) ICAEW
6 10 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.54%) ISTQB
8 6 (3.03%) CSPO
9 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.01%) CISA
10 2 (1.01%) CISM
10 2 (1.01%) CISSP
10 2 (1.01%) CRISC
10 2 (1.01%) CSQA
11 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (20.71%) QA
2 12 (6.06%) GDPR
3 11 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 10 (5.05%) Data Quality
5 9 (4.55%) WCAG
6 8 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (2.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.52%) GRC
8 3 (1.52%) SLA
9 2 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (19.19%) Docker
2 4 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.01%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.03%) Ansible
3 4 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.51%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Podman
4 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.06%) Google
3 10 (5.05%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.55%) SAP
5 6 (3.03%) Informatica
6 5 (2.53%) Talend
7 4 (2.02%) Adobe
7 4 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.52%) Databricks
8 3 (1.52%) Infor
8 3 (1.52%) Oracle
8 3 (1.52%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.01%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.51%) Cisco
10 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.51%) IBM
10 1 (0.51%) iManage
10 1 (0.51%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.51%) Veracode