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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 142 153
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -41
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 194 174 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.15% 2.00% 1.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.65% 4.66% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 132 62 142
10th Percentile £43,125 £33,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,063 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,903
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% -0.96%
75th Percentile £79,063 £71,875 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,725 £87,500 £87,350
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% 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 4,175 3,733 4,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.76% 42.85% 33.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,875 1,769 2,728
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,988 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,591 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -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 8 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 8 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 -10 77 £60,000 -6.98% 43
Buckinghamshire +24 43 £57,500 +6.98% 13
Hampshire -33 42 £62,500 -3.85% 10
Surrey -2 36 £63,857 -1.76% 18
Oxfordshire -1 20 £62,500 +4.17% 8
Kent -12 20 £55,000 +46.67% 11
Berkshire -42 14 £75,000 +15.38% 22
West Sussex -23 11 £75,000 -11.76% 5
East Sussex -22 3 £80,000 +60.00% 3
Middlesex +33 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 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.58%) CMS
3 3 (1.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.55%) Confluence
3 3 (1.55%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.55%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (1.03%) SAP BPC
3 2 (1.03%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 73 (37.63%) Azure
2 37 (19.07%) AWS
3 24 (12.37%) GCP
4 21 (10.82%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.76%) GitHub
6 15 (7.73%) SaaS
7 10 (5.15%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (4.64%) Power Automate
8 9 (4.64%) Serverless
9 8 (4.12%) Figma
9 8 (4.12%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.61%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
14 2 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (1.03%) PaaS
14 2 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.12%) MQTT
2 5 (2.58%) Broadband
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.15%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.64%) Metadata
3 8 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.09%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.58%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.03%) MySQL
6 2 (1.03%) Power BI
6 2 (1.03%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.52%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.52%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (22.16%) Git
2 16 (8.25%) JIRA
3 14 (7.22%) GitLab
4 12 (6.19%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (4.12%) Selenium
6 6 (3.09%) Eclipse
6 6 (3.09%) Eclipse RCP
6 6 (3.09%) Postman
7 5 (2.58%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.58%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.58%) Zephyr
8 4 (2.06%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.55%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.55%) JUnit
9 3 (1.55%) Mockito
10 2 (1.03%) Appium
10 2 (1.03%) JMeter
10 2 (1.03%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (31.44%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.23%) Finance
3 32 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.25%) Aerospace
5 11 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (5.15%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.64%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.12%) Italian Language
8 8 (4.12%) Japanese Language
8 8 (4.12%) Marketing
9 7 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.61%) Retail
10 5 (2.58%) Games
10 5 (2.58%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Law
11 3 (1.55%) Social Science
12 2 (1.03%) Electronics
12 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (19.07%) Senior
2 28 (14.43%) Product Owner
3 25 (12.89%) Software Engineer
4 23 (11.86%) Analyst
5 22 (11.34%) Architect
6 20 (10.31%) Developer
7 18 (9.28%) Lead
8 13 (6.70%) Business Analyst
9 12 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.15%) Product Manager
11 8 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (4.12%) Senior Manager
12 7 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (3.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 6 (3.09%) Senior Business Analyst
14 5 (2.58%) .NET Developer
15 4 (2.06%) Lead Developer
15 4 (2.06%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.01%) REST
2 31 (15.98%) .NET
3 16 (8.25%) React
4 13 (6.70%) Kafka
4 13 (6.70%) RESTful
4 13 (6.70%) SOAP
5 11 (5.67%) Web Services
6 9 (4.64%) Gherkin
6 9 (4.64%) HTML
6 9 (4.64%) Playwright
7 8 (4.12%) ASP.NET
7 8 (4.12%) OAuth
8 7 (3.61%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (3.61%) CSS
8 7 (3.61%) JSON
9 6 (3.09%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.58%) Node.js
10 5 (2.58%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.58%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.76%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.70%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.15%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.64%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.61%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (3.09%) Life Science
8 6 (3.09%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (3.09%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.58%) IoT
9 5 (2.58%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.58%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.58%) Robotics
9 5 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.06%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.06%) Taxonomies
10 4 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (1.55%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.86%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (58.76%) Agile
2 63 (32.47%) Scrum
3 58 (29.90%) DevOps
4 57 (29.38%) CI/CD
5 45 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (22.68%) Test Automation
7 43 (22.16%) Software Engineering
8 36 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (17.53%) Roadmaps
10 32 (16.49%) AI
10 32 (16.49%) Decision-Making
11 28 (14.43%) User Experience
12 27 (13.92%) Computer Science
12 27 (13.92%) Microservices
13 26 (13.40%) User Stories
14 24 (12.37%) Mentoring
15 23 (11.86%) Containerisation
15 23 (11.86%) SDLC
16 22 (11.34%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.07%) C#
2 31 (15.98%) Python
3 28 (14.43%) JavaScript
4 20 (10.31%) TypeScript
5 19 (9.79%) Java
6 15 (7.73%) C++
7 14 (7.22%) SQL
8 8 (4.12%) Rust
9 7 (3.61%) C
10 6 (3.09%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.55%) Go
12 2 (1.03%) PHP
13 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.52%) Bash
13 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.52%) SOQL
13 1 (0.52%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 48 (24.74%) Degree
2 29 (14.95%) Security Cleared
3 26 (13.40%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (5.67%) ICAEW
6 7 (3.61%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.55%) CSPO
7 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.03%) CISA
8 2 (1.03%) CISM
8 2 (1.03%) CISSP
8 2 (1.03%) CRISC
8 2 (1.03%) CSQA
8 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (22.68%) QA
2 6 (3.09%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.58%) GDPR
3 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.58%) WCAG
4 3 (1.55%) GRC
4 3 (1.55%) SLA
5 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 42 (21.65%) Docker
2 5 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.03%) Firmware
4 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.76%) Terraform
3 9 (4.64%) Ansible
4 4 (2.06%) Grafana
4 4 (2.06%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.52%) Podman
5 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.15%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.64%) Google
3 9 (4.64%) SAP
4 8 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.06%) Adobe
6 3 (1.55%) Databricks
6 3 (1.55%) Infor
6 3 (1.55%) Oracle
6 3 (1.55%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.03%) Informatica
7 2 (1.03%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco
8 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) iManage
8 1 (0.52%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.52%) Splunk
8 1 (0.52%) Talend
8 1 (0.52%) Veracode