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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 134 162
Rank change year-on-year -4 +28 -68
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 177 175 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.19% 2.22% 1.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.00% 5.22% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 118 68 168
10th Percentile £43,125 £47,313 £40,613
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,563 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.56% +2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,688 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £85,300
England median annual salary £67,921 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.97% +12.00% -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 3,537 3,354 6,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.84% 42.62% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 1,556 3,922
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £64,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -5 79 £60,000 -7.69% 29
Buckinghamshire +29 46 £52,500 -25.00% 15
Hampshire -31 35 £71,250 +9.62% 15
Surrey -15 22 £63,857 -8.78% 9
Berkshire -34 17 £70,000 +7.69% 11
Oxfordshire -2 16 £62,500 -4.58% 5
West Sussex -22 15 £71,000 -16.47% 6
Kent -18 13 £67,500 - 3
East Sussex -10 9 £80,000 +60.00% 1
Middlesex +45 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 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.52%) CMS
3 3 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.13%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.56%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 58 (32.77%) Azure
2 31 (17.51%) AWS
3 20 (11.30%) GCP
4 15 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.34%) GitHub
6 9 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.08%) Power Automate
6 9 (5.08%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.52%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.95%) Figma
8 7 (3.95%) SaaS
9 5 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.26%) Serverless
11 3 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.13%) Benchling
12 2 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (0.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.52%) MQTT
2 5 (2.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.82%) Metadata
3 5 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.56%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (0.56%) Power BI
5 1 (0.56%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (16.95%) Git
2 15 (8.47%) JIRA
3 10 (5.65%) GitLab
3 10 (5.65%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.39%) Postman
4 6 (3.39%) Zephyr
5 5 (2.82%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.82%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.26%) Selenium
7 3 (1.69%) JUnit
7 3 (1.69%) Mockito
8 2 (1.13%) Appium
8 2 (1.13%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.13%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (1.13%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.13%) JMeter
8 2 (1.13%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.47%) Finance
3 25 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.65%) Aerospace
5 8 (4.52%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.52%) Retail
6 6 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.39%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.82%) Games
7 5 (2.82%) Marketing
8 4 (2.26%) Law
8 4 (2.26%) Legal
9 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.69%) Japanese Language
9 3 (1.69%) Social Science
9 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.13%) Electronics
10 2 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (24.29%) Senior
2 22 (12.43%) Software Engineer
3 21 (11.86%) Analyst
3 21 (11.86%) Product Owner
4 18 (10.17%) Architect
4 18 (10.17%) Lead
5 14 (7.91%) Business Analyst
5 14 (7.91%) Product Manager
6 13 (7.34%) Designer
6 13 (7.34%) Product Designer
6 13 (7.34%) Senior Designer
6 13 (7.34%) Senior Product Designer
7 12 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (6.21%) Developer
8 11 (6.21%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Senior Business Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.99%) .NET
2 16 (9.04%) REST
3 13 (7.34%) React
4 12 (6.78%) Kafka
5 11 (6.21%) RESTful
6 9 (5.08%) Gherkin
6 9 (5.08%) Playwright
7 8 (4.52%) Web Services
8 6 (3.39%) ASP.NET
8 6 (3.39%) SOAP
9 5 (2.82%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (2.82%) Django
9 5 (2.82%) JSON
9 5 (2.82%) SPFx
9 5 (2.82%) Twisted
9 5 (2.82%) WebSockets
10 4 (2.26%) JWT
10 4 (2.26%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.26%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.34%) Mobile App
2 12 (6.78%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.65%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.82%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.26%) Life Science
7 4 (2.26%) Robotics
7 4 (2.26%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.13%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (1.13%) LIMS
9 2 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.13%) NHS
9 2 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (66.10%) Agile
2 58 (32.77%) Scrum
3 47 (26.55%) CI/CD
4 43 (24.29%) DevOps
5 38 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (19.77%) Roadmaps
7 35 (19.77%) Test Automation
8 33 (18.64%) Software Engineering
9 25 (14.12%) Mentoring
9 25 (14.12%) User Stories
10 23 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (12.99%) User Experience
11 22 (12.43%) AI
12 21 (11.86%) Analytics
12 21 (11.86%) SDLC
12 21 (11.86%) User Research
13 20 (11.30%) Coaching
13 20 (11.30%) Containerisation
13 20 (11.30%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.38%) C#
2 25 (14.12%) Python
3 20 (11.30%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.04%) TypeScript
5 14 (7.91%) Java
6 10 (5.65%) C++
6 10 (5.65%) SQL
7 8 (4.52%) Rust
8 6 (3.39%) C
9 5 (2.82%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.69%) Go
11 1 (0.56%) ABAP
11 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) SOQL
11 1 (0.56%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 43 (24.29%) Degree
2 30 (16.95%) Security Cleared
3 25 (14.12%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.21%) ICAEW
5 9 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.52%) ISTQB
7 6 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.82%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.13%) CISA
9 2 (1.13%) CISM
9 2 (1.13%) CISSP
9 2 (1.13%) CRISC
9 2 (1.13%) CSQA
9 2 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (20.34%) QA
2 6 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.82%) WCAG
4 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.13%) GRC
4 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.56%) PMO
5 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (16.95%) Docker
2 5 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (9.60%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.08%) Terraform
3 8 (4.52%) Ansible
4 4 (2.26%) Grafana
4 4 (2.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.56%) Podman
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.21%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.08%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.26%) Adobe
5 3 (1.69%) Google
5 3 (1.69%) Oracle
5 3 (1.69%) SAP
5 3 (1.69%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.13%) Infor
6 2 (1.13%) LabVantage
6 2 (1.13%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.56%) Splunk
7 1 (0.56%) Workday