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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 155 154
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -42
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 198 161 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.09% 1.77% 1.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.39% 4.30% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 140 64 125
10th Percentile £45,938 £33,750 £42,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,563 £69,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £87,500 £88,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +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 4,509 3,745 4,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.78% 41.17% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,128 1,795 2,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,134 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,988 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -12.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,813 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +18 87 £62,500 -3.10% 71
Buckinghamshire +27 44 £56,250 +7.14% 18
Surrey +20 43 £70,000 +16.67% 27
Hampshire -45 41 £62,500 -3.85% 15
Oxfordshire -7 26 £62,500 +4.17% 12
Berkshire -18 17 £70,000 +7.69% 42
Kent -17 13 £55,000 +46.67% 9
West Sussex -24 11 £75,000 -6.25% 13
Middlesex +13 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 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.02%) CMS
3 3 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.52%) Confluence
3 3 (1.52%) Sitecore CMS
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 29 (14.65%) AWS
2 29 (14.65%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (10.61%) SaaS
4 17 (8.59%) GCP
5 16 (8.08%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.58%) GitHub
7 9 (4.55%) Figma
7 9 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.55%) Power Automate
7 9 (4.55%) Serverless
8 8 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (4.04%) PowerApps
9 7 (3.54%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
11 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 15 (7.58%) Metadata
2 14 (7.07%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.57%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.04%) Power BI
7 7 (3.54%) Amazon QuickSight
7 7 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.54%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (3.54%) Star Schema
8 6 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.52%) MySQL
11 2 (1.01%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.51%) GIS
12 1 (0.51%) IBM InfoSphere
12 1 (0.51%) PowerPivot
12 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (23.74%) Git
2 16 (8.08%) JIRA
3 12 (6.06%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (5.56%) 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%) MLflow
10 1 (0.51%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.51%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.51%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.51%) JUnit
10 1 (0.51%) Mockito
10 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.74%) Finance
3 38 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.09%) Aerospace
5 16 (8.08%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.55%) Retail
8 8 (4.04%) Games
8 8 (4.04%) Italian Language
8 8 (4.04%) Japanese Language
8 8 (4.04%) Marketing
9 6 (3.03%) Law
10 5 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.52%) Social Science
13 2 (1.01%) Aviation
13 2 (1.01%) Electronics
13 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (20.20%) Senior
2 31 (15.66%) Product Owner
3 24 (12.12%) Developer
3 24 (12.12%) Software Engineer
4 21 (10.61%) Architect
5 19 (9.60%) Analyst
6 16 (8.08%) Lead
7 12 (6.06%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.56%) Product Manager
8 11 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) Digital Product Manager
10 8 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (3.54%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (3.03%) Integration Manager
12 6 (3.03%) Senior Business Analyst
12 6 (3.03%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.18%) .NET
2 34 (17.17%) REST
3 16 (8.08%) SOAP
4 14 (7.07%) React
4 14 (7.07%) Terraform
5 13 (6.57%) HTML
6 12 (6.06%) RESTful
7 11 (5.56%) CSS
8 10 (5.05%) ASP.NET
8 10 (5.05%) Gherkin
8 10 (5.05%) Kafka
9 9 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
9 9 (4.55%) Web Services
10 8 (4.04%) OAuth
11 7 (3.54%) JSON
11 7 (3.54%) Playwright
12 6 (3.03%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.53%) Node.js
13 5 (2.53%) OAuth2
13 5 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (7.58%) Algorithms
3 14 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (7.07%) Self-Motivation
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\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.52%) CMDB
10 3 (1.52%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.11%) Linux
2 7 (3.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (59.60%) Agile
2 67 (33.84%) Scrum
3 66 (33.33%) DevOps
4 62 (31.31%) CI/CD
5 49 (24.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (23.74%) Software Engineering
7 42 (21.21%) Test Automation
8 41 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (19.19%) Decision-Making
10 35 (17.68%) Roadmaps
11 34 (17.17%) Computer Science
12 33 (16.67%) AI
13 31 (15.66%) Analytics
13 31 (15.66%) User Experience
14 24 (12.12%) SDLC
15 23 (11.62%) Clean Code
15 23 (11.62%) Microservices
15 23 (11.62%) User Stories
15 23 (11.62%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.25%) C#
2 34 (17.17%) Python
3 33 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 22 (11.11%) SQL
5 18 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.08%) 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 54 (27.27%) Degree
2 31 (15.66%) Security Cleared
3 28 (14.14%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.56%) ICAEW
6 10 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.54%) CSPO
7 7 (3.54%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.01%) CISA
9 2 (1.01%) CISM
9 2 (1.01%) CISSP
9 2 (1.01%) CRISC
9 2 (1.01%) CSQA
9 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.01%) PhD
10 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (20.20%) QA
2 15 (7.58%) GDPR
3 14 (7.07%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.56%) Accessibility
5 9 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.55%) WCAG
6 7 (3.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.52%) GRC
7 3 (1.52%) SLA
8 2 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (18.18%) Docker
2 3 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.01%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (10.61%) 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 39 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.06%) Google
3 10 (5.05%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.55%) SAP
5 8 (4.04%) Informatica
6 7 (3.54%) Talend
7 4 (2.02%) Adobe
8 3 (1.52%) Databricks
8 3 (1.52%) Infor
8 3 (1.52%) Oracle
8 3 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.52%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.01%) OneTrust
9 2 (1.01%) Thales
10 1 (0.51%) Cisco
10 1 (0.51%) IBM
10 1 (0.51%) iManage
10 1 (0.51%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.51%) Veracode