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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 177 171
Rank change year-on-year +30 -6 -40
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 216 126 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.14% 1.41% 1.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.33% 3.53% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 149 67 117
10th Percentile £48,750 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.11%

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 4,992 3,574 3,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.32% 40.08% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,401 1,807 1,739
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -2.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,400 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +36 89 £62,500 +4.17% 99
Hampshire -37 48 £62,500 -3.85% 39
Surrey +9 46 £70,000 +64.71% 24
Buckinghamshire +25 42 £60,000 +26.32% 17
Oxfordshire -21 24 £62,500 +4.17% 22
Berkshire +5 23 £67,500 +3.85% 62
Kent -13 15 £55,000 +46.67% 10
West Sussex -30 14 £75,000 -6.25% 14
Middlesex +10 3 - -
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 (4.63%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.85%) Confluence
3 3 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.93%) Apache
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.93%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
3 1 (0.46%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.39%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.93%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle CRM
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.46%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.46%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 81 (37.50%) Azure
2 35 (16.20%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (13.43%) SaaS
4 25 (11.57%) AWS
5 20 (9.26%) Power Platform
6 15 (6.94%) GitHub
7 14 (6.48%) GCP
8 10 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (4.17%) Figma
9 9 (4.17%) Power Automate
9 9 (4.17%) PowerApps
9 9 (4.17%) Serverless
10 8 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
11 6 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (2.31%) Google Analytics
13 4 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.31%) MQTT
2 1 (0.46%) 4G
2 1 (0.46%) 5G
2 1 (0.46%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.46%) HTTP
2 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.46%) UWB
2 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.33%) Metadata
1 18 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.09%) Power BI
5 10 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (4.17%) Star Schema
7 5 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.85%) MySQL
9 2 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.93%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.46%) GIS
10 1 (0.46%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (23.61%) Git
2 17 (7.87%) JIRA
3 15 (6.94%) GitLab
4 12 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (3.24%) Selenium
6 6 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.78%) Eclipse
6 6 (2.78%) Eclipse RCP
7 4 (1.85%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.85%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.85%) Postman
8 3 (1.39%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.93%) MLflow
10 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.46%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.46%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.46%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 69 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 54 (25.00%) Finance
3 40 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.96%) Aerospace
5 17 (7.87%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.56%) Marketing
7 12 (5.56%) Retail
8 11 (5.09%) Italian Language
8 11 (5.09%) Japanese Language
9 8 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.24%) Law
11 5 (2.31%) Games
11 5 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.85%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.39%) Aviation
13 3 (1.39%) Legal
13 3 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.39%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 43 (19.91%) Senior
2 34 (15.74%) Product Owner
3 29 (13.43%) Developer
4 23 (10.65%) Analyst
4 23 (10.65%) Architect
4 23 (10.65%) Software Engineer
5 16 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 14 (6.48%) Lead
7 13 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.63%) Product Manager
9 9 (4.17%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.70%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.24%) Digital Product Manager
11 7 (3.24%) Digital Product Owner
11 7 (3.24%) Integration Manager
11 7 (3.24%) Senior Business Analyst
11 7 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (19.44%) .NET
2 28 (12.96%) REST
3 16 (7.41%) SOAP
4 14 (6.48%) ASP.NET
4 14 (6.48%) HTML
4 14 (6.48%) Terraform
5 13 (6.02%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (6.02%) React
6 12 (5.56%) CSS
7 10 (4.63%) Gherkin
7 10 (4.63%) Kafka
7 10 (4.63%) RESTful
8 8 (3.70%) Playwright
8 8 (3.70%) Web Services
9 7 (3.24%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.24%) OAuth
10 6 (2.78%) Blazor
10 6 (2.78%) JSON
10 6 (2.78%) SPFx
10 6 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.65%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (7.87%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (6.02%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.09%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (2.78%) IoT
6 6 (2.78%) Life Science
6 6 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.31%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.31%) Robotics
8 4 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.85%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.85%) PKI
8 4 (1.85%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.39%) CMDB
9 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.26%) Linux
2 9 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (59.72%) Agile
2 72 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 69 (31.94%) Scrum
4 67 (31.02%) DevOps
5 55 (25.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 48 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (19.44%) Analytics
8 42 (19.44%) Decision-Making
8 42 (19.44%) Roadmaps
9 41 (18.98%) Computer Science
10 39 (18.06%) AI
11 35 (16.20%) Test Automation
11 35 (16.20%) User Experience
12 29 (13.43%) Clean Code
13 28 (12.96%) UX Design
14 26 (12.04%) SDLC
14 26 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (12.04%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 59 (27.31%) C#
2 34 (15.74%) JavaScript
3 31 (14.35%) Python
4 22 (10.19%) SQL
5 17 (7.87%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.94%) C++
6 15 (6.94%) Java
7 7 (3.24%) C
7 7 (3.24%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.31%) Rust
9 4 (1.85%) PHP
10 1 (0.46%) Bash
10 1 (0.46%) Ruby
10 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (28.70%) Degree
2 38 (17.59%) Security Cleared
3 35 (16.20%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.09%) CSPO
7 10 (4.63%) ICAEW
8 5 (2.31%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.85%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.39%) CISSP
11 2 (0.93%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.93%) CISA
11 2 (0.93%) CISM
11 2 (0.93%) CRISC
11 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.93%) PhD
12 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.46%) CSQA
12 1 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.35%) QA
2 18 (8.33%) GDPR
3 15 (6.94%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.09%) Accessibility
5 9 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.70%) WCAG
7 3 (1.39%) GRC
7 3 (1.39%) SLA
8 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (15.28%) Docker
2 4 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (9.72%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Grafana
4 1 (0.46%) Podman
4 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.48%) Google
3 10 (4.63%) Informatica
3 10 (4.63%) SAP
4 9 (4.17%) Talend
5 8 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.31%) Adobe
7 4 (1.85%) Oracle
8 3 (1.39%) Thales
9 2 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.93%) Databricks
9 2 (0.93%) Infor
9 2 (0.93%) OneTrust
9 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.93%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.46%) Cisco
10 1 (0.46%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.46%) IBM
10 1 (0.46%) Siemens
10 1 (0.46%) Splunk