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 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 148 136
Rank change year-on-year -21 -12 -70
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 120 187 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.34% 1.63% 2.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.40% 5.00% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 65 118 121
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,650 £95,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 3,532 3,742 2,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 39.37% 32.60% 35.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,773 1,675 1,952
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £32,025
25th Percentile £33,250 £42,250 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 2025. 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 -41 41 £60,000 -7.69% 80
Hampshire +51 40 £65,000 +13.04% 12
Berkshire -24 23 £65,000 +4.00% 64
Buckinghamshire -7 12 £47,500 -32.14% 9
Kent +16 11 £37,500 -55.88% 5
West Sussex +9 11 £70,000 -9.68%
Middlesex - 8 £37,500 - 3
East Sussex +8 6 £50,000 -
Oxfordshire +4 6 £60,000 -8.40% 7
Surrey -24 5 £42,500 -33.85% 8
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 15 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) CMS
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.33%) Azure
2 22 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (17.50%) AWS
4 14 (11.67%) GCP
5 5 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (4.17%) GitHub
5 5 (4.17%) Serverless
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.50%) Collibra
7 3 (2.50%) Google Ads
7 3 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.50%) SaaS
8 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (0.83%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.00%) SAP BW
4 5 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.50%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.50%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.50%) Metadata
5 3 (2.50%) MySQL
5 3 (2.50%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.67%) Power BI
6 2 (1.67%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.83%) Redis
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (15.00%) JIRA
2 14 (11.67%) Selenium
3 9 (7.50%) Cucumber
3 9 (7.50%) GitLab
4 8 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 8 (6.67%) Maven
4 8 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 8 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (5.00%) Git
6 5 (4.17%) Robot Framework
7 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
7 4 (3.33%) Snyk
8 3 (2.50%) ERwin
8 3 (2.50%) git-flow
8 3 (2.50%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.83%) JUnit
9 1 (0.83%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.83%) TestNG
9 1 (0.83%) TestRail
General
1 48 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.33%) Finance
3 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.83%) Marketing
5 9 (7.50%) Banking
5 9 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.83%) Retail
7 6 (5.00%) Law
8 5 (4.17%) Legal
9 3 (2.50%) Advertising
9 3 (2.50%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.50%) Military
9 3 (2.50%) Publishing
10 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.83%) Games
11 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (25.00%) Developer
2 24 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 21 (17.50%) Product Owner
4 18 (15.00%) Lead
5 15 (12.50%) Senior
6 14 (11.67%) Analyst
7 11 (9.17%) Software Engineer
8 10 (8.33%) Test Analyst
9 5 (4.17%) Product Manager
9 5 (4.17%) Programme Manager
9 5 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Tester
11 3 (2.50%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 3 (2.50%) Data Model Manager
11 3 (2.50%) Engineering Manager
11 3 (2.50%) SAP Data Manager
11 3 (2.50%) SAP Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.67%) React
2 13 (10.83%) Kafka
3 12 (10.00%) CSS
4 11 (9.17%) HTML
5 9 (7.50%) .NET
5 9 (7.50%) Spring
5 9 (7.50%) Spring Boot
6 8 (6.67%) Hibernate
6 8 (6.67%) JPA
6 8 (6.67%) Redux
7 3 (2.50%) ADO
7 3 (2.50%) AWS CDK
7 3 (2.50%) Material-UI
7 3 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.67%) JSON
8 2 (1.67%) Node.js
8 2 (1.67%) REST
9 1 (0.83%) SAML
9 1 (0.83%) SOAP
9 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.83%) Clustering
5 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.83%) FMCG
5 1 (0.83%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (0.83%) IoT
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.83%) NHS
5 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.83%) SCADA
5 1 (0.83%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.67%) Windows
2 5 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (90.83%) Agile
2 46 (38.33%) User Stories
3 45 (37.50%) Scrum
4 44 (36.67%) DevOps
5 38 (31.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 37 (30.83%) Roadmaps
7 36 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 36 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
8 33 (27.50%) TDD
9 29 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (23.33%) Sprint Retrospective
11 27 (22.50%) Mentoring
12 25 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (17.50%) Decision-Making
15 19 (15.83%) Backlog Refinement
16 17 (14.17%) Test Automation
17 16 (13.33%) Analytics
18 15 (12.50%) Software Engineering
19 14 (11.67%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 30 (25.00%) SQL
2 11 (9.17%) Java
2 11 (9.17%) JavaScript
3 7 (5.83%) C#
4 5 (4.17%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.67%) Python
6 1 (0.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.83%) Korn
6 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (17.50%) Degree
2 14 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (11.67%) ISTQB
2 14 (11.67%) Master's Degree
3 13 (10.83%) ISEB
4 9 (7.50%) Security Cleared
5 8 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 8 (6.67%) PMP
6 5 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.33%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.50%) SAP Certification
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.83%) CISSP
10 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (22.50%) QA
2 10 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
3 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) GRC
5 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (10.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.00%) Terraform
3 4 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.83%) Nessus
4 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.67%) Google
2 8 (6.67%) Solace
3 6 (5.00%) SAP
4 4 (3.33%) Black Duck
4 4 (3.33%) Coverity
5 3 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.67%) Databricks
7 1 (0.83%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) VMware