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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 141 156
Rank change year-on-year -26 +15 -82
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 109 169 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.01% 1.93% 1.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.48% 5.64% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 61 107 128
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,875 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £91,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 3,131 2,994 3,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.00% 34.18% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,637 1,270 2,568
10th Percentile £27,000 £33,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,754 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +8.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,080 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -39 44 £52,500 -25.00% 34
Buckinghamshire +1 24 £52,500 -26.06% 9
Hampshire +23 20 £91,000 +65.45% 14
Berkshire -27 18 £56,000 -11.11% 16
West Sussex +18 13 £65,000 -11.86% 9
Kent - 13 £37,500 - 3
East Sussex +7 11 £80,000 +60.00% 4
Surrey -32 6 £75,000 +15.38% 9
Oxfordshire -9 2 - - 9
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 5 (4.59%) CMS
2 2 (1.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Adobe XD
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.36%) Azure
2 17 (15.60%) AWS
3 14 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (5.50%) GCP
5 6 (5.50%) GitHub
5 6 (5.50%) SaaS
6 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (4.59%) Figma
6 5 (4.59%) Serverless
7 4 (3.67%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.75%) Benchling
8 3 (2.75%) Collibra
8 3 (2.75%) Google Ads
8 3 (2.75%) Miro
8 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) DNS
2 2 (1.83%) GSM
2 2 (1.83%) LTE
3 1 (0.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.50%) SAP BW
3 5 (4.59%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.59%) MySQL
3 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.75%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.75%) Metadata
4 3 (2.75%) Power BI
4 3 (2.75%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.92%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Selenium
2 10 (9.17%) Git
2 10 (9.17%) Robot Framework
3 8 (7.34%) Snyk
4 7 (6.42%) JIRA
5 5 (4.59%) Axure RP
5 5 (4.59%) Balsamiq
5 5 (4.59%) git-flow
6 3 (2.75%) ERwin
6 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.75%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.83%) GitLab
7 2 (1.83%) TestRail
8 1 (0.92%) Appium
8 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.92%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.92%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.92%) TestNG
8 1 (0.92%) WebDriver
General
1 57 (52.29%) Social Skills
2 33 (30.28%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (23.85%) Finance
4 12 (11.01%) Law
5 11 (10.09%) Legal
6 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
7 9 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (8.26%) Marketing
8 3 (2.75%) Advertising
8 3 (2.75%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.75%) Publishing
9 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.83%) Automotive
9 2 (1.83%) Electronics
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.92%) Games
10 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (24.77%) Product Owner
2 17 (15.60%) Product Manager
3 16 (14.68%) Senior
4 13 (11.93%) Lead
5 10 (9.17%) Designer
6 9 (8.26%) Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Product Designer
8 6 (5.50%) Senior Designer
8 6 (5.50%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Senior Product Designer
9 5 (4.59%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.59%) Head of Technology
10 4 (3.67%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Legal Analyst
10 4 (3.67%) Software Analyst
11 3 (2.75%) Data Model Manager
11 3 (2.75%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) .NET
2 7 (6.42%) CSS
3 6 (5.50%) HTML
3 6 (5.50%) React
4 5 (4.59%) AWS CDK
4 5 (4.59%) Kafka
4 5 (4.59%) Material-UI
4 5 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.83%) ADO
5 2 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.83%) Playwright
5 2 (1.83%) REST
6 1 (0.92%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.92%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.92%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.92%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.92%) OpenID
6 1 (0.92%) SAML
6 1 (0.92%) SOAP
6 1 (0.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.42%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.50%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.75%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (2.75%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (2.75%) Life Science
5 3 (2.75%) LIMS
5 3 (2.75%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.92%) CMDB
7 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Windows
2 7 (6.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (76.15%) Agile
2 49 (44.95%) Scrum
3 47 (43.12%) Roadmaps
4 28 (25.69%) Analytics
5 26 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (22.02%) CI/CD
6 24 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (19.27%) DevOps
7 21 (19.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (17.43%) Mentoring
8 19 (17.43%) Product Roadmap
9 18 (16.51%) User Stories
10 16 (14.68%) Product Backlog
10 16 (14.68%) Strategic Thinking
11 15 (13.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (13.76%) Product Management
12 14 (12.84%) Sprint Planning
12 14 (12.84%) Test Automation
12 14 (12.84%) User Experience
13 13 (11.93%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.09%) SQL
2 7 (6.42%) C#
2 7 (6.42%) TypeScript
3 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.83%) Bash
4 2 (1.83%) Python
5 1 (0.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.68%) Degree
3 13 (11.93%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.42%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.59%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.75%) ISEB
7 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.75%) PMP
7 3 (2.75%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.93%) QA
2 9 (8.26%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.59%) WCAG
5 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.75%) NCSC
5 3 (2.75%) PMO
5 3 (2.75%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.92%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (1.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.17%) Terraform
2 8 (7.34%) Ansible
3 2 (1.83%) Grafana
3 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.83%) Nessus
3 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.34%) Black Duck
2 8 (7.34%) Coverity
3 6 (5.50%) SAP
4 5 (4.59%) Adobe
4 5 (4.59%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.67%) Google
6 3 (2.75%) LabVantage
7 1 (0.92%) Databricks
7 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow