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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 167 160
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 -35
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 206 122 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.09% 1.36% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.24% 3.37% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 144 63 120
10th Percentile £47,500 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,375 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,563 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 4,860 3,623 4,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.67% 40.45% 32.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,343 1,786 1,908
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,925
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,988 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -3.51%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.93%

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 1 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 1 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 +49 85 £62,500 -3.10% 118
Surrey +15 47 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Hampshire -37 45 £62,500 -3.85% 33
Buckinghamshire +28 41 £60,000 +17.07% 28
Oxfordshire -12 26 £62,500 +4.17% 23
Berkshire +7 18 £70,000 +7.69% 68
Kent -18 13 £55,000 +46.67% 11
West Sussex -28 12 £73,750 -7.81% 20
Middlesex +12 3 - - 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 9 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.46%) CMS
2 3 (1.46%) Confluence
2 3 (1.46%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.97%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Trello
3 1 (0.49%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.46%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.97%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.97%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.49%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.49%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 78 (37.86%) Azure
2 31 (15.05%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (12.14%) SaaS
4 23 (11.17%) AWS
5 18 (8.74%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.80%) GCP
6 14 (6.80%) GitHub
7 9 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.37%) Serverless
8 8 (3.88%) Figma
8 8 (3.88%) Power Automate
8 8 (3.88%) PowerApps
9 7 (3.40%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (2.43%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.43%) MQTT
2 1 (0.49%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.25%) Metadata
2 16 (7.77%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.83%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.85%) Power BI
6 9 (4.37%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.37%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.37%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (4.37%) Star Schema
7 5 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.94%) MySQL
9 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.97%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.49%) GIS
10 1 (0.49%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (23.30%) Git
2 16 (7.77%) JIRA
3 13 (6.31%) GitLab
4 12 (5.83%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (3.40%) Selenium
6 6 (2.91%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.91%) Eclipse
6 6 (2.91%) Eclipse RCP
7 4 (1.94%) Postman
8 3 (1.46%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.46%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.46%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.46%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.97%) MLflow
10 1 (0.49%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.49%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.49%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.49%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.49%) JMeter
10 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.76%) Finance
3 41 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.19%) Aerospace
5 17 (8.25%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (6.31%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.34%) Marketing
7 11 (5.34%) Retail
8 10 (4.85%) Italian Language
8 10 (4.85%) Japanese Language
9 7 (3.40%) Law
9 7 (3.40%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.94%) Games
11 4 (1.94%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.46%) Automotive
12 3 (1.46%) Legal
12 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.46%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 41 (19.90%) Senior
2 32 (15.53%) Product Owner
3 27 (13.11%) Developer
4 24 (11.65%) Architect
5 23 (11.17%) Analyst
6 22 (10.68%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.28%) Business Analyst
7 15 (7.28%) Lead
8 14 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (5.34%) Product Manager
10 9 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.88%) .NET Developer
11 8 (3.88%) Digital Product Manager
11 8 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.88%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.40%) Digital Product Owner
12 7 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (3.40%) Integration Manager
12 7 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (18.93%) .NET
2 29 (14.08%) REST
3 17 (8.25%) SOAP
4 14 (6.80%) HTML
4 14 (6.80%) Terraform
5 12 (5.83%) CSS
5 12 (5.83%) RESTful
6 11 (5.34%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.34%) React
7 10 (4.85%) ASP.NET Core
7 10 (4.85%) Gherkin
7 10 (4.85%) Kafka
8 8 (3.88%) OAuth
9 7 (3.40%) JSON
9 7 (3.40%) Playwright
10 6 (2.91%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.91%) Web Services
11 5 (2.43%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.43%) Swagger
11 5 (2.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.68%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (7.77%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (6.31%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.85%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.40%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.40%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (2.91%) Life Science
8 6 (2.91%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.43%) IoT
9 5 (2.43%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.43%) Robotics
9 5 (2.43%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.94%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.46%) CMDB
11 3 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.46%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.71%) Linux
2 9 (4.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (60.68%) Agile
2 68 (33.01%) Scrum
3 66 (32.04%) CI/CD
3 66 (32.04%) DevOps
4 50 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (23.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (23.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (22.33%) Software Engineering
7 41 (19.90%) Analytics
8 40 (19.42%) Decision-Making
8 40 (19.42%) Roadmaps
9 38 (18.45%) Computer Science
10 35 (16.99%) AI
10 35 (16.99%) Test Automation
11 33 (16.02%) User Experience
12 28 (13.59%) Clean Code
13 25 (12.14%) SDLC
13 25 (12.14%) UX Design
14 24 (11.65%) Microservices
14 24 (11.65%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 55 (26.70%) C#
2 32 (15.53%) JavaScript
3 31 (15.05%) Python
4 23 (11.17%) SQL
5 16 (7.77%) Java
6 15 (7.28%) C++
6 15 (7.28%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.40%) C
8 6 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.43%) Rust
10 4 (1.94%) PHP
11 1 (0.49%) Bash
11 1 (0.49%) Ruby
11 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (28.64%) Degree
2 33 (16.02%) Security Cleared
3 30 (14.56%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.34%) ICAEW
7 10 (4.85%) CSPO
8 5 (2.43%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.94%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.97%) CISA
10 2 (0.97%) CISM
10 2 (0.97%) CISSP
10 2 (0.97%) CRISC
10 2 (0.97%) CSQA
10 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.97%) PhD
11 1 (0.49%) ACCA
11 1 (0.49%) CIMA
11 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.05%) QA
2 18 (8.74%) GDPR
3 15 (7.28%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.34%) Accessibility
5 10 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (4.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (4.37%) WCAG
7 3 (1.46%) GRC
7 3 (1.46%) SLA
8 2 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (16.02%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.97%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.91%) Ansible
2 6 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.49%) Grafana
3 1 (0.49%) Podman
3 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.80%) Google
3 10 (4.85%) Informatica
3 10 (4.85%) SAP
4 9 (4.37%) Talend
5 8 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.91%) Adobe
7 3 (1.46%) Infor
7 3 (1.46%) Oracle
7 3 (1.46%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.97%) Databricks
8 2 (0.97%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.97%) Thales
9 1 (0.49%) Cisco
9 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.49%) iManage
9 1 (0.49%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.49%) Veracode