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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 131 160
Rank change year-on-year -16 +29 -62
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 187 175 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.20% 2.06% 1.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.90% 4.94% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 125 65 163
10th Percentile £44,375 £46,250 £40,950
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.56% +2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,250 £75,625
90th Percentile £93,650 £87,500 £86,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -3.57% +11.50% -3.41%

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 3,817 3,545 5,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.48% 41.70% 33.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,639 1,688 3,663
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £34,988 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,853 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.09% +4.55% -15.38%

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 July 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 July 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 +6 85 £60,000 -7.69% 26
Buckinghamshire +26 51 £55,000 +4.76% 12
Hampshire -30 38 £62,500 -3.85% 10
Surrey -11 26 £63,857 -5.40% 17
Oxfordshire +1 19 £62,500 +4.17% 4
Kent -13 15 £67,500 +25.58% 6
Berkshire -44 15 £70,000 +7.69% 11
West Sussex -22 13 £73,750 -13.24% 1
East Sussex -15 6 £80,000 +60.00% 2
Middlesex +36 1 - - 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 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.21%) CMS
3 3 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.60%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) SAS
5 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.60%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (1.07%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.53%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 63 (33.69%) Azure
2 35 (18.72%) AWS
3 23 (12.30%) GCP
4 17 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (8.56%) GitHub
6 9 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.81%) Power Automate
6 9 (4.81%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.81%) SaaS
7 8 (4.28%) PowerApps
7 8 (4.28%) Serverless
8 7 (3.74%) Figma
9 5 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.07%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.07%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.07%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.07%) PaaS
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.81%) MQTT
2 5 (2.67%) Broadband
3 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.28%) Metadata
1 8 (4.28%) MongoDB
1 8 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.53%) GIS
5 1 (0.53%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (0.53%) Power BI
5 1 (0.53%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.53%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.53%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (18.18%) Git
2 15 (8.02%) JIRA
3 13 (6.95%) GitLab
4 11 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (3.21%) Postman
5 6 (3.21%) Zephyr
6 5 (2.67%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.67%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.14%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.14%) Selenium
8 3 (1.60%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.60%) Eclipse RCP
8 3 (1.60%) JUnit
8 3 (1.60%) Mockito
9 2 (1.07%) Appium
9 2 (1.07%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.07%) JMeter
9 2 (1.07%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.53%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.46%) Finance
3 25 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 9 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.28%) Retail
7 7 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.74%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.67%) Games
9 5 (2.67%) Marketing
10 4 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.60%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.60%) Japanese Language
11 3 (1.60%) Law
11 3 (1.60%) Social Science
12 2 (1.07%) Legal
12 2 (1.07%) Legal Technology
12 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (23.53%) Senior
2 23 (12.30%) Product Owner
2 23 (12.30%) Software Engineer
3 22 (11.76%) Analyst
4 21 (11.23%) Architect
5 18 (9.63%) Lead
6 14 (7.49%) Developer
6 14 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.95%) Designer
7 13 (6.95%) Product Designer
7 13 (6.95%) Senior Designer
7 13 (6.95%) Senior Product Designer
8 12 (6.42%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.88%) Product Manager
9 11 (5.88%) Senior Manager
10 8 (4.28%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.37%) .NET
2 20 (10.70%) REST
3 15 (8.02%) React
4 14 (7.49%) Kafka
5 11 (5.88%) RESTful
6 9 (4.81%) Gherkin
6 9 (4.81%) Playwright
7 8 (4.28%) Web Services
8 7 (3.74%) ASP.NET
8 7 (3.74%) SOAP
9 6 (3.21%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (3.21%) OAuth
10 5 (2.67%) Django
10 5 (2.67%) HTML
10 5 (2.67%) JWT
10 5 (2.67%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.67%) Swagger
10 5 (2.67%) Twisted
10 5 (2.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.95%) Mobile App
2 12 (6.42%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.42%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.21%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.67%) Robotics
6 5 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.14%) Taxonomies
7 4 (2.14%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (1.60%) Life Science
8 3 (1.60%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.07%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (62.03%) Agile
2 59 (31.55%) Scrum
3 52 (27.81%) CI/CD
4 47 (25.13%) DevOps
5 43 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (20.32%) Software Engineering
6 38 (20.32%) Test Automation
7 33 (17.65%) Roadmaps
8 29 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (14.44%) Analytics
10 26 (13.90%) Mentoring
11 25 (13.37%) AI
12 24 (12.83%) Containerisation
12 24 (12.83%) Decision-Making
12 24 (12.83%) User Stories
13 23 (12.30%) SDLC
13 23 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (11.76%) User Experience
15 21 (11.23%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.51%) C#
2 28 (14.97%) Python
3 23 (12.30%) JavaScript
4 19 (10.16%) TypeScript
5 17 (9.09%) Java
6 11 (5.88%) C++
6 11 (5.88%) SQL
7 9 (4.81%) Rust
8 6 (3.21%) C
8 6 (3.21%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.60%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) ABAP
10 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) SOQL
10 1 (0.53%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 44 (23.53%) Degree
2 31 (16.58%) Security Cleared
3 27 (14.44%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.88%) ICAEW
5 9 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.28%) ISTQB
7 6 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.07%) CISA
9 2 (1.07%) CISM
9 2 (1.07%) CISSP
9 2 (1.07%) CRISC
9 2 (1.07%) CSQA
9 2 (1.07%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.07%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (20.32%) QA
2 6 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.67%) WCAG
4 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.07%) GRC
5 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.07%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (19.25%) Docker
2 5 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.07%) Firmware
4 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.95%) Terraform
3 10 (5.35%) Ansible
4 5 (2.67%) Grafana
4 5 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.53%) Podman
6 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.81%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.21%) SAP
5 5 (2.67%) Google
6 4 (2.14%) Adobe
7 3 (1.60%) Infor
7 3 (1.60%) Oracle
7 3 (1.60%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.07%) Databricks
8 2 (1.07%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) iManage
9 1 (0.53%) Informatica
9 1 (0.53%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.53%) Splunk
9 1 (0.53%) Veracode
9 1 (0.53%) Workday