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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 158 161
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -42
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 197 138 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.07% 1.54% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.33% 3.73% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 140 63 119
10th Percentile £46,250 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,375 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,688 £69,375 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +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 4,553 3,701 4,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.79% 41.24% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,134 1,783 2,110
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,988 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -7.12%
75th Percentile £69,938 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +27 87 £62,500 -3.47% 146
Surrey +13 45 £70,000 +16.67% 46
Buckinghamshire +29 42 £57,500 +4.55% 27
Hampshire -41 39 £62,500 -3.85% 24
Oxfordshire -9 28 £62,500 +4.17% 32
Berkshire -2 17 £67,500 +3.85% 87
Kent -19 12 £55,000 +46.67% 10
West Sussex -27 11 £75,000 -6.25% 25
Middlesex +11 2 - - 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 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.52%) CMS
2 3 (1.52%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.02%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (4.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.52%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (1.02%) SAP BPC
3 2 (1.02%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 76 (38.58%) Azure
2 30 (15.23%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (12.18%) AWS
4 23 (11.68%) SaaS
5 19 (9.64%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.61%) GitHub
7 14 (7.11%) GCP
8 10 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (4.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.57%) Power Automate
9 9 (4.57%) Serverless
10 8 (4.06%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.55%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (3.55%) Figma
12 5 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.52%) Google Analytics
14 3 (1.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.54%) MQTT
2 1 (0.51%) Broadband
2 1 (0.51%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.63%) Metadata
2 15 (7.61%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.11%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.60%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.58%) Power BI
6 10 (5.08%) NoSQL
7 9 (4.57%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (4.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.57%) DynamoDB
7 9 (4.57%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (4.57%) Star Schema
8 5 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.03%) MySQL
10 3 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.02%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.51%) GIS
12 1 (0.51%) IBM InfoSphere
12 1 (0.51%) PowerPivot
12 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (24.37%) Git
2 16 (8.12%) JIRA
3 12 (6.09%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (5.58%) GitLab
5 7 (3.55%) Selenium
6 6 (3.05%) Cucumber
6 6 (3.05%) Eclipse
6 6 (3.05%) Eclipse RCP
7 4 (2.03%) Postman
7 4 (2.03%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.52%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.02%) MLflow
10 1 (0.51%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.51%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.51%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.51%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.51%) JMeter
10 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.84%) Finance
3 39 (19.80%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.14%) Aerospace
5 16 (8.12%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (6.09%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.58%) Retail
8 9 (4.57%) Manufacturing
9 8 (4.06%) Italian Language
9 8 (4.06%) Japanese Language
10 7 (3.55%) Marketing
11 6 (3.05%) Games
11 6 (3.05%) Law
12 4 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.03%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.52%) Automotive
13 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.52%) Social Science
14 2 (1.02%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 43 (21.83%) Senior
2 32 (16.24%) Product Owner
3 27 (13.71%) Developer
4 23 (11.68%) Software Engineer
5 20 (10.15%) Analyst
5 20 (10.15%) Architect
6 15 (7.61%) Lead
7 12 (6.09%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.58%) Product Manager
8 11 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (4.57%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.06%) Digital Product Manager
10 8 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.06%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (3.55%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.55%) Digital Product Owner
11 7 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.55%) Integration Manager
11 7 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.29%) .NET
2 31 (15.74%) REST
3 17 (8.63%) SOAP
4 14 (7.11%) HTML
4 14 (7.11%) Terraform
5 12 (6.09%) CSS
5 12 (6.09%) React
5 12 (6.09%) RESTful
6 10 (5.08%) ASP.NET
6 10 (5.08%) Gherkin
6 10 (5.08%) Kafka
7 9 (4.57%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (4.06%) OAuth
9 7 (3.55%) JSON
9 7 (3.55%) Playwright
10 6 (3.05%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.05%) Web Services
11 5 (2.54%) Node.js
11 5 (2.54%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.15%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (8.12%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (7.11%) Algorithms
4 12 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (5.08%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.57%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.55%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.55%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (3.05%) Life Science
8 6 (3.05%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.54%) IoT
9 5 (2.54%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.54%) Robotics
9 5 (2.54%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.03%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.52%) CMDB
11 3 (1.52%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.52%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.66%) Linux
2 9 (4.57%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (60.91%) Agile
2 70 (35.53%) Scrum
3 67 (34.01%) DevOps
4 66 (33.50%) CI/CD
5 50 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (24.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (23.35%) Software Engineering
8 43 (21.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 39 (19.80%) Test Automation
10 37 (18.78%) Computer Science
10 37 (18.78%) Decision-Making
11 35 (17.77%) Roadmaps
12 34 (17.26%) Analytics
13 32 (16.24%) AI
14 28 (14.21%) User Experience
15 27 (13.71%) Clean Code
16 24 (12.18%) Event-Driven
16 24 (12.18%) Microservices
16 24 (12.18%) SDLC
17 23 (11.68%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.41%) C#
2 33 (16.75%) JavaScript
2 33 (16.75%) Python
3 24 (12.18%) SQL
4 16 (8.12%) Java
4 16 (8.12%) TypeScript
5 15 (7.61%) C++
6 7 (3.55%) C
7 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.54%) Rust
9 4 (2.03%) PHP
10 1 (0.51%) Bash
10 1 (0.51%) Go
10 1 (0.51%) Ruby
10 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (28.43%) Degree
2 32 (16.24%) Security Cleared
3 29 (14.72%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.58%) ICAEW
6 9 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (4.06%) CSPO
8 6 (3.05%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.02%) CISA
10 2 (1.02%) CISM
10 2 (1.02%) CISSP
10 2 (1.02%) CRISC
10 2 (1.02%) CSQA
10 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.02%) PhD
11 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (18.27%) QA
2 18 (9.14%) GDPR
3 16 (8.12%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.58%) Accessibility
5 10 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (4.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (4.57%) WCAG
7 3 (1.52%) GRC
7 3 (1.52%) SLA
8 2 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (17.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (10.15%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.05%) Ansible
3 4 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.51%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Podman
4 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (21.32%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.09%) Google
3 10 (5.08%) Informatica
4 9 (4.57%) SAP
4 9 (4.57%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.57%) Talend
5 4 (2.03%) Adobe
6 3 (1.52%) Databricks
6 3 (1.52%) Infor
6 3 (1.52%) Oracle
6 3 (1.52%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.02%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.02%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.02%) Thales
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco
8 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.51%) IBM
8 1 (0.51%) iManage
8 1 (0.51%) NVIDIA