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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 137 156
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 -79
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 122 159 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.09% 1.90% 1.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.81% 5.64% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 66 101 132
10th Percentile £48,125 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3,206 2,821 3,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.59% 33.72% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,691 1,223 2,781
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -22 56 £55,000 -21.43% 34
Buckinghamshire +14 31 £52,500 -26.06% 10
Hampshire +15 21 £90,500 +58.77% 5
Berkshire -16 20 £63,000 - 18
West Sussex +13 14 £65,000 -13.33% 6
Kent - 12 £65,000 - 1
East Sussex +1 11 £80,000 +60.00% 1
Surrey -29 6 £75,000 +15.38% 7
Oxfordshire -11 5 £87,500 +25.00% 11
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 6 (4.92%) CMS
2 2 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.82%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.82%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.82%) SAP IS-U
1 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.23%) Azure
2 21 (17.21%) AWS
3 12 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (6.56%) GCP
5 7 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (5.74%) SaaS
6 5 (4.10%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.10%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.10%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (4.10%) Figma
6 5 (4.10%) GitHub
6 5 (4.10%) Serverless
7 4 (3.28%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.46%) Benchling
8 3 (2.46%) Collibra
8 3 (2.46%) Google Ads
8 3 (2.46%) Miro
8 3 (2.46%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.74%) DNS
2 2 (1.64%) Broadband
2 2 (1.64%) GSM
2 2 (1.64%) LTE
2 2 (1.64%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.92%) SAP BW
3 5 (4.10%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.10%) MySQL
3 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.46%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.46%) Metadata
4 3 (2.46%) Power BI
4 3 (2.46%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.82%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Git
2 11 (9.02%) Selenium
3 10 (8.20%) Robot Framework
4 8 (6.56%) JIRA
4 8 (6.56%) Snyk
5 5 (4.10%) Axure RP
5 5 (4.10%) Balsamiq
5 5 (4.10%) git-flow
5 5 (4.10%) GitLab
6 4 (3.28%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.46%) ERwin
7 3 (2.46%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.64%) TestRail
9 1 (0.82%) Appium
9 1 (0.82%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.82%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.82%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.82%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.82%) Zephyr
General
1 57 (46.72%) Social Skills
2 34 (27.87%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (23.77%) Finance
4 13 (10.66%) Law
5 12 (9.84%) Legal
6 10 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (8.20%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.56%) Marketing
8 4 (3.28%) Publishing
9 3 (2.46%) Advertising
9 3 (2.46%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.46%) Retail
10 2 (1.64%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.64%) Automotive
10 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.64%) Electronics
10 2 (1.64%) Games
11 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (21.31%) Product Owner
2 23 (18.85%) Senior
3 17 (13.93%) Designer
4 16 (13.11%) Product Manager
5 13 (10.66%) Lead
5 13 (10.66%) Product Designer
5 13 (10.66%) Senior Designer
5 13 (10.66%) Senior Product Designer
6 9 (7.38%) Analyst
7 7 (5.74%) Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Head of Technology
9 5 (4.10%) Legal Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) Architect
10 4 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.28%) Software Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.56%) .NET
2 7 (5.74%) CSS
2 7 (5.74%) Kafka
3 6 (4.92%) HTML
3 6 (4.92%) React
4 5 (4.10%) AWS CDK
4 5 (4.10%) Material-UI
4 5 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.46%) REST
6 2 (1.64%) ADO
6 2 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.64%) Playwright
6 2 (1.64%) SOAP
7 1 (0.82%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.82%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.82%) OAuth
7 1 (0.82%) OpenID
7 1 (0.82%) RESTful
7 1 (0.82%) SAML
7 1 (0.82%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Mobile App
2 9 (7.38%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.74%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.46%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (2.46%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (2.46%) Life Science
5 3 (2.46%) LIMS
5 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.64%) IoT
7 1 (0.82%) CMDB
7 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.82%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Windows
2 7 (5.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (75.41%) Agile
2 52 (42.62%) Scrum
3 47 (38.52%) Roadmaps
4 34 (27.87%) Analytics
5 28 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (20.49%) CI/CD
8 22 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (17.21%) DevOps
10 20 (16.39%) Product Roadmap
10 20 (16.39%) User Stories
11 19 (15.57%) User Research
12 17 (13.93%) Mentoring
13 16 (13.11%) Product Backlog
13 16 (13.11%) Strategic Thinking
14 15 (12.30%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (11.48%) Product Management
15 14 (11.48%) Test Automation
16 13 (10.66%) E-Commerce
16 13 (10.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.56%) SQL
2 7 (5.74%) TypeScript
3 6 (4.92%) C#
4 4 (3.28%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.28%) Python
5 2 (1.64%) Bash
5 2 (1.64%) Rust
6 1 (0.82%) ABAP
6 1 (0.82%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.82%) Java
6 1 (0.82%) SOQL
6 1 (0.82%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.57%) Degree
3 13 (10.66%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.02%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.92%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.28%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.46%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.46%) PMP
7 3 (2.46%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.82%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.48%) QA
2 10 (8.20%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.10%) WCAG
5 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.46%) NCSC
5 3 (2.46%) PMO
6 1 (0.82%) GRC
6 1 (0.82%) SLA
6 1 (0.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (4.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (9.84%) Terraform
2 10 (8.20%) Ansible
3 4 (3.28%) Grafana
3 4 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.64%) Nessus
5 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (6.56%) Black Duck
1 8 (6.56%) Coverity
1 8 (6.56%) SAP
2 7 (5.74%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.74%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.10%) Adobe
4 4 (3.28%) Google
5 3 (2.46%) LabVantage
6 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle
7 1 (0.82%) Splunk
7 1 (0.82%) Workday