Product Ownership Job Trends in the South West

Product Ownership
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 108 124
Rank change year-on-year -47 +16 -23
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 59 51 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.76% 1.81% 1.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.44% 4.75% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 26 35 113
10th Percentile £46,148 £47,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,375 £93,778 £82,252
England median annual salary £68,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.14% +12.00% -3.85%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,713 1,074 2,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 21.99% 38.06% 28.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,091 578 2,080
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,137
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Ownership relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in the South West

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the South West over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Gloucestershire -11 19 £77,500 - 11
Dorset 0 9 £52,500 +50.00% 4
Wiltshire -4 9 £65,000 +23.81%
Bristol -43 7 £50,000 -30.55% 18
Devon -27 5 £48,750 -11.36% 1
Somerset -30 5 £63,499 +27.00% 12
Cornwall - 4 - -
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (8.47%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.69%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) AWS
2 8 (13.56%) Azure
3 7 (11.86%) SaaS
4 5 (8.47%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.39%) iPaaS
5 2 (3.39%) Serverless
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.69%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.69%) Dagster
6 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.69%) Miro
6 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) Broadband
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) LAN
2 1 (1.69%) Network Security
2 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.69%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.69%) WAN
2 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) InfluxDB
2 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.39%) Metadata
3 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.69%) Power BI
4 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Git
2 6 (10.17%) JIRA
3 5 (8.47%) Cypress.io
3 5 (8.47%) GitLab
3 5 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.47%) Robot Framework
3 5 (8.47%) Selenium
3 5 (8.47%) TestRail
4 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.69%) Maven
General
1 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Marketing
3 6 (10.17%) Finance
4 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Retail
7 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.69%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.69%) Games
8 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Police
8 1 (1.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Product Owner
2 9 (15.25%) Analyst
3 8 (13.56%) Digital Product Owner
3 8 (13.56%) Test Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Senior
5 5 (8.47%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Campaign Manager
5 5 (8.47%) Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Customer Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Product Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) SaaS Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Scrum Master
7 3 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Principal Test Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Product Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (8.47%) Playwright
1 5 (8.47%) pytest
2 3 (5.08%) .NET
2 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.08%) REST
3 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.39%) CSS
3 2 (3.39%) HTML
3 2 (3.39%) React
4 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.69%) GeoJSON
4 1 (1.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.69%) jQuery
4 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.69%) RESTful
4 1 (1.69%) Spring
4 1 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Marketing Technology
1 7 (11.86%) Over-the-Top Content
1 7 (11.86%) Social Media
2 5 (8.47%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.08%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.69%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.69%) PMI
6 1 (1.69%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.69%) Replication
6 1 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) CentOS
2 5 (8.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (61.02%) Agile
2 16 (27.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (25.42%) Sprint Planning
3 15 (25.42%) Test Automation
4 12 (20.34%) Roadmaps
5 11 (18.64%) Collaborative Culture
5 11 (18.64%) Scrum
5 11 (18.64%) Software Testing
6 10 (16.95%) CI/CD
6 10 (16.95%) Customer Experience
6 10 (16.95%) Decision-Making
6 10 (16.95%) Product Vision
6 10 (16.95%) User Stories
7 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
7 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (15.25%) Product Backlog
8 8 (13.56%) Backlog Refinement
8 8 (13.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (11.86%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
1 8 (13.56%) Python
2 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.47%) Bash
4 2 (3.39%) C
4 2 (3.39%) C#
4 2 (3.39%) C++
4 2 (3.39%) Rust
4 2 (3.39%) SQL
4 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.69%) Bicep
5 1 (1.69%) Go
5 1 (1.69%) Java
5 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) Degree
4 5 (8.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) CBAP
6 1 (1.69%) CIPD
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.69%) CSPO
6 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) Docker
2 5 (8.47%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.56%) Terraform
3 6 (10.17%) Grafana
3 6 (10.17%) Kibana
4 5 (8.47%) Ansible
4 5 (8.47%) logstash
4 5 (8.47%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Adobe
2 5 (8.47%) Atlassian
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.47%) Splunk
2 5 (8.47%) VMware
3 1 (1.69%) Databricks
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle
3 1 (1.69%) Zoho