Product Ownership Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 105 82
Rank change year-on-year -34 -23 -17
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 40 92 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.05% 2.33% 3.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.47% 6.77% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 20 44 90
10th Percentile - £51,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +1.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £74,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £75,350 £100,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £59,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.35% +0.80% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,154 1,358 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.21% 34.34% 33.35%
Number of salaries quoted 637 592 747
10th Percentile £26,750 £35,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,871 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £74,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Ownership within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 December 2025. 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
Berkshire -22 19 £56,000 -10.40% 34
Buckinghamshire +12 18 £52,500 -21.64% 15
Oxfordshire +4 3 £60,000 -14.29% 15
Product Ownership
South East

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (15.00%) GCP
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (12.50%) Figma
4 5 (12.50%) GitHub
4 5 (12.50%) SaaS
4 5 (12.50%) Serverless
5 4 (10.00%) Google Analytics
6 3 (7.50%) Collibra
6 3 (7.50%) Miro
6 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (15.00%) SAP BW
3 5 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 5 (12.50%) MySQL
4 3 (7.50%) Data Mining
4 3 (7.50%) Metadata
4 3 (7.50%) Power BI
4 3 (7.50%) SAP HANA
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Axure RP
1 5 (12.50%) Balsamiq
1 5 (12.50%) git-flow
2 4 (10.00%) JIRA
3 3 (7.50%) ERwin
3 3 (7.50%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 24 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (27.50%) Law
4 8 (20.00%) Retail
5 7 (17.50%) Finance
6 5 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
7 4 (10.00%) Marketing
8 3 (7.50%) General Ledger
8 3 (7.50%) Publishing
9 1 (2.50%) Banking
9 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Senior
2 10 (25.00%) Lead
3 6 (15.00%) Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Product Owner
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Product Manager
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Designer
6 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Data Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Data Model Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.50%) SAP Data Manager
6 3 (7.50%) SAP Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.50%) SAP Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Service Designer
7 2 (5.00%) Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Head of E-Commerce
7 2 (5.00%) Head of Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) CSS
2 6 (15.00%) .NET
2 6 (15.00%) HTML
2 6 (15.00%) React
3 5 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 5 (12.50%) Kafka
3 5 (12.50%) Material-UI
3 5 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.00%) ADO
5 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.50%) JSON
5 1 (2.50%) OAuth
5 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.50%) OpenID
5 1 (2.50%) SAML
5 1 (2.50%) SOAP
5 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 8 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.00%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) Agile
2 20 (50.00%) Analytics
3 15 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (32.50%) Roadmaps
5 12 (30.00%) DevOps
5 12 (30.00%) User Experience
6 11 (27.50%) Data Modelling
6 11 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (25.00%) Product Management
8 9 (22.50%) Data Science
8 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
9 8 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (20.00%) AI
9 8 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (20.00%) Computer Science
9 8 (20.00%) Machine Learning
9 8 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (17.50%) Product Vision
10 7 (17.50%) Scrum
11 6 (15.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) C#
1 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Degree
2 14 (35.00%) Master's Degree
3 8 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 3 (7.50%) PMI Certification
6 3 (7.50%) PMP
6 3 (7.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (17.50%) QA
3 5 (12.50%) WCAG
4 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) Google
3 6 (15.00%) SAP
4 5 (12.50%) Adobe