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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 159 109
Rank change year-on-year +36 -50 -29
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 85 45 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.13% 1.17% 2.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.24% 2.88% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 61 16 37
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,250 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -4.96% +12.77%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £104,400
South East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

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 2,003 1,565 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.61% 40.84% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,378 673 613
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,550 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,160 £35,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -2.70%

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 6 October 2026.

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 6 October 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
Buckinghamshire +24 41 £60,000 +26.32% 29
Oxfordshire -5 26 £62,500 +4.17% 31
Berkshire -2 18 £70,000 +7.69% 74
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 4 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.53%) CMS
2 3 (3.53%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (2.35%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) UserZoom
2 1 (1.18%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.35%) SAP BPC
2 2 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.00%) Azure
2 15 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (15.29%) Power Platform
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (8.24%) AWS
6 6 (7.06%) GitHub
6 6 (7.06%) SaaS
7 4 (4.71%) Figma
7 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.53%) GCP
8 3 (3.53%) Google Analytics
8 3 (3.53%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.35%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.18%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (11.76%) Power BI
2 10 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 9 (10.59%) Amazon QuickSight
3 9 (10.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (10.59%) DynamoDB
3 9 (10.59%) Metadata
3 9 (10.59%) MongoDB
3 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.59%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (10.59%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.35%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.18%) GIS
5 1 (1.18%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (7.06%) Eclipse
2 6 (7.06%) Eclipse RCP
2 6 (7.06%) GitLab
3 4 (4.71%) Cucumber
3 4 (4.71%) JIRA
3 4 (4.71%) Postman
4 3 (3.53%) Selenium
4 3 (3.53%) Zephyr
5 2 (2.35%) MLflow
6 1 (1.18%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.18%) Balsamiq
6 1 (1.18%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.18%) JMeter
General
1 25 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.06%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (23.53%) Finance
4 10 (11.76%) Aerospace
4 10 (11.76%) Retail
5 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.06%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.06%) Marketing
7 5 (5.88%) Law
8 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Social Science
8 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.35%) Automotive
9 2 (2.35%) Aviation
9 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.35%) Italian Language
9 2 (2.35%) Japanese Language
9 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Banking
10 1 (1.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) Senior
2 15 (17.65%) Architect
3 10 (11.76%) Product Owner
4 9 (10.59%) Analyst
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Lead
5 8 (9.41%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.88%) Developer
6 5 (5.88%) User Researcher
7 4 (4.71%) Integration Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Quality Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (4.71%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Digital Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.65%) .NET
2 9 (10.59%) REST
3 8 (9.41%) OAuth
4 7 (8.24%) CSS
4 7 (8.24%) HTML
4 7 (8.24%) SOAP
5 6 (7.06%) RESTful
6 5 (5.88%) JSON
6 5 (5.88%) JWT
6 5 (5.88%) Kafka
6 5 (5.88%) OAuth2
6 5 (5.88%) Swagger
7 4 (4.71%) .NET Framework
7 4 (4.71%) Gherkin
7 4 (4.71%) Middleware
7 4 (4.71%) Playwright
7 4 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (4.71%) Razor View Engine
7 4 (4.71%) TensorFlow
7 4 (4.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (9.41%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (8.24%) Cloud Native
5 6 (7.06%) Life Science
5 6 (7.06%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.53%) CMDB
7 3 (3.53%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.53%) TM Forum
8 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.35%) CUDA
8 2 (2.35%) Synthetic Data
8 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.18%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Windows
2 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (56.47%) Agile
2 27 (31.76%) Test Automation
3 25 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 23 (27.06%) Computer Science
4 23 (27.06%) DevOps
5 22 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.53%) Analytics
6 20 (23.53%) Scrum
7 19 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (21.18%) AI
8 18 (21.18%) Roadmaps
8 18 (21.18%) Software Engineering
8 18 (21.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (17.65%) Data Modelling
9 15 (17.65%) User Experience
10 13 (15.29%) Enterprise Architecture
11 12 (14.12%) Clean Code
12 11 (12.94%) CRM
12 11 (12.94%) Data Acquisition
13 10 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.71%) C#
2 16 (18.82%) SQL
3 15 (17.65%) Python
4 11 (12.94%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.59%) Java
6 7 (8.24%) C
7 5 (5.88%) C++
8 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (42.35%) Degree
2 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 13 (15.29%) SC Cleared
4 11 (12.94%) ICAEW
5 10 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.88%) ISTQB
7 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.35%) CSQA
8 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.35%) PhD
9 1 (1.18%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.82%) QA
2 14 (16.47%) Data Quality
3 10 (11.76%) GDPR
4 9 (10.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (7.06%) Accessibility
5 6 (7.06%) WCAG
6 3 (3.53%) SLA
7 2 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (32.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) Informatica
3 9 (10.59%) Talend
4 8 (9.41%) ServiceNow
5 7 (8.24%) Google
6 4 (4.71%) Adobe
7 3 (3.53%) SAP
7 3 (3.53%) Sitecore
8 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.35%) Thales
9 1 (1.18%) Cisco
9 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.18%) IBM
9 1 (1.18%) iManage