Product Owner Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Owner salary in the UK excluding London is £61,354 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 442 561
Rank change year-on-year -4 +119 -212
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 170 100 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.33% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 112 59 118
10th Percentile £44,500 £37,000 £42,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,354 £52,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -13.93% +1.67%
75th Percentile £70,406 £67,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,750 £82,858
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 68,706 30,337 64,063
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 89.40% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 47,586 17,385 44,623
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Product Owner' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Product Owner job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Owner within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
North of England -1 59 £60,208 +0.35% 22
Midlands -3 48 £58,750 +22.40% 2
North West +18 43 £62,500 +5.93% 14
West Midlands -2 32 £57,500 +19.79%
South East -23 23 £55,000 +57.14% 22
South West -53 19 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Yorkshire -33 15 £57,500 -18.44% 8
East Midlands -12 14 £65,000 +46.89% 2
East of England -3 10 £67,500 - 1
Scotland +9 9 £80,000 +28.00% 6
North East -49 1 £52,500 -6.67%
Wales -58 1 £65,000 +44.44%
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Product Owner
UK

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 July 2026, Product Owner job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 77 (45.29%) Roadmaps
2 69 (40.59%) Agile
3 45 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 43 (25.29%) Backlog Management
5 42 (24.71%) Product Vision
6 37 (21.76%) Product Backlog
7 34 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (18.24%) User Stories
9 28 (16.47%) Product Roadmap
10 26 (15.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 26 (15.29%) JIRA
11 25 (14.71%) AI
11 25 (14.71%) Scrum
12 23 (13.53%) Decision-Making
13 21 (12.35%) Analytics
13 21 (12.35%) Azure
14 18 (10.59%) Product Strategy
14 18 (10.59%) Strategic Roadmap
15 16 (9.41%) Acceptance Criteria
15 16 (9.41%) Product Management
16 15 (8.82%) Confluence
17 14 (8.24%) Customer Experience
17 14 (8.24%) ERP
17 14 (8.24%) Microsoft
17 14 (8.24%) Sprint Planning
18 13 (7.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 12 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
19 12 (7.06%) QA
19 12 (7.06%) Software Engineering
20 11 (6.47%) Backlog Refinement

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (8.82%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.18%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) nginx
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.59%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (2.35%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.59%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.35%) Azure
2 11 (6.47%) SaaS
3 8 (4.71%) AWS
3 8 (4.71%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.53%) PowerApps
6 5 (2.94%) Azure AI
7 3 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.18%) Figma
8 2 (1.18%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.18%) Miro
8 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.59%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.59%) GitHub
9 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.94%) Broadband
1 5 (2.94%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.76%) Metadata
3 2 (1.18%) Power BI
3 2 (1.18%) Tableau
4 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.59%) MySQL
4 1 (0.59%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 26 (15.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Postman
3 1 (0.59%) Git
3 1 (0.59%) Vite
General
1 40 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.41%) Finance
3 23 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.65%) Marketing
6 10 (5.88%) Advertising
6 10 (5.88%) Legal
7 9 (5.29%) Aerospace
7 9 (5.29%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.53%) Automotive
8 6 (3.53%) Law
8 6 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.53%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.53%) Retail
9 5 (2.94%) Games
9 5 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.94%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.76%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.76%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.35%) React
1 4 (2.35%) REST
2 3 (1.76%) Node.js
3 2 (1.18%) Express.js
3 2 (1.18%) Fastify
3 2 (1.18%) Middleware
4 1 (0.59%) .NET
4 1 (0.59%) CSS
4 1 (0.59%) HTML
4 1 (0.59%) Laravel
4 1 (0.59%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (0.59%) Next.js
4 1 (0.59%) React Native
4 1 (0.59%) SOAP
4 1 (0.59%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.59%) Vue
4 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 170 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (1.76%) Over-the-Top Content
3 3 (1.76%) Social Media
4 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.18%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.18%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.18%) Robotics
4 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.59%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (0.59%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.59%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (45.29%) Roadmaps
2 69 (40.59%) Agile
3 45 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 43 (25.29%) Backlog Management
5 42 (24.71%) Product Vision
6 37 (21.76%) Product Backlog
7 34 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (18.24%) User Stories
9 28 (16.47%) Product Roadmap
10 26 (15.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 25 (14.71%) AI
11 25 (14.71%) Scrum
12 23 (13.53%) Decision-Making
13 21 (12.35%) Analytics
14 18 (10.59%) Product Strategy
14 18 (10.59%) Strategic Roadmap
15 16 (9.41%) Acceptance Criteria
15 16 (9.41%) Product Management
16 14 (8.24%) ERP
16 14 (8.24%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.29%) SQL
2 1 (0.59%) Bash
2 1 (0.59%) C#
2 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.59%) PHP
2 1 (0.59%) Python
2 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (4.12%) CSPO
2 4 (2.35%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.35%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.06%) QA
2 4 (2.35%) GDPR
3 3 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.59%) PERC
4 1 (0.59%) SLA
4 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.71%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.94%) SAP
4 5 (2.94%) Workday
5 3 (1.76%) Databricks
5 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.18%) Adobe
7 1 (0.59%) Google