Product Owner Jobs in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Owner salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 390 400
Rank change year-on-year -205 +10 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 170 438 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.73% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.82% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 133 276 436
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,927
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 £71,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,700 £85,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,146 53,642 68,538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.24% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,498 30,589 42,749
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Product Owner in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Product Owner 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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024. 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 -5 48 £62,783 +14.15% 9
South East -64 38 £65,000 +8.33% 21
Midlands -53 35 £65,000 +36.84% 16
North West -5 31 £60,237 +9.52% 6
South West -57 23 £55,000 -12.00% 8
West Midlands -31 21 £65,000 +44.44% 13
Scotland -64 18 £55,000 -13.73% 6
East Midlands -12 14 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Yorkshire +36 13 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East of England -3 6 £48,750 -11.36% 1
North East -4 4 £62,783 +9.19% 1
Wales +5 2 £42,500 -37.04% 1
Product Owner
UK

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Product Owner job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 170 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 118 (69.41%) Agile
3 102 (60.00%) Roadmaps
4 58 (34.12%) Product Roadmap
5 56 (32.94%) Social Skills
6 52 (30.59%) User Stories
6 52 (30.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (30.00%) Scrum
8 46 (27.06%) Product Vision
8 46 (27.06%) Product Backlog
9 45 (26.47%) Finance
10 43 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (22.94%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (20.00%) JIRA
13 33 (19.41%) Mentoring
14 29 (17.06%) Project Management
15 28 (16.47%) User Experience
16 27 (15.88%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 26 (15.29%) Coaching
18 24 (14.12%) DevOps
18 24 (14.12%) Sprint Planning
19 23 (13.53%) Customer Service
19 23 (13.53%) Backlog Management
19 23 (13.53%) Acceptance Criteria
19 23 (13.53%) Retail
20 22 (12.94%) Analytics
21 21 (12.35%) Marketing
22 18 (10.59%) Azure
22 18 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
23 17 (10.00%) E-Commerce

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Trello
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.18%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.18%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.59%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.59%) Azure
2 14 (8.24%) SaaS
3 8 (4.71%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.94%) AWS
5 4 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.35%) Collibra
5 4 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.35%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.35%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.18%) GCP
6 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.59%) Figma
7 1 (0.59%) GitHub
7 1 (0.59%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.59%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (0.59%) PaaS
7 1 (0.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.29%) Network Security
2 4 (2.35%) Internet
3 3 (1.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.53%) Tableau
2 4 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.35%) Power BI
3 3 (1.76%) Metadata
3 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.59%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) DBeaver
General
1 56 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 45 (26.47%) Finance
3 39 (22.94%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.53%) Retail
5 21 (12.35%) Marketing
6 17 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.29%) Banking
8 7 (4.12%) Tech for Good
9 6 (3.53%) Legal
10 5 (2.94%) Automotive
10 5 (2.94%) Back Office
10 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.35%) Law
12 3 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.18%) Games
13 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.76%) Kafka
2 2 (1.18%) .NET
2 2 (1.18%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.18%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.18%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (1.18%) Entity Framework
2 2 (1.18%) HTML
2 2 (1.18%) HTML5
2 2 (1.18%) Middleware
2 2 (1.18%) XML
3 1 (0.59%) RESTful
3 1 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 170 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.35%) FMCG
3 4 (2.35%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.35%) PMI
4 3 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.76%) Online Banking
4 3 (1.76%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.18%) Life Science
5 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.18%) NHS
5 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.59%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.59%) Tandem
6 1 (0.59%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.18%) Linux
1 2 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (69.41%) Agile
2 102 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 58 (34.12%) Product Roadmap
4 52 (30.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 52 (30.59%) User Stories
5 51 (30.00%) Scrum
6 46 (27.06%) Product Backlog
6 46 (27.06%) Product Vision
7 43 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (19.41%) Mentoring
9 29 (17.06%) Project Management
10 28 (16.47%) User Experience
11 27 (15.88%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 26 (15.29%) Coaching
13 24 (14.12%) DevOps
13 24 (14.12%) Sprint Planning
14 23 (13.53%) Acceptance Criteria
14 23 (13.53%) Backlog Management
14 23 (13.53%) Customer Service
15 22 (12.94%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.06%) SQL
2 5 (2.94%) C#
3 4 (2.35%) Python
4 2 (1.18%) C
4 2 (1.18%) C++
4 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.18%) R
4 2 (1.18%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (8.24%) Degree
2 9 (5.29%) CSPO
3 8 (4.71%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.35%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.59%) CIPD
6 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.29%) NCSC
1 9 (5.29%) NIST
2 6 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.35%) QA
4 2 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.59%) GDPR
Vendors
1 12 (7.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.29%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.29%) Splunk
4 7 (4.12%) Genesys
5 5 (2.94%) YouTube
6 4 (2.35%) Google
6 4 (2.35%) SAP
7 3 (1.76%) Freshdesk
7 3 (1.76%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.18%) Databricks
9 1 (0.59%) Adobe
9 1 (0.59%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.59%) Okta
9 1 (0.59%) Pega
9 1 (0.59%) Sitecore