Product Ownership Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 112 151
Rank change year-on-year -44 +39 -66
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 735 852 1,318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.12% 2.96% 1.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.68% 7.21% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 440 383 841
10th Percentile £44,972 £43,459 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +12.14% -3.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year - +12.90% -4.62%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,718 11,810 23,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.90% 41.10% 34.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8,629 5,366 15,151
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
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 Ownership within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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 -67 195 £60,000 -16.66% 102
South East -20 171 £70,000 +7.69% 94
Midlands -25 142 £57,500 -6.12% 51
North West -44 116 £62,500 -10.71% 46
Scotland -8 89 £61,250 -9.93% 21
West Midlands -19 88 £60,000 -4.00% 39
East of England +11 72 £62,500 - 21
South West -39 59 £53,999 -10.00% 27
Yorkshire -71 56 £57,500 -25.81% 32
East Midlands -26 52 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North East -21 23 £55,000 +19.41% 24
Wales -33 6 £53,171 -11.17% 6
Northern Ireland -37 1 £77,500 - 2
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
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 46 (6.26%) Confluence
2 16 (2.18%) CMS
3 12 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.82%) SAS
5 5 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.54%) nginx
7 3 (0.41%) JBoss
7 3 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) Apache
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 13 (1.77%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.41%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.14%) Simulink
8 1 (0.14%) Sketch
8 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (2.18%) Adobe Campaign
2 6 (0.82%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.54%) Shopify
4 3 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 173 (23.54%) Azure
2 121 (16.46%) AWS
3 70 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (6.39%) GitHub
5 46 (6.26%) SaaS
6 43 (5.85%) Power Platform
7 32 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (4.22%) GCP
9 23 (3.13%) Figma
10 20 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
11 19 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (2.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 15 (2.04%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 12 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
15 12 (1.63%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.63%) Serverless
16 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
16 8 (1.09%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 62 (8.44%) Broadband
2 7 (0.95%) MQTT
3 6 (0.82%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 3 (0.41%) HTTP
4 3 (0.41%) Network Security
4 3 (0.41%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.41%) WAN
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
5 2 (0.27%) Intranet
5 2 (0.27%) LTE
5 2 (0.27%) SMS
5 2 (0.27%) VLAN
5 2 (0.27%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.14%) GSM
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) RFID
6 1 (0.14%) RS-422
6 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.67%) Power BI
2 16 (2.18%) NoSQL
3 13 (1.77%) MongoDB
4 12 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.50%) Metadata
5 11 (1.50%) Tableau
6 9 (1.22%) MySQL
7 7 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.68%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.68%) Redis
9 5 (0.68%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.54%) InfluxDB
11 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.41%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 73 (9.93%) JIRA
2 55 (7.48%) GitLab
3 54 (7.35%) Git
4 53 (7.21%) Jenkins
5 39 (5.31%) SonarQube
6 18 (2.45%) Selenium
7 16 (2.18%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.50%) Postman
9 10 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (1.09%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.95%) fastlane
12 7 (0.95%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.82%) JUnit
13 6 (0.82%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.68%) JMeter
14 5 (0.68%) Maven
14 5 (0.68%) TestRail
14 5 (0.68%) Zephyr
15 4 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 201 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 137 (18.64%) Finance
3 112 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (11.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 86 (11.70%) Marketing
6 46 (6.26%) Games
7 45 (6.12%) Public Sector
8 33 (4.49%) Law
8 33 (4.49%) Retail
9 28 (3.81%) Legal
10 17 (2.31%) Banking
11 15 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (1.77%) Billing
13 12 (1.63%) Advertising
13 12 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.95%) Publishing
16 6 (0.82%) Automotive
16 6 (0.82%) Local Government
17 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 143 (19.46%) Product Owner
2 118 (16.05%) Senior
3 104 (14.15%) Analyst
4 86 (11.70%) Lead
5 72 (9.80%) Business Analyst
6 66 (8.98%) Developer
7 64 (8.71%) Product Manager
8 58 (7.89%) Architect
9 51 (6.94%) Software Engineer
10 34 (4.63%) Salesforce Architect
11 30 (4.08%) Designer
12 26 (3.54%) Senior Manager
13 23 (3.13%) Lead Developer
14 21 (2.86%) Technical Architect
15 20 (2.72%) Product Designer
15 20 (2.72%) Senior Designer
16 19 (2.59%) Senior Product Designer
17 18 (2.45%) Salesforce Technical Architect
17 18 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (2.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.29%) REST
2 54 (7.35%) SOAP
3 48 (6.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 47 (6.39%) .NET
5 45 (6.12%) React
6 36 (4.90%) Visualforce
7 33 (4.49%) RESTful
8 21 (2.86%) Node.js
8 21 (2.86%) Web Services
9 19 (2.59%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.18%) Playwright
11 15 (2.04%) HTML
12 14 (1.90%) Kafka
13 12 (1.63%) CSS
13 12 (1.63%) Spring Boot
14 11 (1.50%) Spring
15 10 (1.36%) Gherkin
15 10 (1.36%) React Native
16 8 (1.09%) Material Design
16 8 (1.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.58%) Mobile App
3 23 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
5 19 (2.59%) Over-the-Top Content
5 19 (2.59%) Social Media
6 18 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.77%) e-Learning
10 9 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.22%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.95%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.67%) Linux
2 10 (1.36%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.95%) Android
3 7 (0.95%) Windows
4 4 (0.54%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (61.36%) Agile
2 221 (30.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 212 (28.84%) Roadmaps
4 193 (26.26%) Scrum
5 166 (22.59%) CI/CD
6 165 (22.45%) DevOps
7 119 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 114 (15.51%) Coaching
8 114 (15.51%) Mentoring
8 114 (15.51%) User Stories
9 106 (14.42%) User Experience
10 103 (14.01%) AI
10 103 (14.01%) Test Automation
11 86 (11.70%) Analytics
11 86 (11.70%) Decision-Making
11 86 (11.70%) Software Engineering
12 85 (11.56%) Product Vision
13 84 (11.43%) Product Backlog
14 80 (10.88%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 80 (10.88%) Python
2 66 (8.98%) JavaScript
3 52 (7.07%) C#
4 51 (6.94%) Java
5 48 (6.53%) Apex Code
5 48 (6.53%) TypeScript
6 40 (5.44%) SQL
7 36 (4.90%) SOQL
7 36 (4.90%) SOSL
8 14 (1.90%) Bash
8 14 (1.90%) C++
9 12 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.09%) Go
10 8 (1.09%) Rust
11 7 (0.95%) Swift
12 6 (0.82%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.68%) C
14 4 (0.54%) PHP
14 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 99 (13.47%) Degree
2 69 (9.39%) Security Cleared
3 38 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.08%) DBS Check
5 19 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 12 (1.63%) HND
8 11 (1.50%) PMP
9 10 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.09%) ICAEW
10 8 (1.09%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.54%) CIPD
14 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.41%) CSPO
15 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.27%) CAPM
15 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (14.29%) QA
2 49 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.27%) WCAG
4 23 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.31%) GDPR
6 13 (1.77%) SLA
7 11 (1.50%) PMO
8 9 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.41%) NCSC
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 61 (8.30%) Docker
2 9 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (5.03%) Terraform
2 35 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.31%) Grafana
4 13 (1.77%) Ansible
5 11 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.68%) HP Fortify
6 5 (0.68%) Kibana
7 4 (0.54%) logstash
7 4 (0.54%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.14%) Podman
9 1 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (10.34%) Salesforce
2 73 (9.93%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.31%) Splunk
4 37 (5.03%) Adobe
5 32 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.63%) Atlassian
6 12 (1.63%) Freshdesk
6 12 (1.63%) Nintex
7 9 (1.22%) SAP
8 8 (1.09%) Google
9 7 (0.95%) Oracle
9 7 (0.95%) Workday
10 6 (0.82%) Apple
10 6 (0.82%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.68%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.54%) Informatica
12 4 (0.54%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.54%) VMware
13 3 (0.41%) Coverity
13 3 (0.41%) Sitecore