Product Ownership Jobs 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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 150 86
Rank change year-on-year +16 -64 -25
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 932 1,349 2,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.38% 1.90% 3.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.14% 5.61% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 449 841 1,189
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,176 £47,231 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,965 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% -3.79% +9.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,000 £91,464
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.90% -4.62% +4.00%

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 13,048 24,060 25,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.38% 33.95% 42.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,055 15,188 11,223
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,070
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

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 2025.

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 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
North of England +50 395 £60,000 +3.51% 304
North West +33 307 £57,560 -0.70% 173
South East +11 180 £65,000 - 305
Midlands -2 134 £61,250 +11.36% 169
Scotland +35 115 £70,000 +20.14% 62
Yorkshire +43 80 £77,500 +29.68% 109
West Midlands -17 75 £62,500 +8.70% 116
East Midlands +37 59 £60,000 +20.00% 46
South West 0 49 £62,500 +8.70% 92
East of England +27 47 £62,500 +26.26% 66
Wales +20 9 £59,857 +14.01% 26
North East +19 8 £46,062 -20.53% 22
Northern Ireland +44 4 - - 17
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
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
1 181 (19.42%) Confluence
2 20 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.04%) CMS
4 9 (0.97%) Kentico
5 8 (0.86%) SAS
6 5 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.43%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) CICS
8 2 (0.21%) IIS
8 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.43%) Trello
6 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 65 (6.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (6.97%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 360 (38.63%) Azure
2 312 (33.48%) AWS
3 204 (21.89%) GCP
4 63 (6.76%) SaaS
5 27 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (1.93%) Power Platform
7 17 (1.82%) Serverless
8 13 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (1.39%) GitHub
8 13 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (1.29%) Miro
10 11 (1.18%) Google Analytics
11 10 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (0.97%) Entra ID
12 9 (0.97%) Kontent
12 9 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 9 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.29%) Internet
2 10 (1.07%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.86%) Modbus
4 6 (0.64%) HTTP
5 4 (0.43%) Firewall
6 3 (0.32%) Intranet
6 3 (0.32%) Network Security
6 3 (0.32%) SSL
7 1 (0.11%) BGP
7 1 (0.11%) Broadband
7 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (28.11%) SQL Server
2 35 (3.76%) NoSQL
3 28 (3.00%) Data Lake
4 16 (1.72%) Power BI
5 15 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (1.39%) Big Data
6 13 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.07%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.97%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.75%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.75%) MySQL
10 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 4 (0.43%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.43%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.43%) Power Query
11 4 (0.43%) PowerPivot
12 3 (0.32%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.21%) DB2
13 2 (0.21%) GIS
Development Applications
1 330 (35.41%) JIRA
2 261 (28.00%) Selenium
3 259 (27.79%) Cucumber
4 257 (27.58%) Maven
5 252 (27.04%) GitLab
5 252 (27.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 247 (26.50%) SonarQube
7 246 (26.39%) Bitbucket
8 65 (6.97%) Rational DOORS
9 28 (3.00%) Git
10 15 (1.61%) Jenkins
10 15 (1.61%) Postman
11 8 (0.86%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
13 6 (0.64%) webpack
14 5 (0.54%) JUnit
15 4 (0.43%) Balsamiq
16 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
16 3 (0.32%) Xcode
16 3 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 465 (49.89%) Finance
2 364 (39.06%) Banking
3 265 (28.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 226 (24.25%) Social Skills
5 115 (12.34%) Retail
6 92 (9.87%) Investment Banking
7 90 (9.66%) Corporate Banking
8 69 (7.40%) Law
9 65 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
10 60 (6.44%) Marketing
11 29 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.25%) Advertising
13 17 (1.82%) Automotive
13 17 (1.82%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (1.50%) Legal
15 14 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.86%) Games
17 7 (0.75%) Publishing
18 6 (0.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 293 (31.44%) Software Engineer
2 119 (12.77%) Lead
3 91 (9.76%) Product Owner
4 72 (7.73%) Developer
5 68 (7.30%) Senior
6 65 (6.97%) Platform Engineer
6 65 (6.97%) Systems Engineer
7 59 (6.33%) Analyst
8 53 (5.69%) Product Manager
9 52 (5.58%) Architect
10 39 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (3.22%) Software Developer
12 28 (3.00%) Business Analyst
13 20 (2.15%) Account Manager
13 20 (2.15%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (2.15%) Strategic Account Manager
14 14 (1.50%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (1.50%) Project Manager
15 12 (1.29%) Scrum Master
16 10 (1.07%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (33.15%) React
2 270 (28.97%) Kafka
3 268 (28.76%) CSS
4 266 (28.54%) HTML
5 262 (28.11%) Spring Boot
6 259 (27.79%) Spring
7 246 (26.39%) JPA
7 246 (26.39%) Redux
8 162 (17.38%) Hibernate
9 114 (12.23%) REST
10 112 (12.02%) RESTful
11 96 (10.30%) Jest
12 90 (9.66%) CSS3
12 90 (9.66%) HTML5
12 90 (9.66%) Sass
13 33 (3.54%) AngularJS
14 32 (3.43%) .NET
15 29 (3.11%) Node.js
16 14 (1.50%) Web Services
17 9 (0.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 250 (26.82%) Enterprise Software
2 30 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.79%) Marketing Technology
5 22 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.36%) Mobile App
6 20 (2.15%) Digital Media
6 20 (2.15%) PMI
7 19 (2.04%) FMCG
8 14 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 9 (0.97%) Credit Risk
9 9 (0.97%) Private Cloud
9 9 (0.97%) Virtual Team
10 8 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (0.86%) Device Driver
10 8 (0.86%) Market Risk
10 8 (0.86%) Online Banking
11 7 (0.75%) Mainframe
11 7 (0.75%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.68%) Linux
2 24 (2.58%) Android
3 14 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
5 7 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.75%) Windows
6 4 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (74.36%) Agile
2 387 (41.52%) DevOps
3 344 (36.91%) CI/CD
4 341 (36.59%) Software Engineering
5 327 (35.09%) Microservices
6 308 (33.05%) Test Automation
7 299 (32.08%) SDLC
8 293 (31.44%) Containerisation
9 289 (31.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 279 (29.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 252 (27.04%) Front End Development
12 251 (26.93%) Performance Optimisation
13 213 (22.85%) Roadmaps
14 199 (21.35%) TDD
15 190 (20.39%) Mentoring
16 159 (17.06%) Clean Code
16 159 (17.06%) User Experience
17 148 (15.88%) Scrum
18 129 (13.84%) Strategic Thinking
19 113 (12.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 330 (35.41%) SQL
2 317 (34.01%) JavaScript
3 306 (32.83%) Java
4 127 (13.63%) TypeScript
5 53 (5.69%) C#
6 46 (4.94%) Python
7 19 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 10 (1.07%) C++
9 9 (0.97%) C
9 9 (0.97%) Go
10 8 (0.86%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.75%) R
12 6 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.64%) Swift
13 5 (0.54%) PHP
14 4 (0.43%) Bash
14 4 (0.43%) Perl
14 4 (0.43%) VB
15 3 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 142 (15.24%) Degree
2 84 (9.01%) BPSS Clearance
3 65 (6.97%) TOGAF Certification
4 23 (2.47%) PMI Certification
5 17 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.61%) Security Cleared
7 12 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.86%) CSPO
8 8 (0.86%) SC Cleared
9 6 (0.64%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.64%) PMP
10 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.43%) CISSP
12 3 (0.32%) CCA
12 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.32%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 3 (0.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 3 (0.32%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
13 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.21%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (32.19%) QA
2 97 (10.41%) Accessibility
3 9 (0.97%) Data Quality
3 9 (0.97%) GDPR
4 8 (0.86%) Basel III
4 8 (0.86%) IFRS
4 8 (0.86%) IFRS 9
5 7 (0.75%) Basel II
5 7 (0.75%) Dodd-Frank
5 7 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.54%) Automotive SPICE
7 5 (0.54%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.32%) NIST
8 3 (0.32%) PMBOK
8 3 (0.32%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.21%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.21%) SLA
10 1 (0.11%) GxP
System Software
1 291 (31.22%) Docker
2 9 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (0.86%) Firmware
4 3 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 293 (31.44%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.54%) Terraform
3 5 (0.54%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.32%) Grafana
5 2 (0.21%) Graylog
6 1 (0.11%) Ansible
6 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Istio
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 246 (26.39%) Solace
2 86 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 65 (6.97%) Sparx
4 31 (3.33%) Google
5 30 (3.22%) Salesforce
6 27 (2.90%) SAP
7 15 (1.61%) Oracle
8 12 (1.29%) Databricks
8 12 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.86%) Bloomberg
10 7 (0.75%) Cisco
10 7 (0.75%) IBM
11 6 (0.64%) Apple
11 6 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.54%) Sybase
13 4 (0.43%) Splunk
14 3 (0.32%) Ping Identity
14 3 (0.32%) Sage
15 2 (0.21%) Optimizely
15 2 (0.21%) Workday