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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 149 112
Rank change year-on-year -10 -37 -45
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 510 667 863
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.21% 1.83% 2.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.72% 5.35% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 276 397 647
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,813 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £82,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £66,750 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.64% +3.70% +3.85%

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 13,692 12,468 11,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.53% 34.13% 35.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,314 5,420 8,068
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,000 £29,510
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £38,852
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,152 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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
Scotland +47 147 £67,000 +11.67% 23
North of England -35 106 £60,000 - 61
South East -43 98 £65,000 - 86
Midlands -6 78 £55,000 -8.33% 49
West Midlands +12 58 £60,000 -4.00% 27
North West -28 51 £67,500 +15.39% 38
South West -1 42 £55,000 -8.33% 25
Yorkshire -30 41 £50,000 -25.65% 18
East of England -3 29 £57,500 -11.54% 22
East Midlands -18 18 £46,500 -22.50% 22
North East +13 14 £50,000 -15.87% 5
Wales -15 8 £54,969 +9.94% 10
Northern Ireland -8 2 £65,000 +9.37% 3
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 44 (8.63%) Confluence
2 19 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.53%) SharePoint
4 13 (2.55%) CMS
5 5 (0.98%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 2 (0.39%) Mendix
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.20%) Appian
8 1 (0.20%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.98%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.59%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.59%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (3.53%) Workday HCM
2 10 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.98%) Shopify
4 4 (0.78%) Maximo
5 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 210 (41.18%) Azure
2 99 (19.41%) Azure DevOps
3 75 (14.71%) AWS
4 67 (13.14%) SaaS
5 59 (11.57%) GitHub
6 49 (9.61%) Microsoft 365
7 41 (8.04%) Entra ID
7 41 (8.04%) Power Platform
8 30 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
9 20 (3.92%) Snowflake
10 19 (3.73%) Datadog
11 18 (3.53%) GCP
11 18 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (2.94%) Figma
14 12 (2.35%) Power Automate
14 12 (2.35%) Salesforce Einstein
15 11 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (2.16%) Serverless
16 10 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.33%) Broadband
2 7 (1.37%) DNS
3 6 (1.18%) Firewall
3 6 (1.18%) WAN
4 4 (0.78%) BGP
4 4 (0.78%) HTTP
4 4 (0.78%) LAN
4 4 (0.78%) MPLS
4 4 (0.78%) Wireless
5 3 (0.59%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.39%) GSM
6 2 (0.39%) LTE
6 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.39%) VLAN
6 2 (0.39%) VPN
7 1 (0.20%) AMQP
7 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.20%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.08%) Power BI
2 25 (4.90%) MySQL
3 21 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (3.33%) Tableau
5 15 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (2.75%) BusinessObjects
7 12 (2.35%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.35%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.96%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.76%) Metadata
10 8 (1.57%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.18%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.18%) SAP BW
13 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.78%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.59%) Data Mining
14 3 (0.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 76 (14.90%) JIRA
2 24 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.51%) Git
3 23 (4.51%) GitLab
4 19 (3.73%) Selenium
5 16 (3.14%) SonarQube
6 10 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (1.96%) Robot Framework
7 9 (1.76%) Postman
8 8 (1.57%) Snyk
9 6 (1.18%) Balsamiq
9 6 (1.18%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.98%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.98%) git-flow
10 5 (0.98%) JUnit
11 4 (0.78%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.59%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.59%) ERwin
12 3 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.59%) Vite
General
1 193 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 171 (33.53%) Finance
3 99 (19.41%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (13.53%) Marketing
5 32 (6.27%) Law
6 26 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (5.10%) Legal
7 23 (4.51%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.73%) Games
9 16 (3.14%) Retail
10 12 (2.35%) Advertising
11 10 (1.96%) Banking
12 7 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.98%) Billing
13 5 (0.98%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.78%) Electronics
14 4 (0.78%) Front Office
15 3 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (19.80%) Product Owner
2 82 (16.08%) Analyst
3 72 (14.12%) Developer
4 68 (13.33%) Lead
5 65 (12.75%) Senior
6 43 (8.43%) Business Analyst
7 29 (5.69%) Architect
8 24 (4.71%) Product Manager
9 14 (2.75%) Development Engineer
9 14 (2.75%) Lead Developer
9 14 (2.75%) Salesforce Architect
9 14 (2.75%) Software Engineer
10 13 (2.55%) QA Engineer
11 12 (2.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (2.35%) Report Developer
12 11 (2.16%) C# Developer
12 11 (2.16%) Consultant
12 11 (2.16%) QA Automation Engineer
12 11 (2.16%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (2.16%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (15.69%) .NET
2 61 (11.96%) REST
3 49 (9.61%) SOAP
4 37 (7.25%) Lightning Web Components
4 37 (7.25%) React
5 30 (5.88%) CSS
6 29 (5.69%) HTML
7 20 (3.92%) AngularJS
8 18 (3.53%) ADO
9 15 (2.94%) Kafka
9 15 (2.94%) RESTful
9 15 (2.94%) Visualforce
10 14 (2.75%) SAML
10 14 (2.75%) Web Services
11 13 (2.55%) Vue
12 10 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (1.76%) Spring
13 9 (1.76%) Spring Boot
14 8 (1.57%) Blazor
15 7 (1.37%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.10%) Onboarding
2 23 (4.51%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.73%) Security Posture
5 16 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.98%) IoT
9 5 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.78%) PMI
10 4 (0.78%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.59%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.10%) Windows
2 10 (1.96%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (70.78%) Agile
2 178 (34.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 169 (33.14%) Roadmaps
4 167 (32.75%) DevOps
5 143 (28.04%) Coaching
6 125 (24.51%) Scrum
7 118 (23.14%) Asset Management
8 107 (20.98%) CI/CD
8 107 (20.98%) Mentoring
9 105 (20.59%) AI
10 95 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
11 94 (18.43%) User Stories
12 85 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
13 80 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 77 (15.10%) User Experience
15 66 (12.94%) Data Modelling
16 65 (12.75%) Test Automation
17 58 (11.37%) Analytics
18 55 (10.78%) Product Backlog
18 55 (10.78%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 91 (17.84%) Python
2 74 (14.51%) SQL
3 71 (13.92%) C#
4 61 (11.96%) JavaScript
5 50 (9.80%) PowerShell
6 37 (7.25%) Apex Code
7 24 (4.71%) TypeScript
8 23 (4.51%) Bash
8 23 (4.51%) Java
9 15 (2.94%) SOQL
9 15 (2.94%) SOSL
10 13 (2.55%) PHP
11 7 (1.37%) Go
12 6 (1.18%) ANSI SQL
13 5 (0.98%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.20%) C++
14 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 37 (7.25%) Degree
2 35 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 19 (3.73%) DV Cleared
4 12 (2.35%) ISTQB
4 12 (2.35%) PMI Certification
4 12 (2.35%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.96%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.96%) PMP
6 7 (1.37%) ISEB
7 5 (0.98%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.98%) HND
8 4 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.59%) IBM Certification
9 3 (0.59%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) CCNA
10 2 (0.39%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (14.31%) QA
2 33 (6.47%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.35%) WCAG
4 9 (1.76%) GDPR
5 8 (1.57%) NIST
6 7 (1.37%) PMO
6 7 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
7 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.98%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.98%) SLA
9 2 (0.39%) NCSC
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (6.86%) Docker
2 26 (5.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.20%) RACF
Systems Management
1 57 (11.18%) Terraform
2 30 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (5.69%) Kubernetes
4 23 (4.51%) Grafana
5 20 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.55%) Ansible
7 10 (1.96%) SCCM
8 9 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.98%) CloudHub
10 2 (0.39%) Nessus
11 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 63 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.80%) Salesforce
3 33 (6.47%) SAP
4 26 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.92%) Splunk
6 18 (3.53%) Oracle
6 18 (3.53%) Workday
7 13 (2.55%) MuleSoft
8 12 (2.35%) Adobe
9 9 (1.76%) Google
10 8 (1.57%) Black Duck
10 8 (1.57%) Coverity
11 5 (0.98%) Freshdesk
11 5 (0.98%) IBM
11 5 (0.98%) Nintex
12 4 (0.78%) Charles River
12 4 (0.78%) F5
12 4 (0.78%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.78%) SolarWinds
13 3 (0.59%) Atlassian