Product Owner
UK

The median Product Owner salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 475 535
Rank change year-on-year +2 +60 -145
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 353 191 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.43% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 209 113 170
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.38% -6.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £93,100 £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 106,119 44,341 74,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.67% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,014 26,036 45,320
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Product Owner job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Owner
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the UK

Product Owner
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Owner over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 September 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
England +60 331 £70,000 +6.06% 300
UK excluding London -45 171 £65,000 +18.18% 122
London +28 159 £88,750 +18.33% 186
Work from Home +62 148 £77,500 +34.78% 105
North of England -22 64 £61,354 +4.43% 34
North West +12 43 £62,500 -5.66% 25
South East -26 32 £67,125 +22.05% 22
Midlands -30 31 £62,500 +24.38% 14
South West -71 23 £73,750 +28.26% 21
West Midlands -24 21 £55,000 - 7
Yorkshire -21 18 £57,500 -18.44% 9
East of England -16 14 £80,000 +6.67% 21
East Midlands -27 9 £65,000 +52.94% 7
Scotland -2 4 - - 10
North East -63 3 £52,500 +29.11%
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Wales -79 1 £65,000 +26.91% 1

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 September 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 featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 173 (49.01%) Roadmaps
2 161 (45.61%) Agile
3 114 (32.29%) User Stories
4 107 (30.31%) Product Backlog
5 102 (28.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 96 (27.20%) Product Vision
7 88 (24.93%) Backlog Management
8 72 (20.40%) Sprint Planning
9 68 (19.26%) Decision-Making
10 62 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (17.28%) Product Management
12 59 (16.71%) Product Roadmap
13 58 (16.43%) AI
14 57 (16.15%) Workflow
15 56 (15.86%) Acceptance Criteria
15 56 (15.86%) Scrum
16 54 (15.30%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 49 (13.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 45 (12.75%) Analytics
19 43 (12.18%) JIRA
20 42 (11.90%) Backlog Refinement
20 42 (11.90%) Product Requirements
21 40 (11.33%) Customer Experience
22 38 (10.76%) ERP
23 37 (10.48%) Product Strategy
24 34 (9.63%) QA
25 33 (9.35%) Azure
25 33 (9.35%) Digital Marketing
25 33 (9.35%) Personalization
26 32 (9.07%) Broadband

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 30 (8.50%) Confluence
2 5 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.13%) CMS
3 4 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 28 (7.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Trello
4 1 (0.28%) Notion
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (6.52%) Workfront
2 10 (2.83%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (2.27%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (2.27%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (2.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.28%) Actimize
8 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.28%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 33 (9.35%) Azure
2 28 (7.93%) iPaaS
2 28 (7.93%) SaaS
3 17 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (3.12%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.55%) Anthropic Claude
5 9 (2.55%) Copilot Studio
6 8 (2.27%) AWS
6 8 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.70%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.42%) Azure AI
8 5 (1.42%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.85%) GCP
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.28%) GitHub
11 1 (0.28%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (0.28%) IaaS
11 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.07%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.50%) Metadata
2 4 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.13%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.85%) Tableau
4 2 (0.57%) Power BI
5 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.28%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 43 (12.18%) JIRA
2 4 (1.13%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.28%) JIRA Agile
General
1 121 (34.28%) Social Skills
2 110 (31.16%) Finance
3 65 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (14.16%) Marketing
5 39 (11.05%) Banking
6 22 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (4.53%) Retail
8 13 (3.68%) Aerospace
9 12 (3.40%) Legal
10 11 (3.12%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.83%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.55%) Advertising
13 8 (2.27%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.98%) Front Office
14 7 (1.98%) Italian Language
14 7 (1.98%) Japanese Language
14 7 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.70%) Automotive
15 6 (1.70%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.97%) REST
2 8 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.98%) SOAP
4 5 (1.42%) Gherkin
5 4 (1.13%) React
6 3 (0.85%) Node.js
7 2 (0.57%) Express.js
7 2 (0.57%) Fastify
7 2 (0.57%) Kafka
7 2 (0.57%) Middleware
8 1 (0.28%) .NET
8 1 (0.28%) Next.js
8 1 (0.28%) React Native
8 1 (0.28%) RESTful
8 1 (0.28%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 353 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 31 (8.78%) Marketing Technology
2 31 (8.78%) Social Media
3 30 (8.50%) Over-the-Top Content
4 13 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.83%) Reinsurance
7 7 (1.98%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.42%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.13%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.13%) FMCG
9 4 (1.13%) Life Science
9 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.13%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.13%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (49.01%) Roadmaps
2 161 (45.61%) Agile
3 114 (32.29%) User Stories
4 107 (30.31%) Product Backlog
5 102 (28.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 96 (27.20%) Product Vision
7 88 (24.93%) Backlog Management
8 72 (20.40%) Sprint Planning
9 68 (19.26%) Decision-Making
10 62 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (17.28%) Product Management
12 59 (16.71%) Product Roadmap
13 58 (16.43%) AI
14 57 (16.15%) Workflow
15 56 (15.86%) Acceptance Criteria
15 56 (15.86%) Scrum
16 54 (15.30%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 49 (13.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 45 (12.75%) Analytics
19 42 (11.90%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.78%) SQL
2 2 (0.57%) Java
3 1 (0.28%) C#
3 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (5.95%) CSPO
2 12 (3.40%) Degree
3 7 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (1.70%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.42%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.28%) IIBA
6 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.63%) QA
2 12 (3.40%) GDPR
3 7 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.57%) GAAP
4 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.57%) WCAG
5 1 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (8.78%) Adobe
2 26 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.95%) Oracle
4 11 (3.12%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.27%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.27%) SAP
6 7 (1.98%) Databricks
7 6 (1.70%) Google
8 4 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.13%) Workday
9 1 (0.28%) Aderant
9 1 (0.28%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.28%) IFS
9 1 (0.28%) Pardot
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud