Product Owner Jobs

Product Owner
UK

The median Product Owner salary in the UK is £68,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 548 447
Rank change year-on-year +21 -101 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 192 378 707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.38% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.40% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 121 299 515
10th Percentile £48,000 £47,050 £43,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,014
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £98,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 49,922 93,907 92,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.63% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,447 67,290 58,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Owner.

Salary trend for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Owner over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Top 15 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 12 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
England -14 164 £70,000 +7.28% 208
UK excluding London +83 91 £57,500 -4.17% 149
London +26 88 £80,000 -5.88% 90
Work from Home +73 76 £70,000 +11.50% 110
North of England +40 26 £60,000 -4.43% 41
North West -9 20 £60,000 -0.39% 30
Scotland +111 17 £62,500 +13.64% 11
South East +76 17 £62,500 -3.85% 44
Midlands +51 17 £48,000 -26.15% 18
West Midlands +54 15 £48,000 -24.71% 13
South West +91 8 £55,000 - 14
East of England +46 6 £60,000 +23.08% 16
Yorkshire +61 4 £56,250 -13.46% 8
North East +44 2 £52,500 -16.38% 3
East Midlands +30 2 £60,000 -14.29% 5

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, 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 featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 192 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 136 (70.83%) Agile
3 129 (67.19%) Roadmaps
4 73 (38.02%) Social Skills
5 70 (36.46%) Backlog Management
5 70 (36.46%) Finance
6 62 (32.29%) Product Roadmap
7 60 (31.25%) Product Backlog
8 59 (30.73%) Product Vision
9 53 (27.60%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 53 (27.60%) User Stories
10 46 (23.96%) Scrum
11 43 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (21.35%) Product Management
13 39 (20.31%) Analytics
14 38 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
15 37 (19.27%) JIRA
16 34 (17.71%) User Experience
16 34 (17.71%) Acceptance Criteria
17 33 (17.19%) Strategic Roadmap
18 30 (15.63%) Marketing
19 28 (14.58%) Product Strategy
20 27 (14.06%) Degree
21 25 (13.02%) CRM
22 23 (11.98%) Data Lake
23 22 (11.46%) Creative Thinking
23 22 (11.46%) Customer Experience
24 21 (10.94%) Scaled Agile Framework
24 21 (10.94%) Salesforce

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (4.69%) CMS
2 8 (4.17%) Confluence
3 5 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.56%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.13%) Trello
3 5 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.08%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (2.08%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (7.81%) Power Platform
2 13 (6.77%) Miro
2 13 (6.77%) SaaS
3 8 (4.17%) Azure
4 6 (3.13%) Figma
4 6 (3.13%) Google Analytics
5 5 (2.60%) Google Workspace
5 5 (2.60%) Slack
6 4 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.56%) GCP
7 3 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.56%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.52%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.52%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.08%) Internet
2 3 (1.56%) Intranet
3 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.98%) Data Lake
2 12 (6.25%) Power BI
3 8 (4.17%) Tableau
4 6 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 37 (19.27%) JIRA
2 4 (2.08%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.04%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.52%) Git
General
1 73 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 70 (36.46%) Finance
3 37 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.63%) Marketing
5 15 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (6.77%) Financial Institution
7 11 (5.73%) Publishing
8 10 (5.21%) Front Office
9 9 (4.69%) Manufacturing
9 9 (4.69%) Retail
10 7 (3.65%) Legal
11 6 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.08%) Banking
12 4 (2.08%) Law
12 4 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.56%) Automotive
13 3 (1.56%) Back Office
13 3 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.13%) CSS
1 6 (3.13%) HTML
2 3 (1.56%) EDI
3 1 (0.52%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 192 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.21%) Derivative
2 10 (5.21%) Equities
2 10 (5.21%) Fixed Income
2 10 (5.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (5.21%) Hedge funds
3 6 (3.13%) FMCG
3 6 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.56%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.04%) Robotics
7 1 (0.52%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.52%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (70.83%) Agile
2 129 (67.19%) Roadmaps
3 70 (36.46%) Backlog Management
4 62 (32.29%) Product Roadmap
5 60 (31.25%) Product Backlog
6 59 (30.73%) Product Vision
7 53 (27.60%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 53 (27.60%) User Stories
8 46 (23.96%) Scrum
9 43 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (21.35%) Product Management
11 39 (20.31%) Analytics
12 38 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (17.71%) Acceptance Criteria
13 34 (17.71%) User Experience
14 33 (17.19%) Strategic Roadmap
15 28 (14.58%) Product Strategy
16 25 (13.02%) CRM
17 22 (11.46%) Creative Thinking
17 22 (11.46%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.13%) SQL
2 3 (1.56%) Python
2 3 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (14.06%) Degree
2 7 (3.65%) CSPO
3 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.77%) QA
2 6 (3.13%) MiFID
3 3 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.04%) GxP
5 1 (0.52%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) CASB
Vendors
1 21 (10.94%) Salesforce
2 20 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.77%) Google
4 4 (2.08%) IBM
4 4 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.56%) Databricks
5 3 (1.56%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.04%) Pardot
7 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.52%) Facebook
7 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.52%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.52%) SAP
7 1 (0.52%) Sun