Product Ownership Jobs

Product Ownership
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 103 60
Rank change year-on-year -47 -43 +8
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 1,360 1,795 7,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 3.06% 5.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.49% 8.06% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 767 1,418 3,938
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £81,625
90th Percentile £109,250 £100,000 £97,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,750 22,260 64,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.56% 37.91% 45.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,956 16,186 31,701
10th Percentile £32,875 £34,234 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,628 £45,321 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 26 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 October 2024. 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 -40 1,246 £70,000 +3.70% 406
UK excluding London -84 710 £60,000 - 275
London -5 612 £85,000 +6.25% 152
Work from Home -42 572 £60,000 -7.74% 377
South East -23 188 £62,500 +13.64% 57
North of England -81 172 £60,000 -7.69% 88
Midlands -75 110 £57,500 +9.52% 57
North West -59 101 £60,000 -1.64% 56
South West -25 85 £57,500 -4.56% 30
West Midlands -59 79 £60,000 +17.65% 48
East of England -17 68 £65,000 +8.33% 15
Yorkshire -57 61 £62,500 -7.41% 22
Scotland -50 60 £55,000 -17.20% 14
East Midlands -50 31 £35,000 -36.36% 9
Wales +29 26 £57,215 -15.32% 11
North East -29 10 £62,215 +13.12% 10
Northern Ireland +21 3 £59,430 +32.07% 6
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Product Ownership
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 57 (4.19%) Confluence
2 46 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.01%) Apache
4 24 (1.76%) CMS
5 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.96%) nginx
7 8 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.22%) Drupal
9 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.22%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.15%) Appian
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.074%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.76%) Adobe After Effects
1 24 (1.76%) Adobe Illustrator
1 24 (1.76%) Adobe Premiere
1 24 (1.76%) InDesign
1 24 (1.76%) Photoshop
2 16 (1.18%) Trello
3 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.59%) Sketch
6 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 50 (3.68%) Aladdin
2 23 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
3 15 (1.10%) Ripple
4 12 (0.88%) SAP ERP
5 11 (0.81%) Endur
6 10 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
7 9 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
7 9 (0.66%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.59%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 7 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.29%) Demantra
10 4 (0.29%) Eagle PACE
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle ASCP
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 282 (20.74%) Azure
2 281 (20.66%) AWS
3 99 (7.28%) Power Platform
4 96 (7.06%) GCP
5 71 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
5 71 (5.22%) SaaS
5 71 (5.22%) Serverless
6 51 (3.75%) dbt
7 41 (3.01%) GitHub
8 37 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
9 33 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 33 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 25 (1.84%) Figma
12 24 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 24 (1.76%) Azure Functions
13 22 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (1.62%) PowerApps
14 20 (1.47%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 122 (8.97%) Broadband
2 26 (1.91%) Intranet
3 20 (1.47%) Network Security
4 13 (0.96%) Internet
5 10 (0.74%) Wireless
6 8 (0.59%) HTTP
7 7 (0.51%) Firewall
8 4 (0.29%) SAN
8 4 (0.29%) VPN
9 3 (0.22%) DNS
10 2 (0.15%) DKIM
10 2 (0.15%) DMARC
10 2 (0.15%) DSL
10 2 (0.15%) SMTP
10 2 (0.15%) WAN
11 1 (0.074%) HSRP
11 1 (0.074%) MQTT
11 1 (0.074%) NGFW
11 1 (0.074%) Spanning Tree
11 1 (0.074%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (9.63%) MongoDB
2 114 (8.38%) MySQL
3 110 (8.09%) Relational Database
4 66 (4.85%) Power BI
5 52 (3.82%) SQL Server
6 48 (3.53%) Data Lake
7 42 (3.09%) Tableau
8 36 (2.65%) Apache Arrow
8 36 (2.65%) Dremio
9 31 (2.28%) Big Data
10 30 (2.21%) NoSQL
11 27 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (1.10%) Redis
14 6 (0.44%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 182 (13.38%) Git
2 109 (8.01%) GitLab
3 107 (7.87%) JIRA
4 33 (2.43%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.54%) Artifactory
6 19 (1.40%) SonarQube
7 13 (0.96%) Postman
7 13 (0.96%) Selenium
8 12 (0.88%) Terragrunt
8 12 (0.88%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.51%) Mercurial
10 7 (0.51%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.51%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.51%) Visual Studio Team System
10 7 (0.51%) webpack
11 6 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.37%) JUnit
12 5 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 393 (28.90%) Finance
2 335 (24.63%) Social Skills
3 144 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (10.51%) Banking
5 127 (9.34%) Front Office
6 115 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 98 (7.21%) Marketing
8 87 (6.40%) Investment Banking
9 60 (4.41%) Public Sector
10 46 (3.38%) Law
11 45 (3.31%) Retail
12 41 (3.01%) Games
13 39 (2.87%) Legal
14 34 (2.50%) Automotive
15 29 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
17 19 (1.40%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.40%) Publishing
18 18 (1.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 257 (18.90%) Senior
2 246 (18.09%) Analyst
3 227 (16.69%) Product Manager
4 222 (16.32%) Product Owner
5 182 (13.38%) Developer
6 142 (10.44%) Business Analyst
7 105 (7.72%) Lead
8 101 (7.43%) Technical Manager
9 96 (7.06%) Technical Product Manager
10 85 (6.25%) Architect
11 77 (5.66%) Software Engineer
12 76 (5.59%) Senior Developer
13 51 (3.75%) Business Manager
14 48 (3.53%) Senior Manager
15 46 (3.38%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
16 42 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
17 39 (2.87%) Financial Analyst
18 37 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
19 32 (2.35%) Finance Business Analyst
20 30 (2.21%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (10.37%) .NET
2 89 (6.54%) CSS
2 89 (6.54%) React
3 84 (6.18%) HTML
4 72 (5.29%) AngularJS
5 57 (4.19%) Node.js
6 48 (3.53%) Web Services
7 47 (3.46%) REST
8 42 (3.09%) .NET Core
9 30 (2.21%) ASP.NET
9 30 (2.21%) Middleware
10 28 (2.06%) RESTful
11 27 (1.99%) JSON
12 22 (1.62%) .NET Framework
13 19 (1.40%) Blazor
14 18 (1.32%) Spring
15 17 (1.25%) GraphQL
16 16 (1.18%) Swagger
17 15 (1.10%) ARM Templates
17 15 (1.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 164 (12.06%) Cloud Native
2 123 (9.04%) Fixed Income
2 123 (9.04%) Hedge funds
3 94 (6.91%) Equities
3 94 (6.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 93 (6.84%) Derivative
5 43 (3.16%) Mobile App
6 32 (2.35%) Public Cloud
7 24 (1.76%) Video Editing
8 23 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.54%) Mobile Games
10 18 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.18%) IoT
13 15 (1.10%) Blockchain
14 14 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.03%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.62%) Android
1 22 (1.62%) Apple iOS
2 14 (1.03%) Linux
3 4 (0.29%) Windows
4 2 (0.15%) CentOS
4 2 (0.15%) Debian
4 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.074%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (54.63%) Agile
2 351 (25.81%) Roadmaps
3 347 (25.51%) DevOps
4 305 (22.43%) Scrum
5 272 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 250 (18.38%) Software Engineering
7 219 (16.10%) Mentoring
8 212 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
9 189 (13.90%) Microservices
10 188 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 180 (13.24%) User Stories
12 178 (13.09%) SDLC
13 176 (12.94%) Acceptance Criteria
14 173 (12.72%) Analytics
15 151 (11.10%) Product Backlog
16 148 (10.88%) Design Patterns
17 138 (10.15%) Continuous Delivery
17 138 (10.15%) Product Roadmap
18 128 (9.41%) Asset Management
18 128 (9.41%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 300 (22.06%) SQL
2 293 (21.54%) Python
3 182 (13.38%) JavaScript
4 158 (11.62%) C#
5 101 (7.43%) TypeScript
6 77 (5.66%) Java
7 28 (2.06%) PHP
8 15 (1.10%) C
8 15 (1.10%) Go
9 13 (0.96%) C++
10 12 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 12 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 12 (0.88%) Scala
11 8 (0.59%) Bash
12 7 (0.51%) Groovy
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.29%) ABAP
14 4 (0.29%) Bicep
14 4 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 196 (14.41%) Degree
2 107 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 72 (5.29%) SC Cleared
4 55 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.40%) CISSP
10 18 (1.32%) CISA
11 17 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.10%) CCNA
12 15 (1.10%) CCNP
12 15 (1.10%) CEH
12 15 (1.10%) CRISC
13 7 (0.51%) CBAP
13 7 (0.51%) CSPO
13 7 (0.51%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.37%) PMP
15 4 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (17.57%) QA
2 64 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 37 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.88%) SLA
5 11 (0.81%) GDPR
6 6 (0.44%) WCAG
7 5 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.22%) NIST
9 3 (0.22%) PMO
10 2 (0.15%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.15%) WAI
11 1 (0.074%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.074%) COPPA
11 1 (0.074%) GRC
11 1 (0.074%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.074%) SEPA
System Software
1 174 (12.79%) Docker
2 10 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 182 (13.38%) Kubernetes
2 45 (3.31%) Terraform
3 21 (1.54%) Ansible
4 13 (0.96%) Istio
5 5 (0.37%) Grafana
6 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.074%) CASB
7 1 (0.074%) Consul
7 1 (0.074%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.074%) Podman
7 1 (0.074%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 116 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.88%) Bloomberg
3 46 (3.38%) BISAM
3 46 (3.38%) Salesforce
4 42 (3.09%) SAP
5 41 (3.01%) Google
6 39 (2.87%) Adobe
7 37 (2.72%) Databricks
8 24 (1.76%) Oracle
9 23 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 22 (1.62%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.18%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.88%) Black Duck
13 8 (0.59%) Pega
14 6 (0.44%) Cadence
14 6 (0.44%) Optimizely
15 4 (0.29%) Reuters
16 3 (0.22%) Citrix
16 3 (0.22%) Epicor
16 3 (0.22%) HP