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 have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 115 60 66
Rank change year-on-year -55 +6 +33
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 1,543 6,355 5,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.95% 5.20% 4.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.02% 12.11% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,202 3,706 3,768
10th Percentile £43,036 £43,750 £38,037
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% +4.55% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Product Ownership is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,243 52,473 55,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.81% 42.93% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 14,017 29,568 33,811
10th Percentile £32,756 £34,996 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
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 Ownership within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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 -52 1,322 £69,412 +6.79% 574
UK excluding London -49 871 £61,000 +6.09% 419
Work from Home -33 751 £67,500 +3.85% 343
London -38 606 £80,000 +6.67% 214
North of England -21 266 £65,351 +9.78% 124
South East -64 153 £60,000 - 91
Midlands -49 146 £52,500 -4.55% 80
Scotland -34 134 £65,351 +13.65% 43
Yorkshire -18 133 £67,500 +8.00% 40
North West -13 123 £65,000 +15.23% 69
South West -21 103 £65,351 +18.82% 44
West Midlands -35 91 £51,000 -2.86% 58
East Midlands -24 55 £53,750 -10.42% 22
East of England -37 31 £62,500 +11.81% 20
Wales -15 30 £67,568 +32.49% 18
North East +22 9 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Northern Ireland +18 8 £50,000 +11.11% 2

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 70 (4.54%) Confluence
2 28 (1.81%) CMS
3 19 (1.23%) Apache
4 14 (0.91%) WebSphere
5 13 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.71%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.58%) nginx
8 8 (0.52%) IIS
9 6 (0.39%) MS Exchange
10 5 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Pig
11 3 (0.19%) DNN
11 3 (0.19%) Drupal
12 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.13%) Liferay
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 23 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.52%) Adobe XD
5 8 (0.52%) Sketch
6 7 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.39%) PTC Creo
7 6 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) InVision
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.13%) Marvel
9 2 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
9 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.065%) Blender
10 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.065%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 31 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.36%) Endur
3 7 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.19%) Magento
6 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.13%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.13%) SAP SRM
8 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.065%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 332 (21.52%) Azure
2 278 (18.02%) AWS
3 163 (10.56%) GCP
4 124 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (4.93%) SaaS
6 73 (4.73%) GitHub
7 72 (4.67%) Power Platform
8 60 (3.89%) PaaS
9 33 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
9 33 (2.14%) Serverless
10 28 (1.81%) OpenShift
11 25 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (1.56%) PowerApps
13 23 (1.49%) dbt
14 18 (1.17%) IaaS
15 16 (1.04%) Google Analytics
16 15 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
16 15 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 12 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.04%) SSL
2 9 (0.58%) AMQP
3 7 (0.45%) DSL
4 6 (0.39%) PBX
4 6 (0.39%) VoIP
5 5 (0.32%) WebEx
6 4 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.26%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.26%) VPN
7 3 (0.19%) Firewall
7 3 (0.19%) HTTP
7 3 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.19%) WAAS
8 2 (0.13%) DNS
8 2 (0.13%) Internet
8 2 (0.13%) Network Security
8 2 (0.13%) SSH
9 1 (0.065%) LAN
9 1 (0.065%) PPP
9 1 (0.065%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.28%) MongoDB
3 58 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
4 45 (2.92%) Power BI
5 36 (2.33%) NoSQL
6 35 (2.27%) Hadoop
7 32 (2.07%) Metadata
8 31 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (1.56%) Big Data
10 24 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (1.49%) BigQuery
12 21 (1.36%) Tableau
13 13 (0.84%) Data Lake
13 13 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (0.58%) Looker
15 9 (0.58%) MySQL
16 8 (0.52%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 141 (9.14%) JIRA
2 123 (7.97%) Jenkins
3 81 (5.25%) Git
4 62 (4.02%) Selenium
5 60 (3.89%) Cucumber
6 32 (2.07%) Cypress.io
7 22 (1.43%) Maven
7 22 (1.43%) Mocha
7 22 (1.43%) Postman
8 18 (1.17%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (0.78%) SonarQube
10 12 (0.78%) Spinnaker
11 11 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 10 (0.65%) Gradle
12 10 (0.65%) REST Assured
12 10 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.65%) webpack
13 9 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 559 (36.23%) Finance
2 392 (25.41%) Social Skills
3 231 (14.97%) Banking
4 198 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 143 (9.27%) Retail
7 75 (4.86%) Marketing
8 74 (4.80%) Public Sector
9 60 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (3.76%) Legal
11 52 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
12 51 (3.31%) Law
13 42 (2.72%) Front Office
14 20 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 17 (1.10%) Digital Healthcare
16 16 (1.04%) Automotive
16 16 (1.04%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.97%) Back Office
18 14 (0.91%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 348 (22.55%) Product Owner
2 247 (16.01%) Senior
3 205 (13.29%) Lead
4 182 (11.80%) Developer
5 180 (11.67%) Analyst
6 135 (8.75%) Business Analyst
7 122 (7.91%) Architect
8 108 (7.00%) Product Manager
9 105 (6.80%) Software Engineer
10 83 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
11 62 (4.02%) Full Stack Developer
12 45 (2.92%) Lead Software Engineer
12 45 (2.92%) Product Analyst
13 42 (2.72%) Senior Developer
14 40 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
15 35 (2.27%) Product Business Analyst
16 34 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
16 34 (2.20%) Security Engineer
17 33 (2.14%) Digital Product Owner
18 32 (2.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (11.41%) React
2 129 (8.36%) .NET
3 106 (6.87%) HTML
4 104 (6.74%) AngularJS
5 84 (5.44%) CSS
6 65 (4.21%) Node.js
7 57 (3.69%) .NET Core
8 56 (3.63%) Kafka
9 55 (3.56%) REST
10 47 (3.05%) RESTful
11 43 (2.79%) .NET Framework
12 32 (2.07%) JSON
12 32 (2.07%) Spring
13 29 (1.88%) Web Services
14 28 (1.81%) Spring Boot
15 26 (1.69%) React Native
15 26 (1.69%) Velocity
16 24 (1.56%) ASP.NET
17 22 (1.43%) Vue
18 21 (1.36%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 78 (5.06%) Public Cloud
2 66 (4.28%) Cloud Native
3 42 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 41 (2.66%) Derivative
5 36 (2.33%) Equities
6 35 (2.27%) Fixed Income
7 34 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (2.14%) Hedge funds
9 31 (2.01%) Virtual Team
10 29 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (1.88%) Mobile App
11 26 (1.69%) Cyberattack
12 25 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 19 (1.23%) Onboarding
14 12 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.78%) Mobile Banking
15 11 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.71%) Driving Licence
15 11 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.56%) Linux
2 45 (2.92%) Apple iOS
3 21 (1.36%) Android
4 20 (1.30%) Windows
5 10 (0.65%) Unix
6 7 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.065%) CentOS
11 1 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.065%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,101 (71.35%) Agile
2 524 (33.96%) Roadmaps
3 400 (25.92%) Scrum
4 318 (20.61%) DevOps
5 259 (16.79%) User Stories
6 246 (15.94%) Product Roadmap
7 240 (15.55%) Mentoring
8 232 (15.04%) CI/CD
9 228 (14.78%) Software Engineering
10 206 (13.35%) Product Backlog
11 189 (12.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 187 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
13 174 (11.28%) User Experience
14 161 (10.43%) Coaching
15 153 (9.92%) Artificial Intelligence
16 143 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 143 (9.27%) Test Automation
17 140 (9.07%) Microservices
18 135 (8.75%) Acceptance Criteria
19 130 (8.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 206 (13.35%) SQL
2 170 (11.02%) Java
3 166 (10.76%) JavaScript
4 165 (10.69%) Python
5 150 (9.72%) C#
6 96 (6.22%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.81%) T-SQL
8 21 (1.36%) C++
9 19 (1.23%) Groovy
10 17 (1.10%) PHP
11 16 (1.04%) Go
11 16 (1.04%) PowerShell
12 11 (0.71%) Bash
13 9 (0.58%) Scala
14 8 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.52%) Rust
15 7 (0.45%) C
15 7 (0.45%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 190 (12.31%) Degree
2 130 (8.43%) Security Cleared
3 62 (4.02%) SC Cleared
4 54 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.84%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.71%) CISSP
10 11 (0.71%) HNC
11 10 (0.65%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.65%) OCP
11 10 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.58%) CSPO
13 7 (0.45%) ISEB
13 7 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.39%) MCSA
14 6 (0.39%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.26%) QA
2 34 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.17%) SLA
5 14 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.78%) PMO
8 10 (0.65%) MiFID
9 9 (0.58%) GDPR
10 8 (0.52%) EMIR
11 7 (0.45%) GRC
11 7 (0.45%) WCAG
12 5 (0.32%) NCSC
12 5 (0.32%) NIST
13 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.065%) AUTOSAR
14 1 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.065%) GxP
14 1 (0.065%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.065%) SOC 2
System Software
1 137 (8.88%) Docker
2 16 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
4 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) IAG
5 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 168 (10.89%) Kubernetes
2 120 (7.78%) Terraform
3 11 (0.71%) Ansible
4 10 (0.65%) SCCM
5 9 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.58%) Puppet
6 8 (0.52%) Grafana
6 8 (0.52%) Kibana
6 8 (0.52%) Nagios
7 6 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.39%) SCOM
8 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.19%) Argo
9 3 (0.19%) Istio
9 3 (0.19%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.13%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.065%) Nmap
11 1 (0.065%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 152 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 139 (9.01%) Google
3 67 (4.34%) Oracle
4 47 (3.05%) SAP
5 36 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 24 (1.56%) IBM
7 23 (1.49%) Splunk
8 21 (1.36%) Atlassian
8 21 (1.36%) Dynatrace
9 20 (1.30%) Adobe
10 18 (1.17%) Databricks
11 15 (0.97%) Alteryx
11 15 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.91%) New Relic
13 12 (0.78%) TOWER Software
14 10 (0.65%) Confluent
15 8 (0.52%) Veracode
16 7 (0.45%) MuleSoft
17 6 (0.39%) MathWorks
17 6 (0.39%) Sitecore