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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 139 80
Rank change year-on-year +25 -59 -21
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 1,500 2,104 3,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.71% 2.04% 3.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.28% 5.90% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 654 1,385 2,335
10th Percentile £47,650 £42,200 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,176 £48,750 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,238 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,965 £60,249
% change year-on-year +12.14% -3.79% +9.54%

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 20,604 35,638 42,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.19% 34.51% 43.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,493 23,121 22,633
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,084 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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 +24 1,332 £70,000 +12.00% 3,571
UK excluding London +28 958 £65,000 +12.14% 3,597
Work from Home +43 818 £71,991 +19.99% 1,753
London +14 433 £78,750 +4.37% 426
North of England +48 390 £65,000 +12.14% 832
North West +42 294 £57,560 -0.70% 398
South East +11 194 £65,000 +1.56% 1,011
Midlands +15 132 £62,500 +9.65% 696
Scotland +41 118 £70,750 +28.64% 156
Yorkshire +41 87 £77,500 +30.20% 338
West Midlands -17 76 £60,000 +4.35% 378
East of England +43 59 £62,500 +26.26% 495
East Midlands +48 56 £65,000 +30.00% 269
South West -2 55 £65,000 +13.04% 403
North East +24 9 £50,000 -13.74% 97
Wales +24 7 £59,857 +14.01% 93
Northern Ireland +43 4 - - 43

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
1 274 (18.27%) Confluence
2 25 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.60%) CMS
4 16 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.47%) Kentico
6 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.33%) Apache
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) CICS
10 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.067%) nginx
11 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.067%) Solana
11 1 (0.067%) ThingWorx
11 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 97 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.80%) Trello
4 10 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.47%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.20%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 65 (4.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (4.33%) Teamcenter
2 24 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 2 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.067%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.067%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.067%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.067%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 459 (30.60%) Azure
2 385 (25.67%) AWS
3 239 (15.93%) GCP
4 95 (6.33%) Miro
5 90 (6.00%) SaaS
6 73 (4.87%) Asana
7 72 (4.80%) Power Platform
8 42 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (2.47%) GitHub
10 34 (2.27%) Figma
10 34 (2.27%) Serverless
11 32 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
13 25 (1.67%) PowerApps
14 23 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 22 (1.47%) Google Analytics
16 21 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (1.20%) Entra ID
18 14 (0.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 151 (10.07%) Broadband
2 18 (1.20%) HTTP
3 11 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.60%) Internet
5 8 (0.53%) Firewall
5 8 (0.53%) Modbus
6 7 (0.47%) Intranet
7 5 (0.33%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.33%) WAN
8 4 (0.27%) DNS
8 4 (0.27%) Network Security
9 3 (0.20%) SSL
10 2 (0.13%) BGP
10 2 (0.13%) VPN
11 1 (0.067%) RTP
11 1 (0.067%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.067%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (19.67%) SQL Server
2 57 (3.80%) Power BI
3 42 (2.80%) Data Lake
3 42 (2.80%) NoSQL
4 32 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (1.60%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (1.33%) MongoDB
8 19 (1.27%) Big Data
8 19 (1.27%) MySQL
9 18 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.07%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.00%) Tableau
12 12 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (0.80%) Metadata
13 10 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.67%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (0.67%) Dremio
13 10 (0.67%) Hadoop
14 8 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 446 (29.73%) JIRA
2 260 (17.33%) Cucumber
3 258 (17.20%) Selenium
4 257 (17.13%) GitLab
4 257 (17.13%) Maven
5 252 (16.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 250 (16.67%) Bitbucket
7 249 (16.60%) SonarQube
8 65 (4.33%) Rational DOORS
9 43 (2.87%) Git
10 20 (1.33%) Jenkins
11 12 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.73%) Balsamiq
13 9 (0.60%) Axure RP
14 8 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
14 8 (0.53%) Postman
14 8 (0.53%) PowerBuilder
14 8 (0.53%) webpack
15 7 (0.47%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.33%) NUnit
General
1 699 (46.60%) Finance
2 448 (29.87%) Social Skills
3 401 (26.73%) Banking
4 308 (20.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
6 137 (9.13%) Retail
7 131 (8.73%) Law
8 116 (7.73%) Influencing Skills
9 108 (7.20%) Marketing
10 94 (6.27%) Investment Banking
11 90 (6.00%) Corporate Banking
12 87 (5.80%) Games
13 42 (2.80%) Advertising
14 34 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
15 28 (1.87%) Front Office
16 27 (1.80%) Legal
17 26 (1.73%) Financial Institution
18 25 (1.67%) Public Sector
19 20 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
20 19 (1.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 318 (21.20%) Software Engineer
2 212 (14.13%) Senior
3 204 (13.60%) Lead
4 170 (11.33%) Product Owner
5 161 (10.73%) Analyst
6 118 (7.87%) Developer
7 98 (6.53%) Engineering Manager
8 93 (6.20%) Senior Manager
9 80 (5.33%) Product Analyst
10 79 (5.27%) Senior Service Manager
10 79 (5.27%) ServiceNow Manager
11 69 (4.60%) Product Manager
11 69 (4.60%) Systems Engineer
12 65 (4.33%) Architect
12 65 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
13 43 (2.87%) Business Analyst
14 42 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
15 34 (2.27%) Account Manager
15 34 (2.27%) Strategic Account Manager
16 33 (2.20%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 351 (23.40%) React
2 296 (19.73%) Kafka
3 289 (19.27%) CSS
4 284 (18.93%) HTML
5 267 (17.80%) Spring
5 267 (17.80%) Spring Boot
6 252 (16.80%) Redux
7 247 (16.47%) JPA
8 164 (10.93%) Hibernate
9 146 (9.73%) REST
10 124 (8.27%) RESTful
11 101 (6.73%) Jest
12 93 (6.20%) HTML5
13 91 (6.07%) CSS3
14 90 (6.00%) Sass
15 67 (4.47%) .NET
16 42 (2.80%) AngularJS
17 35 (2.33%) Node.js
18 24 (1.60%) JSON
19 21 (1.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 252 (16.80%) Enterprise Software
2 151 (10.07%) Video\Live Streaming
3 99 (6.60%) Management Information System
4 81 (5.40%) Self-Motivation
5 72 (4.80%) Over-the-Top Content
6 56 (3.73%) Cloud Native
7 51 (3.40%) FMCG
8 40 (2.67%) Marketing Technology
9 35 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
10 34 (2.27%) Digital Media
11 28 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.73%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.60%) Fixed Income
14 22 (1.47%) PMI
15 19 (1.27%) Equities
16 17 (1.13%) Private Cloud
16 17 (1.13%) Virtual Team
17 14 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 14 (0.93%) Reinsurance
18 10 (0.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.93%) Android
2 28 (1.87%) Linux
3 20 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.00%) Windows
5 9 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.47%) Unix
7 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.067%) VMS
8 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,012 (67.47%) Agile
2 528 (35.20%) Roadmaps
3 483 (32.20%) Software Engineering
4 469 (31.27%) DevOps
5 415 (27.67%) CI/CD
6 376 (25.07%) Microservices
7 368 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 333 (22.20%) SDLC
9 314 (20.93%) Test Automation
10 306 (20.40%) Containerisation
11 292 (19.47%) Full-Stack Development
12 273 (18.20%) Front End Development
13 253 (16.87%) Performance Optimisation
14 247 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
15 242 (16.13%) Mentoring
16 230 (15.33%) User Experience
17 218 (14.53%) TDD
18 216 (14.40%) Scrum
19 213 (14.20%) Product Management
20 209 (13.93%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 387 (25.80%) SQL
2 371 (24.73%) JavaScript
3 341 (22.73%) Java
4 158 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 105 (7.00%) Python
6 85 (5.67%) C#
7 15 (1.00%) Kotlin
8 14 (0.93%) PowerShell
9 13 (0.87%) C
10 12 (0.80%) PHP
11 11 (0.73%) R
12 10 (0.67%) C++
13 8 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.47%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.40%) Swift
16 5 (0.33%) Go
16 5 (0.33%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.27%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 286 (19.07%) Degree
2 107 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 89 (5.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 65 (4.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 33 (2.20%) Security Cleared
6 28 (1.87%) PMI Certification
7 18 (1.20%) SC Cleared
8 14 (0.93%) CSPO
9 13 (0.87%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.60%) PMP
12 7 (0.47%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.40%) CCA
14 5 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.27%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.27%) CISSP
15 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.27%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 320 (21.33%) QA
2 122 (8.13%) Accessibility
3 34 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.93%) GDPR
5 11 (0.73%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.47%) WCAG
7 6 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.40%) PMO
7 6 (0.40%) SLA
8 5 (0.33%) Automotive SPICE
8 5 (0.33%) ISO 26262
8 5 (0.33%) MiFID
9 4 (0.27%) Basel II
9 4 (0.27%) Basel III
9 4 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.27%) IFRS
9 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.27%) NIST
10 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 314 (20.93%) Docker
2 11 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (0.53%) Firmware
5 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.067%) RACF
Systems Management
1 330 (22.00%) Kubernetes
2 51 (3.40%) Terraform
3 8 (0.53%) Grafana
4 6 (0.40%) Ansible
4 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.33%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.27%) Argo
7 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.20%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.13%) Graylog
8 2 (0.13%) Istio
9 1 (0.067%) CASB
9 1 (0.067%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.067%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.067%) Kibana
9 1 (0.067%) logstash
9 1 (0.067%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.067%) SCCM
Vendors
1 247 (16.47%) Solace
2 235 (15.67%) Microsoft
3 124 (8.27%) Salesforce
4 92 (6.13%) ServiceNow
5 65 (4.33%) Sparx
6 59 (3.93%) Google
7 37 (2.47%) SAP
8 34 (2.27%) Databricks
9 21 (1.40%) Oracle
10 12 (0.80%) Adobe
11 11 (0.73%) IBM
12 10 (0.67%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.53%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.47%) Cisco
14 7 (0.47%) Workday
15 6 (0.40%) Apple
15 6 (0.40%) Foundry
15 6 (0.40%) Ping Identity
15 6 (0.40%) Splunk
16 5 (0.33%) Sybase