Product Owner
UK

The median Product Owner salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 429 397
Rank change year-on-year -126 -32 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 371 760 1,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.72% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.79% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 295 540 986
10th Percentile £45,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,290 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,975 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.04% +9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Top 16 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 25 April 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 -101 331 £65,000 +4.00% 111
London +34 172 £85,000 +21.43% 54
UK excluding London -192 171 £56,975 -5.04% 57
Work from Home -82 138 £62,500 - 49
North of England -11 44 £62,783 +14.15% 11
Midlands -42 39 £62,500 +30.21% 10
South East -61 39 £65,000 +8.33% 18
North West +7 30 £58,348 +6.09% 8
West Midlands -33 24 £62,500 +38.89% 6
South West -72 22 £55,000 -10.58% 12
Scotland -74 19 £55,000 -15.38% 1
East Midlands -15 15 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Yorkshire +40 10 £65,000 +8.33% 3
East of England +8 6 £48,750 -11.36% 4
North East 0 4 £62,783 +9.19%
Wales -4 2 £42,500 -37.04% 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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.

1 371 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 274 (73.85%) Agile
3 203 (54.72%) Roadmaps
4 133 (35.85%) Social Skills
5 125 (33.69%) Scrum
6 124 (33.42%) User Stories
7 116 (31.27%) Product Backlog
7 116 (31.27%) Product Roadmap
8 104 (28.03%) Finance
9 102 (27.49%) Analytical Skills
10 97 (26.15%) Product Vision
11 85 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
12 83 (22.37%) Product Management
13 79 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 70 (18.87%) SQL
14 70 (18.87%) Backlog Management
15 69 (18.60%) Analytics
16 68 (18.33%) Acceptance Criteria
17 65 (17.52%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 59 (15.90%) User Experience
19 52 (14.02%) Sprint Planning
20 51 (13.75%) Product Requirements
20 51 (13.75%) Machine Learning
21 49 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence
22 48 (12.94%) JIRA
23 44 (11.86%) Requirements Gathering
24 43 (11.59%) Epics
25 40 (10.78%) DevOps
26 38 (10.24%) Azure
26 38 (10.24%) AWS

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 27 (7.28%) Confluence
2 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.54%) CMS
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.27%) Documentum
4 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.08%) Trello
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.08%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.08%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.08%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.81%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.54%) Magento
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 38 (10.24%) AWS
1 38 (10.24%) Azure
2 27 (7.28%) SaaS
3 17 (4.58%) Power Platform
4 7 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.62%) GCP
5 6 (1.62%) PaaS
6 5 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (1.35%) Power Automate
6 5 (1.35%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.08%) Collibra
7 4 (1.08%) dbt
7 4 (1.08%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.08%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.54%) Bloomreach
9 2 (0.54%) Figma
9 2 (0.54%) Miro
9 2 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.43%) Network Security
2 3 (0.81%) VPN
3 2 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.23%) Power BI
2 7 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (1.89%) Tableau
3 4 (1.08%) Big Data
3 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.81%) Metadata
4 3 (0.81%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.27%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.27%) MS Access
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (12.94%) JIRA
2 2 (0.54%) DBeaver
General
1 133 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 104 (28.03%) Finance
3 102 (27.49%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.36%) Front Office
5 27 (7.28%) Marketing
5 27 (7.28%) Retail
6 20 (5.39%) Banking
7 17 (4.58%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.23%) Legal
9 10 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.70%) Law
10 9 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.43%) Tech for Good
11 8 (2.16%) Automotive
11 8 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.62%) Local Government
13 5 (1.35%) Advertising
13 5 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.35%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.35%) .NET
1 5 (1.35%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (0.81%) .NET Framework
2 3 (0.81%) HTML
2 3 (0.81%) Kafka
3 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (0.54%) Entity Framework
3 2 (0.54%) HTML5
3 2 (0.54%) Middleware
3 2 (0.54%) XML
4 1 (0.27%) CSS
4 1 (0.27%) EDI
4 1 (0.27%) Laravel
4 1 (0.27%) Next.js
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.27%) React
4 1 (0.27%) React Native
4 1 (0.27%) REST
4 1 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 371 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 31 (8.36%) Derivative
2 31 (8.36%) Equities
2 31 (8.36%) Fixed Income
2 31 (8.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (8.36%) Hedge funds
3 6 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (1.62%) NHS
4 5 (1.35%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.35%) Blockchain
4 5 (1.35%) Reinsurance
5 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.08%) FMCG
5 4 (1.08%) Life Science
5 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (1.08%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.08%) PMI
5 4 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (0.81%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.16%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.54%) Linux
2 2 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (73.85%) Agile
2 203 (54.72%) Roadmaps
3 125 (33.69%) Scrum
4 124 (33.42%) User Stories
5 116 (31.27%) Product Backlog
5 116 (31.27%) Product Roadmap
6 97 (26.15%) Product Vision
7 85 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (22.37%) Product Management
9 79 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 70 (18.87%) Backlog Management
11 69 (18.60%) Analytics
12 68 (18.33%) Acceptance Criteria
13 65 (17.52%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 59 (15.90%) User Experience
15 52 (14.02%) Sprint Planning
16 51 (13.75%) Machine Learning
16 51 (13.75%) Product Requirements
17 49 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence
18 44 (11.86%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 70 (18.87%) SQL
2 33 (8.89%) Python
3 5 (1.35%) C#
4 3 (0.81%) C++
4 3 (0.81%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.54%) C
5 2 (0.54%) PHP
5 2 (0.54%) R
5 2 (0.54%) Tcl
6 1 (0.27%) Java
6 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (8.36%) Degree
2 19 (5.12%) CSPO
3 15 (4.04%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.08%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.54%) MBA
7 2 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.27%) CIPD
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.12%) QA
2 9 (2.43%) NCSC
2 9 (2.43%) NIST
3 6 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.81%) PSD2
5 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
Vendors
1 28 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 10 (2.70%) Google
4 9 (2.43%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.43%) Splunk
5 8 (2.16%) SAP
6 7 (1.89%) Genesys
7 5 (1.35%) YouTube
8 3 (0.81%) Freshdesk
8 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.54%) Adobe
9 2 (0.54%) Databricks
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle
10 1 (0.27%) Facebook
10 1 (0.27%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.27%) iManage
10 1 (0.27%) OpenText
10 1 (0.27%) Pega
10 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.27%) Sitecore