Product Owner Jobs in the West Midlands

Product Owner
England > West Midlands

The median Product Owner salary in the West Midlands is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 226 199
Rank change year-on-year +40 -27 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 14 24 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.33% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.35% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13 14 17
10th Percentile £39,500 £48,225 £39,750
25th Percentile - £50,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £62,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.20% +38.89% -3.74%
75th Percentile - £66,875 £50,250
90th Percentile £64,500 £72,015 £61,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.28% +4.40% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,992 6,812 5,981
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 94.09% 89.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 5,151 3,348
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the West Midlands

Product Owner
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Product Owner in the West Midlands

Product Owner
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in the West Midlands

Product Owner
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Owner within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +39 11 £48,000 -23.20% 5
Staffordshire +25 2 £40,000 -38.46% 8
Warwickshire -26 1 - - 3
Product Owner
England

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 13 (92.86%) Backlog Management
3 12 (85.71%) Roadmaps
4 11 (78.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 11 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (78.57%) JIRA
5 10 (71.43%) Scrum
5 10 (71.43%) Coaching
5 10 (71.43%) Product Backlog
6 9 (64.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
7 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
7 8 (57.14%) CRM
7 8 (57.14%) Salesforce
7 8 (57.14%) Six Sigma
7 8 (57.14%) Lean Six Sigma
7 8 (57.14%) Kanban
7 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (57.14%) Process Improvement
7 8 (57.14%) Mentoring
7 8 (57.14%) Epics
7 8 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 8 (57.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (57.14%) Project Roadmap
7 8 (57.14%) Miro
8 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
9 3 (21.43%) Technology Roadmap
9 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Miro
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Automotive
4 1 (7.14%) Health Technology
4 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (92.86%) Backlog Management
3 12 (85.71%) Roadmaps
4 11 (78.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 11 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (71.43%) Coaching
5 10 (71.43%) Product Backlog
5 10 (71.43%) Scrum
6 9 (64.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (57.14%) CRM
7 8 (57.14%) Epics
7 8 (57.14%) Kanban
7 8 (57.14%) Lean Six Sigma
7 8 (57.14%) Mentoring
7 8 (57.14%) Process Improvement
7 8 (57.14%) Project Roadmap
7 8 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 8 (57.14%) Six Sigma
7 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CSPO
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.14%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (57.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow