Hybrid/Remote Product Owner Job Trends

Product Owner
UK > Work from Home

The median Product Owner salary for remote/hybrid work is £66,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 365 389
Rank change year-on-year +67 +24 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 80 86 86
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.52% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 75 55 81
10th Percentile £39,123 £45,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,485 £52,500 £54,154
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -10.34% +13.20%
75th Percentile £100,000 £78,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £66,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.31% -13.33% +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,171 16,465 19,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.19% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,129 10,128 15,838
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,900 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Product Owner' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Owner job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Product Owner
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Product Owner job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Product Owner job vacancies

Product Owner
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Product Owner over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Product Owner salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Product Owner job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 36 (45.00%) Agile
2 30 (37.50%) Product Backlog
3 26 (32.50%) Roadmaps
4 25 (31.25%) User Stories
5 23 (28.75%) Backlog Management
6 20 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (22.50%) User Experience
8 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (18.75%) JIRA
10 13 (16.25%) AI
11 12 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (13.75%) Product Roadmap
12 11 (13.75%) QA
13 10 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 10 (12.50%) Confluence
13 10 (12.50%) Machine Learning
13 10 (12.50%) Product Vision
13 10 (12.50%) Scrum
14 9 (11.25%) Product Management
14 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 8 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
15 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
15 8 (10.00%) Fintech
15 8 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
16 7 (8.75%) Computer Science
16 7 (8.75%) Customer Experience
16 7 (8.75%) Data Science
16 7 (8.75%) Epics
16 7 (8.75%) ITSM
16 7 (8.75%) SaaS

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.50%) Confluence
2 5 (6.25%) CMS
3 2 (2.50%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (2.50%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.75%) SaaS
2 6 (7.50%) Azure
3 5 (6.25%) AWS
4 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.50%) GitHub
5 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.25%) Figma
6 1 (1.25%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) LAN
1 4 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) MySQL
1 2 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) Vite
General
1 34 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (20.00%) Finance
4 12 (15.00%) Banking
5 8 (10.00%) Marketing
6 6 (7.50%) Law
6 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.50%) Advertising
7 2 (2.50%) Back Office
8 1 (1.25%) Front Office
8 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) ADO
1 2 (2.50%) CSS
1 2 (2.50%) HTML
1 2 (2.50%) Laravel
1 2 (2.50%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (2.50%) REST
1 2 (2.50%) Tailwind CSS
1 2 (2.50%) Vue
1 2 (2.50%) YAML
2 1 (1.25%) OpenAPI
2 1 (1.25%) SOAP
2 1 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 77 (96.25%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.50%) Reinsurance
3 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.75%) Cybercrime
3 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.50%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.50%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.25%) IoT
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) PropTech
5 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.00%) Agile
2 30 (37.50%) Product Backlog
3 26 (32.50%) Roadmaps
4 25 (31.25%) User Stories
5 23 (28.75%) Backlog Management
6 20 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (22.50%) User Experience
8 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (16.25%) AI
10 12 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (13.75%) Product Roadmap
12 10 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 10 (12.50%) Machine Learning
12 10 (12.50%) Product Vision
12 10 (12.50%) Scrum
13 9 (11.25%) Product Management
13 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
14 8 (10.00%) Fintech
14 8 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
1 3 (3.75%) PHP
1 3 (3.75%) SQL
2 2 (2.50%) Bash
3 1 (1.25%) Go
3 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (2.50%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.25%) CBAP
3 1 (1.25%) CISSP
3 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) CSPO
3 1 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) SLA
3 3 (3.75%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (3.75%) Atlassian
1 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.25%) ESRI
2 1 (1.25%) Google
2 1 (1.25%) iManage
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft