Hybrid/Remote Product Ownership Job Trends

Product Ownership
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 114 89
Rank change year-on-year +28 -25 -30
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 462 488 709
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.06% 2.96% 3.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.90% 7.50% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 265 324 545
10th Percentile £44,250 £42,608 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.36% +0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,164 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,892 £96,539
UK median annual salary £66,750 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.64% +3.70% +3.85%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,190 6,511 8,061
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.38% 39.53% 38.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,328 3,593 6,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,982 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Ownership and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Ownership job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Product Ownership
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Product Ownership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

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

Product Ownership
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 33 (7.14%) Confluence
2 18 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.16%) CMS
5 5 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.65%) nginx
7 2 (0.43%) Mendix
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 26 (5.63%) Adobe XD
2 19 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.87%) Trello
5 3 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.65%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (2.16%) Workday HCM
2 3 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.65%) Maximo
2 3 (0.65%) Shopify
3 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 164 (35.50%) Azure
2 69 (14.94%) SaaS
3 65 (14.07%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (13.64%) AWS
5 61 (13.20%) GitHub
6 41 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (8.44%) GCP
8 36 (7.79%) Entra ID
9 34 (7.36%) Figma
10 28 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
11 25 (5.41%) Power Platform
12 20 (4.33%) Snowflake
13 18 (3.90%) Google Analytics
14 16 (3.46%) Microsoft Purview
15 14 (3.03%) Datadog
15 14 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (3.03%) Miro
16 12 (2.60%) Salesforce Einstein
17 11 (2.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 11 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.90%) Broadband
2 4 (0.87%) LAN
2 4 (0.87%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.87%) WAN
3 1 (0.22%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (4.98%) Power BI
3 22 (4.76%) Tableau
4 20 (4.33%) MySQL
5 15 (3.25%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.73%) BusinessObjects
8 8 (1.73%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.52%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.30%) Metadata
11 5 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (1.08%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.08%) Looker
11 5 (1.08%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.08%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.08%) Weaviate
12 4 (0.87%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (11.26%) JIRA
2 26 (5.63%) Axure RP
2 26 (5.63%) Balsamiq
3 18 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.46%) GitLab
4 16 (3.46%) SonarQube
5 15 (3.25%) Git
6 9 (1.95%) Visual Studio
7 8 (1.73%) Selenium
8 5 (1.08%) git-flow
8 5 (1.08%) MLflow
8 5 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.87%) Postman
10 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.65%) Vite
11 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.43%) Storybook
12 1 (0.22%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.22%) Maven
12 1 (0.22%) TestNG
General
1 181 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 178 (38.53%) Finance
3 90 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (16.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (12.34%) Law
5 57 (12.34%) Marketing
6 52 (11.26%) Public Sector
7 39 (8.44%) Banking
8 21 (4.55%) Financial Institution
9 17 (3.68%) Back Office
9 17 (3.68%) Legal
9 17 (3.68%) Retail
10 16 (3.46%) Games
11 8 (1.73%) Front Office
12 7 (1.52%) Advertising
13 6 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.08%) Electronics
14 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 81 (17.53%) Analyst
2 80 (17.32%) Product Owner
3 77 (16.67%) Senior
4 61 (13.20%) Business Analyst
5 55 (11.90%) Developer
6 51 (11.04%) Lead
7 31 (6.71%) Designer
8 27 (5.84%) Architect
8 27 (5.84%) Software Engineer
9 25 (5.41%) Product Manager
10 17 (3.68%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (3.25%) Senior Business Analyst
13 14 (3.03%) Development Engineer
13 14 (3.03%) Salesforce Architect
13 14 (3.03%) Service Designer
13 14 (3.03%) UX Designer
14 13 (2.81%) Lead Developer
15 12 (2.60%) Consultant
15 12 (2.60%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (12.12%) .NET
2 55 (11.90%) REST
3 49 (10.61%) SOAP
4 37 (8.01%) Lightning Web Components
5 35 (7.58%) React
6 33 (7.14%) CSS
7 32 (6.93%) HTML
8 16 (3.46%) ADO
9 15 (3.25%) Visualforce
10 14 (3.03%) Web Services
11 12 (2.60%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.38%) Node.js
13 10 (2.16%) Vue
14 9 (1.95%) Kafka
15 8 (1.73%) SAML
16 7 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
17 6 (1.30%) Blazor
17 6 (1.30%) RESTful
17 6 (1.30%) Sass
17 6 (1.30%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.28%) Onboarding
2 21 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.90%) Reinsurance
4 17 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.68%) Security Posture
5 15 (3.25%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
9 9 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.87%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.87%) Social Media
12 4 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.65%) Blog
13 3 (0.65%) Cybercrime
13 3 (0.65%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.65%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.03%) Windows
2 4 (0.87%) Android
2 4 (0.87%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.65%) Linux
4 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (64.29%) Agile
2 151 (32.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 150 (32.47%) Coaching
4 130 (28.14%) Roadmaps
5 126 (27.27%) DevOps
6 111 (24.03%) AI
7 109 (23.59%) Asset Management
8 107 (23.16%) Mentoring
9 90 (19.48%) CI/CD
10 81 (17.53%) User Experience
11 78 (16.88%) User Stories
12 73 (15.80%) Analytics
13 72 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
14 70 (15.15%) Scrum
15 59 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 57 (12.34%) Community of Practice
16 57 (12.34%) Software Engineering
17 56 (12.12%) Sprint Planning
18 54 (11.69%) Machine Learning
19 51 (11.04%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 82 (17.75%) Python
2 62 (13.42%) JavaScript
3 59 (12.77%) SQL
4 49 (10.61%) C#
5 38 (8.23%) Apex Code
6 36 (7.79%) PowerShell
7 31 (6.71%) Java
8 26 (5.63%) Bash
9 20 (4.33%) TypeScript
10 18 (3.90%) Go
11 15 (3.25%) SOQL
11 15 (3.25%) SOSL
12 6 (1.30%) PHP
13 5 (1.08%) Scala
14 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.22%) Swift
15 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (12.99%) Degree
2 48 (10.39%) Security Cleared
3 38 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.73%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.30%) PMP
7 5 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.08%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.87%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.65%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.43%) CISSP
10 2 (0.43%) ISEB
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.22%) APMP
11 1 (0.22%) CBAP
11 1 (0.22%) CISM
11 1 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (13.85%) QA
2 49 (10.61%) Accessibility
3 35 (7.58%) WCAG
4 9 (1.95%) NIST
4 9 (1.95%) SEPA
5 8 (1.73%) GDPR
6 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.87%) SLA
8 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 2 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (6.71%) Docker
2 26 (5.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (9.74%) Terraform
2 30 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 28 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (4.11%) Grafana
5 14 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.16%) SCCM
7 8 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.22%) Nmap
Vendors
1 45 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.87%) Salesforce
3 26 (5.63%) Adobe
4 21 (4.55%) Google
5 15 (3.25%) Splunk
6 14 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.81%) SAP
8 10 (2.16%) Workday
9 8 (1.73%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.08%) Databricks
10 5 (1.08%) Palantir
11 4 (0.87%) Charles River
12 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.65%) IBM
12 3 (0.65%) Mercator
12 3 (0.65%) Oracle
13 2 (0.43%) Foundry
13 2 (0.43%) OutSystems
13 2 (0.43%) SendGrid
14 1 (0.22%) Intapp