Product Owner Jobs in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Owner salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 608 379 383
Rank change year-on-year -229 +4 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 172 416 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.75% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.85% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 127 276 451
10th Percentile £42,200 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,734 £74,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,950 £84,056 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Product Owner in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
North of England -68 42 £62,783 +14.15% 5
South East -86 39 £65,000 +6.12% 12
Midlands -80 38 £62,500 +31.58% 13
North West -46 27 £62,500 +13.64% 3
West Midlands -47 24 £62,500 +38.89% 9
South West -65 24 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Scotland -75 20 £55,987 -8.59% 3
East Midlands -35 14 £45,000 -18.18% 4
Yorkshire +5 11 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East of England -29 7 £48,750 -11.36%
North East -16 4 £62,783 -3.41%
Wales +6 2 £42,500 -37.04%
Product Owner
UK

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 172 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 115 (66.86%) Agile
3 97 (56.40%) Roadmaps
4 59 (34.30%) User Stories
5 58 (33.72%) Scrum
6 55 (31.98%) Product Roadmap
7 54 (31.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (30.23%) Social Skills
9 49 (28.49%) Product Vision
10 48 (27.91%) Product Backlog
10 48 (27.91%) Finance
11 42 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
13 34 (19.77%) User Experience
14 33 (19.19%) JIRA
15 32 (18.60%) Mentoring
16 29 (16.86%) Acceptance Criteria
16 29 (16.86%) Project Management
16 29 (16.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 27 (15.70%) Retail
18 25 (14.53%) Marketing
18 25 (14.53%) Coaching
19 24 (13.95%) Customer Service
20 23 (13.37%) Backlog Management
21 22 (12.79%) Sprint Planning
22 21 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
22 21 (12.21%) Product Strategy
23 19 (11.05%) Analytics
23 19 (11.05%) Epics
24 17 (9.88%) Product Management

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (6.98%) Confluence
2 3 (1.74%) CMS
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Trello
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) SAP ERP
1 2 (1.16%) SAP HR
1 2 (1.16%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (1.16%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.14%) SaaS
2 11 (6.40%) Azure
3 6 (3.49%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.33%) Collibra
5 2 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.16%) GCP
5 2 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.16%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.16%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (1.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.58%) AWS
6 1 (0.58%) Figma
6 1 (0.58%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.23%) Network Security
2 4 (2.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.49%) Tableau
2 4 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.33%) Power BI
3 3 (1.74%) Metadata
3 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.58%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (19.19%) JIRA
2 2 (1.16%) DBeaver
General
1 52 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 48 (27.91%) Finance
3 40 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.70%) Retail
5 25 (14.53%) Marketing
6 12 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.81%) Banking
7 10 (5.81%) Law
8 7 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.49%) Legal
10 5 (2.91%) Automotive
10 5 (2.91%) Back Office
10 5 (2.91%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Games
12 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.16%) .NET
1 2 (1.16%) .NET Framework
1 2 (1.16%) ASP.NET
1 2 (1.16%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (1.16%) Entity Framework
1 2 (1.16%) HTML
1 2 (1.16%) HTML5
1 2 (1.16%) Middleware
1 2 (1.16%) XML
2 1 (0.58%) RESTful
2 1 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 172 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.49%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.91%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.33%) FMCG
4 4 (2.33%) PMI
5 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.74%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.16%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.16%) Life Science
6 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.16%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.58%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.58%) NHS
7 1 (0.58%) Tandem
7 1 (0.58%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.58%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.16%) Linux
1 2 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (66.86%) Agile
2 97 (56.40%) Roadmaps
3 59 (34.30%) User Stories
4 58 (33.72%) Scrum
5 55 (31.98%) Product Roadmap
6 54 (31.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (28.49%) Product Vision
8 48 (27.91%) Product Backlog
9 42 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (19.77%) User Experience
11 32 (18.60%) Mentoring
12 29 (16.86%) Acceptance Criteria
12 29 (16.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 29 (16.86%) Project Management
13 25 (14.53%) Coaching
14 24 (13.95%) Customer Service
15 23 (13.37%) Backlog Management
16 22 (12.79%) Sprint Planning
17 21 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (12.21%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.98%) SQL
2 5 (2.91%) C#
3 4 (2.33%) Python
4 2 (1.16%) C
4 2 (1.16%) C++
4 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.16%) R
4 2 (1.16%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (8.14%) Degree
2 9 (5.23%) CSPO
3 7 (4.07%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.58%) CIPD
5 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.23%) NCSC
1 9 (5.23%) NIST
2 6 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.33%) QA
4 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.16%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
Vendors
1 10 (5.81%) ServiceNow
2 9 (5.23%) Splunk
3 7 (4.07%) Genesys
3 7 (4.07%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.49%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.91%) SAP
5 5 (2.91%) YouTube
6 3 (1.74%) Freshdesk
7 2 (1.16%) Databricks
7 2 (1.16%) Google
7 2 (1.16%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.58%) Adobe
8 1 (0.58%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.58%) Okta
8 1 (0.58%) Pega