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 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 442 408
Rank change year-on-year -116 -34 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 372 715 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.70% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.77% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 293 522 1,006
10th Percentile £46,450 £43,525 £42,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,333 £51,250
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 £91,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%

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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -96 334 £65,000 +4.00% 109
London +50 175 £85,000 +21.43% 53
UK excluding London -200 170 £60,000 - 56
Work from Home -85 140 £62,783 +0.45% 53
North of England -8 48 £62,783 +14.15% 9
South East -55 38 £65,000 +8.33% 24
Midlands -47 37 £63,750 +32.81% 10
North West +7 31 £60,237 +9.52% 6
West Midlands -26 23 £62,500 +38.89% 6
South West -74 22 £55,000 -10.58% 7
Scotland -74 17 £55,000 -12.00% 5
East Midlands -21 14 £70,000 +27.27% 4
Yorkshire +36 13 £65,000 +8.33% 3
East of England -4 6 £48,750 -11.36%
North East -3 4 £62,783 +9.19%
Wales +3 2 £42,500 -37.04% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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.

1 372 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 278 (74.73%) Agile
3 203 (54.57%) Roadmaps
4 134 (36.02%) Social Skills
5 126 (33.87%) Scrum
6 122 (32.80%) User Stories
7 115 (30.91%) Product Roadmap
8 113 (30.38%) Product Backlog
9 108 (29.03%) Finance
10 103 (27.69%) Analytical Skills
11 94 (25.27%) Product Vision
12 87 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
13 84 (22.58%) Product Management
14 79 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 74 (19.89%) SQL
16 70 (18.82%) Analytics
17 69 (18.55%) Backlog Management
18 68 (18.28%) Acceptance Criteria
19 64 (17.20%) Backlog Prioritisation
20 61 (16.40%) User Experience
21 52 (13.98%) Machine Learning
21 52 (13.98%) Sprint Planning
22 51 (13.71%) Artificial Intelligence
23 50 (13.44%) Product Requirements
24 48 (12.90%) JIRA
25 43 (11.56%) Requirements Gathering
26 41 (11.02%) Epics
26 41 (11.02%) AWS
26 41 (11.02%) DevOps
27 38 (10.22%) Decision-Making

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 (7.26%) Confluence
2 5 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.81%) CMS
3 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.27%) Documentum
4 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.08%) Trello
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) 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
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 41 (11.02%) AWS
2 37 (9.95%) Azure
3 26 (6.99%) SaaS
4 18 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 7 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (1.88%) GCP
6 6 (1.61%) Power Automate
6 6 (1.61%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.08%) Collibra
8 4 (1.08%) dbt
8 4 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.08%) PaaS
8 4 (1.08%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.81%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.54%) Bloomreach
10 2 (0.54%) Figma
10 2 (0.54%) Miro
10 2 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.27%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.42%) Network Security
2 3 (0.81%) Internet
2 3 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.23%) Power BI
2 10 (2.69%) Tableau
3 7 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.08%) Big Data
4 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.81%) Metadata
5 3 (0.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.27%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.27%) MS Access
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (12.90%) JIRA
2 2 (0.54%) DBeaver
General
1 134 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 108 (29.03%) Finance
3 103 (27.69%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.14%) Front Office
5 30 (8.06%) Marketing
6 28 (7.53%) Retail
7 21 (5.65%) Banking
8 17 (4.57%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.49%) Legal
10 10 (2.69%) Tech for Good
11 9 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.42%) Law
11 9 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.15%) Automotive
12 8 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.61%) Local Government
14 5 (1.34%) Advertising
14 5 (1.34%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.34%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.34%) .NET
1 5 (1.34%) 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%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.27%) React
4 1 (0.27%) React Native
4 1 (0.27%) REST
4 1 (0.27%) RESTful
4 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 372 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 34 (9.14%) Derivative
2 34 (9.14%) Equities
2 34 (9.14%) Fixed Income
2 34 (9.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (9.14%) Hedge funds
3 6 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (1.61%) NHS
4 5 (1.34%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.34%) Blockchain
4 5 (1.34%) 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 (2.15%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.54%) Linux
2 2 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (74.73%) Agile
2 203 (54.57%) Roadmaps
3 126 (33.87%) Scrum
4 122 (32.80%) User Stories
5 115 (30.91%) Product Roadmap
6 113 (30.38%) Product Backlog
7 94 (25.27%) Product Vision
8 87 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (22.58%) Product Management
10 79 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 70 (18.82%) Analytics
12 69 (18.55%) Backlog Management
13 68 (18.28%) Acceptance Criteria
14 64 (17.20%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 61 (16.40%) User Experience
16 52 (13.98%) Machine Learning
16 52 (13.98%) Sprint Planning
17 51 (13.71%) Artificial Intelligence
18 50 (13.44%) Product Requirements
19 43 (11.56%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 74 (19.89%) SQL
2 36 (9.68%) Python
3 7 (1.88%) C#
4 3 (0.81%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.54%) C
5 2 (0.54%) C++
5 2 (0.54%) PHP
5 2 (0.54%) R
5 2 (0.54%) Tcl
6 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (8.33%) Degree
2 19 (5.11%) CSPO
3 18 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.88%) 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 (5.11%) QA
2 9 (2.42%) NCSC
2 9 (2.42%) NIST
3 6 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.81%) PSD2
5 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
Vendors
1 26 (6.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 10 (2.69%) Google
3 10 (2.69%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.42%) SAP
4 9 (2.42%) Splunk
5 7 (1.88%) Genesys
6 5 (1.34%) YouTube
7 3 (0.81%) Freshdesk
7 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.54%) Adobe
8 2 (0.54%) Databricks
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle
8 2 (0.54%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.27%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.27%) iManage
9 1 (0.27%) Instagram
9 1 (0.27%) Okta
9 1 (0.27%) OpenText
9 1 (0.27%) Pega