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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 446 400
Rank change year-on-year -97 -46 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 376 692 1,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.70% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.76% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 296 509 1,027
10th Percentile £45,625 £42,700 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,332 £90,000
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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 20 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 20 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 -87 338 £65,000 +4.00% 89
London +50 178 £85,000 +21.43% 41
UK excluding London -196 170 £60,000 - 58
Work from Home -68 144 £62,783 +0.45% 52
North of England -18 48 £62,783 +14.15% 8
South East -64 38 £65,000 +8.33% 23
Midlands -56 36 £65,000 +36.84% 10
North West -10 31 £62,500 +13.64% 5
South West -54 23 £55,000 -10.58% 10
West Midlands -31 22 £63,750 +41.67% 8
Scotland -74 17 £55,000 -12.00% 6
East Midlands -24 14 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Yorkshire +36 13 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East of England -13 6 £48,750 -11.36% 1
North East -1 4 £62,783 +9.19% 1
Wales 0 2 £42,500 -37.04%

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 376 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 280 (74.47%) Agile
3 199 (52.93%) Roadmaps
4 134 (35.64%) Social Skills
5 124 (32.98%) Scrum
6 121 (32.18%) User Stories
7 114 (30.32%) Finance
8 113 (30.05%) Product Roadmap
9 109 (28.99%) Product Backlog
10 100 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
11 90 (23.94%) Product Vision
12 86 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (22.87%) Product Management
13 80 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 73 (19.41%) SQL
15 70 (18.62%) Analytics
16 67 (17.82%) Backlog Management
16 67 (17.82%) Acceptance Criteria
17 62 (16.49%) User Experience
17 62 (16.49%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 55 (14.63%) Machine Learning
19 53 (14.10%) Artificial Intelligence
20 50 (13.30%) Sprint Planning
21 49 (13.03%) JIRA
22 48 (12.77%) Product Requirements
23 43 (11.44%) AWS
24 42 (11.17%) DevOps
25 40 (10.64%) Requirements Gathering
26 38 (10.11%) Python
26 38 (10.11%) Mentoring

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 (7.18%) Confluence
2 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.06%) CMS
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.27%) Documentum
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.06%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.06%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.06%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.06%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.80%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.53%) Magento
4 2 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.44%) AWS
2 36 (9.57%) Azure
3 25 (6.65%) SaaS
4 17 (4.52%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.13%) GCP
6 7 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.60%) Power Automate
7 6 (1.60%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.06%) Collibra
9 4 (1.06%) dbt
9 4 (1.06%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.80%) PaaS
11 2 (0.53%) Bloomreach
11 2 (0.53%) Figma
11 2 (0.53%) Miro
11 2 (0.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 1 (0.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.39%) Network Security
2 4 (1.06%) Internet
3 3 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.93%) Power BI
1 11 (2.93%) Tableau
2 7 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.33%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.06%) Big Data
5 3 (0.80%) Metadata
5 3 (0.80%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.80%) 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 49 (13.03%) JIRA
2 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
General
1 134 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 114 (30.32%) Finance
3 100 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.57%) Front Office
5 32 (8.51%) Retail
6 31 (8.24%) Marketing
7 22 (5.85%) Banking
8 18 (4.79%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.46%) Legal
10 12 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.93%) Tech for Good
12 10 (2.66%) Law
13 9 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (2.13%) Automotive
14 8 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.60%) Local Government
15 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.33%) Advertising
16 5 (1.33%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.33%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.33%) .NET
1 5 (1.33%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (0.80%) .NET Framework
2 3 (0.80%) HTML
2 3 (0.80%) Kafka
3 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (0.53%) Entity Framework
3 2 (0.53%) HTML5
3 2 (0.53%) Middleware
3 2 (0.53%) XML
4 1 (0.27%) CSS
4 1 (0.27%) EDI
4 1 (0.27%) Laravel
4 1 (0.27%) Next.js
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%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 376 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 36 (9.57%) Derivative
2 36 (9.57%) Equities
2 36 (9.57%) Fixed Income
2 36 (9.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (9.57%) Hedge funds
3 6 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.33%) Blockchain
4 5 (1.33%) NHS
4 5 (1.33%) Reinsurance
4 5 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.06%) FMCG
5 4 (1.06%) Life Science
5 4 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (1.06%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.06%) PMI
6 3 (0.80%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.13%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (74.47%) Agile
2 199 (52.93%) Roadmaps
3 124 (32.98%) Scrum
4 121 (32.18%) User Stories
5 113 (30.05%) Product Roadmap
6 109 (28.99%) Product Backlog
7 90 (23.94%) Product Vision
8 86 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
8 86 (22.87%) Product Management
9 80 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 70 (18.62%) Analytics
11 67 (17.82%) Acceptance Criteria
11 67 (17.82%) Backlog Management
12 62 (16.49%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 62 (16.49%) User Experience
13 55 (14.63%) Machine Learning
14 53 (14.10%) Artificial Intelligence
15 50 (13.30%) Sprint Planning
16 48 (12.77%) Product Requirements
17 42 (11.17%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 73 (19.41%) SQL
2 38 (10.11%) Python
3 7 (1.86%) C#
4 3 (0.80%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.80%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.53%) C
5 2 (0.53%) C++
5 2 (0.53%) PHP
5 2 (0.53%) R
5 2 (0.53%) Tcl
6 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (8.24%) Degree
2 19 (5.05%) CSPO
2 19 (5.05%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.46%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.86%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.06%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.53%) MBA
7 1 (0.27%) CIPD
7 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.79%) QA
2 9 (2.39%) NCSC
2 9 (2.39%) NIST
3 8 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.80%) PSD2
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
Vendors
1 25 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.19%) ServiceNow
3 11 (2.93%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.66%) SAP
5 9 (2.39%) Splunk
6 8 (2.13%) Google
7 7 (1.86%) Genesys
8 5 (1.33%) YouTube
9 3 (0.80%) Freshdesk
9 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.80%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.53%) Adobe
10 2 (0.53%) Databricks
10 2 (0.53%) Oracle
11 1 (0.27%) Facebook
11 1 (0.27%) iManage
11 1 (0.27%) Instagram
11 1 (0.27%) Okta
11 1 (0.27%) OpenText
11 1 (0.27%) Pega