Product Ownership
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 75 58
Rank change year-on-year -63 -17 +32
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 2,086 4,206 8,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.10% 4.15% 5.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.95% 9.71% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,388 2,505 4,043
10th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,375 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,056 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,775 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £60,249 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.79% +9.54% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
UK

Product Ownership is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership.

Salary trend for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Ownership within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 -68 1,731 £62,500 -4.58% 509
UK excluding London -66 1,349 £57,965 -3.79% 319
Work from Home -55 884 £60,000 -7.69% 280
London -52 629 £75,000 +7.14% 205
North of England -56 315 £57,965 -10.82% 76
South East -80 292 £65,000 +4.00% 78
Scotland -43 233 £59,526 -8.42% 22
Midlands -45 224 £55,000 -3.51% 59
South West -20 191 £57,500 -4.56% 52
North West -23 185 £57,732 -11.18% 41
West Midlands -29 166 £57,500 - 49
Yorkshire -53 99 £60,000 -7.69% 26
East of England -83 62 £49,500 -10.00% 23
East Midlands -53 58 £50,000 -9.09% 10
North East +5 31 £57,965 +0.81% 10
Wales -2 29 £52,500 -6.67% 13
Northern Ireland +9 5 - -

Product Ownership
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
1 114 (5.47%) Confluence
2 34 (1.63%) Apache
3 28 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 12 (0.58%) CMS
5 11 (0.53%) WordPress
6 10 (0.48%) nginx
7 9 (0.43%) IIS
7 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.38%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.38%) SAS
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.19%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.096%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.048%) Documentum
Applications
1 40 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.39%) Adobe XD
3 28 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.77%) Sketch
6 14 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.38%) Trello
8 7 (0.34%) InVision
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.19%) Blender
9 4 (0.19%) Maya
9 4 (0.19%) MotionBuilder
9 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.096%) FrameMaker
11 2 (0.096%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.096%) RoboHelp
12 1 (0.048%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 25 (1.20%) Endur
2 24 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.67%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.38%) SAP HR
6 7 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
9 4 (0.19%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.14%) SAP HCM
11 2 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.096%) Magento
11 2 (0.096%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.096%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 443 (21.24%) Azure
2 370 (17.74%) AWS
3 197 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
4 153 (7.33%) GCP
5 126 (6.04%) SaaS
6 117 (5.61%) Power Platform
7 63 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (2.59%) GitHub
9 41 (1.97%) Serverless
10 38 (1.82%) Power Automate
11 36 (1.73%) PaaS
12 28 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
13 27 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
14 26 (1.25%) PowerApps
15 19 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 14 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 14 (0.67%) Figma
17 14 (0.67%) IaaS
18 12 (0.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.96%) DSL
2 18 (0.86%) Intranet
3 16 (0.77%) VPN
4 15 (0.72%) Firewall
5 13 (0.62%) Network Security
6 12 (0.58%) Internet
7 11 (0.53%) WAN
8 10 (0.48%) LAN
9 7 (0.34%) WLAN
10 6 (0.29%) AMQP
11 5 (0.24%) WebEx
12 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.19%) HTTP
12 4 (0.19%) VLAN
13 3 (0.14%) DMZ
13 3 (0.14%) Modbus
13 3 (0.14%) TCP/IP
14 2 (0.096%) Broadband
14 2 (0.096%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.096%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (4.89%) Looker
3 80 (3.84%) SQL Server
4 78 (3.74%) BigQuery
4 78 (3.74%) Power BI
5 58 (2.78%) Tableau
6 54 (2.59%) Big Data
7 49 (2.35%) NoSQL
8 48 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.01%) Data Lake
10 37 (1.77%) MongoDB
11 35 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (1.39%) MySQL
13 27 (1.29%) Metadata
14 18 (0.86%) DB2
15 13 (0.62%) Redis
16 10 (0.48%) Hadoop
17 9 (0.43%) Apache Hive
17 9 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
18 8 (0.38%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 228 (10.93%) JIRA
2 111 (5.32%) Git
3 86 (4.12%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.25%) Cucumber
5 25 (1.20%) Visual Studio
6 22 (1.05%) Selenium
7 19 (0.91%) GitLab
7 19 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
8 17 (0.81%) Postman
8 17 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 15 (0.72%) Axure RP
10 14 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.67%) JUnit
10 14 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (0.62%) Balsamiq
12 8 (0.38%) Checkstyle
12 8 (0.38%) Mocha
12 8 (0.38%) MSBuild
13 7 (0.34%) Appium
13 7 (0.34%) Maven
General
1 608 (29.15%) Finance
2 599 (28.72%) Social Skills
3 415 (19.89%) Analytical Skills
4 340 (16.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 273 (13.09%) Marketing
6 192 (9.20%) Law
7 154 (7.38%) Banking
8 123 (5.90%) Retail
9 118 (5.66%) Public Sector
10 89 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
11 78 (3.74%) Legal
12 74 (3.55%) Billing
13 60 (2.88%) Investment Banking
14 57 (2.73%) Front Office
15 47 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.25%) Games
18 23 (1.10%) Financial Institution
19 20 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
20 19 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 374 (17.93%) Product Owner
2 369 (17.69%) Senior
3 276 (13.23%) Developer
4 267 (12.80%) Analyst
5 234 (11.22%) Lead
6 175 (8.39%) Business Analyst
7 161 (7.72%) Product Manager
8 138 (6.62%) Architect
9 94 (4.51%) Data Manager
10 82 (3.93%) Software Engineer
11 81 (3.88%) Engineering Manager
12 79 (3.79%) Senior Developer
13 58 (2.78%) Designer
14 55 (2.64%) Data Engineer
15 53 (2.54%) Product Analyst
16 44 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
16 44 (2.11%) Financial Analyst
16 44 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
16 44 (2.11%) Senior Manager
16 44 (2.11%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (8.10%) .NET
2 131 (6.28%) HTML
3 119 (5.70%) React
4 115 (5.51%) CSS
5 79 (3.79%) AngularJS
6 59 (2.83%) REST
7 50 (2.40%) .NET Framework
8 48 (2.30%) JSON
9 43 (2.06%) XML
10 42 (2.01%) ASP.NET
10 42 (2.01%) Node.js
11 40 (1.92%) RESTful
11 40 (1.92%) Spring
12 37 (1.77%) .NET Core
13 34 (1.63%) Web Services
14 32 (1.53%) Kafka
15 28 (1.34%) Spring Boot
16 25 (1.20%) Entity Framework
17 24 (1.15%) Laravel
17 24 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 127 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 72 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 67 (3.21%) Mobile App
4 64 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 60 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 56 (2.68%) Derivative
8 55 (2.64%) Fixed Income
9 52 (2.49%) Hedge funds
10 50 (2.40%) Equities
11 33 (1.58%) Credit Risk
12 32 (1.53%) Algorithms
12 32 (1.53%) Onboarding
13 30 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
14 29 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 27 (1.29%) Client/Server
16 22 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
16 22 (1.05%) PMI
16 22 (1.05%) PropTech
16 22 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.21%) Linux
2 41 (1.97%) Apple iOS
2 41 (1.97%) Windows
3 33 (1.58%) Android
4 9 (0.43%) Unix
4 9 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.19%) Debian
6 4 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.096%) CentOS
9 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.048%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,458 (69.89%) Agile
2 635 (30.44%) Scrum
3 530 (25.41%) Roadmaps
4 492 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
5 444 (21.28%) DevOps
6 352 (16.87%) Mentoring
7 337 (16.16%) CI/CD
8 334 (16.01%) User Stories
9 288 (13.81%) Project Management
10 284 (13.61%) Product Backlog
11 283 (13.57%) Coaching
11 283 (13.57%) User Experience
12 281 (13.47%) Software Engineering
13 228 (10.93%) Analytics
14 224 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 222 (10.64%) SDLC
16 216 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 216 (10.35%) Product Roadmap
17 215 (10.31%) Product Management
18 211 (10.12%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 330 (15.82%) SQL
2 254 (12.18%) JavaScript
3 249 (11.94%) Python
4 220 (10.55%) C#
5 163 (7.81%) Java
6 101 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 34 (1.63%) C
8 33 (1.58%) PHP
9 27 (1.29%) Groovy
10 25 (1.20%) Kotlin
11 24 (1.15%) PowerShell
12 22 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 19 (0.91%) Scala
13 19 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.67%) C++
15 13 (0.62%) Go
16 12 (0.58%) Swift
17 11 (0.53%) Bash
17 11 (0.53%) Ruby
18 9 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 358 (17.16%) Degree
2 167 (8.01%) Security Cleared
3 114 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 46 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.53%) CSPO
8 27 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.01%) CISSP
10 17 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 15 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.67%) PhD
14 13 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
15 11 (0.53%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.34%) ISEB
17 6 (0.29%) IIBA
18 5 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (13.42%) QA
2 80 (3.84%) Accessibility
3 44 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 37 (1.77%) SLA
5 30 (1.44%) PMO
6 21 (1.01%) NIST
7 14 (0.67%) WCAG
8 11 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.43%) GDPR
10 9 (0.43%) NCSC
11 7 (0.34%) ISO 13485
12 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.24%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.24%) SEPA
13 5 (0.24%) TARGET2
14 4 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.19%) IEC 61508
14 4 (0.19%) MISRA C
14 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 123 (5.90%) Docker
2 18 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.38%) HDFS
3 8 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 124 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 77 (3.69%) Terraform
3 15 (0.72%) Ansible
4 14 (0.67%) Grafana
4 14 (0.67%) Progress Chef
4 14 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.34%) Puppet
5 7 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.24%) Graphite
7 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.14%) SCCM
9 2 (0.096%) Kibana
9 2 (0.096%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.048%) Packer
10 1 (0.048%) SCOM
10 1 (0.048%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 247 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 167 (8.01%) Google
3 65 (3.12%) Databricks
4 55 (2.64%) ServiceNow
5 50 (2.40%) SAP
6 48 (2.30%) Adobe
7 43 (2.06%) Oracle
8 41 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 30 (1.44%) Atlassian
10 26 (1.25%) Alteryx
11 21 (1.01%) Bloomberg
12 18 (0.86%) Cognos
12 18 (0.86%) Sybase
13 14 (0.67%) BISAM
13 14 (0.67%) VMware
14 11 (0.53%) Pega
15 9 (0.43%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.43%) Splunk
15 9 (0.43%) Xero
16 8 (0.38%) Apple