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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 444 405
Rank change year-on-year -98 -39 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 380 689 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.69% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.76% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 300 505 1,013
10th Percentile £46,125 £42,600 £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 £76,500
90th Percentile £97,750 £97,290 £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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £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 18 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 18 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 -90 341 £65,000 +4.00% 85
London +54 181 £85,000 +21.43% 40
UK excluding London -208 171 £60,000 - 56
Work from Home -80 145 £62,783 +0.45% 48
North of England -1 48 £62,783 +14.15% 8
Midlands -57 37 £63,750 +34.21% 10
South East -72 37 £65,000 +8.33% 22
North West -3 31 £62,500 +13.64% 5
South West -58 23 £55,000 -10.58% 9
West Midlands -32 22 £63,750 +41.67% 8
Scotland -71 18 £55,000 -12.00% 6
East Midlands -13 15 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Yorkshire +37 13 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East of England -15 6 £48,750 -11.36% 1
North East -6 4 £62,783 +9.19% 1
Wales -2 2 £42,500 -37.04%

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 380 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 283 (74.47%) Agile
3 203 (53.42%) Roadmaps
4 137 (36.05%) Social Skills
5 125 (32.89%) Scrum
6 123 (32.37%) User Stories
7 116 (30.53%) Product Roadmap
8 113 (29.74%) Finance
9 112 (29.47%) Product Backlog
10 103 (27.11%) Analytical Skills
11 92 (24.21%) Product Vision
12 87 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
13 86 (22.63%) Product Management
14 79 (20.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 75 (19.74%) SQL
16 70 (18.42%) Analytics
17 69 (18.16%) Backlog Management
17 69 (18.16%) Acceptance Criteria
18 64 (16.84%) Backlog Prioritisation
19 62 (16.32%) User Experience
20 55 (14.47%) Machine Learning
21 54 (14.21%) Artificial Intelligence
22 50 (13.16%) Sprint Planning
23 49 (12.89%) Product Requirements
23 49 (12.89%) JIRA
24 43 (11.32%) AWS
25 42 (11.05%) DevOps
26 41 (10.79%) Requirements Gathering
27 38 (10.00%) Epics
27 38 (10.00%) Python

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 (7.11%) Confluence
2 5 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.05%) CMS
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.26%) Documentum
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.05%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.32%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.05%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.05%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.05%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.79%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.53%) Magento
4 2 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.32%) AWS
2 36 (9.47%) Azure
3 26 (6.84%) SaaS
4 17 (4.47%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.11%) GCP
6 7 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.58%) Power Automate
7 6 (1.58%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.05%) Collibra
9 4 (1.05%) dbt
9 4 (1.05%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.79%) 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 (0.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.37%) Network Security
2 4 (1.05%) Internet
3 3 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.89%) Power BI
1 11 (2.89%) Tableau
2 7 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.05%) Big Data
5 3 (0.79%) Metadata
5 3 (0.79%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.26%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.26%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.26%) MS Access
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (12.89%) JIRA
2 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
General
1 137 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 113 (29.74%) Finance
3 103 (27.11%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.47%) Front Office
5 32 (8.42%) Retail
6 31 (8.16%) Marketing
7 22 (5.79%) Banking
8 18 (4.74%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.42%) Legal
10 11 (2.89%) Tech for Good
11 10 (2.63%) Law
12 9 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.11%) Automotive
13 8 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.58%) Local Government
16 5 (1.32%) Advertising
16 5 (1.32%) Back Office
16 5 (1.32%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.32%) .NET
1 5 (1.32%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (0.79%) .NET Framework
2 3 (0.79%) HTML
2 3 (0.79%) 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 (0.26%) CSS
4 1 (0.26%) EDI
4 1 (0.26%) Laravel
4 1 (0.26%) Next.js
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.26%) React
4 1 (0.26%) React Native
4 1 (0.26%) REST
4 1 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 380 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 36 (9.47%) Derivative
2 36 (9.47%) Equities
2 36 (9.47%) Fixed Income
2 36 (9.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (9.47%) Hedge funds
3 6 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (1.58%) NHS
4 5 (1.32%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.32%) Blockchain
4 5 (1.32%) Reinsurance
4 5 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.05%) FMCG
5 4 (1.05%) Life Science
5 4 (1.05%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (1.05%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.05%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.05%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.11%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (74.47%) Agile
2 203 (53.42%) Roadmaps
3 125 (32.89%) Scrum
4 123 (32.37%) User Stories
5 116 (30.53%) Product Roadmap
6 112 (29.47%) Product Backlog
7 92 (24.21%) Product Vision
8 87 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (22.63%) Product Management
10 79 (20.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 70 (18.42%) Analytics
12 69 (18.16%) Acceptance Criteria
12 69 (18.16%) Backlog Management
13 64 (16.84%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 62 (16.32%) User Experience
15 55 (14.47%) Machine Learning
16 54 (14.21%) Artificial Intelligence
17 50 (13.16%) Sprint Planning
18 49 (12.89%) Product Requirements
19 42 (11.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.74%) SQL
2 38 (10.00%) Python
3 7 (1.84%) C#
4 3 (0.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.79%) 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 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (8.42%) Degree
2 19 (5.00%) CSPO
2 19 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.42%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.84%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.05%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.53%) MBA
6 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.26%) CIPD
7 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.00%) QA
2 9 (2.37%) NCSC
2 9 (2.37%) NIST
3 8 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.79%) PSD2
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
Vendors
1 25 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.16%) ServiceNow
3 11 (2.89%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.63%) SAP
5 9 (2.37%) Splunk
6 8 (2.11%) Google
7 7 (1.84%) Genesys
8 5 (1.32%) YouTube
9 3 (0.79%) Freshdesk
9 3 (0.79%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.79%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.53%) Adobe
10 2 (0.53%) Databricks
10 2 (0.53%) Oracle
11 1 (0.26%) Facebook
11 1 (0.26%) iManage
11 1 (0.26%) Instagram
11 1 (0.26%) Okta
11 1 (0.26%) OpenText
11 1 (0.26%) Pega