Product Owner Jobs

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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 433 397
Rank change year-on-year -138 -36 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 374 666 1,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.70% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.77% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 288 507 1,033
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,500
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 £78,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,290 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% +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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England -133 333 £65,000 +4.00% 76
London +56 175 £80,000 +14.29% 38
UK excluding London -203 169 £60,000 +6.19% 41
Work from Home -105 146 £62,783 +0.45% 45
North of England -37 43 £62,783 +14.15% 6
Midlands -55 38 £63,750 +33.51% 16
South East -69 38 £65,000 +6.12% 9
North West -22 27 £62,500 +13.64% 4
West Midlands -51 23 £62,500 +38.89% 12
South West -52 23 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Scotland -73 18 £55,000 -8.33% 4
East Midlands -23 15 £70,000 +27.27% 4
Yorkshire +10 12 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East of England -19 7 £48,750 -11.36% 1
North East -9 4 £62,783 -3.41%
Wales +1 2 £42,500 -39.29%

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 374 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 273 (72.99%) Agile
3 192 (51.34%) Roadmaps
4 130 (34.76%) Social Skills
5 126 (33.69%) Scrum
6 120 (32.09%) User Stories
7 113 (30.21%) Finance
8 109 (29.14%) Product Backlog
9 108 (28.88%) Product Roadmap
10 98 (26.20%) Analytical Skills
11 91 (24.33%) Product Management
12 89 (23.80%) Product Vision
13 84 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
14 80 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 73 (19.52%) SQL
16 70 (18.72%) Analytics
17 66 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
18 64 (17.11%) User Experience
19 63 (16.84%) Backlog Prioritisation
20 62 (16.58%) Backlog Management
21 53 (14.17%) Machine Learning
22 51 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
23 50 (13.37%) JIRA
23 50 (13.37%) Sprint Planning
24 45 (12.03%) Product Requirements
25 44 (11.76%) AWS
26 40 (10.70%) Python
26 40 (10.70%) Requirements Gathering
27 39 (10.43%) DevOps
28 37 (9.89%) Project Management

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 28 (7.49%) Confluence
2 4 (1.07%) CMS
2 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.27%) Documentum
Applications
1 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.07%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.07%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.07%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.07%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
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 44 (11.76%) AWS
2 35 (9.36%) Azure
3 26 (6.95%) SaaS
4 15 (4.01%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.14%) GCP
6 5 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (1.34%) Power Automate
6 5 (1.34%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.07%) Collibra
7 4 (1.07%) dbt
7 4 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.07%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.80%) PaaS
9 2 (0.53%) Bloomreach
9 2 (0.53%) Miro
9 2 (0.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.27%) Figma
10 1 (0.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.41%) Network Security
2 4 (1.07%) Internet
3 3 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.94%) Tableau
2 10 (2.67%) Power BI
3 7 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.34%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.07%) Big Data
6 3 (0.80%) Metadata
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.27%) MS Access
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (13.37%) JIRA
2 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
General
1 130 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 113 (30.21%) Finance
3 98 (26.20%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.09%) Front Office
4 34 (9.09%) Retail
5 33 (8.82%) Marketing
6 23 (6.15%) Banking
7 14 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.74%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.48%) Legal
9 11 (2.94%) Law
10 9 (2.41%) Automotive
10 9 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.41%) Tech for Good
11 7 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.60%) Advertising
12 6 (1.60%) Local Government
13 5 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.34%) Back Office
13 5 (1.34%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.34%) .NET
1 5 (1.34%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (0.80%) .NET Framework
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%) HTML
3 2 (0.53%) HTML5
3 2 (0.53%) Middleware
3 2 (0.53%) XML
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%) RESTful
4 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 374 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 34 (9.09%) Derivative
2 34 (9.09%) Equities
2 34 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 34 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (9.09%) Hedge funds
3 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
3 6 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (1.34%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.34%) Blockchain
4 5 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.34%) NHS
4 5 (1.34%) Reinsurance
5 4 (1.07%) FMCG
5 4 (1.07%) Life Science
5 4 (1.07%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.07%) PMI
6 3 (0.80%) Low-Code
6 3 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (0.80%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.34%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) Windows
3 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (72.99%) Agile
2 192 (51.34%) Roadmaps
3 126 (33.69%) Scrum
4 120 (32.09%) User Stories
5 109 (29.14%) Product Backlog
6 108 (28.88%) Product Roadmap
7 91 (24.33%) Product Management
8 89 (23.80%) Product Vision
9 84 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
10 80 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 70 (18.72%) Analytics
12 66 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
13 64 (17.11%) User Experience
14 63 (16.84%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 62 (16.58%) Backlog Management
16 53 (14.17%) Machine Learning
17 51 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
18 50 (13.37%) Sprint Planning
19 45 (12.03%) Product Requirements
20 40 (10.70%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 73 (19.52%) SQL
2 40 (10.70%) Python
3 7 (1.87%) C#
4 3 (0.80%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.53%) C
5 2 (0.53%) C++
5 2 (0.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.53%) R
5 2 (0.53%) Tcl
6 1 (0.27%) PHP
6 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (8.56%) Degree
2 20 (5.35%) CSPO
3 18 (4.81%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.21%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.87%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.07%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.53%) MBA
8 1 (0.27%) CIPD
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.81%) QA
2 9 (2.41%) NCSC
2 9 (2.41%) NIST
3 8 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.80%) PSD2
5 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
Vendors
1 21 (5.61%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.21%) Salesforce
2 12 (3.21%) ServiceNow
3 10 (2.67%) SAP
4 9 (2.41%) Splunk
5 7 (1.87%) Genesys
5 7 (1.87%) Google
6 5 (1.34%) YouTube
7 3 (0.80%) Adobe
7 3 (0.80%) Freshdesk
7 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.80%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.53%) Databricks
8 2 (0.53%) Epicor
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle
9 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.27%) iManage
9 1 (0.27%) Okta
9 1 (0.27%) OpenText
9 1 (0.27%) Pega