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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 433 400
Rank change year-on-year -116 -33 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 378 704 1,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.70% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.77% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 299 516 1,016
10th Percentile £47,050 £43,125 £42,750
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £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 14 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 14 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 -102 339 £65,000 +4.00% 93
London +62 180 £85,000 +21.43% 40
UK excluding London -199 170 £60,000 - 55
Work from Home -83 143 £62,783 +0.45% 52
North of England -21 49 £62,641 +13.89% 5
South East -71 37 £65,000 +8.33% 19
Midlands -45 35 £65,000 +36.84% 16
North West -4 32 £61,369 +11.58% 3
South West -62 23 £55,000 -13.45% 7
West Midlands -40 21 £65,000 +44.44% 13
Scotland -63 18 £55,000 -13.73% 6
East Midlands -23 14 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Yorkshire +41 13 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East of England -16 6 £48,750 -11.36% 1
North East -6 4 £62,783 +9.19%
Wales +4 2 £42,500 -37.04% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 378 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 283 (74.87%) Agile
3 203 (53.70%) Roadmaps
4 136 (35.98%) Social Skills
5 125 (33.07%) Scrum
6 123 (32.54%) User Stories
7 116 (30.69%) Product Roadmap
8 112 (29.63%) Product Backlog
8 112 (29.63%) Finance
9 103 (27.25%) Analytical Skills
10 92 (24.34%) Product Vision
11 87 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
11 87 (23.02%) Product Management
12 78 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
13 75 (19.84%) SQL
14 71 (18.78%) Analytics
15 69 (18.25%) Backlog Management
15 69 (18.25%) Acceptance Criteria
16 65 (17.20%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 61 (16.14%) User Experience
18 54 (14.29%) Machine Learning
19 53 (14.02%) Artificial Intelligence
20 51 (13.49%) Sprint Planning
21 49 (12.96%) Product Requirements
21 49 (12.96%) JIRA
22 43 (11.38%) AWS
23 42 (11.11%) DevOps
23 42 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
24 40 (10.58%) Epics
25 38 (10.05%) 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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 5 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.06%) 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 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.06%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.32%) 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 (0.79%) 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 (11.38%) AWS
2 36 (9.52%) Azure
3 26 (6.88%) SaaS
4 17 (4.50%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.12%) GCP
6 7 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.59%) Power Automate
7 6 (1.59%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.06%) Collibra
9 4 (1.06%) dbt
9 4 (1.06%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.79%) PaaS
11 2 (0.53%) Bloomreach
11 2 (0.53%) Figma
11 2 (0.53%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.53%) Miro
11 2 (0.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.38%) Network Security
2 4 (1.06%) Internet
3 3 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.91%) Power BI
1 11 (2.91%) Tableau
2 7 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.06%) Big Data
3 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.79%) Metadata
4 3 (0.79%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.26%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.26%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.26%) MS Access
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (12.96%) JIRA
2 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
General
1 136 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 112 (29.63%) Finance
3 103 (27.25%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.52%) Front Office
5 31 (8.20%) Marketing
6 30 (7.94%) Retail
7 22 (5.82%) Banking
8 18 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.44%) Legal
10 11 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.91%) Tech for Good
11 9 (2.38%) Law
11 9 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.12%) Automotive
12 8 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.59%) Local Government
15 5 (1.32%) Advertising
15 5 (1.32%) Aerospace
15 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%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 378 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 36 (9.52%) Derivative
2 36 (9.52%) Equities
2 36 (9.52%) Fixed Income
2 36 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (9.52%) Hedge funds
3 6 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (1.59%) NHS
4 5 (1.32%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.32%) Blockchain
4 5 (1.32%) Reinsurance
4 5 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.06%) FMCG
5 4 (1.06%) Life Science
5 4 (1.06%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (1.06%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.06%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.12%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (74.87%) Agile
2 203 (53.70%) Roadmaps
3 125 (33.07%) Scrum
4 123 (32.54%) User Stories
5 116 (30.69%) Product Roadmap
6 112 (29.63%) Product Backlog
7 92 (24.34%) Product Vision
8 87 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (23.02%) Product Management
9 78 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 71 (18.78%) Analytics
11 69 (18.25%) Acceptance Criteria
11 69 (18.25%) Backlog Management
12 65 (17.20%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 61 (16.14%) User Experience
14 54 (14.29%) Machine Learning
15 53 (14.02%) Artificial Intelligence
16 51 (13.49%) Sprint Planning
17 49 (12.96%) Product Requirements
18 42 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.84%) SQL
2 38 (10.05%) Python
3 7 (1.85%) 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 31 (8.20%) Degree
2 19 (5.03%) CSPO
2 19 (5.03%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.44%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.06%) 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 (5.03%) QA
2 9 (2.38%) NCSC
2 9 (2.38%) NIST
3 8 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.79%) PSD2
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
Vendors
1 25 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.17%) ServiceNow
3 11 (2.91%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.65%) Google
4 10 (2.65%) SAP
5 9 (2.38%) Splunk
6 7 (1.85%) Genesys
7 5 (1.32%) YouTube
8 3 (0.79%) Freshdesk
8 3 (0.79%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.79%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.53%) Adobe
9 2 (0.53%) Databricks
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle
10 1 (0.26%) Facebook
10 1 (0.26%) iManage
10 1 (0.26%) Instagram
10 1 (0.26%) Okta
10 1 (0.26%) OpenText
10 1 (0.26%) Pega