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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 439 394
Rank change year-on-year -106 -45 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 375 688 1,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.70% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.76% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 293 508 1,025
10th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £42,850
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,290 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
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 £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

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 23 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 23 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 -83 337 £65,000 +4.00% 67
London +57 177 £85,000 +21.43% 27
UK excluding London -182 170 £60,000 +4.35% 43
Work from Home -90 144 £62,783 +0.45% 45
North of England -20 46 £62,783 +14.15% 7
Midlands -59 38 £63,750 +34.21% 14
South East -63 37 £65,000 +8.33% 9
North West -11 29 £62,500 +13.64% 5
West Midlands -37 23 £62,500 +38.89% 9
South West -44 23 £55,000 -9.12% 7
Scotland -67 17 £55,000 -12.00% 6
East Midlands -11 15 £70,000 +27.27% 5
Yorkshire +33 13 £65,000 +9.20% 2
East of England -10 7 £48,750 -11.36%
North East -6 4 £62,783 +9.19%
Wales 0 2 £42,500 -37.04%

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 375 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 276 (73.60%) Agile
3 196 (52.27%) Roadmaps
4 132 (35.20%) Social Skills
5 124 (33.07%) Scrum
6 119 (31.73%) User Stories
7 115 (30.67%) Finance
8 110 (29.33%) Product Backlog
9 108 (28.80%) Product Roadmap
10 99 (26.40%) Analytical Skills
11 90 (24.00%) Product Vision
12 87 (23.20%) Product Management
13 84 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
14 80 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 72 (19.20%) SQL
16 69 (18.40%) Analytics
17 66 (17.60%) Acceptance Criteria
18 64 (17.07%) Backlog Management
19 63 (16.80%) User Experience
20 62 (16.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
21 55 (14.67%) Machine Learning
22 53 (14.13%) Artificial Intelligence
23 50 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
24 49 (13.07%) JIRA
25 46 (12.27%) Product Requirements
26 42 (11.20%) AWS
27 40 (10.67%) DevOps
27 40 (10.67%) Requirements Gathering
28 38 (10.13%) Python
28 38 (10.13%) 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 (7.20%) Confluence
2 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.07%) 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 (1.07%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 42 (11.20%) AWS
2 35 (9.33%) Azure
3 24 (6.40%) SaaS
4 17 (4.53%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.13%) GCP
6 7 (1.87%) 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 (1.07%) Collibra
9 4 (1.07%) dbt
9 4 (1.07%) 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 (2.40%) Network Security
2 4 (1.07%) Internet
3 3 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.93%) Power BI
1 11 (2.93%) Tableau
2 7 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.33%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.07%) 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 (13.07%) JIRA
2 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
General
1 132 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 115 (30.67%) Finance
3 99 (26.40%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.60%) Front Office
5 32 (8.53%) Retail
6 31 (8.27%) Marketing
7 22 (5.87%) Banking
8 16 (4.27%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.47%) Legal
10 12 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.93%) Law
12 10 (2.67%) Tech for Good
13 9 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (2.13%) Automotive
15 7 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.60%) Local Government
16 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (1.33%) Advertising
17 5 (1.33%) Aerospace
17 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%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 375 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 36 (9.60%) Derivative
2 36 (9.60%) Equities
2 36 (9.60%) Fixed Income
2 36 (9.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (9.60%) Hedge funds
3 6 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.33%) Blockchain
4 5 (1.33%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.33%) NHS
4 5 (1.33%) Reinsurance
4 5 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.07%) FMCG
5 4 (1.07%) Life Science
5 4 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (1.07%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.07%) PMI
6 3 (0.80%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.13%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (73.60%) Agile
2 196 (52.27%) Roadmaps
3 124 (33.07%) Scrum
4 119 (31.73%) User Stories
5 110 (29.33%) Product Backlog
6 108 (28.80%) Product Roadmap
7 90 (24.00%) Product Vision
8 87 (23.20%) Product Management
9 84 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
10 80 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 69 (18.40%) Analytics
12 66 (17.60%) Acceptance Criteria
13 64 (17.07%) Backlog Management
14 63 (16.80%) User Experience
15 62 (16.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 55 (14.67%) Machine Learning
17 53 (14.13%) Artificial Intelligence
18 50 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
19 46 (12.27%) Product Requirements
20 40 (10.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 72 (19.20%) SQL
2 38 (10.13%) Python
3 7 (1.87%) 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 (8.27%) Degree
2 20 (5.33%) CSPO
3 19 (5.07%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.47%) 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 (4.80%) QA
2 9 (2.40%) NCSC
2 9 (2.40%) 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 23 (6.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.20%) ServiceNow
3 11 (2.93%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.67%) SAP
5 9 (2.40%) Splunk
6 8 (2.13%) Google
7 7 (1.87%) 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%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.27%) Facebook
11 1 (0.27%) Instagram
11 1 (0.27%) Okta
11 1 (0.27%) OpenText
11 1 (0.27%) Pega