Product Owner Jobs in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Owner salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 599 403 394
Rank change year-on-year -196 -9 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 168 416 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.71% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.80% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 130 266 449
10th Percentile £42,425 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 69,899 52,023 70,286
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 89.12% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 49,392 29,903 42,846
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Product Owner in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
North of England -16 44 £62,783 +14.15% 7
Midlands -56 38 £63,750 +34.21% 12
South East -71 37 £65,000 +8.33% 14
North West -5 28 £62,641 +13.89% 5
West Midlands -40 23 £62,500 +38.89% 8
South West -52 23 £55,000 -10.58% 7
Scotland -73 17 £55,000 -12.00% 4
East Midlands -23 15 £70,000 +27.27% 4
Yorkshire +19 12 £65,000 +9.20% 2
East of England -18 7 £48,750 -11.36%
North East -3 4 £62,783 +9.19%
Wales -2 2 £42,500 -37.04%
Product Owner
UK

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 168 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 113 (67.26%) Agile
3 97 (57.74%) Roadmaps
4 54 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (31.55%) Product Roadmap
6 52 (30.95%) Social Skills
7 51 (30.36%) User Stories
7 51 (30.36%) Scrum
8 47 (27.98%) Finance
8 47 (27.98%) Product Vision
9 45 (26.79%) Product Backlog
10 41 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
12 33 (19.64%) Mentoring
12 33 (19.64%) JIRA
13 30 (17.86%) User Experience
14 29 (17.26%) Project Management
15 27 (16.07%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 26 (15.48%) Coaching
17 25 (14.88%) Retail
18 24 (14.29%) Customer Service
19 23 (13.69%) Marketing
19 23 (13.69%) Acceptance Criteria
20 21 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
20 21 (12.50%) DevOps
21 20 (11.90%) Backlog Management
21 20 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
22 19 (11.31%) Analytics
23 17 (10.12%) Product Strategy
24 16 (9.52%) Azure

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (7.14%) Confluence
2 3 (1.79%) CMS
2 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Trello
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) SAP ERP
1 2 (1.19%) SAP HR
1 2 (1.19%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (1.19%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.52%) Azure
2 13 (7.74%) SaaS
3 8 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.38%) AWS
4 4 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.38%) Collibra
4 4 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.38%) Power Automate
4 4 (2.38%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.19%) GCP
5 2 (1.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (1.19%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) Figma
6 1 (0.60%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.36%) Network Security
2 4 (2.38%) Internet
3 3 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.57%) Tableau
2 4 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.38%) Power BI
3 3 (1.79%) Metadata
3 3 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.60%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (19.64%) JIRA
2 2 (1.19%) DBeaver
General
1 52 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 47 (27.98%) Finance
3 38 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (14.88%) Retail
5 23 (13.69%) Marketing
6 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.36%) Banking
8 6 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.57%) Law
8 6 (3.57%) Legal
8 6 (3.57%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.98%) Automotive
9 5 (2.98%) Back Office
10 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.19%) Games
12 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.79%) Kafka
2 2 (1.19%) .NET
2 2 (1.19%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.19%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.19%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (1.19%) Entity Framework
2 2 (1.19%) HTML
2 2 (1.19%) HTML5
2 2 (1.19%) Middleware
2 2 (1.19%) XML
3 1 (0.60%) RESTful
3 1 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 168 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.98%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.38%) FMCG
3 4 (2.38%) PMI
4 3 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.79%) Online Banking
4 3 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.19%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.19%) Life Science
5 2 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.19%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.60%) NHS
6 1 (0.60%) Tandem
6 1 (0.60%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.60%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.19%) Linux
1 2 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (67.26%) Agile
2 97 (57.74%) Roadmaps
3 54 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (31.55%) Product Roadmap
5 51 (30.36%) Scrum
5 51 (30.36%) User Stories
6 47 (27.98%) Product Vision
7 45 (26.79%) Product Backlog
8 41 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (19.64%) Mentoring
10 30 (17.86%) User Experience
11 29 (17.26%) Project Management
12 27 (16.07%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 26 (15.48%) Coaching
14 24 (14.29%) Customer Service
15 23 (13.69%) Acceptance Criteria
16 21 (12.50%) DevOps
16 21 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
17 20 (11.90%) Backlog Management
17 20 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.14%) SQL
2 5 (2.98%) C#
3 4 (2.38%) Python
4 2 (1.19%) C
4 2 (1.19%) C++
4 2 (1.19%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.19%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.19%) R
4 2 (1.19%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (8.33%) Degree
2 9 (5.36%) CSPO
3 8 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.98%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CIPD
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.36%) NCSC
1 9 (5.36%) NIST
2 6 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.38%) QA
4 2 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
Vendors
1 10 (5.95%) Salesforce
1 10 (5.95%) ServiceNow
2 9 (5.36%) Splunk
3 8 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.17%) Genesys
5 5 (2.98%) SAP
5 5 (2.98%) YouTube
6 3 (1.79%) Freshdesk
6 3 (1.79%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.19%) Databricks
7 2 (1.19%) Google
7 2 (1.19%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.60%) Adobe
8 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.60%) Okta
8 1 (0.60%) Pega