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 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 442 398
Rank change year-on-year -92 -44 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Owner 377 713 1,464
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 298 522 1,016
10th Percentile £46,950 £43,500 £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 £98,250 £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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +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 13 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 13 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 -85 338 £65,500 +4.80% 108
London +45 180 £85,000 +21.43% 45
UK excluding London -205 170 £60,000 - 65
Work from Home -72 143 £62,783 +0.45% 64
North of England -5 48 £62,783 +14.15% 9
South East -64 38 £65,000 +8.33% 21
Midlands -53 35 £65,000 +36.84% 18
North West -5 31 £60,237 +9.52% 6
South West -57 23 £55,000 -12.00% 8
West Midlands -31 21 £65,000 +44.44% 15
Scotland -64 18 £55,000 -13.73% 6
East Midlands -12 14 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Yorkshire +36 13 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East of England -3 6 £48,750 -11.36% 1
North East -4 4 £62,783 +9.19% 1
Wales +5 2 £42,500 -37.04% 1

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 377 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 282 (74.80%) Agile
3 204 (54.11%) Roadmaps
4 136 (36.07%) Social Skills
5 126 (33.42%) Scrum
6 124 (32.89%) User Stories
7 116 (30.77%) Product Roadmap
8 113 (29.97%) Product Backlog
9 112 (29.71%) Finance
10 104 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
11 93 (24.67%) Product Vision
12 87 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (23.08%) Product Management
13 78 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 76 (20.16%) SQL
15 71 (18.83%) Analytics
16 70 (18.57%) Backlog Management
16 70 (18.57%) Acceptance Criteria
17 65 (17.24%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 61 (16.18%) User Experience
19 55 (14.59%) Machine Learning
20 53 (14.06%) Artificial Intelligence
21 52 (13.79%) Sprint Planning
22 50 (13.26%) Product Requirements
23 49 (13.00%) JIRA
24 43 (11.41%) AWS
25 42 (11.14%) Requirements Gathering
26 41 (10.88%) Epics
26 41 (10.88%) DevOps
27 38 (10.08%) 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 (7.16%) Confluence
2 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.80%) CMS
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.27%) Documentum
4 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.06%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) 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 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.80%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.53%) Magento
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.41%) AWS
2 37 (9.81%) Azure
3 26 (6.90%) SaaS
4 17 (4.51%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.12%) GCP
6 7 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.59%) Power Automate
7 6 (1.59%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.06%) Collibra
9 4 (1.06%) dbt
9 4 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.06%) PaaS
9 4 (1.06%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.53%) Bloomreach
10 2 (0.53%) Figma
10 2 (0.53%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.53%) Miro
10 2 (0.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.27%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.39%) Network Security
2 4 (1.06%) Internet
3 3 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.92%) Power BI
1 11 (2.92%) Tableau
2 7 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.06%) Big Data
3 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.80%) Metadata
4 3 (0.80%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.27%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.27%) MS Access
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (13.00%) JIRA
2 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
General
1 136 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 112 (29.71%) Finance
3 104 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.55%) Front Office
5 30 (7.96%) Marketing
5 30 (7.96%) Retail
6 22 (5.84%) Banking
7 17 (4.51%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.45%) Legal
9 10 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.65%) Tech for Good
10 9 (2.39%) Law
10 9 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.12%) Automotive
11 8 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.59%) Local Government
14 5 (1.33%) Advertising
14 5 (1.33%) Aerospace
14 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%) 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
1 377 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 36 (9.55%) Derivative
2 36 (9.55%) Equities
2 36 (9.55%) Fixed Income
2 36 (9.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (9.55%) Hedge funds
3 6 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (1.59%) NHS
4 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.33%) Blockchain
4 5 (1.33%) Reinsurance
4 5 (1.33%) 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
1 282 (74.80%) Agile
2 204 (54.11%) Roadmaps
3 126 (33.42%) Scrum
4 124 (32.89%) User Stories
5 116 (30.77%) Product Roadmap
6 113 (29.97%) Product Backlog
7 93 (24.67%) Product Vision
8 87 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (23.08%) Product Management
9 78 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 71 (18.83%) Analytics
11 70 (18.57%) Acceptance Criteria
11 70 (18.57%) Backlog Management
12 65 (17.24%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 61 (16.18%) User Experience
14 55 (14.59%) Machine Learning
15 53 (14.06%) Artificial Intelligence
16 52 (13.79%) Sprint Planning
17 50 (13.26%) Product Requirements
18 42 (11.14%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 76 (20.16%) SQL
2 38 (10.08%) Python
3 7 (1.86%) 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 (8.22%) Degree
2 19 (5.04%) CSPO
3 18 (4.77%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.18%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.86%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.06%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.53%) MBA
7 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.27%) CIPD
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.04%) QA
2 9 (2.39%) NCSC
2 9 (2.39%) NIST
3 8 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.80%) PSD2
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
Vendors
1 25 (6.63%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.18%) ServiceNow
3 10 (2.65%) Google
3 10 (2.65%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.39%) SAP
4 9 (2.39%) Splunk
5 7 (1.86%) Genesys
6 5 (1.33%) YouTube
7 3 (0.80%) Freshdesk
7 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.53%) Adobe
8 2 (0.53%) Databricks
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle
8 2 (0.53%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.27%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.27%) iManage
9 1 (0.27%) Instagram
9 1 (0.27%) Okta
9 1 (0.27%) OpenText
9 1 (0.27%) Pega