Product Ownership
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 75 58
Rank change year-on-year -61 -17 +33
Permanent jobs citing Product Ownership 2,095 4,188 8,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.11% 4.15% 5.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.97% 9.71% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,395 2,495 4,048
10th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,300 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £60,383 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.01% +9.79% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
UK

Product Ownership is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership.

Salary trend for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Ownership within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 -64 1,738 £62,500 -4.58% 486
UK excluding London -69 1,351 £57,965 -4.01% 319
Work from Home -53 891 £60,000 -7.69% 264
London -49 635 £75,000 +7.14% 191
North of England -64 316 £57,965 -10.82% 71
South East -70 292 £65,000 +4.00% 76
Scotland -38 234 £58,263 -10.36% 22
Midlands -52 223 £55,000 -4.35% 65
South West -15 192 £57,500 -4.99% 54
North West -27 186 £57,965 -10.82% 37
West Midlands -31 165 £57,500 - 53
Yorkshire -54 99 £60,000 -7.69% 24
East of England -80 62 £49,500 -10.00% 19
East Midlands -55 58 £50,000 -9.09% 12
North East +3 31 £57,965 +0.81% 11
Wales +1 29 £52,500 -8.70% 16
Northern Ireland +4 5 - -

Product Ownership
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
1 114 (5.44%) Confluence
2 34 (1.62%) Apache
3 28 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 12 (0.57%) CMS
5 11 (0.53%) WordPress
6 10 (0.48%) nginx
7 9 (0.43%) IIS
7 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.38%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.38%) SAS
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.19%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.095%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.048%) Documentum
Applications
1 40 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.38%) Adobe XD
3 28 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.76%) Sketch
6 14 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.38%) Trello
8 7 (0.33%) InVision
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.19%) Blender
9 4 (0.19%) Maya
9 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.19%) MotionBuilder
9 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.095%) FrameMaker
10 2 (0.095%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.095%) RoboHelp
11 1 (0.048%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.29%) Endur
2 24 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.67%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.38%) SAP HR
6 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
9 4 (0.19%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.14%) SAP HCM
11 2 (0.095%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.095%) Magento
11 2 (0.095%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 444 (21.19%) Azure
2 373 (17.80%) AWS
3 197 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
4 153 (7.30%) GCP
5 126 (6.01%) SaaS
6 116 (5.54%) Power Platform
7 63 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (2.63%) GitHub
9 41 (1.96%) Serverless
10 38 (1.81%) Power Automate
11 36 (1.72%) PaaS
12 28 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
13 27 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
14 26 (1.24%) PowerApps
15 19 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 14 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 14 (0.67%) Figma
17 14 (0.67%) IaaS
18 12 (0.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.95%) DSL
2 18 (0.86%) Intranet
3 16 (0.76%) VPN
4 15 (0.72%) Firewall
5 13 (0.62%) Network Security
6 12 (0.57%) Internet
7 11 (0.53%) WAN
8 10 (0.48%) LAN
9 7 (0.33%) WLAN
10 6 (0.29%) AMQP
11 5 (0.24%) WebEx
12 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.19%) HTTP
12 4 (0.19%) VLAN
13 3 (0.14%) DMZ
13 3 (0.14%) Modbus
13 3 (0.14%) TCP/IP
14 2 (0.095%) Broadband
14 2 (0.095%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.095%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (4.87%) Looker
3 81 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 78 (3.72%) BigQuery
5 77 (3.68%) Power BI
6 58 (2.77%) Tableau
7 54 (2.58%) Big Data
8 49 (2.34%) NoSQL
9 48 (2.29%) Relational Database
10 42 (2.00%) Data Lake
11 38 (1.81%) MongoDB
12 35 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (1.38%) MySQL
14 27 (1.29%) Metadata
15 18 (0.86%) DB2
16 13 (0.62%) Redis
17 10 (0.48%) Hadoop
18 9 (0.43%) Apache Hive
18 9 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
19 8 (0.38%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 228 (10.88%) JIRA
2 111 (5.30%) Git
3 87 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.24%) Cucumber
5 25 (1.19%) Visual Studio
6 22 (1.05%) Selenium
7 20 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 19 (0.91%) GitLab
9 18 (0.86%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.81%) Postman
11 15 (0.72%) Axure RP
12 14 (0.67%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.67%) JUnit
12 14 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
13 13 (0.62%) Balsamiq
14 8 (0.38%) Checkstyle
14 8 (0.38%) Mocha
14 8 (0.38%) MSBuild
15 7 (0.33%) Appium
15 7 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 611 (29.16%) Finance
2 599 (28.59%) Social Skills
3 415 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
4 343 (16.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 274 (13.08%) Marketing
6 192 (9.16%) Law
7 155 (7.40%) Banking
8 126 (6.01%) Retail
9 118 (5.63%) Public Sector
10 89 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
11 78 (3.72%) Legal
12 74 (3.53%) Billing
13 60 (2.86%) Investment Banking
14 59 (2.82%) Front Office
15 47 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (1.43%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.24%) Games
18 23 (1.10%) Financial Institution
19 19 (0.91%) Manufacturing
19 19 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 378 (18.04%) Product Owner
2 370 (17.66%) Senior
3 277 (13.22%) Developer
4 270 (12.89%) Analyst
5 235 (11.22%) Lead
6 178 (8.50%) Business Analyst
7 164 (7.83%) Product Manager
8 138 (6.59%) Architect
9 94 (4.49%) Data Manager
10 82 (3.91%) Software Engineer
11 81 (3.87%) Engineering Manager
12 79 (3.77%) Senior Developer
13 58 (2.77%) Designer
14 55 (2.63%) Data Engineer
14 55 (2.63%) Product Analyst
15 46 (2.20%) Finance Business Analyst
15 46 (2.20%) Financial Analyst
16 45 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
16 45 (2.15%) Senior Manager
17 44 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (8.07%) .NET
2 132 (6.30%) HTML
3 119 (5.68%) React
4 116 (5.54%) CSS
5 78 (3.72%) AngularJS
6 59 (2.82%) REST
7 50 (2.39%) .NET Framework
8 48 (2.29%) JSON
9 43 (2.05%) Node.js
9 43 (2.05%) XML
10 42 (2.00%) ASP.NET
11 40 (1.91%) RESTful
11 40 (1.91%) Spring
12 38 (1.81%) .NET Core
13 34 (1.62%) Web Services
14 32 (1.53%) Kafka
15 28 (1.34%) Spring Boot
16 25 (1.19%) Entity Framework
17 24 (1.15%) Laravel
17 24 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 127 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 72 (3.44%) Public Cloud
3 67 (3.20%) Mobile App
4 64 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 57 (2.72%) Derivative
7 57 (2.72%) Fixed Income
8 54 (2.58%) Hedge funds
9 52 (2.48%) Equities
10 33 (1.58%) Credit Risk
11 32 (1.53%) Algorithms
11 32 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 30 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
13 29 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 27 (1.29%) Client/Server
15 22 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.05%) PMI
15 22 (1.05%) PropTech
15 22 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.20%) Linux
2 41 (1.96%) Apple iOS
2 41 (1.96%) Windows
3 34 (1.62%) Android
4 9 (0.43%) Unix
4 9 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.19%) Debian
6 4 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.095%) CentOS
9 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.048%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,463 (69.83%) Agile
2 635 (30.31%) Scrum
3 533 (25.44%) Roadmaps
4 492 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
5 445 (21.24%) DevOps
6 351 (16.75%) Mentoring
7 338 (16.13%) CI/CD
8 336 (16.04%) User Stories
9 289 (13.79%) Project Management
10 284 (13.56%) Coaching
10 284 (13.56%) Product Backlog
11 283 (13.51%) User Experience
12 281 (13.41%) Software Engineering
13 230 (10.98%) Analytics
14 225 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 222 (10.60%) SDLC
16 219 (10.45%) Product Management
17 218 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
18 216 (10.31%) Product Roadmap
19 209 (9.98%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 333 (15.89%) SQL
2 256 (12.22%) JavaScript
3 252 (12.03%) Python
4 221 (10.55%) C#
5 164 (7.83%) Java
6 101 (4.82%) TypeScript
7 34 (1.62%) C
8 33 (1.58%) PHP
9 27 (1.29%) Groovy
10 25 (1.19%) Kotlin
11 24 (1.15%) PowerShell
12 22 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 19 (0.91%) Scala
13 19 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.67%) C++
14 14 (0.67%) Go
15 12 (0.57%) Swift
16 11 (0.53%) Bash
16 11 (0.53%) Ruby
17 9 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 359 (17.14%) Degree
2 167 (7.97%) Security Cleared
3 114 (5.44%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (2.43%) Master's Degree
6 46 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.53%) CSPO
8 27 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.00%) CISSP
10 17 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 15 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.67%) PhD
14 13 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
15 11 (0.53%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.33%) ISEB
17 6 (0.29%) IIBA
18 5 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (13.37%) QA
2 80 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 44 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 37 (1.77%) SLA
5 30 (1.43%) PMO
6 21 (1.00%) NIST
7 14 (0.67%) WCAG
8 11 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.43%) GDPR
10 9 (0.43%) NCSC
11 7 (0.33%) ISO 13485
12 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.24%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.24%) SEPA
13 5 (0.24%) TARGET2
14 4 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.19%) IEC 61508
14 4 (0.19%) MISRA C
14 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 123 (5.87%) Docker
2 18 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.38%) HDFS
3 8 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 125 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 77 (3.68%) Terraform
3 15 (0.72%) Ansible
4 14 (0.67%) Grafana
4 14 (0.67%) Progress Chef
4 14 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.33%) Puppet
7 5 (0.24%) Graphite
8 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.14%) SCCM
10 2 (0.095%) Kibana
10 2 (0.095%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.048%) Packer
11 1 (0.048%) SCOM
11 1 (0.048%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 246 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 168 (8.02%) Google
3 65 (3.10%) Databricks
4 54 (2.58%) ServiceNow
5 50 (2.39%) SAP
6 48 (2.29%) Adobe
7 43 (2.05%) Oracle
8 41 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 31 (1.48%) Atlassian
10 26 (1.24%) Alteryx
11 21 (1.00%) Bloomberg
12 18 (0.86%) Cognos
12 18 (0.86%) Sybase
13 14 (0.67%) BISAM
13 14 (0.67%) VMware
14 11 (0.53%) Pega
15 9 (0.43%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.43%) Splunk
15 9 (0.43%) Xero
16 8 (0.38%) Apple