Product Lead Contracts in England

Product Leader
UK > England

The median Product Leader daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 616 762
Rank change year-on-year +90 +146 -140
Contract jobs requiring a Product Lead 14 39 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.080% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.084% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 11
10th Percentile £400 £550 £400
25th Percentile £438 £559 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £656
90th Percentile £638 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £625 £570 £430
% change year-on-year +9.65% +32.56% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £53.65
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £56.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £56.05
UK median hourly rate - - £56.00
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Product Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Product Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Product Lead in England

Product Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Lead in England.

Daily rate trend for Product Lead in England

Product Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Lead in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Lead in England

Product Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Lead in England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Lead in England

Product Lead
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +61 8 £565 -5.83% 9
Yorkshire - 4 £450 -
North of England - 4 £450 - 1
South East +22 1 £800 +41.59% 4
Product Lead
UK

Product Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Product Lead contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Product Lead in the job title.

1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
2 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
2 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 4 (28.57%) Customer Experience
2 4 (28.57%) Chatbot
2 4 (28.57%) Conversational UI
2 4 (28.57%) Data Science
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Marketing
3 3 (21.43%) Business Development
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) Product Management
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Product Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
5 1 (7.14%) dbt
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (7.14%) Sprint Planning

Product Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) dbt
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) EDI
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Conversational UI
1 4 (28.57%) Customer Experience
1 4 (28.57%) Data Science
1 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
1 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (28.57%) Project Management
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Business Development
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (14.29%) Product Management
3 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.14%) Data Modelling
4 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.14%) ETL
4 1 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) Scala
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Ab Initio
1 1 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (7.14%) Zoho