Product Lead Contracts in London

Product Leader
England > London

The median Product Leader daily rate in London is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 383 437
Rank change year-on-year +44 +54 +162
Contract jobs requiring a Product Lead 11 11 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.087% 0.062% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.067% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 25
10th Percentile £486 £396 £550
25th Percentile £578 £406 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -20.83% +7.14%
75th Percentile £653 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 - £700
England median daily rate £600 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,802 16,538 23,816
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.75% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,993 11,885 17,371
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 321 274
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.56 £46.48 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.38 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

Product Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Lead in London

Product Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Lead in London

Product Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Lead in London over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Lead in London

Product Lead
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
South London - 4 £700 -
Central London - 2 £613 - 4
Product Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, 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 London region featuring Product Lead in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Roadmaps
2 8 (72.73%) Product Management
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
4 4 (36.36%) Conversational UI
4 4 (36.36%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (36.36%) Chatbot
4 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 4 (36.36%) Copilot Studio
4 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
5 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
5 3 (27.27%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
5 3 (27.27%) Product Strategy
6 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Product Backlog
6 2 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (18.18%) Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics

Product Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (18.18%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (18.18%) OCI
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) Back Office
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Educational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Equities
2 1 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Roadmaps
2 8 (72.73%) Product Management
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) Conversational UI
4 4 (36.36%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (27.27%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
5 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) Product Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Change Management
6 2 (18.18%) Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PHP
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) R
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle