Lead Product Manager Contracts

Lead Product Manager
UK

The median Lead Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 702 836
Rank change year-on-year +111 +134 -148
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Product Manager 9 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.024% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.025% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 15
10th Percentile £617 - £511
25th Percentile £725 £550 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £800 £650 £663
90th Percentile - £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £675 £616
% change year-on-year +11.11% +9.53% +9.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Lead Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Product Manager in the UK

Lead Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Product Manager in the UK

Lead Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Product Manager over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Product Manager in the UK

Lead Product Manager
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Product Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +115 9 £750 +33.33% 4
London +107 6 £800 +42.22% 4
UK excluding London +59 3 £750 +11.11% 2
Work from Home +122 2 £700 +16.67% 5
South West +24 2 £750 +11.11%
North West - 1 £585 -
North of England - 1 £585 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Lead Product Manager 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 featuring Lead Product Manager in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (33.33%) Product Management
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Matrix Management
4 2 (22.22%) Personalization
4 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Business Case
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Product Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) PaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Product Backlog
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
5 1 (11.11%) Android
5 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
5 1 (11.11%) Git

Lead Product Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Back Office
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (11.11%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Product Management
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Business Case
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Matrix Management
3 2 (22.22%) Personalization
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (11.11%) Product Backlog
4 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Product Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform