Lead Product Manager Job Trends in Darlington

Lead Product Manager
Durham > Darlington

The median Lead Product Manager salary in Darlington is £77,217 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 September 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Product Manager 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Darlington 2.04% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.23% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,194 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,217 - -
75th Percentile £82,241 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Durham median annual salary £77,217 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Darlington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Darlington. 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 Darlington with a recognized job title 31 60 33
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 63.27% 96.77% 64.71%
Number of salaries quoted 15 51 33
10th Percentile - £22,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,476 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,309 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -12.19% +35.60%
75th Percentile £46,875 £71,972 £69,800
90th Percentile £79,048 £80,000 -
Durham median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% -10.00% +27.16%

Lead Product Manager Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Darlington

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Lead Product Manager 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 across the Darlington region featuring Lead Product Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Web Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

Lead Product Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Darlington 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 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Web Operations