Product Lead Job Trends in England

Product Leader
UK > England

The median Product Leader salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 654 650
Rank change year-on-year +101 -4 +265
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Lead 56 21 17
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.042% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.045% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 27 9 15
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,055 £53,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £87,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

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

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 47,242 46,225 43,242
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 93.21% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,630 24,644 33,926
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,199 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Product Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Product Lead' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Product Lead job vacancy trend in England

Product Lead
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Product Lead job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Product Lead job vacancies in England

Product Lead
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Lead in England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Lead in England

Product Lead
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +81 33 £100,000 +19.40% 15
South West +23 9 £60,000 - 12
South East +31 6 £50,000 - 22
Midlands +29 4 £70,000 +55.56% 10
West Midlands +25 2 £70,000 +55.56% 5
East of England +22 2 £65,000 +23.81% 9
North of England +20 2 £65,000 +27.95% 14
East Midlands - 2 £46,500 - 4
North West +24 1 £65,000 +27.95% 7
North East - 1 - - 1
Product Lead
UK

Product Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, Product Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Product Lead in the job title.

1 21 (37.50%) Product Management
2 18 (32.14%) Product Strategy
3 16 (28.57%) Analytics
4 15 (26.79%) Azure
4 15 (26.79%) Machine Learning
5 13 (23.21%) Databricks
5 13 (23.21%) Roadmaps
6 12 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
7 11 (19.64%) Agile
7 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
7 11 (19.64%) DevOps
7 11 (19.64%) Product Roadmap
7 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (17.86%) Data Governance
8 10 (17.86%) Data Quality
8 10 (17.86%) Decision-Making
8 10 (17.86%) Product Vision
9 9 (16.07%) AI
9 9 (16.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (16.07%) Apache Spark
9 9 (16.07%) AWS
9 9 (16.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (16.07%) Big Data
9 9 (16.07%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (16.07%) Data Analytics
9 9 (16.07%) Data Engineering
9 9 (16.07%) Data Lineage
9 9 (16.07%) Data Modelling
9 9 (16.07%) Data Pipeline

Product Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (16.07%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (16.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Azure
2 9 (16.07%) AWS
2 9 (16.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (10.71%) SaaS
4 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.79%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (16.07%) Big Data
1 9 (16.07%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (16.07%) Hadoop
1 9 (16.07%) Metadata
1 9 (16.07%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 17 (30.36%) Law
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
2 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Banking
3 10 (17.86%) Retail
4 9 (16.07%) Financial Institution
5 6 (10.71%) Back Office
5 6 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (10.71%) Marketing
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Advertising
7 1 (1.79%) Aviation
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) Kafka
2 2 (3.57%) .NET
2 2 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (3.57%) React
3 1 (1.79%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Product Ownership
2 9 (16.07%) FMCG
3 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.36%) Educational Technology
4 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.57%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.79%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) Product Management
2 18 (32.14%) Product Strategy
3 16 (28.57%) Analytics
4 15 (26.79%) Machine Learning
5 13 (23.21%) Roadmaps
6 12 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
7 11 (19.64%) Agile
7 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
7 11 (19.64%) DevOps
7 11 (19.64%) Product Roadmap
7 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (17.86%) Data Governance
8 10 (17.86%) Decision-Making
8 10 (17.86%) Product Vision
9 9 (16.07%) Data Analytics
9 9 (16.07%) Data Engineering
9 9 (16.07%) Data Lineage
9 9 (16.07%) Metadata Management
9 9 (16.07%) Observability
9 9 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.07%) SQL
2 2 (3.57%) C#
2 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.57%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 9 (16.07%) QA
3 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Databricks
2 9 (16.07%) SAP
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce