Lead Product Designer Job Trends

Lead Product Designer
UK

The median Lead Product Designer salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 - 700
Rank change year-on-year - - +317
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Product Designer 7 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% - 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% - 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £94,750 - -
25th Percentile £98,125 - £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile - - £98,750
90th Percentile - - £104,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 53,945 51,888 49,263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 93.39% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 33,290 27,533 38,048
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,598 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Lead Product Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Lead Product Designer job vacancy trend in the UK

Lead Product Designer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Lead Product Designer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Product Designer job vacancies in the UK

Lead Product Designer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Product Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England - 6 £100,000 - 8
Work from Home - 4 £95,000 - 4
London - 4 £100,000 - 7
UK excluding London - 3 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, Lead Product Designer 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 featuring Lead Product Designer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) User Research
2 6 (85.71%) Analytics
2 6 (85.71%) Prototyping
3 5 (71.43%) User Experience
3 5 (71.43%) UX Design
4 4 (57.14%) Front End Development
4 4 (57.14%) SaaS
4 4 (57.14%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (42.86%) Adobe
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
5 3 (42.86%) Broadband
5 3 (42.86%) Customer Experience
5 3 (42.86%) Line Management
5 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
6 2 (28.57%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) AI
6 2 (28.57%) Digital Customer Experience
6 2 (28.57%) Figma
6 2 (28.57%) Inclusive Design
6 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
6 2 (28.57%) Storytelling
7 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (14.29%) Customer Insight
7 1 (14.29%) Design Thinking
7 1 (14.29%) DesignOps
7 1 (14.29%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 1 (14.29%) People Management
7 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving

Lead Product Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Broadband
General
1 2 (28.57%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Social Media
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) User Research
2 6 (85.71%) Analytics
2 6 (85.71%) Prototyping
3 5 (71.43%) User Experience
3 5 (71.43%) UX Design
4 4 (57.14%) Front End Development
4 4 (57.14%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
5 3 (42.86%) Customer Experience
5 3 (42.86%) Line Management
5 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (28.57%) AI
6 2 (28.57%) Digital Customer Experience
6 2 (28.57%) Inclusive Design
6 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
6 2 (28.57%) Storytelling
7 1 (14.29%) Customer Insight
7 1 (14.29%) People Management
7 1 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe