Lead Product Owner Jobs

Lead Product Owner
UK

The median Lead Product Owner salary in the UK is £82,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 August 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 722 832 794
Rank change year-on-year +110 -38 +348
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Lead Product Owner 4 4 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.005% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.005% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 33
10th Percentile £52,500 £70,625 -
25th Percentile £62,625 £73,438 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,750 £82,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +3.60% -24.16%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile - - £108,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -29.09% +3.60% +73.11%

All DemandTrendPermanent 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 55,014 83,400 65,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.25% 95.25% 92.19%
Number of salaries quoted 30,229 52,179 46,884
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £71,991 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £91,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

Lead Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Product Owner in the UK

Lead Product Owner
Salary Trend

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

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

Lead Product Owner
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Product Owner over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Product Owner in the UK

Lead Product Owner
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Product Owner within the UK over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +117 4 £82,750 +0.30% 2
UK excluding London +98 2 £58,500 -29.09% 2
London +55 2 £95,000 +11.76% 1
Work from Home +47 1 £70,500 -2.76%
East Midlands - 1 £46,500 -
Midlands - 1 £46,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £70,500 -
North of England - 1 £70,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 August 2025, Lead Product Owner 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 featuring Lead Product Owner in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Line Management
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Fintech
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Epics
3 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Project Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Miro
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making

Lead Product Owner 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Miro
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Epics
3 2 (50.00%) Fintech
3 2 (50.00%) Line Management
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Project Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce