Product Lead Job Trends

Product Leader
UK

The median Product Leader salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 674 698
Rank change year-on-year +82 +24 +237
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Lead 61 25 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.047% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.050% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 29 13 18
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,805 £47,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,000 £50,001
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £66,625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.08% -4.82%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £95,625
90th Percentile £119,000 £88,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,750 £50,001
% change year-on-year +13.74% +5.50% -25.92%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

Product Lead
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Product Lead job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Lead
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Product Lead job vacancies in the UK

Product Lead
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Lead over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Lead in the UK

Product Lead
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Lead within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 +99 58 £70,000 -13.85% 31
London +77 33 £105,000 +23.53% 15
Work from Home +90 30 £87,500 +9.38% 25
UK excluding London +67 25 £60,000 +13.74% 27
South West +22 11 £60,000 - 3
South East +37 7 £50,000 - 8
Midlands +25 4 £70,000 +55.56% 4
East of England +26 2 £65,000 +23.81% 5
West Midlands +22 2 £70,000 +55.56% 3
East Midlands - 2 £46,500 - 1
North of England +7 1 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, 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 featuring Product Lead in the job title.

1 22 (36.07%) Product Management
2 21 (34.43%) Product Strategy
3 16 (26.23%) Roadmaps
4 15 (24.59%) Analytics
5 13 (21.31%) Agile
5 13 (21.31%) Azure
5 13 (21.31%) Machine Learning
5 13 (21.31%) Product Roadmap
6 12 (19.67%) Product Vision
7 11 (18.03%) Databricks
7 11 (18.03%) User Experience
8 10 (16.39%) AI
8 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (16.39%) Mentoring
8 10 (16.39%) Thought Leadership
9 9 (14.75%) CI/CD
9 9 (14.75%) Decision-Making
9 9 (14.75%) DevOps
9 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (13.11%) Data Governance
10 8 (13.11%) Data Quality
10 8 (13.11%) QA
11 7 (11.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (11.48%) Apache Spark
11 7 (11.48%) AWS
11 7 (11.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (11.48%) Big Data
11 7 (11.48%) Data Analytics

Product Lead 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (11.48%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (11.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) Azure
2 7 (11.48%) AWS
2 7 (11.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 7 (11.48%) SaaS
3 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (3.28%) Figma
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.28%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.64%) ClickUp
4 1 (1.64%) Miro
4 1 (1.64%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (11.48%) Big Data
1 7 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (11.48%) Hadoop
1 7 (11.48%) Metadata
1 7 (11.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) JIRA
General
1 16 (26.23%) Finance
2 15 (24.59%) Law
3 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
4 10 (16.39%) Banking
4 10 (16.39%) Retail
5 9 (14.75%) Financial Institution
6 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (11.48%) Marketing
8 6 (9.84%) Back Office
9 5 (8.20%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (3.28%) Legal
11 1 (1.64%) Advertising
11 1 (1.64%) Aviation
11 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.64%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Kafka
2 2 (3.28%) .NET
2 2 (3.28%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (3.28%) React
3 1 (1.64%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.48%) FMCG
2 7 (11.48%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.92%) Educational Technology
3 3 (4.92%) Reinsurance
3 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.64%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) Product Management
2 21 (34.43%) Product Strategy
3 16 (26.23%) Roadmaps
4 15 (24.59%) Analytics
5 13 (21.31%) Agile
5 13 (21.31%) Machine Learning
5 13 (21.31%) Product Roadmap
6 12 (19.67%) Product Vision
7 11 (18.03%) User Experience
8 10 (16.39%) AI
8 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (16.39%) Mentoring
8 10 (16.39%) Thought Leadership
9 9 (14.75%) CI/CD
9 9 (14.75%) Decision-Making
9 9 (14.75%) DevOps
9 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (13.11%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.48%) SQL
2 2 (3.28%) C#
2 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.28%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) Data Quality
1 8 (13.11%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Databricks
2 7 (11.48%) SAP
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.28%) Adobe
4 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.64%) Sage