Lead Product Manager Contracts

Lead Product Manager
UK

The median Lead Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 681 825
Rank change year-on-year +105 +144 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Product Manager 8 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.029% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.030% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 13
10th Percentile £613 £550 £546
25th Percentile £625 £556 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £800 £650 £663
90th Percentile - £688 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £585 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -13.33% +8.00% +42.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Lead Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Product Manager in the UK

Lead Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Product Manager.

Daily rate trend for Lead Product Manager in the UK

Lead Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Product Manager over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Product Manager in the UK

Lead Product Manager
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Product Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +78 8 £650 +13.04% 20
London +75 7 £650 +15.56% 6
Work from Home +111 4 £650 +1.96% 17
UK excluding London +28 1 £585 -13.33% 14
North of England - 1 £585 - 12
North West - 1 £585 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Lead Product Manager contract 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 contract job ads featuring Lead Product Manager in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Product Ownership
1 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Android
2 4 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 4 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) PaaS
2 4 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management

Lead Product Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Android
1 4 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
3 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform