Product Data Management (PDM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PDM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PDM over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 904 935 1250
Rank change year-on-year +31 +315 -313
Permanent jobs citing PDM 18 10 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.011% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.011% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £36,250 £26,950 -
25th Percentile £39,375 £27,625 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £32,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +4.84% -37.37%
75th Percentile £47,500 £45,625 £50,188
90th Percentile - £51,250 £55,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £32,500 £31,000
% change year-on-year +38.46% +4.84% -31.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

PDM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

PDM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PDM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PDM in the UK

PDM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PDM.

Salary trend for PDM in the UK

PDM
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PDM within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +35 17 £45,000 +8.43% 40
UK excluding London -58 14 £45,000 +38.46% 36
North of England - 7 £45,000 - 1
Work from Home +56 5 - - 14
South East -5 5 - - 12
Yorkshire - 5 £45,000 - 1
London - 4 - - 4
Scotland -62 2 - - 2
North West - 2 £37,500 -
East of England -12 1 - - 16

PDM
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 10 (55.56%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 7 (38.89%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.56%) Electronics
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management Specialist
2 5 (27.78%) Configuration Specialist
2 5 (27.78%) Project Manager
2 5 (27.78%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 4 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing Engineering Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Procurement Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (5.56%) Device Driver
1 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
2 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (11.11%) Business Transformation
2 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
2 2 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Vision
3 1 (5.56%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (5.56%) Data Migration
3 1 (5.56%) Demand Management
3 1 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (5.56%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (5.56%) Roadmaps
3 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
3 1 (5.56%) Software Licensing
3 1 (5.56%) Software Testing
3 1 (5.56%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
3 1 (5.56%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) C
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) PTC