Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PLM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PLM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 720 636 1032
Rank change year-on-year -84 +396 -205
Permanent jobs citing PLM 166 361 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.36% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.38% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 111 102 44
10th Percentile £47,250 £43,525 £43,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +31.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £93,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +28.71% +18.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

PLM 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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

PLM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PLM in the UK

PLM
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PLM in the UK

PLM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PLM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PLM in the UK

PLM
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PLM within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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 -101 130 £65,000 -4.31% 117
UK excluding London -141 100 £55,000 -15.38% 99
London +70 50 £90,000 +12.50% 22
South East -15 28 £52,500 -22.71% 25
Scotland -50 24 £55,000 - 9
Work from Home -86 18 £105,000 +31.25% 38
South West -16 15 £97,500 +62.50% 9
North of England -48 15 £57,500 -11.54% 28
East of England -5 12 £60,000 -7.69% 5
North West -37 9 £57,500 -9.45% 25
Midlands -39 6 £58,500 -10.00% 24
Yorkshire +53 5 - - 1
West Midlands -17 5 £58,500 -10.00% 17
East Midlands -20 1 - - 7
North East -21 1 £57,500 - 2

PLM
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.82%) IIS
1 8 (4.82%) WebSphere
2 7 (4.22%) JBoss
2 7 (4.22%) Tomcat
2 7 (4.22%) WebLogic
2 7 (4.22%) WildFly
3 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (14.46%) Windchill
2 14 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (4.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.20%) CATIA
6 1 (0.60%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.60%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.60%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 58 (34.94%) Teamcenter
2 15 (9.04%) SAP PLM
3 13 (7.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (6.02%) SAP IBP
5 7 (4.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (3.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 6 (3.61%) SAP PP
7 4 (2.41%) SAP SCM
8 3 (1.81%) Primavera
9 2 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (1.20%) SAP PM
10 1 (0.60%) Magento
10 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.60%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.64%) Azure
2 9 (5.42%) AWS
3 6 (3.61%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.61%) SaaS
4 4 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.60%) AWS IoT
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.60%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.60%) GCP
6 1 (0.60%) IaaS
6 1 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.82%) Wireless
2 4 (2.41%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.60%) GSM
3 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.61%) Power BI
3 5 (3.01%) Metadata
4 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.60%) MySQL
5 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Chocolatey
1 1 (0.60%) Git
1 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.60%) JIRA
1 1 (0.60%) LabVIEW
1 1 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
General
1 48 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 40 (24.10%) Manufacturing
3 27 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.05%) Aerospace
5 16 (9.64%) Electronics
5 16 (9.64%) Finance
6 13 (7.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 12 (7.23%) Law
8 11 (6.63%) Telecoms
9 10 (6.02%) Banking
9 10 (6.02%) Retail
10 9 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (3.01%) Automotive
12 5 (3.01%) Marketing
13 4 (2.41%) Brand Awareness
13 4 (2.41%) Military
14 3 (1.81%) Aviation
14 3 (1.81%) Public Sector
15 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (28.31%) Architect
2 20 (12.05%) Lead
2 20 (12.05%) Senior
3 17 (10.24%) Configuration Specialist
3 17 (10.24%) Consultant
4 11 (6.63%) Infrastructure Architect
4 11 (6.63%) Product Manager
4 11 (6.63%) Systems Engineer
5 10 (6.02%) SAP Manager
5 10 (6.02%) Supply Chain Manager
6 9 (5.42%) Analyst
7 8 (4.82%) Technical Architect
8 7 (4.22%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.61%) Applications Support
9 6 (3.61%) Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (3.61%) Implementation Manager
9 6 (3.61%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.61%) Support Analyst
9 6 (3.61%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.63%) HTML
2 9 (5.42%) Itk
3 8 (4.82%) CSS
4 7 (4.22%) SAP TM
5 6 (3.61%) XML
6 5 (3.01%) Web Services
7 4 (2.41%) Flash
8 2 (1.20%) .NET
8 2 (1.20%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.20%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.20%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.20%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.20%) jQuery
8 2 (1.20%) React
8 2 (1.20%) SAPUI5
8 2 (1.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 1 (0.60%) EDI
9 1 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.04%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.02%) IoT
3 8 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.01%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.41%) FPGA
6 4 (2.41%) PCIe
7 3 (1.81%) Life Science
7 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.20%) CMDB
8 2 (1.20%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Replication
9 1 (0.60%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.82%) Windows
2 7 (4.22%) Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (22.29%) Project Management
2 34 (20.48%) CAD
3 25 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (13.86%) Change Management
5 18 (10.84%) Data Analysis
5 18 (10.84%) Project Delivery
6 17 (10.24%) Agile
6 17 (10.24%) Digital Engineering
6 17 (10.24%) ERP
6 17 (10.24%) Performance Measurement
7 16 (9.64%) Validation
8 15 (9.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (8.43%) Customer Experience
9 14 (8.43%) Mentoring
10 13 (7.83%) Migration
11 12 (7.23%) Asset Management
11 12 (7.23%) CRM
11 12 (7.23%) Data Migration
11 12 (7.23%) EAM
11 12 (7.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.83%) C#
2 11 (6.63%) SQL
3 9 (5.42%) C++
4 8 (4.82%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.61%) C
5 6 (3.61%) VBA
6 5 (3.01%) Java
6 5 (3.01%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.20%) Python
8 1 (0.60%) Bash
8 1 (0.60%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 36 (21.69%) Degree
2 27 (16.27%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.82%) PhD
4 6 (3.61%) DBS Check
4 6 (3.61%) HNC
4 6 (3.61%) HND
4 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.01%) MCAD
5 5 (3.01%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) MCSA
7 1 (0.60%) MCSE
7 1 (0.60%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.24%) PMO
2 5 (3.01%) QA
3 4 (2.41%) GxP
3 4 (2.41%) JTAG
4 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (4.22%) Docker
2 5 (3.01%) Firmware
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.41%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.60%) Ansible
3 1 (0.60%) MOM
3 1 (0.60%) SCCM
3 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (15.06%) SAP
2 16 (9.64%) Oracle
3 8 (4.82%) ANSYS
4 7 (4.22%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.01%) Siemens
6 4 (2.41%) Intel
6 4 (2.41%) Mentor Graphics
6 4 (2.41%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.41%) Xilinx
7 2 (1.20%) BMC
7 2 (1.20%) Citrix
7 2 (1.20%) IFS
7 2 (1.20%) Nintex
7 2 (1.20%) Remedy
8 1 (0.60%) EMC
8 1 (0.60%) IBM
8 1 (0.60%) MathWorks
8 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.60%) Sage
8 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software