Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PLM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates 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 350 550 689
Rank change year-on-year +200 +139 -96
Contract jobs citing PLM 233 144 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.28% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 61 117
10th Percentile £439 £400 £398
25th Percentile £513 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £510 £490
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +4.08% -2.00%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £588
90th Percentile £709 £725 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £500 £453
% change year-on-year +30.00% +10.50% -9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 23 8
10th Percentile £38.06 £39.55 £41.38
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.91 £42.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -4.26%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £59.95 - £49.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -4.26%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PLM.

Daily rate trend for PLM in the UK

PLM
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for PLM in the UK

PLM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PLM.

Hourly rate trend for PLM in the UK

PLM
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PLM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PLM in the UK

PLM
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +189 202 £638 +24.69% 117
UK excluding London +124 164 £650 +30.00% 99
Work from Home +114 67 £650 +18.18% 38
East of England +69 65 £525 - 5
London +103 37 £600 +29.73% 22
South East +27 37 £500 +1.27% 25
North of England +48 30 £625 +38.89% 28
North West +31 25 £590 +18.00% 25
South West +10 12 £650 +25.00% 9
Midlands +4 12 £400 -28.89% 24
West Midlands +11 9 £650 +18.18% 17
Yorkshire +22 5 £650 +550.00% 1
Scotland - 4 £650 - 9
East Midlands +13 3 £388 -53.03% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £650 -
Wales +17 2 £650 +36.84% 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 5 (2.15%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) IBM Domino
2 1 (0.43%) IBM Notes
2 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.15%) Windchill
2 10 (4.29%) CATIA
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 53 (22.75%) Teamcenter
2 11 (4.72%) SAP PLM
3 8 (3.43%) DELMIA
4 6 (2.58%) ENOVIA
5 4 (1.72%) Primavera
6 2 (0.86%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.43%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.01%) Azure
2 10 (4.29%) OCI
3 6 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (0.86%) Asana
6 2 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.86%) dbt
6 2 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.86%) Miro
7 1 (0.43%) AWS
7 1 (0.43%) IaaS
7 1 (0.43%) PaaS
7 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) 3G
1 1 (0.43%) 4G
1 1 (0.43%) 5G
1 1 (0.43%) Broadband
1 1 (0.43%) DSL
1 1 (0.43%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.86%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.43%) Metadata
4 1 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (4.29%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) ERwin
General
1 62 (26.61%) Aerospace
2 31 (13.30%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.30%) Manufacturing
4 18 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.43%) Finance
7 5 (2.15%) Automotive
7 5 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.72%) Electronics
8 4 (1.72%) French Language
8 4 (1.72%) Italian Language
8 4 (1.72%) Law
8 4 (1.72%) Marketing
8 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Military
9 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.86%) German Language
10 2 (0.86%) Retail
10 2 (0.86%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.43%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 59 (25.32%) Configuration Manager
2 58 (24.89%) Architect
3 45 (19.31%) Consultant
4 41 (17.60%) Solutions Architect
5 27 (11.59%) SAP Consultant
6 24 (10.30%) Senior
7 15 (6.44%) Administrator
8 14 (6.01%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (4.72%) Developer
9 11 (4.72%) Lead
9 11 (4.72%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 9 (3.86%) Oracle Consultant
11 8 (3.43%) Cloud Consultant
11 8 (3.43%) Support Team Leader
12 7 (3.00%) SAP PLM Consultant
12 7 (3.00%) Team Leader
13 6 (2.58%) Configuration Engineer
13 6 (2.58%) Data Engineer
14 5 (2.15%) ABAP Developer
14 5 (2.15%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.58%) Itk
2 5 (2.15%) React
2 5 (2.15%) Web Services
3 3 (1.29%) .NET
3 3 (1.29%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.29%) .NET Framework
3 3 (1.29%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.29%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (1.29%) CSS
3 3 (1.29%) Entity Framework
3 3 (1.29%) jQuery
3 3 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (0.86%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.15%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.72%) Life Science
3 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.29%) N-Tier
5 2 (0.86%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (0.86%) iPad
6 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.43%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.43%) FMCG
6 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.58%) Windows
1 6 (2.58%) Windows Server
1 6 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
1 6 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (0.86%) Android
2 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (32.19%) Configuration Management
2 56 (24.03%) Coaching
3 55 (23.61%) Collaborative Working
4 25 (10.73%) DevOps
5 23 (9.87%) Agile
6 20 (8.58%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (6.44%) Migration
8 13 (5.58%) Change Management
8 13 (5.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (5.58%) ERP
8 13 (5.58%) Project Management
9 11 (4.72%) Business Strategy
9 11 (4.72%) Data Management
10 10 (4.29%) Computer Science
10 10 (4.29%) Data Migration
10 10 (4.29%) Roadmaps
10 10 (4.29%) Workflow
11 9 (3.86%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (3.86%) Regulatory Compliance
12 8 (3.43%) PDM
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.44%) SQL
2 12 (5.15%) C
3 7 (3.00%) ABAP
3 7 (3.00%) Java
4 6 (2.58%) C++
4 6 (2.58%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.72%) C#
6 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.29%) Python
7 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 87 (37.34%) Security Cleared
2 63 (27.04%) SC Cleared
3 41 (17.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (9.01%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.01%) Degree
6 4 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.29%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.86%) CBAP
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.43%) CSPO
9 1 (0.43%) HNC
9 1 (0.43%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.15%) QA
3 3 (1.29%) GDPR
4 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (0.86%) PMO
4 2 (0.86%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (2.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (21.46%) SAP
2 27 (11.59%) Siemens
3 25 (10.73%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.30%) Oracle
5 6 (2.58%) PTC
6 2 (0.86%) Databricks
6 2 (0.86%) Symantec
7 1 (0.43%) Ariba
7 1 (0.43%) IBM
7 1 (0.43%) Informatica
7 1 (0.43%) Lotus
7 1 (0.43%) Nintex
7 1 (0.43%) Salesforce