PDM Contracts in England

Product Data Management (PDM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PDM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PDM over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 646 755
Rank change year-on-year +128 +109 -144
Contract jobs citing PDM 18 14 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.048% 0.028% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.031% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 21
10th Percentile £438 £269 -
25th Percentile £506 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +15.85% +105.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £495
90th Percentile £633 - £718
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £410
% change year-on-year +7.89% +15.85% +31.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile - £27.13 £29.70
25th Percentile £54.75 £43.44 £36.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £64.25 £64.06 £55.00
90th Percentile - £64.63 -
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £58.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year +1.28% +63.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

PDM 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,208 45,878 64,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.28% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,179 32,145 45,991
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,233 1,631 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PDM in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PDM in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PDM in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PDM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PDM in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PDM within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
London +103 6 £575 +21.05% 3
North of England +43 6 £513 +2.50% 7
North West +21 5 £513 +2.50% 5
East of England +17 3 - - 6
South West +18 1 £525 +275.00% 2
North East - 1 £454 -
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PDM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) QlikView
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
General
1 3 (16.67%) Electronics
1 3 (16.67%) Military
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) ABAP Developer
2 4 (22.22%) SAP Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) RF Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Data Modeller
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Business Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.56%) DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Business Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (5.56%) BBC
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Data Management
2 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 5 (27.78%) Logical Data Model
3 5 (27.78%) Physical Data Model
3 5 (27.78%) PLM
4 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) Impact Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 3 (16.67%) Physics
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 2 (11.11%) ETL
6 2 (11.11%) Kanban
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
7 1 (5.56%) Conceptual Models
7 1 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) ABAP
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) MATLAB
3 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 5 (27.78%) Siemens
2 5 (27.78%) Sparx
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 3 (16.67%) Keysight
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle