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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 630 999
Rank change year-on-year -100 +369 -193
Permanent jobs citing PLM 164 394 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.37% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.39% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 106 113 50
10th Percentile £47,250 £47,025 £42,725
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +45.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,200 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £66,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.98% +26.19% +23.53%

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 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

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 25 April 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 25 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -96 130 £68,338 -14.58% 104
UK excluding London -145 101 £55,000 -16.98% 88
London +83 49 £90,000 +12.50% 18
South East -11 40 £52,500 -22.71% 21
Scotland -48 22 £55,000 - 4
Work from Home -91 19 £105,000 +31.25% 35
South West -16 13 £97,500 +62.50% 9
East of England +14 12 £60,000 -4.00% 8
North of England -54 9 £57,500 -10.51% 22
North West -30 7 £53,500 -15.75% 16
Midlands -29 5 £62,500 -21.88% 24
West Midlands -15 4 £62,500 -13.79% 17
Yorkshire +54 1 - - 5
East Midlands -17 1 - - 7
North East -20 1 £57,500 - 1

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 (4.88%) IIS
1 8 (4.88%) WebSphere
2 7 (4.27%) JBoss
2 7 (4.27%) Tomcat
2 7 (4.27%) WebLogic
2 7 (4.27%) WildFly
3 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (14.63%) Windchill
2 14 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.22%) CATIA
6 1 (0.61%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.61%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.61%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 58 (35.37%) Teamcenter
2 14 (8.54%) SAP PLM
3 13 (7.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (5.49%) SAP IBP
5 7 (4.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (3.66%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 6 (3.66%) SAP PP
7 3 (1.83%) Primavera
7 3 (1.83%) SAP PM
7 3 (1.83%) SAP SCM
8 2 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.61%) Magento
9 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.61%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.61%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.37%) Azure
2 9 (5.49%) AWS
3 7 (4.27%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.66%) SaaS
5 4 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.61%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.61%) GCP
7 1 (0.61%) IaaS
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.61%) PaaS
7 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.27%) Wireless
2 4 (2.44%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.61%) GSM
3 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.66%) Power BI
3 5 (3.05%) Metadata
4 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.61%) MySQL
5 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chocolatey
1 1 (0.61%) Git
1 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.61%) JIRA
1 1 (0.61%) LabVIEW
1 1 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
General
1 60 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 49 (29.88%) Manufacturing
3 39 (23.78%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.76%) Electronics
4 16 (9.76%) Finance
5 12 (7.32%) Aerospace
5 12 (7.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (6.71%) Telecoms
7 10 (6.10%) Banking
8 9 (5.49%) Law
9 7 (4.27%) Retail
10 6 (3.66%) Marketing
11 5 (3.05%) Automotive
11 5 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.44%) Brand Awareness
12 4 (2.44%) Military
13 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.83%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.22%) Back Office
14 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (23.17%) Architect
2 20 (12.20%) Lead
2 20 (12.20%) Product Manager
3 18 (10.98%) Senior
4 17 (10.37%) Configuration Specialist
5 14 (8.54%) Consultant
6 11 (6.71%) Infrastructure Architect
7 10 (6.10%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (5.49%) SAP Manager
8 9 (5.49%) Supply Chain Manager
9 8 (4.88%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.27%) Analyst
11 6 (3.66%) Applications Support
11 6 (3.66%) Applications Support Analyst
11 6 (3.66%) Implementation Manager
11 6 (3.66%) SAP EWM Manager
11 6 (3.66%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.66%) Support Analyst
11 6 (3.66%) Transformation Manager
12 5 (3.05%) Data Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.71%) HTML
2 9 (5.49%) Itk
3 8 (4.88%) CSS
4 6 (3.66%) SAP TM
4 6 (3.66%) XML
5 5 (3.05%) Web Services
6 4 (2.44%) Flash
7 2 (1.22%) .NET
7 2 (1.22%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.22%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.22%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.22%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.22%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.22%) jQuery
7 2 (1.22%) React
7 2 (1.22%) SAPUI5
7 2 (1.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 1 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.61%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.54%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.66%) IoT
4 5 (3.05%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.44%) FPGA
5 4 (2.44%) PCIe
6 3 (1.83%) Life Science
6 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.22%) CMDB
7 2 (1.22%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.22%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.61%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.61%) Replication
8 1 (0.61%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.49%) Windows
2 7 (4.27%) Linux
3 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (26.22%) Project Management
2 38 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (17.68%) Project Delivery
4 28 (17.07%) CAD
5 25 (15.24%) Change Management
6 24 (14.63%) Roadmaps
7 18 (10.98%) Data Analysis
8 17 (10.37%) Agile
8 17 (10.37%) ERP
8 17 (10.37%) Performance Measurement
9 16 (9.76%) Business Development
10 15 (9.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (9.15%) Product Management
10 15 (9.15%) Product Roadmap
10 15 (9.15%) Validation
11 13 (7.93%) Collaborative Working
11 13 (7.93%) Mentoring
11 13 (7.93%) Product Requirements
12 12 (7.32%) CRM
12 12 (7.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.54%) C#
2 11 (6.71%) SQL
3 10 (6.10%) C++
4 8 (4.88%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.27%) C
6 6 (3.66%) Java
6 6 (3.66%) VBA
7 5 (3.05%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.83%) Python
9 2 (1.22%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.61%) Bash
10 1 (0.61%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 43 (26.22%) Degree
2 24 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.66%) DBS Check
3 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.05%) HNC
4 5 (3.05%) HND
4 5 (3.05%) MCAD
5 2 (1.22%) PhD
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) MCSA
6 1 (0.61%) MCSE
6 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.37%) PMO
2 12 (7.32%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.05%) QA
4 4 (2.44%) GxP
4 4 (2.44%) JTAG
5 2 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.61%) GDPR
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (4.27%) Docker
2 5 (3.05%) Firmware
3 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.44%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.61%) Ansible
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.61%) SCCM
3 1 (0.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (15.24%) SAP
2 16 (9.76%) Oracle
3 7 (4.27%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.05%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.05%) Siemens
5 4 (2.44%) Intel
5 4 (2.44%) Mentor Graphics
5 4 (2.44%) Xilinx
6 2 (1.22%) ANSYS
6 2 (1.22%) BMC
6 2 (1.22%) Citrix
6 2 (1.22%) IFS
6 2 (1.22%) Nintex
6 2 (1.22%) Remedy
7 1 (0.61%) EMC
7 1 (0.61%) IBM
7 1 (0.61%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.61%) Sage
7 1 (0.61%) TOWER Software