PLM Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring PLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 78 97
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 +25
Contract jobs citing PLM 2 28 22
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.16% 1.72% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 1.96% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £421 £462
25th Percentile £463 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £550
90th Percentile - £533 £625
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - £56.56 £61.04
25th Percentile - £56.62 £61.22
Median hourly rate - £59.45 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year - -5.85% -21.07%
75th Percentile - £60.72 £64.76
90th Percentile - £60.92 £66.50
South East median hourly rate £71.00 £59.45 £65.63
% change year-on-year +19.43% -9.41% +45.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

PLM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,099 1,428 1,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.45% 87.93% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 753 991
10th Percentile £316 £325 £250
25th Percentile £413 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £650 £689 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 61 67
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £23.11
25th Percentile £17.45 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £58.49 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -36.26% -5.34% +22.36%
75th Percentile £64.06 £63.41 £73.59
90th Percentile £82.18 £75.24 £76.46
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £58.49 £54.38
% change year-on-year -63.67% +7.56% +61.29%

PLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PLM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

PLM job vacancy trend in Berkshire

PLM
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PLM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PLM

PLM
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PLM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PLM

PLM
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PLM within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 2025. 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
Reading +14 1 - -
Wokingham - 1 £475 - 1
PLM
South East

PLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens