PLM Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring PLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 50 56
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +16
Contract jobs citing PLM 9 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.98% 1.28% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.47% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile - - £376
25th Percentile £506 £513 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £638 £438
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% +45.71% -36.36%
75th Percentile £519 £775 £472
90th Percentile - - £489
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £638 £500
% change year-on-year -19.61% +27.50% -4.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 769 475 547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.41% 87.16% 81.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 313 381
10th Percentile £313 £163 £250
25th Percentile £400 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £638
90th Percentile £688 £640 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 48 16
10th Percentile £13.45 - £13.63
25th Percentile £23.81 £12.62 £14.09
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.44 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +138.46% -52.43% +53.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £22.08 £51.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £23.42 £18.50
% change year-on-year +45.13% +26.59% -32.73%

PLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

PLM job vacancy trend in Birmingham

PLM
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PLM

PLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Teamcenter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Senior
1 9 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Itk
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Management
1 9 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (11.11%) Data Extraction
2 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
2 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
2 1 (11.11%) Data Validation
2 1 (11.11%) ETL
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) SOA
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (11.11%) Validation
2 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C
1 1 (11.11%) C++
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle