PLM Contracts in the City of London

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring PLM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PLM over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 119 168
Rank change year-on-year +5 +49 +22
Contract jobs citing PLM 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.23% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.25% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £525 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,630 1,968 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.25% 90.57% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,396 2,228
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £574 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.32% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PLM in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PLM in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PLM in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP MM
1 1 (16.67%) SAP PLM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP MM Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP MM Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP PLM Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP PP Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP PP Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP SCM Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Supply Chain Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Supply Chain Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing Execution System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Market Research
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 3 (50.00%) Product Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
1 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 3 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Data Entry
3 1 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Management
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Logitech
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) QAD
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce