PLM Contracts in the East Midlands

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 63 72
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 +21
Contract jobs citing PLM 4 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.75% 0.39% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.50% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £465 £366 £475
25th Percentile £591 £372 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £388 £656
Median % change year-on-year +106.45% -40.95% +38.16%
75th Percentile £819 £397 £795
90th Percentile £830 £399 £859
England median daily rate £525 £613 £520
% change year-on-year -14.29% +17.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing PLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PLM in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PLM in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PLM in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PLM in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PLM in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PLM in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PLM in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PLM within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Derbyshire - 3 £813 - 3
Leicestershire +6 1 £388 -
PLM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) Siemens NX
2 1 (25.00%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (50.00%) CAD
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Siemens
2 1 (25.00%) Autodesk
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks