PLM Contract Job Trends in Kent

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring PLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PLM 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 2.58% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 - -
75th Percentile £648 - -
90th Percentile £739 - -
South East median daily rate £645 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +28.10% +0.70% +5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 90 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 78.87% 89.11% 67.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 65 97
10th Percentile £180 £200 £205
25th Percentile £188 £220 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £360 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.53% -15.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £559 £565 £550
90th Percentile £638 £688 £656
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 6 13
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.68 £11.47
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.52 £15.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £21.43 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.30% -39.63% -35.40%
75th Percentile £41.83 £22.61 £46.87
90th Percentile £42.00 £51.55 £62.96
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -5.26%

PLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

PLM job vacancy trend in Kent

PLM
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PLM in Kent over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PLM in Kent

PLM
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PLM within the Kent region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Dartford - 5 £645 - 8
PLM
South East

PLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 (20.00%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) MQTT
General
1 5 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Construction Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) ERP Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) ERP Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Architect
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ERP
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) EAM
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Management
3 1 (20.00%) Traceability Matrix
3 1 (20.00%) WFM
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) AVEVA
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Rockwell
2 1 (20.00%) Siemens