PDM Contract Job Trends in London

Product Data Management (PDM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PDM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 362 398
Rank change year-on-year 0 +36 +160
Contract jobs citing PDM 7 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.046% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.052% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £817 - £425
25th Percentile £838 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £851 £438 £563
Median % change year-on-year +94.40% -22.22% -0.44%
75th Percentile £906 £625 £604
90th Percentile £1,007 £637 £663
England median daily rate £851 £438 £575
% change year-on-year +94.40% -23.91% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

PDM 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

PDM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PDM job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PDM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PDM

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PDM in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PDM in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PDM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PDM

PDM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle Retail
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
1 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) PLM
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) B2B
2 5 (71.43%) B2C
2 5 (71.43%) Data Management
2 5 (71.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
2 5 (71.43%) ERP
2 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
2 5 (71.43%) Technology Roadmap
2 5 (71.43%) Technology Transformation
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle