PDM Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Product Data Management (PDM)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring PDM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PDM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £371 - £488

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 250 169 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.37% 86.22% 70.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 101 75
10th Percentile £182 £129 £154
25th Percentile £300 £163 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +3.03% -13.16%
75th Percentile £588 £510 £506
90th Percentile £675 £680 £600
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 9
10th Percentile £14.61 - £16.24
25th Percentile £19.38 - £20.19
Median hourly rate £43.23 £12.21 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +254.05% -46.62% +14.38%
75th Percentile £43.96 £17.30 £40.00
90th Percentile - £17.44 £54.00
North West median hourly rate £46.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +86.76% -40.84% +28.79%

PDM
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

PDM job vacancy trend in Merseyside

PDM
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PDM within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Liverpool - 1 £588 - 1
PDM
North West

PDM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Supplier Management