PLM Contracts in the Midlands

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 123 115
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +84
Contract jobs citing PLM 19 9 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.77% 0.34% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.42% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 18
10th Percentile £513 £340 £421
25th Percentile £675 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -27.27% +18.92%
75th Percentile £825 £450 £661
90th Percentile - £540 £886
England median daily rate £563 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +12.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £37.55
25th Percentile - £50.00 £42.13
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year - +10.55% -
75th Percentile - £60.00 £57.38
90th Percentile - - £61.95
England median hourly rate £75.00 £50.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year +50.00% +18.61% -6.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,178 2,145 2,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.75% 81.04% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,471 1,875
10th Percentile £219 £275 £256
25th Percentile £355 £363 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £600
90th Percentile £644 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 101 81
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.70 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.04 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -32.73% +46.28%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PLM in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PLM in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PLM in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PLM in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PLM in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
East Midlands +5 12 £800 +106.45% 4
West Midlands -3 7 £638 +27.50% 19
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 8 (42.11%) Siemens NX
2 4 (21.05%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) CAD Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Product Owner
5 1 (5.26%) Operations Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Derivative
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) User Stories
2 9 (47.37%) Enterprise Architecture
2 9 (47.37%) Translating Business Requirements
3 8 (42.11%) CAD
4 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
5 5 (26.32%) Data Management
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
7 3 (15.79%) Agile Project Management
7 3 (15.79%) Product Management
7 3 (15.79%) Project Management
7 3 (15.79%) Scrum
7 3 (15.79%) SDLC
8 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (10.53%) DevOps
8 2 (10.53%) Knowledge Management
8 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
8 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
8 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Siemens
2 6 (31.58%) Autodesk
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks