PLM Contracts in the North of England

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 141 156 208
Rank change year-on-year +15 +52 +11
Contract jobs citing PLM 25 29 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 0.61% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.71% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 6
10th Percentile - £509 £244
25th Percentile £438 £570 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +38.89% -
75th Percentile £545 £675 £500
90th Percentile £799 - £508
England median daily rate £525 £613 £520
% change year-on-year -14.29% +17.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £35.34 -
25th Percentile - £35.85 £39.25
Median hourly rate - £38.12 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year - -9.58% -
75th Percentile - £41.80 £45.06
90th Percentile - £43.16 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PLM in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PLM in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PLM in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PLM in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PLM in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PLM in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for PLM in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PLM within the North of England 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
North West +16 23 £450 -23.73% 43
Yorkshire +5 2 - - 17
PLM
England

PLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Mendix
Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Siemens NX
2 1 (4.00%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 15 (60.00%) Teamcenter
2 6 (24.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) AWS
1 2 (8.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) HTTP
1 2 (8.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Automotive
3 6 (24.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
1 10 (40.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Lead
2 3 (12.00%) Portfolio Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Portfolio Test Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Test Manager
3 2 (8.00%) LDAP Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) CAD Designer
4 1 (4.00%) CAD Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Designer
4 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Security Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) XML
2 2 (8.00%) JWT
2 2 (8.00%) LDAP
2 2 (8.00%) Middleware
2 2 (8.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (24.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) CAD
2 11 (44.00%) Data Governance
2 11 (44.00%) User Experience
3 9 (36.00%) Agile
4 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (32.00%) Project Management
5 6 (24.00%) Agile Project Management
5 6 (24.00%) Analytics
5 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (24.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (24.00%) ERP
5 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (24.00%) Presales
5 6 (24.00%) Product Roadmap
5 6 (24.00%) Quality Management
5 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (24.00%) Supply Chain Management
5 6 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (24.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (24.00%) Degree
3 6 (24.00%) Master's Degree
4 5 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
5 2 (8.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (44.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) MOM
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Rockwell
1 6 (24.00%) SAP
1 6 (24.00%) Siemens
2 2 (8.00%) ForgeRock
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow