PLM Contracts in the North West

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for PLM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PLM over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 153 170
Rank change year-on-year +40 +17 -35
Contract jobs citing PLM 24 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.89% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.35% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 9
10th Percentile £506 - £416
25th Percentile £553 £388 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £675 - £525
90th Percentile - £509 -
England median daily rate £613 £520 £481
% change year-on-year +17.79% +8.05% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £35.34 - -
25th Percentile £35.85 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £38.12 £42.16 £52.70
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -20.01% +81.72%
75th Percentile £41.80 £45.06 -
90th Percentile £43.16 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -4.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

PLM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,334 2,876 3,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.19% 90.70% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,042 2,607
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £690 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 142 160
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.36 £23.15 £14.19
Median hourly rate £22.31 £36.65 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -39.14% +82.66% +9.41%
75th Percentile £45.66 £49.52 £42.82
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.98 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for PLM in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PLM in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PLM in the North West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PLM in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PLM in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Cheshire +10 9 £590 +18.00% 3
Manchester +20 8 £550 +37.50% 4
Merseyside - 4 £650 -
Cumbria -19 2 - - 7
Lancashire +4 1 - - 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) CATIA
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (58.33%) Teamcenter
2 8 (33.33%) DELMIA
3 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
1 1 (4.17%) Automotive
1 1 (4.17%) Aviation
1 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
1 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (4.17%) Retail
1 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Lead
1 8 (33.33%) Support Team Leader
2 7 (29.17%) Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Solutions Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Team Leader
3 4 (16.67%) ABAP Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) SAP Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Business Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Data Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 8 (33.33%) Workflow
3 5 (20.83%) Data Management
4 4 (16.67%) PDM
5 1 (4.17%) Business Continuity
5 1 (4.17%) Business Transformation
5 1 (4.17%) ERP
5 1 (4.17%) Logistics
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing Engineering
5 1 (4.17%) SDLC
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (4.17%) V-Model
5 1 (4.17%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) ABAP
3 1 (4.17%) C
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (29.17%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Siemens
2 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (33.33%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Ariba