PDM Contract Job Trends in the South East

Product Data Management (PDM)
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 163 188
Rank change year-on-year -16 +25 +51
Contract jobs citing PDM 5 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.16% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £526
25th Percentile - - £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £588
75th Percentile - - £622
90th Percentile - - £639
England median daily rate £851 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +94.40% -16.67% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £32.75 -
25th Percentile - - £30.73
Median hourly rate £81.00 £35.00 £31.45
Median % change year-on-year +131.43% +11.29% -10.14%
75th Percentile - - £32.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £81.00 £35.00 £31.45
% change year-on-year +131.43% +11.29% -35.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,677 3,056 4,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.22% 88.61% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 1,892 2,787
10th Percentile £222 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -1.19% +1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 118 246
10th Percentile £14.90 £19.77 £16.75
25th Percentile £17.09 £25.99 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £43.94 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.66% -20.11% +28.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.92 £66.19
90th Percentile £76.00 £74.91 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

PDM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

PDM job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PDM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PDM

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PDM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PDM

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PDM within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Isle of Wight - 4 - -
Hampshire -20 1 - -
PDM
England

PDM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Veeva
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Design Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Principal Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) RF Design Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) RF Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Management
2 4 (80.00%) Line Management
2 4 (80.00%) Logistics
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Schematic Capture
2 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GxP
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Micro Focus