PTC Contract Job Trends

PTC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of PTC products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PTC over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Parametric Technology Corporation.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 557 616
Rank change year-on-year 0 +59 +210
Contract jobs citing PTC 7 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.003% 0.029%
As % of the Vendors category 0.044% 0.006% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £53 - -
25th Percentile £54 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £54 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.18%
75th Percentile £59 - £518
90th Percentile £62 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £54 - £363
% change year-on-year - - -43.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £41.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £41.80
% change year-on-year - - -40.29%

All Vendors
UK

PTC falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,949 16,695 21,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.62% 44.80% 45.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,866 9,833 13,801
10th Percentile £278 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 555 673
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.85 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%
75th Percentile £37.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £42.15
% change year-on-year -29.00% -28.83% +98.49%

PTC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PTC job vacancy trend in the UK

PTC
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PTC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PTC

PTC
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PTC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PTC

PTC
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PTC within the UK over the 6 months to 22 October 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
England - 7 £54 - 10
UK excluding London - 7 £54 - 11
South West - 3 £54 - 6
Work from Home - 2 £54 - 4
East of England - 2 £53 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 3
South East - 1 £64 -

PTC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 4 (57.14%) PTC Creo
2 3 (42.86%) Windchill
3 1 (14.29%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Mechanical Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Mechanical Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) PLM
2 3 (42.86%) CAD
3 2 (28.57%) API Integration
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (28.57%) Runbook
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Finite Element Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) PDM
4 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) EMC
2 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) ANSYS
3 1 (14.29%) Capita
3 1 (14.29%) Civica
3 1 (14.29%) Siemens