PLM Contracts in the West Midlands

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 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 88 102 117
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 +38
Contract jobs citing PLM 9 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.67% 0.46% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.55% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 10
10th Percentile £388 £445 £424
25th Percentile - £513 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £650 £510
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +27.45% +7.37%
75th Percentile £503 £675 £584
90th Percentile £538 - £910
England median daily rate £525 £613 £520
% change year-on-year -14.29% +17.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

PLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PLM in the West Midlands

PLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PLM in the West Midlands

PLM
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PLM in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PLM in the West Midlands

PLM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PLM in the West Midlands

PLM
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +20 5 £525 -19.23% 9
Staffordshire +5 4 £400 - 9
PLM
England

PLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Mimecast
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Unified Communications
General
1 4 (44.44%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Messaging Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Product Operations Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing Execution System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
2 4 (44.44%) Information Security
2 4 (44.44%) Strategic Planning
2 4 (44.44%) System Testing
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Product Management
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (22.22%) CRM
4 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
4 2 (22.22%) ERP
4 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Management
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Release Management
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) Proofpoint