PDM Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Product Data Management (PDM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring PDM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PDM over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 341 468
Rank change year-on-year +44 +127 +138
Contract jobs citing PDM 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.033% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.037% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - £425 £620
25th Percentile £363 £444 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £477 £675
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% -29.33% +68.75%
75th Percentile £416 £500 £731
90th Percentile £433 - £750
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £59.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +21.85% +1.28% +17.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,390 22,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.90% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 8,954 16,256
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 577 528
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.00 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.02 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.38 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PDM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PDM trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PDM.

PDM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PDM.

PDM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Liquibase
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Sparx