PLM Job Trends in Kent

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring PLM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing PLM 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.097% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +36.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

PLM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 851 646 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 82.46% 88.25% 81.24%
Number of salaries quoted 443 219 374
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,700 £25,075
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,500 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

PLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PLM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kent.

PLM job vacancy trend in Kent

PLM
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing PLM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing PLM

PLM
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PLM within the Kent region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Rochester - 1 £55,000 -
PLM
South East

PLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior IT Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens