PDM Job Trends

Product Data Management (PDM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PDM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 681 761
Rank change year-on-year +20 +80 +234
Permanent jobs citing PDM 9 9 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.018% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.019% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £39,625 - £36,250
25th Percentile £44,688 - £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -2.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,000 £47,500
90th Percentile - £72,800 £48,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -2.22% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

PDM 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,190 46,328 65,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.79% 92.00% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 30,933 22,336 50,972
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

PDM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PDM job vacancy trend in the UK

PDM
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PDM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PDM

PDM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PDM over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Salary histogram for PDM in the UK

PDM
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PDM within the UK over the 6 months to 9 February 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
England +35 8 £50,000 -37.50% 9
UK excluding London +22 8 £50,000 +13.64% 8
South East +13 7 £50,000 - 1
Work from Home +57 5 - - 2
East of England - 1 £37,500 -

PDM
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 3 (33.33%) CATIA
1 3 (33.33%) Siemens NX
1 3 (33.33%) SOLIDWORKS
1 3 (33.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (11.11%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 8 (88.89%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Development Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Product Development Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Product Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
2 3 (33.33%) CAD Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Benchmarking
1 4 (44.44%) Lean Manufacturing
1 4 (44.44%) Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) CAD
2 3 (33.33%) PLM
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Business Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Physical Data Model
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce