Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PLM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 688 536 650
Rank change year-on-year -152 +114 -26
Permanent jobs citing PLM 94 156 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.31% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.35% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 42 68 99
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £37,574
25th Percentile £41,625 £50,000 £49,431
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,585 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% - -13.91%
75th Percentile £72,000 £75,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,250 £80,750 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,750 £60,000 £57,251
% change year-on-year -7.08% +4.80% -15.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,887 44,584 67,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 89.31% 81.13%
Number of salaries quoted 53,644 25,395 43,808
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%

PLM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PLM job vacancy trend in the UK

PLM
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PLM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PLM

PLM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PLM over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PLM in the UK

PLM
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PLM within the UK over the 6 months to 10 August 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
UK excluding London -154 66 £55,750 -7.08% 92
England -169 64 £65,000 - 134
Work from Home -23 26 £65,750 +3.95% 33
Scotland +27 22 £47,500 -21.90% 6
North of England -60 20 £56,250 +2.27% 16
London -64 19 £66,771 -7.90% 47
North West -27 15 £65,000 +29.86% 12
South West -66 9 £157,500 +117.24% 21
South East -83 9 £62,000 -4.62% 26
Midlands -30 5 £42,000 -39.13% 15
Yorkshire -38 4 £40,000 -43.88% 2
East Midlands -20 3 £37,500 -65.91%
West Midlands -26 2 £50,250 -25.00% 15
East of England -41 1 £35,000 -17.65% 8
North East - 1 £87,500 - 2

PLM
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.06%) Confluence
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Windchill
2 3 (3.19%) Adobe After Effects
2 3 (3.19%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (3.19%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (3.19%) Camtasia
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) Photoshop
3 2 (2.13%) PTC Creo
3 2 (2.13%) Siemens NX
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (14.89%) Teamcenter
2 3 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (1.06%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (1.06%) Infor LN
4 1 (1.06%) Infor M3
4 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.06%) SAP MDG
4 1 (1.06%) SAP PP
4 1 (1.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.32%) SaaS
2 2 (2.13%) Azure
2 2 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (1.06%) AWS
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.28%) Broadband
2 2 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (2.13%) DHCP
2 2 (2.13%) DNS
2 2 (2.13%) Network Security
2 2 (2.13%) OSPF
2 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.13%) VLAN
2 2 (2.13%) VPN
2 2 (2.13%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.06%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.06%) Firewall
3 1 (1.06%) Intelligent Network
3 1 (1.06%) LAN
3 1 (1.06%) RS-422
3 1 (1.06%) WAN
3 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.06%) Power BI
1 1 (1.06%) Power Query
1 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (22.34%) GitLab
1 21 (22.34%) Jenkins
1 21 (22.34%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
General
1 26 (27.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 24 (25.53%) Marketing
3 23 (24.47%) Manufacturing
4 21 (22.34%) Games
5 19 (20.21%) Finance
6 14 (14.89%) Social Skills
7 12 (12.77%) Aerospace
8 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (7.45%) Aviation
9 7 (7.45%) Electronics
10 6 (6.38%) Automotive
10 6 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (5.32%) Legal
12 4 (4.26%) Aeronautics
12 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (4.26%) Retail
13 3 (3.19%) Digital Health
13 3 (3.19%) Fire and Rescue
13 3 (3.19%) Police
14 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Architect
2 21 (22.34%) Salesforce Architect
3 14 (14.89%) Senior
4 12 (12.77%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 12 (12.77%) Technical Architect
5 11 (11.70%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.45%) Lead
7 6 (6.38%) Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Product Manager
7 6 (6.38%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 6 (6.38%) Senior Manager
7 6 (6.38%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Manufacturing Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Product Manager
9 4 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Electronics Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) IT Director
9 4 (4.26%) Lead DevOps
9 4 (4.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.34%) Lightning Web Components
1 21 (22.34%) REST
1 21 (22.34%) SOAP
1 21 (22.34%) Visualforce
2 3 (3.19%) Web Services
3 2 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.06%) EDI
4 1 (1.06%) IDoc
4 1 (1.06%) Middleware
4 1 (1.06%) SAP ALE
4 1 (1.06%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.53%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.38%) Robotics
3 4 (4.26%) Industry 4.0
3 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.13%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.13%) FMCG
4 2 (2.13%) IoT
4 2 (2.13%) Life Science
4 2 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.06%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.06%) FPGA
5 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.06%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Windows
1 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (43.62%) Continuous Improvement
2 38 (40.43%) Agile
3 35 (37.23%) Roadmaps
4 26 (27.66%) Scrum
5 25 (26.60%) DevOps
6 24 (25.53%) Community of Practice
7 22 (23.40%) TOGAF
8 21 (22.34%) CI/CD
8 21 (22.34%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 21 (22.34%) Continuous Delivery
8 21 (22.34%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (22.34%) Design Patterns
8 21 (22.34%) Event-Driven
8 21 (22.34%) OO
8 21 (22.34%) Static Code Analysis
8 21 (22.34%) Technical Analysis
8 21 (22.34%) Technology Roadmap
9 17 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (17.02%) CAD
11 15 (15.96%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.34%) Apex Code
1 21 (22.34%) SOQL
1 21 (22.34%) SOSL
2 4 (4.26%) C
3 3 (3.19%) C++
4 2 (2.13%) Java
4 2 (2.13%) SQL
5 1 (1.06%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (11.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) Degree
4 3 (3.19%) HNC
5 2 (2.13%) CCNA
5 2 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.13%) MCAD
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.06%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.06%) HND
6 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.13%) ARP4754
2 2 (2.13%) ARP4761
2 2 (2.13%) DO-160
2 2 (2.13%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.32%) Firmware
2 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 22 (23.40%) Salesforce
2 21 (22.34%) Splunk
3 11 (11.70%) SAP
4 6 (6.38%) Siemens
5 5 (5.32%) EMC
6 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.26%) Oracle
7 3 (3.19%) Adobe
8 2 (2.13%) Cisco
8 2 (2.13%) Infor
8 2 (2.13%) PTC
8 2 (2.13%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.13%) Veeam
8 2 (2.13%) VMware
9 1 (1.06%) Calypso
9 1 (1.06%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.06%) IBM
9 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow