Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FMCG over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 651 744
Rank change year-on-year +169 +93 -132
Permanent jobs citing FMCG 478 316 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.32% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 0.76% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 273 137 273
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,750 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £85,250 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +20.00% +5.26%

All Generic Skills
UK

FMCG is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FMCG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FMCG.

Salary trend for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FMCG over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FMCG within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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 +151 352 £57,500 -11.54% 369
UK excluding London +100 352 £51,000 -15.00% 292
Work from Home +43 102 £70,000 +30.84% 73
Midlands +42 76 £46,250 +27.59% 55
Wales +28 74 £27,000 -22.86% 19
London +139 73 £63,000 -16.00% 98
South East +15 65 £57,500 -19.01% 40
North of England +69 64 £54,047 +5.46% 90
East Midlands +23 42 £42,000 +29.23% 24
South West -19 35 £47,500 -13.64% 42
West Midlands +19 34 £50,000 +2.56% 31
North West +9 34 £51,250 +2.50% 53
Yorkshire +105 29 £92,500 +72.09% 34
East of England +13 29 £90,000 +50.00% 41
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 4
Scotland -58 4 £90,000 +44.00% 13
North East -14 1 £37,500 - 5

FMCG
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.26%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.63%) Anypoint
Applications
1 37 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.26%) AutoCAD
6 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.84%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.84%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.84%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.42%) Trello
9 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.21%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.67%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.05%) SAP IBP
4 5 (1.05%) SAP PP
5 4 (0.84%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 4 (0.84%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.63%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.63%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.42%) Magento
7 2 (0.42%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.42%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.42%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.42%) Shopify
8 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 51 (10.67%) Power Platform
2 38 (7.95%) Azure
3 19 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.09%) SuccessFactors
7 7 (1.46%) AWS
8 6 (1.26%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.26%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.05%) SaaS
10 4 (0.84%) Smartsheet
11 3 (0.63%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.63%) Figma
12 2 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.42%) Amazon ELB
12 2 (0.42%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.21%) GCP
13 1 (0.21%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.30%) VLAN
2 8 (1.67%) Internet
3 7 (1.46%) BGP
3 7 (1.46%) EIGRP
3 7 (1.46%) HSRP
3 7 (1.46%) LAN
3 7 (1.46%) MPLS
3 7 (1.46%) OSPF
3 7 (1.46%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.46%) Spanning Tree
3 7 (1.46%) VoIP
3 7 (1.46%) VRRP
3 7 (1.46%) WAN
3 7 (1.46%) Wireless
3 7 (1.46%) Wireshark
3 7 (1.46%) WLAN
4 4 (0.84%) DHCP
4 4 (0.84%) DNS
4 4 (0.84%) Network Security
4 4 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.32%) Power BI
2 7 (1.46%) Tableau
3 6 (1.26%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.42%) GIS
5 2 (0.42%) Metadata
6 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.21%) Big Data
6 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.21%) Looker
6 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (3.77%) Visual Studio
2 16 (3.35%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (1.05%) Postman
4 2 (0.42%) GitLab
4 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.42%) PowerBuilder
General
1 249 (52.09%) Manufacturing
2 245 (51.26%) Social Skills
3 139 (29.08%) Influencing Skills
4 135 (28.24%) Retail
5 129 (26.99%) Presentation Skills
6 122 (25.52%) Law
7 72 (15.06%) Finance
8 56 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (8.79%) Marketing
10 33 (6.90%) Automotive
11 24 (5.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (3.56%) Publishing
13 16 (3.35%) Aerospace
14 13 (2.72%) Legal
15 11 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (2.09%) French Language
17 6 (1.26%) Advertising
17 6 (1.26%) Banking
18 5 (1.05%) Telecoms
19 4 (0.84%) German Language
Job Titles
1 115 (24.06%) Automation Engineer
1 115 (24.06%) Graduate
1 115 (24.06%) Graduate IT Engineer
1 115 (24.06%) IT Engineer
1 115 (24.06%) IT Graduate
2 64 (13.39%) Project Manager
3 45 (9.41%) Analyst
4 39 (8.16%) Senior
5 32 (6.69%) IT Manager
6 29 (6.07%) Lead
7 28 (5.86%) Architect
8 22 (4.60%) Consultant
9 16 (3.35%) Head of Business Systems
10 14 (2.93%) Head of IT
10 14 (2.93%) QA Leader
11 13 (2.72%) Head of FMCG
12 12 (2.51%) Data Analyst
12 12 (2.51%) IT Procurement Manager
12 12 (2.51%) Senior Project Manager
12 12 (2.51%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.88%) .NET
2 5 (1.05%) EDI
2 5 (1.05%) SAP TM
2 5 (1.05%) Web Services
3 3 (0.63%) .NET Core
3 3 (0.63%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.42%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.42%) HTML
4 2 (0.42%) J2EE
4 2 (0.42%) XML
5 1 (0.21%) IDoc
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.21%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (2.93%) Renewable Energy
3 11 (2.30%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.09%) PMI
5 8 (1.67%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.05%) Animation
6 5 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.05%) Photography
6 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
7 4 (0.84%) 3D Graphics
7 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.84%) CCTV
7 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.84%) Motion Graphics
8 3 (0.63%) Social Media
9 2 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.42%) Multi-touch
9 2 (0.42%) Replication
9 2 (0.42%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.84%) Windows
1 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
2 142 (29.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 116 (24.27%) Order Management
3 116 (24.27%) Six Sigma
4 115 (24.06%) Benchmarking
4 115 (24.06%) Lean Manufacturing
4 115 (24.06%) Lean Six Sigma
5 88 (18.41%) Project Management
6 79 (16.53%) ERP
7 62 (12.97%) Logistics
8 50 (10.46%) Agile
9 47 (9.83%) Change Management
10 37 (7.74%) Project Delivery
11 35 (7.32%) DevOps
11 35 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (5.65%) Supply Chain Management
14 26 (5.44%) Analytics
14 26 (5.44%) E-Commerce
14 26 (5.44%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (9.00%) SQL
2 25 (5.23%) C#
3 5 (1.05%) C
3 5 (1.05%) VBA
4 4 (0.84%) Java
4 4 (0.84%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.84%) Python
5 3 (0.63%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.42%) ABAP
6 2 (0.42%) Bash
6 2 (0.42%) VB
7 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 180 (37.66%) Degree
2 115 (24.06%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 13 (2.72%) PMI Certification
4 12 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.67%) HNC
5 8 (1.67%) HND
6 7 (1.46%) CCDP
6 7 (1.46%) CCIE
6 7 (1.46%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 7 (1.46%) CCNP
6 7 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.05%) PMP
8 5 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.42%) MBA
10 1 (0.21%) CCA
10 1 (0.21%) PhD
10 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.07%) QA
2 19 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.88%) SLA
6 8 (1.67%) PMO
7 6 (1.26%) NEBOSH
8 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.21%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (2.51%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.46%) Firmware
3 4 (0.84%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.84%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.42%) Docker
4 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.26%) Progress Chef
2 4 (0.84%) Terraform
3 3 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.42%) Ansible
4 2 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 65 (13.60%) SAP
2 59 (12.34%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.86%) IFS
4 25 (5.23%) Oracle
5 19 (3.97%) VMware
6 13 (2.72%) Google
7 12 (2.51%) Cisco
8 11 (2.30%) Adobe
9 7 (1.46%) Ekahau
10 6 (1.26%) Autodesk
10 6 (1.26%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.26%) Siemens
11 4 (0.84%) Avaya
11 4 (0.84%) BT
11 4 (0.84%) NetApp
11 4 (0.84%) Sage
11 4 (0.84%) SYSPRO
11 4 (0.84%) WatchGuard
12 3 (0.63%) Infor
12 3 (0.63%) MuleSoft