Benchmarking Contracts in the East of England

Benchmarking
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Benchmarking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Benchmarking over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - -29
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.63% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £173
Median % change year-on-year - - -58.06%
75th Percentile £588 - £175
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -22.00% +19.05% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £14.97 - -
25th Percentile £15.39 - -
Median hourly rate £15.79 - £8.00
75th Percentile £16.20 - -
90th Percentile £16.44 - -
England median hourly rate £15.79 £24.00 £22.68
% change year-on-year -34.21% +5.82% -41.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Benchmarking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,647 1,783 2,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.01% 87.19% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 1,050 1,273
10th Percentile £209 £204 £185
25th Percentile £332 £315 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 611 338 384
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -15.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the East of England

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in the East of England

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in the East of England

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire - 8 £575 - 4
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 3
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 3
Norfolk - 1 - - 2
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (8.33%) Anypoint
1 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Local Government
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (8.33%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
1 7 (58.33%) Performance Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Assistant Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) ETL Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (58.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 7 (58.33%) Data Collection
2 7 (58.33%) Data Protection
2 7 (58.33%) Mathematics
2 7 (58.33%) Statistics
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (8.33%) Data Integration
4 1 (8.33%) Line Management
4 1 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (8.33%) PRINCE
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) QA Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (8.33%) SDLC
4 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft