Benchmarking Contracts in England

Benchmarking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 539 637
Rank change year-on-year +45 +98 -125
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 41 124 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.27% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 72 88
10th Percentile £364 £479 £376
25th Percentile £419 £516 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £635 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.20% +20.95% +23.53%
75th Percentile £550 £741 £641
90th Percentile £650 £824 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £617 £535
% change year-on-year -22.20% +15.33% +25.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £15.11 - £13.87
25th Percentile £15.39 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £15.79 £24.00 £22.68
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +5.82% -41.85%
75th Percentile £16.20 £26.00 £25.53
90th Percentile £24.51 - £42.84
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £22.88 £22.68
% change year-on-year -30.97% +0.86% -42.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Benchmarking in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +31 14 £500 -24.53% 48
South East +17 12 £463 -11.90% 24
East of England - 12 £575 - 11
Midlands +22 2 - - 20
West Midlands - 2 - - 15
North of England +28 1 £225 -59.09% 11
Yorkshire +19 1 £225 -59.09% 3
Benchmarking
UK

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (2.44%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.44%) Apache
1 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (17.07%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.44%) Simulink
4 1 (2.44%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (2.44%) AWS
2 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (2.44%) dbt
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.44%) Figma
2 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (4.88%) Intranet
1 2 (4.88%) SAN
1 2 (4.88%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) Big Data
2 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.44%) QlikView
2 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (29.27%) Finance
3 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (26.83%) Public Sector
4 9 (21.95%) Local Government
5 4 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.88%) Marketing
7 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Law
8 1 (2.44%) Legal
8 1 (2.44%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) Performance Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) HR Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Lead
3 4 (9.76%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) HR Data Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Unix Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Unix Administrator
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (2.44%) HR Specialist
6 1 (2.44%) Marketing Manager
6 1 (2.44%) PMO Analyst
6 1 (2.44%) Senior IT Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Service Management Consultant
6 1 (2.44%) Six Sigma Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Middleware
1 1 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (34.15%) Management Information System
2 7 (17.07%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (4.88%) Solar Power
4 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) FMCG
4 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.44%) Media Streaming
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Smart Energy
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
1 3 (7.32%) Unix
2 2 (4.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) Performance Management
2 9 (21.95%) Mathematics
3 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (17.07%) Data Collection
3 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
3 7 (17.07%) Decision-Making
3 7 (17.07%) Statistics
4 6 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (14.63%) Project Management
5 5 (12.20%) Agile
5 5 (12.20%) Business Continuity
5 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
6 4 (9.76%) Business Case
6 4 (9.76%) Business Development
6 4 (9.76%) Service Delivery
7 3 (7.32%) Budgeting
7 3 (7.32%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (7.32%) Line Management
7 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.32%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) Shell Script
2 2 (4.88%) AWK
2 2 (4.88%) Bourne shell
2 2 (4.88%) Korn
2 2 (4.88%) Perl
2 2 (4.88%) Python
3 1 (2.44%) C++
3 1 (2.44%) Java
3 1 (2.44%) MATLAB
3 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) RHCE
2 2 (4.88%) RHCSA
3 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.76%) GDPR
3 3 (7.32%) SLA
4 1 (2.44%) ISO 26262
4 1 (2.44%) PMO
4 1 (2.44%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Ansible
1 2 (4.88%) NetBackup
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (4.88%) yum
2 1 (2.44%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) EMC
2 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.88%) Veritas
3 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle