Benchmarking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 406 473
Rank change year-on-year +37 +67 -73
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 25 43 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.21% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 33 22
10th Percentile £396 £450 £266
25th Percentile £425 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -2.27% +33.33%
75th Percentile £519 £638 £655
90th Percentile £598 £743 £686
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% +27.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £15.11 £20.99 -
25th Percentile £15.39 £21.16 -
Median hourly rate £15.79 £22.88 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.97% - -
75th Percentile £16.20 £25.16 -
90th Percentile £24.51 £25.66 -
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £22.88 £36.97
% change year-on-year -30.97% -38.12% -6.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
East of England +19 11 £575 +21.05% 10
South East +4 10 £456 -13.10% 18
Midlands +25 2 - - 23
West Midlands - 2 - - 15
Scotland +30 1 £480 -12.73% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 - 2
Benchmarking
UK

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (8.00%) UserZoom
4 1 (4.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Figma
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (8.00%) SAN
2 1 (4.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (44.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Local Government
4 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (4.00%) Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) Performance Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Unix Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Unix Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) User Experience Researcher
6 1 (4.00%) Assistant Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Integration Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Integration Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (28.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Solaris
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 9 (36.00%) Mathematics
3 7 (28.00%) Data Collection
3 7 (28.00%) Data Protection
3 7 (28.00%) Statistics
4 5 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Project Management
6 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 3 (12.00%) Budgeting
6 3 (12.00%) Information Security
6 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (8.00%) Business Strategy
7 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (8.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) Storage Management
7 2 (8.00%) User Research
7 2 (8.00%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) AWK
1 2 (8.00%) Bourne shell
1 2 (8.00%) Korn
1 2 (8.00%) Perl
1 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.00%) C++
2 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) RHCE
2 2 (8.00%) RHCSA
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
3 1 (4.00%) ISO 26262
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Ansible
1 2 (8.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (8.00%) yum
2 1 (4.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) EMC
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.00%) Veritas
3 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.00%) Qualtrics