Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FMCG over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 444 482 622
Rank change year-on-year +38 +140 -101
Contract jobs citing FMCG 154 245 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.41% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% 1.23% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 145 133
10th Percentile £250 £375 £359
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £775 £650 £638
90th Percentile £998 £738 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +22.50% - +35.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - £16.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £18.50
75th Percentile £52.50 - £20.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FMCG over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FMCG within the UK 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
England +63 130 £578 +5.00% 317
London +64 89 £550 - 64
Work from Home +77 57 £631 +14.77% 69
UK excluding London +48 49 £613 +22.50% 290
Midlands +34 12 £700 -5.41% 70
Scotland +34 10 £613 +44.54% 18
West Midlands +37 8 £725 -2.03% 35
North of England +24 7 £600 +20.00% 78
South East +20 7 £525 +5.00% 45
South West +25 6 £900 +10.77% 29
East of England +1 6 £563 -4.26% 27
North West +9 4 £600 +20.00% 47
Yorkshire +19 3 - - 28
East Midlands - 3 £300 - 35
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 5 (3.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.65%) Camunda
2 1 (0.65%) CMS
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.65%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.65%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 32 (20.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.30%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.30%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.65%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.65%) Magento
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.65%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.49%) Azure
2 4 (2.60%) Yammer
3 3 (1.95%) AWS
3 3 (1.95%) Power Platform
3 3 (1.95%) WhatsApp
4 2 (1.30%) GCP
4 2 (1.30%) SaaS
4 2 (1.30%) Salsify
4 2 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.65%) OCI
5 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.65%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Firewall
1 1 (0.65%) GSM
1 1 (0.65%) LAN
1 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.65%) VPN
1 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.25%) SAP HANA
2 3 (1.95%) Power BI
2 3 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.65%) Metadata
3 1 (0.65%) MS Access
3 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.65%) Power Query
3 1 (0.65%) SQLPlus
3 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) TestDirector
General
1 51 (33.12%) Social Skills
2 42 (27.27%) Retail
3 27 (17.53%) Finance
4 20 (12.99%) Marketing
5 16 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (10.39%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (3.25%) French Language
8 5 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.30%) Law
10 2 (1.30%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.65%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.65%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 25 (16.23%) Project Manager
2 19 (12.34%) Lead
3 11 (7.14%) Analyst
4 10 (6.49%) Architect
5 9 (5.84%) IT Manager
5 9 (5.84%) SAP Manager
5 9 (5.84%) Senior
6 8 (5.19%) Consultant
7 7 (4.55%) Senior Manager
8 6 (3.90%) FMCG Manager
8 6 (3.90%) Programme Manager
8 6 (3.90%) SAP Consultant
8 6 (3.90%) Senior Project Manager
9 5 (3.25%) Cutover Manager
9 5 (3.25%) Project Engineer
10 4 (2.60%) Business Process Analyst
10 4 (2.60%) Development Manager
10 4 (2.60%) IT Programme Manager
10 4 (2.60%) IT Project Manager
10 4 (2.60%) Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.30%) HTML
1 2 (1.30%) XML
2 1 (0.65%) CSS
2 1 (0.65%) Middleware
2 1 (0.65%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
1 4 (2.60%) Product Ownership
2 3 (1.95%) CMDB
2 3 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (1.95%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.30%) Life Science
3 2 (1.30%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.30%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.65%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.65%) SCADA
4 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.30%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (16.88%) Project Management
2 19 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (11.04%) ERP
4 16 (10.39%) Agile
4 16 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (9.09%) Migration
6 13 (8.44%) Analytics
6 13 (8.44%) Change Management
6 13 (8.44%) Project Delivery
7 12 (7.79%) Business Transformation
7 12 (7.79%) E-Commerce
8 11 (7.14%) Data Migration
8 11 (7.14%) DevOps
9 10 (6.49%) Logistics
10 9 (5.84%) Decision-Making
10 9 (5.84%) Roadmaps
11 8 (5.19%) Budgeting
11 8 (5.19%) Coaching
11 8 (5.19%) Performance Monitoring
11 8 (5.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.25%) SQL
2 3 (1.95%) Python
3 2 (1.30%) C
4 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (11.69%) Degree
2 4 (2.60%) PMI Certification
2 4 (2.60%) PMP
3 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (1.30%) SAP Certification
4 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) SLA
2 4 (2.60%) PMO
3 3 (1.95%) NEBOSH
4 2 (1.30%) ITGC
4 2 (1.30%) QA
5 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.65%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (1.30%) Firmware
2 1 (0.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 42 (27.27%) SAP
2 6 (3.90%) Adobe
2 6 (3.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.30%) Ariba
3 2 (1.30%) Cadence
3 2 (1.30%) Ceridian
3 2 (1.30%) Google
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle
3 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.65%) Cisco
4 1 (0.65%) Concur
4 1 (0.65%) Databricks
4 1 (0.65%) IFS
4 1 (0.65%) Infor
4 1 (0.65%) Logitech
4 1 (0.65%) Progress
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.65%) VMware
4 1 (0.65%) Workday