Benchmarking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Benchmarking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Benchmarking over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 501 569
Rank change year-on-year +15 +68 +26
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 290 255 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.43% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.44% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 64 112 121
10th Percentile £26,200 - £32,996
25th Percentile £35,247 £35,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £38,875 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.62% -25.95% +8.25%
75th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,000 £59,875 £72,500
UK median annual salary £58,225 £49,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.04% -9.55% -4.35%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,622 57,306 66,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.99% 95.62% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 41,241 29,485 41,027
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Wales - 73 £40,000 -
Scotland -9 56 £60,000 +100.00% 5
Midlands -99 43 £54,650 +43.82% 21
North of England +56 39 £55,000 +22.22% 12
East of England +34 37 £51,250 +2.50% 12
South East -6 31 £29,000 -25.64% 17
West Midlands -96 28 £55,900 +47.11% 13
North West +8 20 £55,000 +48.06% 6
Yorkshire +90 15 £35,413 -21.30% 5
East Midlands -1 15 £50,000 -28.57% 8
South West -29 8 £83,577 +45.35% 6
North East -5 4 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
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 36 (12.41%) SAS
2 7 (2.41%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) CMS
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 35 (12.07%) UserZoom
2 15 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.03%) Abaqus
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (11.03%) Figma
1 32 (11.03%) SurveyMonkey
2 5 (1.72%) AWS
2 5 (1.72%) AWS IoT
2 5 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (1.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.03%) GCP
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.03%) OCI
5 2 (0.69%) dbt
5 2 (0.69%) GitHub
5 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.59%) SAN
2 9 (3.10%) Internet
3 5 (1.72%) Wireless
4 2 (0.69%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.69%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.69%) Intranet
5 1 (0.34%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.38%) Power BI
1 4 (1.38%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.03%) MariaDB
2 3 (1.03%) Metadata
2 3 (1.03%) Oracle Database
2 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.69%) Looker
3 2 (0.69%) Tableau
4 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.34%) MySQL
4 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (12.41%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.48%) Git
3 5 (1.72%) JIRA
3 5 (1.72%) Xcode
4 3 (1.03%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 201 (69.31%) Social Skills
2 105 (36.21%) Law
3 93 (32.07%) Finance
4 76 (26.21%) Influencing Skills
5 75 (25.86%) Manufacturing
5 75 (25.86%) Presentation Skills
6 59 (20.34%) Legal
7 55 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
8 48 (16.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 46 (15.86%) Banking
10 41 (14.14%) Marketing
11 37 (12.76%) Publishing
12 21 (7.24%) Telecoms
13 14 (4.83%) Retail
14 12 (4.14%) Local Government
15 11 (3.79%) Public Sector
16 9 (3.10%) Automotive
17 7 (2.41%) Mandarin Language
18 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
18 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (23.45%) Automation Engineer
1 68 (23.45%) Graduate
1 68 (23.45%) Graduate IT Engineer
1 68 (23.45%) IT Engineer
1 68 (23.45%) IT Graduate
2 46 (15.86%) Senior
3 37 (12.76%) User Experience Researcher
4 36 (12.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 22 (7.59%) Administrator
6 21 (7.24%) IT Administrator
6 21 (7.24%) Server Administrator
7 15 (5.17%) Analyst
8 14 (4.83%) Lead
9 11 (3.79%) IT Manager
10 9 (3.10%) Planning Manager
11 8 (2.76%) Procurement Manager
12 7 (2.41%) Applications Support Analyst
12 7 (2.41%) Developer
12 7 (2.41%) IT Procurement Manager
12 7 (2.41%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.48%) RESTful
2 5 (1.72%) Android Jetpack
2 5 (1.72%) Android SDK
2 5 (1.72%) Apache Cordova
2 5 (1.72%) Core Animation
2 5 (1.72%) Core Data
2 5 (1.72%) Jetpack Compose
2 5 (1.72%) OpenCV
2 5 (1.72%) OpenVINO
2 5 (1.72%) Web Services
3 3 (1.03%) CSS
3 3 (1.03%) HTML
3 3 (1.03%) HTML5
4 2 (0.69%) CSS3
4 2 (0.69%) Dagger
4 2 (0.69%) ONNX
4 2 (0.69%) OpenMP
4 2 (0.69%) Retrofit
4 2 (0.69%) RxJava
5 1 (0.34%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 68 (23.45%) FMCG
2 36 (12.41%) Credit Risk
3 23 (7.93%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (7.24%) Data Centre
5 14 (4.83%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.79%) PACS
7 10 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
8 8 (2.76%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.07%) IoT
10 5 (1.72%) Animation
10 5 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
12 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.03%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.03%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.03%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.03%) Social Media
13 2 (0.69%) Beowulf
13 2 (0.69%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 38 (13.10%) Linux
2 29 (10.00%) Windows
3 21 (7.24%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.10%) Unix
5 5 (1.72%) Android
5 5 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.69%) SUSE
6 2 (0.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (36.90%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (32.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 74 (25.52%) Analytics
4 69 (23.79%) Six Sigma
5 68 (23.45%) Lean Manufacturing
5 68 (23.45%) Lean Six Sigma
5 68 (23.45%) Order Management
6 62 (21.38%) Agile
7 47 (16.21%) User Experience
8 41 (14.14%) Data Analysis
8 41 (14.14%) Mentoring
8 41 (14.14%) Roadmaps
9 37 (12.76%) Actionable Insight
9 37 (12.76%) Design Thinking
9 37 (12.76%) Product Management
9 37 (12.76%) Risk Management
9 37 (12.76%) User Research
9 37 (12.76%) UX Research
10 36 (12.41%) Budget Responsibility
10 36 (12.41%) Market Research
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.24%) PowerShell
2 18 (6.21%) SQL
3 17 (5.86%) Python
4 14 (4.83%) C++
5 12 (4.14%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.45%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.41%) Java
8 6 (2.07%) Bash
9 5 (1.72%) C
9 5 (1.72%) Fortran
9 5 (1.72%) Go
9 5 (1.72%) Rust
9 5 (1.72%) Swift
10 3 (1.03%) Perl
10 3 (1.03%) R
10 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.34%) AWK
11 1 (0.34%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.34%) Korn
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (50.00%) Degree
2 68 (23.45%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 33 (11.38%) Security Cleared
4 24 (8.28%) SC Cleared
5 20 (6.90%) Master's Degree
6 16 (5.52%) PhD
7 4 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) CCDP
10 1 (0.34%) CCNP
10 1 (0.34%) CCSP
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.34%) RHCE
10 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.41%) IFRS
1 36 (12.41%) IFRS 9
2 32 (11.03%) Actionable Recommendations
3 8 (2.76%) GDPR
4 7 (2.41%) ISO 14000
4 7 (2.41%) QA
5 4 (1.38%) SLA
6 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.69%) PMO
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (7.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.38%) Docker
3 2 (0.69%) Lustre
3 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) Ansible
1 1 (0.34%) NetBackup
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (0.34%) yum
Vendors
1 40 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.07%) Qualtrics
3 23 (7.93%) NetApp
4 21 (7.24%) Citrix
4 21 (7.24%) VMware
5 8 (2.76%) Apple
6 5 (1.72%) Google
7 3 (1.03%) Computacenter
7 3 (1.03%) EMC
7 3 (1.03%) Oracle
7 3 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.69%) BT
8 2 (0.69%) IBM
8 2 (0.69%) Intel
8 2 (0.69%) Mellanox
9 1 (0.34%) Qubit
9 1 (0.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) Veritas