FMCG Contracts in the East of England

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FMCG over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 106 101
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 +18
Contract jobs citing FMCG 12 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.28% 0.31% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.88% 1.17% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile - £551 £419
25th Percentile £431 £553 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.26% +12.17%
75th Percentile - £578 £600
90th Percentile £685 £584 -
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
East of England

FMCG falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 512 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.35% 26.82% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 253 450
10th Percentile £225 £178 £185
25th Percentile £398 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 127 52
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.24 £20.54
25th Percentile £26.30 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £79.38
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for FMCG in the East of England

FMCG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for FMCG in the East of England

FMCG
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FMCG in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FMCG in the East of England

FMCG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for FMCG in the East of England

FMCG
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 FMCG within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +5 5 £600 +6.67%
Hertfordshire +28 4 £625 - 8
Cambridgeshire - 2 £438 -
Suffolk - 1 £438 - 1
FMCG
England

FMCG
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:

Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) SAP ERP
1 4 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Akamai
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) BGP
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DMVPN
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) DWDM
1 1 (8.33%) GLBP
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
1 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (8.33%) IGRP
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) MPLS
1 1 (8.33%) Multicast
1 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
1 1 (8.33%) OSPF
1 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (8.33%) SNMP
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) QlikView
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) LoadRunner
1 5 (41.67%) NeoLoad
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Programme Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Manager
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Test Management
2 5 (41.67%) Waterfall
3 4 (33.33%) ERP
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Matrix Management
4 3 (25.00%) Service Management
4 3 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Coaching
6 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 1 (8.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CCDP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GxP
1 3 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Ariba
3 1 (8.33%) Arista
3 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) Riverbed
3 1 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Zscaler