FMCG Contract Job Trends 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 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 81 98
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 +19
Contract jobs citing FMCG 3 15 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.22% 1.04% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.66% 4.13% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £542 £313 -
25th Percentile £581 £388 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £525 £325
Median % change year-on-year +26.90% +61.54% -40.77%
75th Percentile £756 £563 £338
90th Percentile £797 £578 -
England median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.29 - -
England median hourly rate £14.75 - £23.00
% change year-on-year - - -26.16%

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 455 363 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.11% 25.10% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 167 329
10th Percentile £210 £220 £181
25th Percentile £363 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £579 £588
90th Percentile £700 £650 £678
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 45 79
10th Percentile £13.50 £27.75 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.61 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% - +47.31%
75th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.03 £91.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £29.50 £52.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -44.08% +14.23% +78.92%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FMCG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

FMCG job vacancy trend in the East of England

FMCG
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing FMCG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing FMCG

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 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FMCG in the East of England

FMCG
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing FMCG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing FMCG

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 15 October 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
Hertfordshire -10 2 £800 +100.00% 3
Bedfordshire -7 1 £533 -7.39% 1
FMCG
England

FMCG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Retail
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Buyer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Retail Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Retek