Benchmarking Contracts in England

Benchmarking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking 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 420 502 532
Rank change year-on-year +82 +30 +105
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 65 40 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.12% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 18 70
10th Percentile £310 £404 £476
25th Percentile £363 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -22.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £520 £563 £736
90th Percentile £623 £656 £825
UK median daily rate £450 £490 £600
% change year-on-year -8.16% -18.33% +11.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 1
10th Percentile £22.27 £15.11 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.39 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.60 £15.79 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -34.21% +5.82%
75th Percentile £33.40 £16.20 £26.00
90th Percentile £33.75 £24.51 -
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £15.79 £22.88
% change year-on-year +81.13% -30.97% +0.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Benchmarking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the 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
London +45 21 £496 -0.80% 144
North of England - 18 £358 - 16
North West - 13 £261 - 8
South East +45 11 £400 -13.51% 30
South West - 8 £375 - 8
Midlands +24 4 £524 - 11
Yorkshire - 4 £510 - 4
East Midlands - 3 £447 - 4
East of England +20 2 £408 -29.13% 9
West Midlands +13 1 £600 - 6
North East - 1 - - 4
Benchmarking
UK

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.62%) OpenStack
1 3 (4.62%) SAS
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) CMS
3 1 (1.54%) JBoss
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.08%) InVision
3 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.08%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (3.08%) UserZoom
4 1 (1.54%) CATIA
4 1 (1.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.54%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.23%) Azure
2 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.15%) Google Workspace
4 3 (4.62%) AWS
4 3 (4.62%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.62%) SaaS
5 2 (3.08%) GCP
5 2 (3.08%) OCI
5 2 (3.08%) PaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.54%) Contentsquare
6 1 (1.54%) IaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.54%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) 4G
1 3 (4.62%) 5G
1 3 (4.62%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (3.08%) 2G
2 2 (3.08%) 3G
2 2 (3.08%) 5G NR
2 2 (3.08%) iSCSI
2 2 (3.08%) LTE
2 2 (3.08%) Network Security
3 1 (1.54%) Firewall
3 1 (1.54%) VPN
3 1 (1.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) Power BI
2 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.62%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (4.62%) Tableau
4 2 (3.08%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.08%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.08%) Text Mining
5 1 (1.54%) MS Access
5 1 (1.54%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) Axure RP
2 2 (3.08%) JMeter
2 2 (3.08%) Postman
2 2 (3.08%) Selenium
3 1 (1.54%) Hudson
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Local Government
3 12 (18.46%) Finance
4 10 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.77%) Retail
6 6 (9.23%) Automotive
6 6 (9.23%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (9.23%) Marketing
7 5 (7.69%) Telecoms
8 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (4.62%) Banking
9 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (3.08%) Legal
11 1 (1.54%) Billing
11 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.54%) Military
11 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Analyst
2 15 (23.08%) Senior
3 6 (9.23%) Applications Support
3 6 (9.23%) Business Analyst
3 6 (9.23%) Support Officer
4 5 (7.69%) Senior Applications Support
5 4 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 4 (6.15%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.15%) Design Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Lead
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Asset Management Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Asset Management Business Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Consultant
7 2 (3.08%) Information Scientist
7 2 (3.08%) Power BI Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Radio Design Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Wealth Management Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) CSS
1 4 (6.15%) HTML
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.54%) Ajax
3 1 (1.54%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.54%) CSS3
3 1 (1.54%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.54%) HTML5
3 1 (1.54%) JAX-WS
3 1 (1.54%) JMS
3 1 (1.54%) jQuery
3 1 (1.54%) JSP
3 1 (1.54%) Middleware
3 1 (1.54%) REST
3 1 (1.54%) RESTful
3 1 (1.54%) Servlets
3 1 (1.54%) SOAP
3 1 (1.54%) Spring MVC
3 1 (1.54%) Struts
3 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.23%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.69%) Augmented Reality
3 5 (7.69%) e-Learning
3 5 (7.69%) Podcast
3 5 (7.69%) Virtual Reality
4 4 (6.15%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Life Science
5 2 (3.08%) Replication
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) NHS
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Android
1 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Ubuntu
1 2 (3.08%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.46%) Project Management
2 10 (15.38%) Decision-Making
2 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.85%) Data Analysis
4 8 (12.31%) Analytics
4 8 (12.31%) Business Case
4 8 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (12.31%) Data Protection
5 7 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (10.77%) Customer Service
5 7 (10.77%) Logistics
5 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (9.23%) Coaching
6 6 (9.23%) Data Security
6 6 (9.23%) DevOps
6 6 (9.23%) Migration
6 6 (9.23%) User Experience
7 5 (7.69%) Agile
7 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.46%) SQL
2 4 (6.15%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.15%) Python
3 2 (3.08%) Go
3 2 (3.08%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.54%) Java
4 1 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Degree
2 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
5 3 (4.62%) RHCSA
6 2 (3.08%) AAT
6 2 (3.08%) CCAB
6 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.08%) PhD
7 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.69%) GDPR
3 3 (4.62%) NIST
4 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.08%) GRC
5 1 (1.54%) Basel III
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.54%) IFRS
5 1 (1.54%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.62%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (4.62%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.08%) NFS
4 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Ansible
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) Grafana
3 2 (3.08%) Nessus
3 2 (3.08%) NSN NetAct
3 2 (3.08%) vRealize
3 2 (3.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (1.54%) CASB
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.54%) Packer
4 1 (1.54%) SCCM
4 1 (1.54%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.54%) VxRail
4 1 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) VMware
3 6 (9.23%) Oracle
4 3 (4.62%) Nokia
4 3 (4.62%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.08%) Adobe
5 2 (3.08%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.08%) Foundry
5 2 (3.08%) Google
5 2 (3.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.54%) Dell
6 1 (1.54%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.54%) Huawei
6 1 (1.54%) IBM
6 1 (1.54%) Intel
6 1 (1.54%) Meraki
6 1 (1.54%) Qualys
6 1 (1.54%) Sophos