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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 481 521
Rank change year-on-year +72 +40 +105
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 102 52 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 31 58
10th Percentile £311 £313 £435
25th Percentile £363 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £503 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.75% -22.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £739 £788
90th Percentile £650 £800 £1,161
UK median daily rate £455 £505 £645
% change year-on-year -9.90% -21.71% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £23.20 £39.74 -
25th Percentile £23.50 £44.16 £21.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £53.03 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.74% +135.69% +7.14%
75th Percentile £24.50 £57.30 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.80 £58.96 -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £53.03 £22.50
% change year-on-year -54.74% +135.69% +7.14%

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 25,246 28,459 39,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.80% 85.86% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,075 18,539 27,553
10th Percentile £300 £313 £320
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £759
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 1,610 1,372
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.25 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%
75th Percentile £50.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.27
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.80% +55.74%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +43 47 £454 -35.26% 150
North of England +7 23 £625 -21.88% 15
North West +9 20 £625 -21.88% 7
South West +31 12 £388 -16.93% 9
South East +17 10 £400 -13.51% 20
Midlands -7 4 £447 -14.86% 12
East Midlands - 3 £447 - 2
East of England +4 2 £408 +150.31% 9
North East - 2 £550 - 1
West Midlands -8 1 - - 10
Yorkshire - 1 £642 - 8
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 (2.94%) Apache
1 3 (2.94%) Confluence
1 3 (2.94%) SAS
2 2 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.96%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.96%) Oracle Spatial
2 2 (1.96%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.98%) Camunda
3 1 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.98%) CMS
3 1 (0.98%) JBoss
3 1 (0.98%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.98%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.90%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.96%) InVision
4 2 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.96%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.98%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.63%) SaaS
2 17 (16.67%) Google Workspace
3 7 (6.86%) Azure
4 5 (4.90%) AWS
5 4 (3.92%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.94%) GCP
7 2 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.98%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.98%) Benchling
8 1 (0.98%) Contentsquare
8 1 (0.98%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.98%) IaaS
8 1 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) 4G
1 5 (4.90%) 5G
1 5 (4.90%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (3.92%) 5G NR
2 4 (3.92%) LTE
3 3 (2.94%) 2G
3 3 (2.94%) 3G
4 2 (1.96%) Network Security
4 2 (1.96%) RTP
5 1 (0.98%) Firewall
5 1 (0.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.92%) Power BI
2 3 (2.94%) Tableau
3 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.96%) Delta Lake
3 2 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (1.96%) GIS
3 2 (1.96%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.96%) Spatial Data
3 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.96%) Text Mining
4 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.98%) Power Query
4 1 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Git
2 4 (3.92%) JIRA
3 3 (2.94%) Selenium
4 2 (1.96%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.98%) Hudson
5 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.98%) MLflow
General
1 32 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.67%) Finance
3 17 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.88%) Military
6 4 (3.92%) Local Government
6 4 (3.92%) Marketing
7 3 (2.94%) Banking
7 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.96%) Legal
8 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.98%) Billing
9 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (28.43%) Senior
2 15 (14.71%) Analyst
3 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (6.86%) Lead
4 7 (6.86%) Senior Manager
5 6 (5.88%) Applications Support
5 6 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.88%) Support Officer
6 5 (4.90%) Design Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Senior Applications Support
7 4 (3.92%) Android Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Architect
7 4 (3.92%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) Consultant
7 4 (3.92%) Data Analyst
8 3 (2.94%) Automation Tester
8 3 (2.94%) Security Analyst
8 3 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (2.94%) Senior Design Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.90%) RESTful
2 4 (3.92%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (3.92%) CSS
2 4 (3.92%) Dagger
2 4 (3.92%) HTML
2 4 (3.92%) Jetpack Compose
2 4 (3.92%) Web Services
3 3 (2.94%) Android SDK
3 3 (2.94%) Middleware
4 2 (1.96%) PostGIS
4 2 (1.96%) PySpark
4 2 (1.96%) React
5 1 (0.98%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.98%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.98%) JSP
5 1 (0.98%) Kafka
5 1 (0.98%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.98%) Servlets
5 1 (0.98%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.94%) Digital Signage
4 3 (2.94%) Life Science
4 3 (2.94%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.98%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.98%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.98%) Genomics
6 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) SCADA
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Android
2 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.96%) Linux
2 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (21.57%) Agile
1 22 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
1 22 (21.57%) User Experience
2 18 (17.65%) Analytics
3 15 (14.71%) Mobile Device Management
4 10 (9.80%) Analytical Modelling
4 10 (9.80%) Data Analysis
4 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (8.82%) Business Case
5 9 (8.82%) Decision-Making
5 9 (8.82%) Open Source
6 8 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (7.84%) Data Protection
6 8 (7.84%) Mentoring
6 8 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (6.86%) Data Analytics
7 7 (6.86%) Data Modelling
7 7 (6.86%) Logistics
7 7 (6.86%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (6.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.69%) SQL
2 10 (9.80%) Python
3 6 (5.88%) Java
4 5 (4.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.92%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.96%) Magik
6 2 (1.96%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.98%) Bash
7 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.98%) R
7 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.76%) Degree
4 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.96%) PhD
5 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.98%) CISSP
5 1 (0.98%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) GIAC
5 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.98%) MBA
5 1 (0.98%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.90%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.90%) GDPR
3 4 (3.92%) NIST
4 3 (2.94%) GRC
4 3 (2.94%) QA
5 1 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.98%) Basel III
5 1 (0.98%) GxP
5 1 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.98%) IFRS
5 1 (0.98%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.98%) NCSC
5 1 (0.98%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.94%) NSN NetAct
2 2 (1.96%) Nessus
3 1 (0.98%) Ansible
3 1 (0.98%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.98%) Packer
3 1 (0.98%) SCCM
3 1 (0.98%) Terraform
3 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.98%) VxRail
3 1 (0.98%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (20.59%) Google
2 11 (10.78%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.90%) Nokia
4 4 (3.92%) Oracle
4 4 (3.92%) SAP
4 4 (3.92%) Workday
5 3 (2.94%) UiPath
6 2 (1.96%) Adobe
6 2 (1.96%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.96%) Databricks
6 2 (1.96%) ESRI
6 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.96%) VMware
7 1 (0.98%) Cisco
7 1 (0.98%) Dell
7 1 (0.98%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.98%) Huawei
7 1 (0.98%) IBM
7 1 (0.98%) Intel
7 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow