FMCG Contracts in England

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in contract job vacancies in 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 412 411 457
Rank change year-on-year -1 +46 +141
Contract jobs citing FMCG 73 131 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 1.14% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 67 127
10th Percentile £428 £250 £375
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £650
90th Percentile £1,055 £900 £752
UK median daily rate £600 £590 £550
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £20.75 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -58.50% - -

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for FMCG in England

FMCG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for FMCG in England

FMCG
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for FMCG in England

FMCG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for FMCG in England

FMCG
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 FMCG 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 -11 40 £625 +13.64% 100
East of England +36 12 £600 +6.67% 11
North of England +17 5 £450 -25.00% 43
South West +44 4 £600 -33.33% 12
South East +42 3 £475 -9.52% 48
Yorkshire +8 3 £450 - 21
North West +15 2 - - 22
Midlands +11 2 £550 -8.33% 39
East Midlands +7 1 £625 +66.67% 16
West Midlands +7 1 £475 -34.48% 21
FMCG
UK

FMCG
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 (4.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.74%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (16.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (5.48%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.37%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.37%) SAP MII
3 1 (1.37%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.37%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.81%) Azure
2 9 (12.33%) Power Platform
3 7 (9.59%) AWS
4 4 (5.48%) PowerApps
5 3 (4.11%) Azure AI
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (4.11%) GitHub
5 3 (4.11%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.74%) GCP
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.74%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.74%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.37%) Collibra
7 1 (1.37%) dbt
7 1 (1.37%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) BGP
1 1 (1.37%) DHCP
1 1 (1.37%) DMVPN
1 1 (1.37%) DNS
1 1 (1.37%) DWDM
1 1 (1.37%) GLBP
1 1 (1.37%) HTTP
1 1 (1.37%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.37%) IGRP
1 1 (1.37%) Internet
1 1 (1.37%) IPsec
1 1 (1.37%) LAN
1 1 (1.37%) MPLS
1 1 (1.37%) Multicast
1 1 (1.37%) NetScaler
1 1 (1.37%) OSPF
1 1 (1.37%) SNMP
1 1 (1.37%) SSL
1 1 (1.37%) VPN
1 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) Power BI
2 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.37%) Metadata
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) MS Access
4 1 (1.37%) Power Query
4 1 (1.37%) QlikView
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) LoadRunner
2 5 (6.85%) NeoLoad
3 4 (5.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.11%) JMeter
5 1 (1.37%) Git
5 1 (1.37%) GitLab
5 1 (1.37%) Selenium
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 20 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.18%) Retail
3 13 (17.81%) Finance
4 12 (16.44%) Manufacturing
4 12 (16.44%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.22%) Marketing
7 2 (2.74%) Automotive
7 2 (2.74%) Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Electronics
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (21.92%) Lead
2 9 (12.33%) Consultant
3 8 (10.96%) Project Manager
3 8 (10.96%) Senior
3 8 (10.96%) Test Leader
4 6 (8.22%) Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Analyst
5 5 (6.85%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.48%) Change Manager
6 4 (5.48%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 3 (4.11%) Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Functional Consultant
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Manager
8 2 (2.74%) Power BI Consultant
8 2 (2.74%) Senior Data Scientist
8 2 (2.74%) Sustainability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.37%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.37%) HTML
1 1 (1.37%) Kafka
1 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
1 1 (1.37%) TensorFlow
1 1 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Life Science
2 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.74%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.37%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.37%) LIMS
4 1 (1.37%) Multi-touch
4 1 (1.37%) PACS
4 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (17.81%) Agile
3 12 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (16.44%) Project Management
4 10 (13.70%) Analytics
4 10 (13.70%) ERP
5 9 (12.33%) Data Governance
5 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (9.59%) Machine Learning
6 7 (9.59%) Migration
6 7 (9.59%) Roadmaps
6 7 (9.59%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (8.22%) Data Modelling
7 6 (8.22%) Data Science
7 6 (8.22%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (8.22%) Test Strategy
8 5 (6.85%) Data Analytics
8 5 (6.85%) Service Management
8 5 (6.85%) Test Management
8 5 (6.85%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.33%) SQL
2 7 (9.59%) Python
3 2 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.37%) ABAP
4 1 (1.37%) Bash
4 1 (1.37%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (8.22%) Degree
2 1 (1.37%) APMG
2 1 (1.37%) CCDP
2 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) GxP
1 3 (4.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.74%) GDPR
3 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Docker
1 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
2 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (27.40%) SAP
2 9 (12.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.48%) HP
4 3 (4.11%) Databricks
4 3 (4.11%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.37%) Ariba
6 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.37%) BMC
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco
6 1 (1.37%) Citrix
6 1 (1.37%) F5
6 1 (1.37%) Infor
6 1 (1.37%) Juniper
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) Remedy
6 1 (1.37%) Riverbed
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.37%) VMware