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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 405 485
Rank change year-on-year -13 +80 +94
Contract jobs citing FMCG 74 140 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.80% 1.22% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 66 109
10th Percentile £425 £281 £363
25th Percentile £469 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +5.00% +2.33%
75th Percentile £756 £734 £650
90th Percentile £900 £845 £785
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
UK median hourly rate - - £23.00

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 9,205 11,434 15,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.71% 30.68% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,870 7,362 11,121
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 826 516
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.40 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.72 £37.50 £25.58
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +46.60% -3.47%
75th Percentile £59.23 £63.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £23.90
% change year-on-year -17.81% +52.75% -11.43%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -10 41 £638 +6.25% 291
Midlands +5 7 £600 -11.11% 125
South West +38 6 £600 +6.67% 34
East of England +19 6 £600 +11.63% 54
North of England +4 6 £463 -22.92% 146
East Midlands +6 5 £600 +60.00% 64
Yorkshire +5 4 £463 - 49
North West +2 2 - - 90
West Midlands +1 2 £475 -32.14% 61
South East +31 1 - - 90
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 (4.05%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) CMS
Business Applications
1 14 (18.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (5.41%) SAP ERP
2 4 (5.41%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.35%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.35%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.35%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.35%) SAP MII
3 1 (1.35%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.35%) SAP VC
3 1 (1.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.86%) Azure
2 5 (6.76%) AWS
3 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.05%) Azure AI
4 3 (4.05%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (4.05%) GitHub
4 3 (4.05%) PowerApps
4 3 (4.05%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.70%) GCP
5 2 (2.70%) iPaaS
5 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.70%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.35%) Akamai
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.35%) Collibra
6 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.35%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) Network Security
1 2 (2.70%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.70%) WAN
2 1 (1.35%) BGP
2 1 (1.35%) DHCP
2 1 (1.35%) DMVPN
2 1 (1.35%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) DWDM
2 1 (1.35%) GLBP
2 1 (1.35%) HTTP
2 1 (1.35%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.35%) Internet
2 1 (1.35%) LAN
2 1 (1.35%) MPLS
2 1 (1.35%) Multicast
2 1 (1.35%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.35%) OSPF
2 1 (1.35%) SNMP
2 1 (1.35%) SSL
2 1 (1.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) Power BI
2 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.35%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) JIRA
2 5 (6.76%) LoadRunner
2 5 (6.76%) NeoLoad
3 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.05%) JMeter
General
1 18 (24.32%) Manufacturing
2 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 11 (14.86%) Retail
5 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.11%) Marketing
7 3 (4.05%) Banking
8 2 (2.70%) Automotive
9 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Electronics
9 1 (1.35%) French Language
9 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.35%) Legal
9 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) Lead
2 11 (14.86%) Consultant
3 9 (12.16%) Project Manager
3 9 (12.16%) Senior
4 6 (8.11%) Architect
4 6 (8.11%) Test Leader
5 5 (6.76%) Data Scientist
5 5 (6.76%) IFS Consultant
5 5 (6.76%) IT Manager
5 5 (6.76%) SAP Manager
6 4 (5.41%) Analyst
6 4 (5.41%) Data Manager
6 4 (5.41%) ERP Consultant
7 3 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Change Manager
7 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.05%) Programme Manager
7 3 (4.05%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (4.05%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.70%) Kafka
2 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.35%) HTML
2 1 (1.35%) Pandas
2 1 (1.35%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Life Science
2 2 (2.70%) Acoustics
2 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.70%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.35%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.35%) LIMS
3 1 (1.35%) Multi-touch
3 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.35%) PACS
3 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
1 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (18.92%) ERP
3 12 (16.22%) Agile
3 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 9 (12.16%) Data Governance
4 9 (12.16%) Migration
4 9 (12.16%) Roadmaps
5 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (9.46%) Analytics
6 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning
6 7 (9.46%) Project Management
7 6 (8.11%) Data Modelling
7 6 (8.11%) Data Strategy
7 6 (8.11%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.11%) Validation
8 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (6.76%) Data Science
8 5 (6.76%) Test Management
8 5 (6.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.76%) Python
1 5 (6.76%) SQL
2 2 (2.70%) R
3 1 (1.35%) ABAP
3 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.35%) APMG
1 1 (1.35%) CCDP
1 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (1.35%) Degree
1 1 (1.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) GxP
1 3 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.70%) PMO
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 24 (32.43%) SAP
2 8 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.11%) IFS
4 3 (4.05%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.70%) Databricks
5 2 (2.70%) HP
5 2 (2.70%) Workday
5 2 (2.70%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.35%) Ariba
6 1 (1.35%) Arista
6 1 (1.35%) Blue Coat
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco
6 1 (1.35%) Citrix
6 1 (1.35%) Infor
6 1 (1.35%) Informatica
6 1 (1.35%) Juniper
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle
6 1 (1.35%) Riverbed
6 1 (1.35%) webMethods