FMCG Contract Job Trends 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 9 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 435 395
Rank change year-on-year -40 -40 +74
Contract jobs citing FMCG 153 73 126
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 0.74% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 41 52
10th Percentile £363 £413 £351
25th Percentile £419 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £756
90th Percentile £754 £825 £951
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £20.53 - -
Median hourly rate £26.90 - -
75th Percentile £32.83 - -
90th Percentile £36.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £26.90 - -

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 15,304 9,812 10,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.45% 35.28% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 6,199 6,663
10th Percentile £325 £307 £302
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £678
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 486 543
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.48 £12.80
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.58% -33.69% +15.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.56 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.66% -34.44% +15.38%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

FMCG job vacancy trend in England

FMCG
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FMCG

FMCG
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FMCG in England over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FMCG in England

FMCG
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FMCG

FMCG
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FMCG in England over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 August 2026. 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 -38 90 £600 -4.00% 61
South East -48 20 £395 - 28
North of England -55 16 £550 +15.79% 46
North West -35 13 £550 - 22
Midlands -50 9 £500 -16.67% 52
East Midlands -8 7 £500 -16.67% 28
South West -44 7 £458 +14.38% 18
East of England -18 6 £425 -29.17% 12
Yorkshire -39 2 - - 19
West Midlands -50 2 £625 +31.58% 24
North East - 1 - - 6
FMCG
UK

FMCG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.65%) Apache
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.65%) CMS
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.65%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.58%) SAP IBP
3 6 (3.92%) SAP MDG
4 5 (3.27%) SAP FI
4 5 (3.27%) SAP SD
5 4 (2.61%) SAP CO
5 4 (2.61%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (1.96%) SAP APO
6 3 (1.96%) SAP ERP
7 2 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (1.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (1.31%) SAP MM
7 2 (1.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (1.31%) SAP QM
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.65%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.65%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.65%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.03%) Azure
2 18 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 14 (9.15%) Entra ID
3 14 (9.15%) SaaS
4 8 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.58%) GitHub
6 6 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.27%) WhatsApp
8 3 (1.96%) AWS
8 3 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.96%) GCP
8 3 (1.96%) Smartsheet
9 2 (1.31%) Figma
9 2 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.31%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.65%) IaaS
10 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.76%) Power BI
2 4 (2.61%) Big Data
2 4 (2.61%) SAP BW
2 4 (2.61%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.96%) Power Query
4 2 (1.31%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.31%) Metadata
4 2 (1.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) JIRA
2 3 (1.96%) Hudson
2 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) LSMW
3 1 (0.65%) Moq
3 1 (0.65%) Toad
General
1 64 (41.83%) Retail
2 53 (34.64%) Manufacturing
3 38 (24.84%) Finance
3 38 (24.84%) Social Skills
4 17 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (8.50%) Marketing
7 7 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.61%) Legal
10 3 (1.96%) Law
11 2 (1.31%) Aviation
11 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Advertising
12 1 (0.65%) Automotive
12 1 (0.65%) French Language
12 1 (0.65%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.65%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (18.30%) Analyst
2 23 (15.03%) Senior
3 18 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 17 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 17 (11.11%) Lead
5 14 (9.15%) Consultant
6 13 (8.50%) Architect
7 11 (7.19%) IT Manager
7 11 (7.19%) Programme Manager
7 11 (7.19%) SAP Consultant
7 11 (7.19%) Technical Manager
8 9 (5.88%) Applications Support
8 9 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
8 9 (5.88%) SAP Manager
8 9 (5.88%) Support Analyst
9 8 (5.23%) Senior Manager
10 7 (4.58%) Change Manager
10 7 (4.58%) SAP Programme Manager
11 6 (3.92%) FMCG Manager
11 6 (3.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.58%) Middleware
2 3 (1.96%) REST
2 3 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (1.96%) SAPUI5
2 3 (1.96%) SOAP
3 2 (1.31%) .NET
3 2 (1.31%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.31%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.31%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.31%) Blazor
3 2 (1.31%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (1.31%) RESTful
4 1 (0.65%) Kafka
4 1 (0.65%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.65%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.46%) Operational Technology
2 11 (7.19%) IoT
3 10 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.61%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.61%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.31%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.31%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.31%) Robotics
6 2 (1.31%) SCADA
7 1 (0.65%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (39.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 33 (21.57%) Agile
3 31 (20.26%) ERP
4 25 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (16.34%) Decision-Making
4 25 (16.34%) Migration
4 25 (16.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (15.03%) Project Management
6 22 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (13.73%) Logistics
7 21 (13.73%) Validation
8 20 (13.07%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (12.42%) Analytics
10 18 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
11 17 (11.11%) Data Migration
12 15 (9.80%) Change Management
12 15 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (9.80%) Programme Delivery
12 15 (9.80%) Project Delivery
13 14 (9.15%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.58%) SQL
2 3 (1.96%) ABAP
2 3 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (1.31%) C#
4 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.65%) Python
4 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (7.19%) Degree
2 9 (5.88%) PMP
3 5 (3.27%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.96%) CISM
4 3 (1.96%) CISSP
4 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.31%) ACCA
5 2 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) CAPM
6 1 (0.65%) CIPD
6 1 (0.65%) HNC
6 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.19%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.27%) PMO
2 5 (3.27%) QA
3 4 (2.61%) GDPR
4 3 (1.96%) GMP
4 3 (1.96%) GRC
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.65%) GxP
5 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (7.19%) Active Directory
1 11 (7.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (30.72%) SAP
2 23 (15.03%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.15%) Zscaler
4 8 (5.23%) Oracle
5 5 (3.27%) Databricks
5 5 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.61%) Google
6 4 (2.61%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.31%) Informatica
7 2 (1.31%) Workday
8 1 (0.65%) Adobe
8 1 (0.65%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.65%) Ariba
8 1 (0.65%) Planview
8 1 (0.65%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.65%) Sage
8 1 (0.65%) Siemens
8 1 (0.65%) TikTok