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 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 372 453
Rank change year-on-year -103 +81 +123
Contract jobs citing FMCG 69 141 129
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 1.46% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 43 62
10th Percentile £359 £374 £263
25th Percentile £425 £500 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £775 £725 £669
90th Percentile £830 £850 £774
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -10.42% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £12.72 - -
25th Percentile £13.48 - -
Median hourly rate £14.75 - £23.00
75th Percentile £16.02 - -
90th Percentile £16.78 - -
UK median hourly rate £14.75 - £23.00
% change year-on-year - - -26.16%

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 10,682 9,648 12,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.38% 31.21% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,671 5,780 8,805
10th Percentile £290 £296 £285
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -1.77% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £777
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 292 463
10th Percentile £14.30 £16.73 £17.14
25th Percentile £18.31 £23.80 £21.28
Median hourly rate £28.56 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +6.74% +65.89%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.98% -10.11% +64.94%

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 4 November 2025.

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
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 4 November 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 -67 31 £750 +15.38% 64
Midlands -20 10 £600 -7.69% 25
North of England -37 9 £500 +26.98% 24
North West -19 6 £500 +26.98% 12
South West +7 5 £319 -42.05% 6
South East +4 5 £503 +0.50% 58
West Midlands -19 5 £525 -19.23% 18
East Midlands -13 4 £600 - 8
East of England -22 3 £666 +66.56% 14
Yorkshire -29 2 £538 - 10
North East - 1 - - 2
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 2 (2.90%) Confluence
1 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.45%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (14.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.35%) SAP MDG
3 2 (2.90%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.90%) SAP EWM
3 2 (2.90%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.90%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (2.90%) SAP WM
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (1.45%) SAP APO
4 1 (1.45%) SAP BPC
4 1 (1.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.94%) Azure
2 10 (14.49%) WhatsApp
3 7 (10.14%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.35%) AWS
5 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.35%) GCP
5 3 (4.35%) SaaS
6 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.90%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.45%) dbt
7 1 (1.45%) Figma
7 1 (1.45%) GitHub
7 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.45%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.45%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.45%) WAN
2 1 (1.45%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) Power BI
2 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.45%) Big Data
3 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.45%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.45%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.45%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.45%) Selenium
2 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.45%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (42.03%) Manufacturing
2 27 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.74%) Finance
3 15 (21.74%) Retail
4 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.14%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.90%) Electronics
8 1 (1.45%) Automotive
8 1 (1.45%) Aviation
8 1 (1.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) French Language
8 1 (1.45%) Games
8 1 (1.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Project Manager
2 9 (13.04%) Consultant
2 9 (13.04%) Lead
2 9 (13.04%) Senior
3 8 (11.59%) Analyst
4 5 (7.25%) Business Analyst
4 5 (7.25%) SAP Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Architect
5 4 (5.80%) ERP Consultant
5 4 (5.80%) IFS Consultant
5 4 (5.80%) IT Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Programme Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Data Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Data Scientist
6 3 (4.35%) Developer
6 3 (4.35%) SAP Project Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (2.90%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) Kafka
1 2 (2.90%) REST
2 1 (1.45%) .NET
2 1 (1.45%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.45%) LangGraph
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.45%) Pandas
2 1 (1.45%) pydantic
2 1 (1.45%) pytest
2 1 (1.45%) SOAP
2 1 (1.45%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (4.35%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.90%) Life Science
2 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.45%) Acoustics
3 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.45%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Genomics
3 1 (1.45%) IoT
3 1 (1.45%) PDA
3 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Android
2 1 (1.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.09%) Agile
2 16 (23.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (17.39%) ERP
4 11 (15.94%) Migration
4 11 (15.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (14.49%) Project Management
5 10 (14.49%) Roadmaps
6 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (11.59%) Logistics
7 8 (11.59%) Risk Management
8 7 (10.14%) Decision-Making
9 6 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.70%) Data Governance
9 6 (8.70%) Data Migration
9 6 (8.70%) Kanban
9 6 (8.70%) Scrum
10 5 (7.25%) Budget Management
10 5 (7.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 5 (7.25%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.14%) SQL
2 3 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.45%) Java
3 1 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (2.90%) Degree
1 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
1 2 (2.90%) PMP
1 2 (2.90%) Six Sigma Black Belt
1 2 (2.90%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
2 1 (1.45%) PhD
2 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) PMO
2 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) AirWatch
1 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (34.78%) SAP
2 7 (10.14%) Oracle
3 6 (8.70%) IFS
3 6 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.90%) Google
7 1 (1.45%) Adobe
7 1 (1.45%) Apple
7 1 (1.45%) Ariba
7 1 (1.45%) Cisco
7 1 (1.45%) Citrix
7 1 (1.45%) Databricks
7 1 (1.45%) HP
7 1 (1.45%) Informatica
7 1 (1.45%) Retek
7 1 (1.45%) Siemens
7 1 (1.45%) webMethods
7 1 (1.45%) Workday
7 1 (1.45%) Zscaler