Benchmarking Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Benchmarking
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Benchmarking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.90% - 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - £225
% change year-on-year - - -28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 578 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.92% 85.38% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 370 676
10th Percentile £305 £337 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 11
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.38 £16.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +50.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £22.53
90th Percentile £28.30 £51.00 £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% +44.74% -9.52%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Benchmarking job vacancy trend in Leeds

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Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Benchmarking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Benchmarking

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in Leeds

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Benchmarking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Benchmarking

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Android Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Android Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Quantity Surveyor
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Quantity Surveyor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (83.33%) Android SDK
1 5 (83.33%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (50.00%) Dagger
2 3 (50.00%) Retrofit
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) RxJava
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Android Development
1 5 (83.33%) MVVM
1 5 (83.33%) Open Source
1 5 (83.33%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (83.33%) SOLID
2 2 (33.33%) Push Notifications
2 2 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (33.33%) Web Design
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) Kotlin
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) NVQ Level 4
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) NEC