FMCG Contracts in London

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in contract job vacancies in London. 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 313 302 369
Rank change year-on-year -11 +67 +122
Contract jobs citing FMCG 40 89 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 1.51% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 42 86
10th Percentile £439 £250 £375
25th Percentile £469 £375 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £881 £720 £655
90th Percentile £1,125 £822 £800
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for FMCG in London

FMCG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for FMCG in London

FMCG
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for FMCG in London

FMCG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for FMCG in London

FMCG
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FMCG within the London 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
Central London +5 3 £500 +37.46% 4
West London +11 1 £600 -15.79% 7
FMCG
England

FMCG
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (7.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (17.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP MDG
2 1 (2.50%) SAP MII
2 1 (2.50%) SAP PP
2 1 (2.50%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) Azure AI
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.00%) GCP
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.50%) Collibra
5 1 (2.50%) dbt
5 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.50%) Salsify
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) Metadata
2 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) MS Access
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Selenium
General
1 9 (22.50%) Finance
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Retail
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.50%) Marketing
6 2 (5.00%) Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (10.00%) Analyst
2 4 (10.00%) Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Consultant
2 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (10.00%) Senior
2 4 (10.00%) Test Leader
3 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Data Scientist
3 3 (7.50%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Change Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Data Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (5.00%) Project Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
4 2 (5.00%) Senior IT Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Sustainability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Kafka
1 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.50%) Acoustics
2 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
2 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.50%) LIMS
2 1 (2.50%) Multi-touch
2 1 (2.50%) PACS
2 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (17.50%) Machine Learning
2 7 (17.50%) Project Management
3 6 (15.00%) Analytics
3 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
4 5 (12.50%) Agile
4 5 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 5 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 5 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (10.00%) Data Science
5 4 (10.00%) Migration
5 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (10.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) Python
1 5 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) SAP
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) HP
4 3 (7.50%) Databricks
4 3 (7.50%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.50%) BMC
5 1 (2.50%) Remedy
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow