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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 303 368
Rank change year-on-year -13 +65 +116
Contract jobs citing FMCG 40 96 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.55% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 1.64% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 42 80
10th Percentile £415 £255 £363
25th Percentile £463 £384 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +7.95% -
75th Percentile £838 £725 £652
90th Percentile £1,125 £849 £841
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
England median hourly rate - - £23.00

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 4,679 5,852 8,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.73% 33.29% 35.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,095 4,104 6,497
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 142 99
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.43 £18.74
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.34 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.42 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -21.66% -14.11%
75th Percentile £47.50 £49.88 £56.88
90th Percentile £64.48 £71.25 £85.66
England median hourly rate £32.85 £37.50 £23.08
% change year-on-year -12.40% +62.51% -12.55%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +19 6 £590 +68.57% 22
West London +11 2 £600 -4.00% 11
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 Spark
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
Business Applications
1 8 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.00%) SAP MDG
3 1 (2.50%) SAP CO
3 1 (2.50%) SAP FI
3 1 (2.50%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (2.50%) SAP MII
3 1 (2.50%) SAP PP
3 1 (2.50%) SAP VC
3 1 (2.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) Azure AI
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Machine Learning
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%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.50%) Salsify
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Network Security
1 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.50%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 5 (12.50%) Retail
4 4 (10.00%) Marketing
5 3 (7.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Automotive
6 1 (2.50%) French Language
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Lead
2 5 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 5 (12.50%) Senior
3 4 (10.00%) Consultant
3 4 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Scientist
4 3 (7.50%) Test Leader
5 2 (5.00%) Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Change Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Programme Manager
5 2 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) SAP Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Sustainability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Kafka
1 1 (2.50%) Pandas
1 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Acoustics
2 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
2 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.50%) Digital Media
2 1 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.50%) LIMS
2 1 (2.50%) Multi-touch
2 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.50%) PACS
2 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 7 (17.50%) Machine Learning
2 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (15.00%) Agile
3 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
4 5 (12.50%) Analytics
4 5 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (12.50%) Data Science
4 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (10.00%) Change Management
5 4 (10.00%) Generative AI
5 4 (10.00%) Migration
5 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.00%) Project Management
5 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (7.50%) Data Analytics
6 3 (7.50%) Product Management
6 3 (7.50%) Software Testing
6 3 (7.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) Python
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
3 2 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) APMG
1 1 (2.50%) Degree
1 1 (2.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) PMO
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) SAP
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) HP
3 3 (7.50%) OpenAI
3 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Informatica
5 1 (2.50%) Workday
5 1 (2.50%) Zscaler