Benchmarking Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Benchmarking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 171 155 195
Rank change year-on-year -16 +40 +48
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 22 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.52% 0.22% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.26% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 3
10th Percentile £513 £344 £303
25th Percentile £550 £518 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £629 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% -6.81% +32.35%
75th Percentile £638 £791 £694
90th Percentile £644 £800 £698
England median daily rate £479 £503 £650
% change year-on-year -4.68% -22.69% +8.33%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £32.72 £47.59 £22.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% +111.50% +34.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,737 3,437 4,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.10% 84.32% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,457 1,872 3,029
10th Percentile £250 £294 £284
25th Percentile £369 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £655 £683
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 178 213
10th Percentile £14.47 £14.28 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £23.45 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.01% +20.69% +36.47%
75th Percentile £37.56 £51.90 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.03 £70.00 £62.80
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Benchmarking job vacancy trend in the North of England

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Benchmarking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Benchmarking

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in the North of England

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Benchmarking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Benchmarking

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
North West -7 15 £625 -5.66% 14
Yorkshire -17 6 £450 -28.46% 5
North East - 1 £550 - 2
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Google Workspace
1 15 (68.18%) SaaS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Mockito
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Military
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Android Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Android Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Design Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Quantity Surveyor
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms Quantity Surveyor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (22.73%) Android SDK
1 5 (22.73%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (13.64%) Dagger
2 3 (13.64%) Retrofit
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) CSS3
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) HTML5
3 2 (9.09%) RESTful
3 2 (9.09%) RxJava
3 2 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Digital Signage
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Mobile Device Management
2 12 (54.55%) User Experience
3 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (22.73%) Android Development
4 5 (22.73%) MVVM
4 5 (22.73%) Open Source
4 5 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (22.73%) SOLID
5 2 (9.09%) Agile
5 2 (9.09%) Push Notifications
5 2 (9.09%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (9.09%) Web Design
6 1 (4.55%) API Integration
6 1 (4.55%) Computer Science
6 1 (4.55%) Data Governance
6 1 (4.55%) Data Integration
6 1 (4.55%) Data Lineage
6 1 (4.55%) Data Modelling
6 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (4.55%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Java
1 5 (22.73%) Kotlin
2 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) NVQ Level 4
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) NEC
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce