FMCG Contract Job Trends in the North West

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FMCG over the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 115 151
Rank change year-on-year -12 +36 +33
Contract jobs citing FMCG 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.22% 0.13% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 0.44% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £441 £366 -
25th Percentile £473 £370 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £394 £650
Median % change year-on-year +41.27% -39.42% +26.83%
75th Percentile £648 £420 -
90th Percentile £687 £427 -
England median daily rate £600 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 777 685 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.35% 28.93% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 359 567
10th Percentile £268 £293 £256
25th Percentile £363 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £600
90th Percentile £656 £675 £654
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 27 39
10th Percentile £15.80 £17.56 £16.20
25th Percentile £19.29 £21.15 £21.18
Median hourly rate £31.36 £32.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -20.73% +88.25%
75th Percentile £52.50 £52.75 £51.88
90th Percentile £70.93 £89.70 £74.00
England median hourly rate £27.53 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.56% +16.67% +73.71%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

FMCG job vacancy trend in the North West

FMCG
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FMCG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FMCG

FMCG
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FMCG in the North West over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FMCG in the North West

FMCG
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FMCG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FMCG

FMCG
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FMCG within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Manchester -3 3 £438 +11.11% 9
Cheshire - 1 £675 - 2
Lancashire - 1 - - 3
FMCG
England

FMCG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP APO
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BPC
1 1 (20.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (20.00%) SAP APO Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Financial Leader
1 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (20.00%) SOAR
2 1 (20.00%) Supply Chain Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Siemens