Benchmarking Contracts in the South East

Benchmarking
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 191 203
Rank change year-on-year +34 +12 +51
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 8 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.16% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.19% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 12
10th Percentile £310 £327 £456
25th Percentile £325 £398 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -11.90% -19.23%
75th Percentile - £480 £759
90th Percentile £415 £499 £866
England median daily rate £425 £475 £650
% change year-on-year -10.53% -26.92% +16.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £53.03 -
England median hourly rate £28.60 £15.79 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.13% -29.82% -35.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,973 4,709 5,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.64% 82.73% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,851 2,740 3,569
10th Percentile £250 £255 £252
25th Percentile £398 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 448 236
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.32 £21.89
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.86 £64.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the South East

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in the South East

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in the South East

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Thames Valley +20 5 £413 +47.32% 26
Berkshire +22 4 £413 - 19
Surrey +18 2 £350 -24.32% 8
Hampshire +31 1 £325 -31.58% 7
Oxfordshire -1 1 - - 1
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (25.00%) ArcGIS
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Spatial
1 2 (25.00%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) CATIA
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Contentsquare
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 2G
1 1 (12.50%) 3G
1 1 (12.50%) 4G
1 1 (12.50%) 5G
1 1 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (25.00%) GIS
1 2 (25.00%) Spatial Data
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) GIS Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) CAD Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) CAD Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Category Manager
2 1 (12.50%) CATIA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Radio Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Radio Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Category Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Development Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Implementation Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
1 2 (25.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Magik
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) MBA
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) ESRI
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Ericsson
2 1 (12.50%) Huawei
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Nokia