FMCG Contracts in the South East

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FMCG over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 184 206
Rank change year-on-year +32 +22 +41
Contract jobs citing FMCG 3 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.100% 0.13% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.44% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £423 £203 £237
25th Percentile £438 £319 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +6.27%
75th Percentile £513 £656 £550
90th Percentile £528 £728 £627
England median daily rate £600 £580 £550
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 997 1,575 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.21% 28.41% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 941 1,321
10th Percentile £206 £205 £213
25th Percentile £351 £363 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £662 £688 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 153 91
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.73 £18.08
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £19.00
Median hourly rate £47.90 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £63.94 £61.30 £66.48
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.46 £31.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.21% +40.09% -16.66%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for FMCG in the South East

FMCG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for FMCG in the South East

FMCG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for FMCG in the South East

FMCG
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 FMCG within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Thames Valley +30 1 £525 -17.65% 13
Surrey +16 1 £425 +226.92% 2
Buckinghamshire +11 1 £525 -30.00% 8
Hampshire - 1 - - 6
FMCG
England

FMCG
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Alteryx
1 1 (33.33%) SAP