Benchmarking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Benchmarking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Benchmarking over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 413 474
Rank change year-on-year +43 +61 -84
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 28 42 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.19% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 24
10th Percentile £273 £450 £279
25th Percentile £425 £504 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +2.33% +26.47%
75th Percentile £584 £641 £652
90th Percentile £638 £746 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £605 £535
% change year-on-year -17.29% +12.99% +25.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £15.11 £20.99 £9.75
25th Percentile £15.39 £21.16 £12.38
Median hourly rate £15.79 £22.88 £16.77
Median % change year-on-year -30.97% +36.44% -42.19%
75th Percentile £16.20 £25.16 £21.15
90th Percentile £24.51 £25.66 £23.78
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £22.88 £22.68
% change year-on-year -30.97% +0.86% -42.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Benchmarking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,627 21,715 27,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.89% 89.58% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,629 15,041 19,312
10th Percentile £243 £254 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,023 1,341 1,383
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.16 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.59 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
East of England - 12 £575 - 12
South East +8 10 £450 -14.29% 25
Midlands +36 3 £625 +15.21% 15
West Midlands - 3 £625 - 13
Scotland +30 1 £480 -12.73% 6
North of England +26 1 £225 -59.09% 10
Yorkshire +20 1 £225 -59.09% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 - 1
Benchmarking
UK

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (3.57%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.14%) UserZoom
3 1 (3.57%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Figma
1 1 (3.57%) IaaS
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.57%) PaaS
1 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.57%) SaaS
1 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (7.14%) SAN
1 2 (7.14%) SMS
2 1 (3.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Big Data
1 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 13 (46.43%) Public Sector
2 9 (32.14%) Local Government
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 8 (28.57%) Finance
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.57%) Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.57%) Marketing
7 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Analyst
2 7 (25.00%) Performance Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Unix Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Unix Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) User Experience Researcher
5 1 (3.57%) Assistant Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) ETL Tester
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Integration Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Integration Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Middleware
1 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 7 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Unix
2 2 (7.14%) Solaris
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Mathematics
1 9 (32.14%) Performance Management
2 7 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 7 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 7 (25.00%) Statistics
3 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (17.86%) Business Continuity
5 4 (14.29%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Business Development
5 4 (14.29%) Project Management
6 3 (10.71%) Budgeting
6 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.71%) Information Security
6 3 (10.71%) Line Management
6 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.14%) Programme Delivery
7 2 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
2 2 (7.14%) AWK
2 2 (7.14%) Bourne shell
2 2 (7.14%) Korn
2 2 (7.14%) Perl
2 2 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) C++
3 1 (3.57%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) RHCE
2 2 (7.14%) RHCSA
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.57%) ISO 26262
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Ansible
1 2 (7.14%) NetBackup
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (7.14%) yum
2 1 (3.57%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) EMC
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.14%) Veritas
3 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) Qualtrics