Benchmarking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 388 471
Rank change year-on-year +13 +83 -56
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 26 42 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 23
10th Percentile £411 £450 £270
25th Percentile £431 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.09% -1.14% +29.41%
75th Percentile £481 £647 £653
90th Percentile £526 £844 £695
UK median daily rate £475 £635 £563
% change year-on-year -25.20% +12.89% +23.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £15.11 £20.95 -
25th Percentile £15.39 £21.06 -
Median hourly rate £15.79 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% - -
75th Percentile £16.20 £24.88 -
90th Percentile £24.51 £25.55 -
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £22.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -29.82% -56.10% +41.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +14 11 £575 +21.05% 7
South East +7 9 £450 -14.29% 21
South West +1 3 £450 +9.42% 6
West Midlands +18 2 - - 12
Midlands +13 2 - - 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 -
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 (3.85%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (3.85%) Simulink
4 1 (3.85%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (7.69%) SAN
2 1 (3.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 11 (42.31%) Public Sector
2 10 (38.46%) Local Government
3 9 (34.62%) Finance
4 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.85%) Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Performance Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Unix Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.85%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Business Process Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Integration Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Integration Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Process Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Applications Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (26.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Housing Association
4 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Unix
2 2 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Performance Management
2 9 (34.62%) Mathematics
3 7 (26.92%) Data Collection
3 7 (26.92%) Data Protection
3 7 (26.92%) Statistics
4 5 (19.23%) Business Continuity
4 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (15.38%) Project Management
6 3 (11.54%) Budgeting
6 3 (11.54%) Information Security
6 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (7.69%) API Development
7 2 (7.69%) Business Strategy
7 2 (7.69%) Critical Success Factor
7 2 (7.69%) Customer Service
7 2 (7.69%) Database Optimisation
7 2 (7.69%) Information Governance
7 2 (7.69%) Process Improvement
7 2 (7.69%) Programme Delivery
7 2 (7.69%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) AWK
1 2 (7.69%) Bourne shell
1 2 (7.69%) Korn
1 2 (7.69%) Perl
1 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
1 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) C++
2 1 (3.85%) MATLAB
2 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) RHCE
2 2 (7.69%) RHCSA
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) SLA
3 1 (3.85%) ISO 26262
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Ansible
1 2 (7.69%) NetBackup
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (7.69%) yum
2 1 (3.85%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) EMC
2 2 (7.69%) NEC
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.69%) Veritas
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.85%) Qualtrics