Benchmarking Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Benchmarking
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Benchmarking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.72% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £400 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £225
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.00%
75th Percentile £500 - £238
90th Percentile £523 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £629 £225
% change year-on-year -28.46% +179.56% -43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 722 681 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.20% 85.45% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 428 808
10th Percentile £290 £329 £323
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 19
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £12.94
25th Percentile - £19.19 £16.71
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +44.74% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66.88 £37.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Benchmarking job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Benchmarking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Benchmarking

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in West Yorkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Benchmarking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Benchmarking

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Leeds - 6 £450 - 2
Benchmarking
Yorkshire

Benchmarking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Android Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Android Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Quantity Surveyor
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Quantity Surveyor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (83.33%) Android SDK
1 5 (83.33%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (50.00%) Dagger
2 3 (50.00%) Retrofit
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) RxJava
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Android Development
1 5 (83.33%) MVVM
1 5 (83.33%) Open Source
1 5 (83.33%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (83.33%) SOLID
2 2 (33.33%) Push Notifications
2 2 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (33.33%) Web Design
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) Kotlin
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) NVQ Level 4
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) NEC