FMCG Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FMCG over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 290 370
Rank change year-on-year +22 +80 +103
Contract jobs citing FMCG 37 54 104
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.13% 1.24% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 71
10th Percentile £449 £355 £411
25th Percentile £541 £510 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £650
90th Percentile - £808 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,284 4,352 8,034
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.30% 28.58% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,239 2,976 5,650
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £684
90th Percentile £825 £800 £792
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 195 154
10th Percentile £18.33 £15.45 £19.00
25th Percentile £24.50 £25.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £41.00 £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.46% -11.82% +23.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.14 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.83% +34.04% -18.24%

FMCG
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing FMCG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FMCG trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

FMCG
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing FMCG.

FMCG daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

FMCG
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing FMCG over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

FMCG daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

FMCG
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing FMCG.

FMCG hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

FMCG
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
Business Applications
1 8 (21.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.70%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) AWS
2 3 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.41%) Salsify
3 2 (5.41%) WhatsApp
4 1 (2.70%) Akamai
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) dbt
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) BGP
1 1 (2.70%) DHCP
1 1 (2.70%) DMVPN
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) DWDM
1 1 (2.70%) GLBP
1 1 (2.70%) HTTP
1 1 (2.70%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.70%) IGRP
1 1 (2.70%) Internet
1 1 (2.70%) IPsec
1 1 (2.70%) LAN
1 1 (2.70%) MPLS
1 1 (2.70%) Multicast
1 1 (2.70%) NetScaler
1 1 (2.70%) OSPF
1 1 (2.70%) SNMP
1 1 (2.70%) SSL
1 1 (2.70%) VPN
1 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.70%) Metadata
2 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) JMeter
3 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.70%) NeoLoad
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Retail
3 6 (16.22%) Marketing
4 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.70%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Electronics
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Change Manager
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Data Scientist
5 3 (8.11%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Account Director
6 2 (5.41%) Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.41%) SAP Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (5.41%) Sustainability Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Data Governance Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Project Governance Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.70%) HTML
1 1 (2.70%) Pandas
1 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.70%) Acoustics
2 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.70%) Life Science
2 1 (2.70%) Multi-touch
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (18.92%) Change Management
2 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
3 6 (16.22%) Data Governance
3 6 (16.22%) Project Management
4 5 (13.51%) Agile
4 5 (13.51%) Migration
4 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.81%) Analytics
5 4 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (10.81%) Business Transformation
5 4 (10.81%) Data Modelling
5 4 (10.81%) ERP
5 4 (10.81%) Marketing Mix
5 4 (10.81%) Product Strategy
5 4 (10.81%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (8.11%) Data Migration
6 3 (8.11%) E-Commerce
6 3 (8.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Python
2 3 (8.11%) SQL
3 2 (5.41%) R
4 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) APMG
2 1 (2.70%) CCDP
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) GRC
2 1 (2.70%) GxP
2 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) SAP
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Arista
3 1 (2.70%) Blue Coat
3 1 (2.70%) BMC
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco
3 1 (2.70%) Citrix
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) F5
3 1 (2.70%) Juniper
3 1 (2.70%) Remedy
3 1 (2.70%) Riverbed
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.70%) VMware
3 1 (2.70%) Zscaler