FMCG Job Trends in Birmingham

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FMCG over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 130 104
Rank change year-on-year +34 -26 +44
Permanent jobs citing FMCG 9 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.52% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.11% 0.49% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile - £37,875 £53,250
25th Percentile - £38,438 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £41,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.70% -48.44% +100.00%
75th Percentile £51,750 £43,438 £99,375
90th Percentile £120,000 £43,625 £108,750
West Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £55,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year -40.91% +18.92% +23.33%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

FMCG falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 427 610 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.65% 33.91% 37.44%
Number of salaries quoted 290 240 438
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £38,777
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,720 £60,000 £54,825
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +9.44% -5.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FMCG relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

FMCG job vacancy trend in Birmingham

FMCG
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing FMCG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing FMCG

FMCG
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing FMCG in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for FMCG in Birmingham

FMCG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
2 1 (11.11%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Power BI
2 6 (66.67%) Power Query
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 3 (33.33%) Back Office
1 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Systems Support
2 2 (22.22%) Head of IT
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Pricing Data
2 2 (22.22%) Low-Code
2 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Data Management
2 7 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) ERP
3 6 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (33.33%) Digital Enablement
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 2 (22.22%) Data Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Intelligent Automation
6 1 (11.11%) AI Transformation
6 1 (11.11%) Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Customer Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Data Science
6 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Digital Twin
6 1 (11.11%) Innovative Thinking
6 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 1 (11.11%) Predictive Maintenance
6 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAI