Benchmarking Job Trends in the East Midlands

Benchmarking
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Benchmarking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - 174
Rank change year-on-year - - -14
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 22 0 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.47% - 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £105,000 - £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile £115,000 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - £56,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £59,751 £56,075
% change year-on-year +25.52% +6.55% +16.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Benchmarking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,348 1,745 3,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.40% 90.23% 76.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,075 880 2,665
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £44,881
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.31% -14.51%
75th Percentile £62,750 £57,500 £56,200
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,875 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Benchmarking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Benchmarking job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Benchmarking
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Benchmarking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Benchmarking

Benchmarking
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire - 17 - -
Derbyshire - 3 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 20 (90.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
General
1 21 (95.45%) Manufacturing
1 21 (95.45%) Social Skills
2 20 (90.91%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (95.45%) Technologist
2 1 (4.55%) Graduate
2 1 (4.55%) Graduate Technologist
2 1 (4.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Hugging Face
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Coaching
1 20 (90.91%) Continuous Improvement
1 20 (90.91%) Data Interpretation
1 20 (90.91%) Internal Audit
1 20 (90.91%) QMS
1 20 (90.91%) Quality Management
2 1 (4.55%) AI
2 1 (4.55%) Domain Models
2 1 (4.55%) Generative AI
2 1 (4.55%) LLM
2 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning
2 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
2 1 (4.55%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (90.91%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Microsoft