Benchmarking Job Trends in London

Benchmarking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Benchmarking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 371 266
Rank change year-on-year +47 -105 +296
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 71 54 176
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.52% 0.34% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.36% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 31 10 28
10th Percentile - £41,175 -
25th Percentile £75,000 £42,840 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +16.67% -12.82%
75th Percentile £120,000 £76,250 £83,463
90th Percentile £125,500 £81,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £56,509 £59,650
% change year-on-year +41.57% -5.27% +3.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Benchmarking job vacancy trend in London

Benchmarking
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Benchmarking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Benchmarking

Benchmarking
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Benchmarking in London

Benchmarking
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Central London +39 6 £123,750 +70.69% 7
West London - 2 - - 1
South London +31 1 - -
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (15.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.94%) Azure
2 12 (16.90%) GCP
3 11 (15.49%) Amazon EMR
3 11 (15.49%) AWS
4 7 (9.86%) SaaS
5 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.41%) GitHub
7 1 (1.41%) Serverless
7 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) VPN
2 4 (5.63%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.41%) 5G
3 1 (1.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.94%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.49%) Apache Cassandra
2 11 (15.49%) Big Data
2 11 (15.49%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (15.49%) DataStage
2 11 (15.49%) DynamoDB
2 11 (15.49%) Hadoop
2 11 (15.49%) MongoDB
2 11 (15.49%) MySQL
2 11 (15.49%) Neo4j
2 11 (15.49%) NoSQL
2 11 (15.49%) Pentaho
2 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (15.49%) RDBMS
2 11 (15.49%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.04%) Power BI
4 1 (1.41%) KDB
4 1 (1.41%) Tableau
4 1 (1.41%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 32 (45.07%) Finance
2 29 (40.85%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (36.62%) Law
4 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
5 10 (14.08%) Legal
6 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
7 6 (8.45%) Marketing
8 4 (5.63%) Banking
9 3 (4.23%) Front Office
9 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (39.44%) Senior
2 14 (19.72%) Senior Manager
3 13 (18.31%) Audit Manager
3 13 (18.31%) Quality Manager
3 13 (18.31%) Senior Audit Manager
3 13 (18.31%) Senior Quality Manager
4 11 (15.49%) Principal Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Analyst
6 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Lead
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Service Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Business Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Information Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Information Security Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Pricing Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Security Analyst
8 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Performance Officer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Performance Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) .NET
2 4 (5.63%) Flash
3 3 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (4.23%) Java Concurrency
3 3 (4.23%) Kafka
4 2 (2.82%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.82%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.41%) Google JAX
5 1 (1.41%) Hugging Face
5 1 (1.41%) JAX
5 1 (1.41%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (18.31%) Management Information System
3 12 (16.90%) Product Ownership
4 11 (15.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (12.68%) Cloud Native
6 6 (8.45%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (5.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (4.23%) Algorithms
8 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
8 3 (4.23%) Derivative
9 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.41%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Windows
2 5 (7.04%) Linux
3 2 (2.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.21%) Analytics
2 20 (28.17%) Agile
2 20 (28.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (23.94%) Roadmaps
3 17 (23.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (22.54%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (21.13%) Information Security
5 15 (21.13%) Risk Management
6 13 (18.31%) CI/CD
6 13 (18.31%) Coaching
6 13 (18.31%) Quality Management
6 13 (18.31%) Strategic Thinking
7 12 (16.90%) Collaborative Culture
7 12 (16.90%) Data Science
7 12 (16.90%) Software Engineering
8 11 (15.49%) Data Integration
8 11 (15.49%) Data Modelling
8 11 (15.49%) Data Security
8 11 (15.49%) ETL
8 11 (15.49%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.13%) Java
2 14 (19.72%) Python
2 14 (19.72%) SQL
3 6 (8.45%) Bicep
4 1 (1.41%) Bash
4 1 (1.41%) C#
4 1 (1.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (33.80%) ACCA
2 10 (14.08%) Degree
3 4 (5.63%) CFA
3 4 (5.63%) CIMA
3 4 (5.63%) GCFA
3 4 (5.63%) GCIA
3 4 (5.63%) GCIH
3 4 (5.63%) GIAC
4 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.23%) MRICS
5 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.41%) PhD
6 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.13%) IFRS
2 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.63%) NIST
2 4 (5.63%) PMO
3 3 (4.23%) QA
4 2 (2.82%) IFRS 17
Systems Management
1 6 (8.45%) Terraform
2 4 (5.63%) QRadar
3 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Informatica
1 11 (15.49%) Oracle
1 11 (15.49%) Talend
2 6 (8.45%) New Relic
3 4 (5.63%) Progress
3 4 (5.63%) Splunk
4 3 (4.23%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.41%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.41%) Google
6 1 (1.41%) Workday