FMCG Job Trends in the North East

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in permanent job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FMCG over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 35 100
Rank change year-on-year -67 +65 -21
Permanent jobs citing FMCG 20 41 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.74% 4.77% 0.057%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.33% 13.62% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86,250 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 - £37,500
75th Percentile £88,750 - £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% -4.17%

All Generic Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 601 301 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.09% 35.00% 25.30%
Number of salaries quoted 422 149 315
10th Percentile £32,525 £27,550 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,763 £33,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £94,863 £74,258 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,490 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.46% +4.55% -15.38%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

FMCG job vacancy trend in the North East

FMCG
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing FMCG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing FMCG

FMCG
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FMCG within the North East region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
Durham -23 17 - -
Tyne and Wear -52 3 £87,500 - 1
FMCG
England

FMCG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (5.00%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
General
1 18 (90.00%) Manufacturing
1 18 (90.00%) Marketing
2 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Development Manager
1 18 (90.00%) Product Development Manager
1 18 (90.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) EDI
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Chemistry
1 18 (90.00%) Commercialisation
1 18 (90.00%) Community of Practice
1 18 (90.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 18 (90.00%) Decision-Making
1 18 (90.00%) Project Delivery
1 18 (90.00%) Project Management
2 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (5.00%) Agile
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.00%) ERP
3 1 (5.00%) PLM
3 1 (5.00%) SOA
3 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (5.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 19 (95.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) IBM
1 1 (5.00%) Infor
1 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce