Benchmarking Jobs in the South West

Benchmarking
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 287 235
Rank change year-on-year +117 -52 +84
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 9 7 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.066% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.083% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 10
10th Percentile - - £47,850
25th Percentile £70,097 £75,219 £51,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £83,577 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% +58.59% -41.44%
75th Percentile £73,886 £91,934 £54,050
90th Percentile £85,821 - £60,250
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.18% +15.79% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,260 8,462 6,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 91.73% 79.70% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,902 5,967 3,487
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £30,645
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £52,000 £54,590
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -4.74% +9.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the South West

Benchmarking
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the South West.

Salary trend for Benchmarking in the South West

Benchmarking
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in the South West over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Benchmarking in the South West

Benchmarking
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 June 2025. 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
Bristol +72 9 £71,991 -13.86% 2
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (22.22%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) IBM UrbanCode
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Quality Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Development Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Development Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Android Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Android Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (11.11%) Android SDK
1 1 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
3 2 (22.22%) Social Media
4 1 (11.11%) Hackathon
4 1 (11.11%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Business Development
5 2 (22.22%) Change Control
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Management
5 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Resource Management
5 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Graphcore
1 2 (22.22%) Instagram
1 2 (22.22%) Twitter
2 1 (11.11%) Google