Benchmarking Jobs in the Thames Valley

Benchmarking
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 182 231
Rank change year-on-year +2 +49 +19
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 11 6 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.27% 0.17% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.18% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 24
10th Percentile £41,732 £36,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,818 £39,375 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,509 £47,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.97% -24.60% +32.63%
75th Percentile £57,854 £55,625 £65,750
90th Percentile - £58,250 £70,000
South East median annual salary £55,163 £51,250 £64,000
% change year-on-year +7.64% -19.92% +28.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,529 3,305 6,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.92% 93.52% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,722 2,148 3,521
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,963 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -0.91% +3.77%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the Thames Valley

Benchmarking
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Benchmarking in the Thames Valley

Benchmarking
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Benchmarking in the Thames Valley

Benchmarking
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 December 2024. 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
Oxfordshire -12 11 £56,509 +10.26%
Benchmarking
South East

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (27.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) LAN
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
1 2 (18.18%) VLAN
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Administrator
1 3 (27.27%) Physicist
1 3 (27.27%) Platform Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) OpenMP
2 5 (45.45%) EDI
3 3 (27.27%) OpenACC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (54.55%) CUDA
3 3 (27.27%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (27.27%) Fat Client
3 3 (27.27%) Thin Client
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (18.18%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (27.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 3 (27.27%) Ubuntu
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
2 3 (27.27%) VMS
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 11 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 8 (72.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (72.73%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (54.55%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (54.55%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (45.45%) Project Management
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
5 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Quality Management
5 3 (27.27%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Storage Management
5 3 (27.27%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) C
2 6 (54.55%) C++
2 6 (54.55%) C-shell
2 6 (54.55%) Fortran
3 5 (45.45%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Degree
2 8 (72.73%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) PhD
4 5 (45.45%) CCNA
4 5 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
5 3 (27.27%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (27.27%) Master's Degree
6 2 (18.18%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Ceph
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
1 3 (27.27%) GPFS
1 3 (27.27%) Lustre
1 3 (27.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) IBM
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) Qubit