Benchmarking Job Trends

Benchmarking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Benchmarking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 548 442
Rank change year-on-year +17 -106 +154
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 160 105 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.24% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.26% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 39 53 115
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,840 £32,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £48,000 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £59,500 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year +34.45% +8.87% +14.15%
75th Percentile £93,125 £73,886 £69,375
90th Percentile £114,100 £80,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% +29.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,222 40,192 73,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.86% 93.47% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,232 22,295 56,140
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Benchmarking job vacancy trend in the UK

Benchmarking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Benchmarking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Benchmarking

Benchmarking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Benchmarking in the UK

Benchmarking
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the UK over the 6 months to 17 March 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
England +18 138 £80,000 +34.17% 66
UK excluding London +18 94 £70,000 +21.74% 40
Work from Home +46 81 £84,930 +44.87% 25
London +22 58 £82,500 +37.50% 35
Midlands -8 25 - - 7
North of England -16 24 £88,000 +53.04% 7
South East -9 21 £82,465 +44.66% 14
North West 0 16 £102,500 +70.83% 3
East Midlands -18 16 - - 5
West Midlands +5 9 - - 2
Yorkshire -33 8 £73,500 +113.04% 5
Wales - 8 - -
Scotland -20 4 £67,500 - 2
South West -27 4 £43,750 -39.23% 8
East of England - 4 £62,500 - 5
Northern Ireland - 4 - -

Benchmarking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
Applications
1 32 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.25%) Windchill
5 1 (0.63%) CATIA
5 1 (0.63%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.63%) Azure
2 9 (5.63%) AWS
2 9 (5.63%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (4.38%) GCP
5 6 (3.75%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (3.13%) SaaS
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Run
7 1 (0.63%) GitHub
7 1 (0.63%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.63%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.63%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (1.25%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.63%) 5G
3 1 (0.63%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.75%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.63%) Power BI
3 6 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (3.75%) Big Data
3 6 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.75%) DataStage
3 6 (3.75%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.75%) Hadoop
3 6 (3.75%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.75%) MySQL
3 6 (3.75%) Neo4j
3 6 (3.75%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.75%) Pentaho
3 6 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.75%) RDBMS
3 6 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.63%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Git
General
1 69 (43.13%) Social Skills
2 41 (25.63%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (20.00%) Finance
4 26 (16.25%) Law
4 26 (16.25%) Manufacturing
5 23 (14.38%) Influencing Skills
6 22 (13.75%) Public Sector
7 21 (13.13%) Local Government
8 18 (11.25%) Billing
9 10 (6.25%) Marketing
10 7 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (3.75%) Banking
12 4 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.88%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.88%) Front Office
14 2 (1.25%) Legal
15 1 (0.63%) Advertising
15 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.63%) Automotive
15 1 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 41 (25.63%) Audit Manager
2 36 (22.50%) Senior
3 22 (13.75%) Lead
4 19 (11.88%) Technologist
5 18 (11.25%) Senior Manager
6 17 (10.63%) Quality Manager
6 17 (10.63%) Senior Audit Manager
7 12 (7.50%) Senior Quality Manager
8 11 (6.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Business Manager
10 8 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) Product Manager
12 5 (3.13%) Developer
12 5 (3.13%) Development Manager
12 5 (3.13%) Product Development Manager
12 5 (3.13%) Senior Business Manager
12 5 (3.13%) Senior Service Manager
12 5 (3.13%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.50%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.00%) .NET
2 4 (2.50%) Flash
2 4 (2.50%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.88%) CSS
3 3 (1.88%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (1.88%) HTML
3 3 (1.88%) Kafka
3 3 (1.88%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.25%) Java Concurrency
5 1 (0.63%) DPDK
5 1 (0.63%) eBPF
5 1 (0.63%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.63%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.63%) RESTful
5 1 (0.63%) SOAP
5 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 19 (11.88%) NHS
2 12 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.88%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.38%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.75%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.50%) Anti-Spyware
9 3 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.25%) CUDA
10 2 (1.25%) Derivative
10 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.63%) Blog
11 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) VMS
1 4 (2.50%) Windows
2 3 (1.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (39.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (24.38%) Coaching
3 36 (22.50%) Quality Management
4 34 (21.25%) Roadmaps
5 31 (19.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (17.50%) Analytics
7 26 (16.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (15.00%) Data Interpretation
9 23 (14.38%) Pricing Strategy
10 21 (13.13%) Business Strategy
10 21 (13.13%) IT Strategy
11 20 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 20 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
12 19 (11.88%) E-Commerce
12 19 (11.88%) ERP
12 19 (11.88%) Pricing Analytics
12 19 (11.88%) QMS
12 19 (11.88%) Software Delivery
12 19 (11.88%) Technology Roadmap
12 19 (11.88%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.50%) Python
2 11 (6.88%) Java
3 9 (5.63%) SQL
4 8 (5.00%) Bicep
5 3 (1.88%) Bash
6 2 (1.25%) C#
6 2 (1.25%) Go
6 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.63%) Perl
7 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (28.13%) ACCA
2 16 (10.00%) Degree
3 5 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.50%) CFA
4 4 (2.50%) CIMA
4 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.25%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.25%) CISSP
6 2 (1.25%) OSCP
6 2 (1.25%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) MAPM
7 1 (0.63%) OCA
7 1 (0.63%) OCP
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.63%) PhD
7 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (26.25%) IFRS
2 24 (15.00%) GAAP
3 22 (13.75%) QA
4 19 (11.88%) PMO
5 6 (3.75%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.50%) GRC
6 4 (2.50%) IFRS 17
6 4 (2.50%) NIST
7 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.25%) Def Stans
8 2 (1.25%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.25%) NCSC
8 2 (1.25%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.25%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.25%) GPFS
1 2 (1.25%) Lustre
1 2 (1.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (6.25%) Terraform
2 3 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.25%) Ansible
3 2 (1.25%) SELinux
4 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.00%) New Relic
3 7 (4.38%) Oracle
4 6 (3.75%) Informatica
4 6 (3.75%) Talend
5 4 (2.50%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.50%) Progress
6 2 (1.25%) Google
6 2 (1.25%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.25%) Splunk
7 1 (0.63%) Dell
7 1 (0.63%) Intel
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.63%) SAP
7 1 (0.63%) Siemens