Benchmarking Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Benchmarking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Benchmarking over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Benchmarking UK
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	728	797	732
Rank change year-on-year	+69	-65
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking	146	150	257
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.16%	0.15%	0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.18%	0.17%	0.26%
Number of salaries quoted	114	115	200
Median salary	£52,500	£45,000	£60,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+16.66%	-25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£35,000	£32,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£90,000	£95,500
UK excluding London median salary	£50,000	£44,000	£42,500
% change year-on-year	+13.63%	+3.52%

Benchmarking is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Process & Methodology Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	79702	87753	97622
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	89.73%	88.97%	88.01%
Number of salaries quoted	64312	73316	79772
Median salary	£50,000	£50,000	£50,000
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£32,500	£31,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£75,000	£77,500
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£44,000
% change year-on-year	-	+2.27%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the UK

Benchmarking
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Benchmarking.

Benchmarking
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Benchmarking over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Benchmarking in the UK

Benchmarking
Top 30 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 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+46	143	£52,500	+16.66%	19
London	+21	71	£60,500	+15.23%	6
South East	+44	19	£55,000	-	6
West Midlands	+33	17	£50,000	-	3
City of London	+31	13	£46,250	-21.27%	2
East of England	-5	9	£50,000	+25.00%	2
Manchester	-31	9	£32,500	-18.75%	2
North West	-45	9	£32,500	-7.14%	2
Warwickshire	-	8	£40,000	-
Yorkshire	+9	7	£37,500	-
South West	+7	6	£50,000	+21.95%
Birmingham	-	6	£76,500	-	1
Berkshire	+18	5	£24,500	-51.00%	1
Hampshire	-	5	£55,000	-
Surrey	-	5	£52,500	-	3
Farnborough	-	4	£55,000	-
Bedfordshire	-	4	£50,000	-	1
Bristol	-	4	£50,000	-
Leamington Spa	-	4	£39,500	-
North East	+19	3	£35,000	+25.00%
North Yorkshire	0	3	£40,000	-
Solihull	-3	3	£50,000	-	1
Sheffield	-	3	£37,500	-
Newcastle upon Tyne	-	3	£35,000	-
Bracknell	-	3	£24,500	-
Guildford	-	3	£50,000	-
South Yorkshire	-	3	£37,500	-
Tyne and Wear	-	3	£35,000	-
East Midlands	+19	2	£57,500	+30.68%
Reading	+18	2	£65,000	+18.18%	1

Benchmarking
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT jobs citing Benchmarking also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Benchmarking.

1	100 (33.11%)	Finance
2	85 (28.15%)	Degree
3	66 (21.85%)	Agile Software Development
4	63 (20.86%)	Analytical Skills
5	55 (18.21%)	Project Management
6	53 (17.55%)	Service Delivery
7	49 (16.23%)	Linux
8	46 (15.23%)	Data Analysis
9	44 (14.57%)	Analytics
10	43 (14.24%)	ITIL
11	39 (12.91%)	SQL
11	39 (12.91%)	User Experience
12	37 (12.25%)	Microsoft
13	33 (10.93%)	Management Information System
13	33 (10.93%)	Hadoop

14	31 (10.26%)	Oracle
15	30 (9.93%)	Windows
16	29 (9.60%)	VMware
16	29 (9.60%)	Statistics
17	27 (8.94%)	Java
17	27 (8.94%)	SAN
17	27 (8.94%)	Continuous Improvement
18	25 (8.28%)	HBase
18	25 (8.28%)	Mentoring
18	25 (8.28%)	Microsoft Excel
19	24 (7.95%)	Stakeholder Management
19	24 (7.95%)	NAS
19	24 (7.95%)	iSCSI
20	23 (7.62%)	VMware Infrastructure
20	23 (7.62%)	QA

Benchmarking
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	21 (6.95%)	Apache
2	18 (5.96%)	SAS
3	14 (4.64%)	Oracle Coherence
4	13 (4.30%)	Tomcat
5	10 (3.31%)	Apache Spark
6	9 (2.98%)	WebSphere
7	8 (2.65%)	IIS
8	7 (2.32%)	DataSynapse
8	7 (2.32%)	Oracle HTTP Server
9	5 (1.66%)	Elasticsearch
10	4 (1.32%)	Cloud Foundry
10	4 (1.32%)	GemFire
11	3 (0.99%)	SharePoint
12	2 (0.66%)	CMS
12	2 (0.66%)	MS Exchange
13	1 (0.33%)	Exchange Server 2007
13	1 (0.33%)	JBoss
13	1 (0.33%)	Jupyter
13	1 (0.33%)	nginx
13	1 (0.33%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	25 (8.28%)	Microsoft Excel
2	13 (4.30%)	Microsoft Office
3	10 (3.31%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	7 (2.32%)	Spreadsheet
5	4 (1.32%)	MS Visio
6	3 (0.99%)	Adobe Illustrator
6	3 (0.99%)	InVision
6	3 (0.99%)	OmniGraffle
6	3 (0.99%)	Photoshop
6	3 (0.99%)	SPSS
6	3 (0.99%)	Stata
6	3 (0.99%)	UXPin
7	2 (0.66%)	Adobe Creative Suite
7	2 (0.66%)	InDesign
8	1 (0.33%)	Windchill

Business Applications
1	7 (2.32%)	RMDS
2	5 (1.66%)	Remedy AR System
2	5 (1.66%)	Remedy ITSM
3	3 (0.99%)	Eloqua
4	2 (0.66%)	iTrent
5	1 (0.33%)	Magento
5	1 (0.33%)	Teamcenter
5	1 (0.33%)	WebTrends

Cloud Services
1	9 (2.98%)	GitHub
2	8 (2.65%)	PaaS
3	6 (1.99%)	Google Analytics
4	5 (1.66%)	Microsoft Azure
5	4 (1.32%)	Adobe Analytics
6	3 (0.99%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
7	2 (0.66%)	SaaS
8	1 (0.33%)	Amazon AWS
8	1 (0.33%)	Dropbox
8	1 (0.33%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	1 (0.33%)	IBM Cloud
8	1 (0.33%)	Office 365
8	1 (0.33%)	SoftLayer

Communications & Networking
1	27 (8.94%)	SAN
2	24 (7.95%)	iSCSI
2	24 (7.95%)	NAS
3	19 (6.29%)	Fibre Channel
4	18 (5.96%)	LAN
4	18 (5.96%)	WAN
5	16 (5.30%)	FCoE
6	15 (4.97%)	Multicast
7	12 (3.97%)	Firewall
7	12 (3.97%)	Network Security
8	10 (3.31%)	VPN
9	9 (2.98%)	HTTP
10	8 (2.65%)	Cisco IOS
10	8 (2.65%)	VLAN
10	8 (2.65%)	WLAN
11	5 (1.66%)	Internet
12	4 (1.32%)	Intrusion Detection
12	4 (1.32%)	LDAP
12	4 (1.32%)	SSL
13	3 (0.99%)	Extranet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	33 (10.93%)	Hadoop
2	25 (8.28%)	HBase
3	17 (5.63%)	Relational Database
4	13 (4.30%)	MySQL
5	11 (3.64%)	Data Mining
5	11 (3.64%)	SQL Server
6	5 (1.66%)	Apache Hive
6	5 (1.66%)	Big Data
6	5 (1.66%)	BusinessObjects
6	5 (1.66%)	Parquet
7	4 (1.32%)	OLTP
8	3 (0.99%)	Data Warehouse
8	3 (0.99%)	NoSQL
8	3 (0.99%)	phpMyAdmin
8	3 (0.99%)	PostgreSQL
8	3 (0.99%)	QlikView
9	2 (0.66%)	Qlik Sense
10	1 (0.33%)	BigQuery
10	1 (0.33%)	Impala
10	1 (0.33%)	Power BI

Development Applications
1	16 (5.30%)	Git (software)
2	14 (4.64%)	Jenkins
3	9 (2.98%)	Gradle
4	6 (1.99%)	Axure RP
5	5 (1.66%)	JUnit
6	4 (1.32%)	Eclipse
6	4 (1.32%)	Subversion
7	3 (0.99%)	Balsamiq Mockups
7	3 (0.99%)	Cucumber
7	3 (0.99%)	JIRA
8	2 (0.66%)	Hudson
8	2 (0.66%)	Selenium
8	2 (0.66%)	Vagrant
9	1 (0.33%)	Atlassian Bamboo
9	1 (0.33%)	LoadRunner
9	1 (0.33%)	Moq
9	1 (0.33%)	NUnit
9	1 (0.33%)	PHPUnit
9	1 (0.33%)	Talend Open Studio
9	1 (0.33%)	Visual Studio

General
1	100 (33.11%)	Finance
2	23 (7.62%)	Banking
3	22 (7.28%)	Marketing
4	18 (5.96%)	Legal
5	16 (5.30%)	Billing
6	13 (4.30%)	Military
7	12 (3.97%)	Retail
8	10 (3.31%)	Advertising
8	10 (3.31%)	Investment Banking
8	10 (3.31%)	Manufacturing
8	10 (3.31%)	Publishing
9	9 (2.98%)	Back Office
10	7 (2.32%)	Telecoms
11	3 (0.99%)	Games
11	3 (0.99%)	Pharmaceutical
12	2 (0.66%)	Automotive
12	2 (0.66%)	Retail Banking
13	1 (0.33%)	Electronics
13	1 (0.33%)	Financial Institution
13	1 (0.33%)	French Language

Job Titles
1	48 (15.89%)	Analyst
2	38 (12.58%)	Architect
3	29 (9.60%)	Developer
4	18 (5.96%)	Commercial Manager
5	17 (5.63%)	Consultant
6	16 (5.30%)	Delivery Manager
6	16 (5.30%)	Technical Architect
7	14 (4.64%)	Infrastructure Architect
7	14 (4.64%)	Infrastructure Technical Architect
7	14 (4.64%)	Solutions Architect
7	14 (4.64%)	Technical Infrastructure Architect
8	13 (4.30%)	Service Manager
9	12 (3.97%)	Administrator
9	12 (3.97%)	Data Analyst
9	12 (3.97%)	IT Manager
10	11 (3.64%)	Supplier Manager
11	10 (3.31%)	Business Analyst
12	9 (2.98%)	Network Engineer
12	9 (2.98%)	Risk Manager
12	9 (2.98%)	User Experience Researcher

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	21 (6.95%)	HTML
2	19 (6.29%)	JSON
3	16 (5.30%)	Middleware
4	13 (4.30%)	XML
5	12 (3.97%)	Spring
6	10 (3.31%)	XSLT
7	9 (2.98%)	CSS
7	9 (2.98%)	Kafka
8	7 (2.32%)	.NET
8	7 (2.32%)	RabbitMQ
8	7 (2.32%)	Rendezvous
8	7 (2.32%)	REST
8	7 (2.32%)	Ultra Messaging
9	6 (1.99%)	Spark Streaming
10	5 (1.66%)	Apache Avro
10	5 (1.66%)	CSS3
10	5 (1.66%)	J2EE
10	5 (1.66%)	jQuery
11	4 (1.32%)	RESTful
11	4 (1.32%)	SOAP

Miscellaneous
1	63 (20.86%)	Analytical Skills
2	39 (12.91%)	User Experience
3	33 (10.93%)	Management Information System
4	16 (5.30%)	Virtual Team
5	15 (4.97%)	Computer Science
6	10 (3.31%)	Data Centre
7	9 (2.98%)	Digital Media
7	9 (2.98%)	Linux Command Line
8	7 (2.32%)	Social Media
9	6 (1.99%)	Credit Risk
9	6 (1.99%)	Enterprise Software
9	6 (1.99%)	Mobile App
9	6 (1.99%)	NHS
9	6 (1.99%)	Replication
10	5 (1.66%)	Algorithms
11	4 (1.32%)	Animation
11	4 (1.32%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
11	4 (1.32%)	Driving Licence
11	4 (1.32%)	Life Science
11	4 (1.32%)	Mobile Banking

Operating Systems
1	49 (16.23%)	Linux
2	30 (9.93%)	Windows
3	19 (6.29%)	Solaris
4	16 (5.30%)	Unix
5	10 (3.31%)	Windows Server
6	8 (2.65%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	4 (1.32%)	Android
7	4 (1.32%)	CentOS
8	3 (0.99%)	Apple iOS
9	2 (0.66%)	Windows 7
10	1 (0.33%)	Windows 10
10	1 (0.33%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	66 (21.85%)	Agile Software Development
2	55 (18.21%)	Project Management
3	53 (17.55%)	Service Delivery
4	46 (15.23%)	Data Analysis
5	44 (14.57%)	Analytics
6	43 (14.24%)	ITIL
7	29 (9.60%)	Statistics
8	27 (8.94%)	Continuous Improvement
9	25 (8.28%)	Mentoring
10	24 (7.95%)	Stakeholder Management
11	22 (7.28%)	Performance Tuning
12	21 (6.95%)	E-Commerce
12	21 (6.95%)	Service Management
13	20 (6.62%)	PRINCE2
14	19 (6.29%)	Visualisation
15	18 (5.96%)	Change Management
16	17 (5.63%)	Risk Management
16	17 (5.63%)	TDD
17	16 (5.30%)	Disaster Recovery
17	16 (5.30%)	Performance Management

Programming Languages
1	39 (12.91%)	SQL
2	27 (8.94%)	Java
3	17 (5.63%)	JavaScript
4	13 (4.30%)	C
4	13 (4.30%)	Python
4	13 (4.30%)	Shell Script
5	9 (2.98%)	Perl
5	9 (2.98%)	R
6	8 (2.65%)	C#
7	6 (1.99%)	MATLAB
8	5 (1.66%)	Korn
8	5 (1.66%)	PHP
8	5 (1.66%)	PowerShell
9	4 (1.32%)	Bash Shell
9	4 (1.32%)	C++
10	3 (0.99%)	AWK
10	3 (0.99%)	Bourne shell
10	3 (0.99%)	Ruby
10	3 (0.99%)	Scala
10	3 (0.99%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	85 (28.15%)	Degree
2	9 (2.98%)	Computer Science Degree
3	8 (2.65%)	CCNA
3	8 (2.65%)	CCNP
3	8 (2.65%)	Cisco Certification
4	7 (2.32%)	CISSP
4	7 (2.32%)	ISEB
4	7 (2.32%)	Master's Degree
4	7 (2.32%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
5	5 (1.66%)	CISM
6	4 (1.32%)	RHCE
7	3 (0.99%)	CISA
7	3 (0.99%)	Numerate Degree
7	3 (0.99%)	OCA
7	3 (0.99%)	OCP
7	3 (0.99%)	Oracle Certification
7	3 (0.99%)	RHCSA
7	3 (0.99%)	Security Cleared
8	2 (0.66%)	DV Cleared
8	2 (0.66%)	SC Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	23 (7.62%)	QA
2	18 (5.96%)	SLA
3	15 (4.97%)	Data Quality
4	7 (2.32%)	IFRS
4	7 (2.32%)	IFRS 9
5	6 (1.99%)	Basel II
6	5 (1.66%)	ISO/IEC 20000
7	3 (0.99%)	ISO/IEC 19770
8	2 (0.66%)	COBIT
8	2 (0.66%)	ISO 9001
8	2 (0.66%)	PMBOK
9	1 (0.33%)	JTAG
9	1 (0.33%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	23 (7.62%)	Hyper-V
1	23 (7.62%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	17 (5.63%)	NFS
3	14 (4.64%)	KVM
3	14 (4.64%)	Oracle RAC
3	14 (4.64%)	SRDF
3	14 (4.64%)	Xen
4	9 (2.98%)	Apache ZooKeeper
4	9 (2.98%)	Firmware
4	9 (2.98%)	HDFS
5	6 (1.99%)	Docker
6	3 (0.99%)	Active Directory
6	3 (0.99%)	GlusterFS
6	3 (0.99%)	Veritas Cluster Server
7	1 (0.33%)	Virtual Machines
7	1 (0.33%)	VirtualBox

Systems Management
1	5 (1.66%)	Hadoop YARN
1	5 (1.66%)	logstash
2	4 (1.32%)	Network Intrusion Detection System
2	4 (1.32%)	RSA Archer
3	3 (0.99%)	cPanel
3	3 (0.99%)	NetBackup
3	3 (0.99%)	Oracle ZFS
3	3 (0.99%)	Puppet
3	3 (0.99%)	Red Hat Satellite
3	3 (0.99%)	Red Hat Spacewalk
3	3 (0.99%)	ServiceCenter
3	3 (0.99%)	Veritas Storage Foundation
4	2 (0.66%)	Ansible
4	2 (0.66%)	Opscode Chef
5	1 (0.33%)	Cobbler
5	1 (0.33%)	HAProxy
5	1 (0.33%)	Tivoli

Vendors
1	37 (12.25%)	Microsoft
2	31 (10.26%)	Oracle
3	29 (9.60%)	VMware
4	23 (7.62%)	Cisco
5	21 (6.95%)	Salesforce.com
6	19 (6.29%)	EMC
6	19 (6.29%)	IBM
7	17 (5.63%)	HP
8	15 (4.97%)	Sybase
9	14 (4.64%)	Intel
9	14 (4.64%)	NetApp
10	10 (3.31%)	Adobe
10	10 (3.31%)	SAP
11	9 (2.98%)	Red Hat
12	8 (2.65%)	BMC
12	8 (2.65%)	Cognizant
12	8 (2.65%)	Juniper
12	8 (2.65%)	ProCurve
12	8 (2.65%)	Riverbed
12	8 (2.65%)	TIBCO