Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 30 July 2021

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FMCG over the 6 months to 30 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
UK
6 months to
30 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 601 588 667
Rank change year-on-year -13 +79 +83
Permanent jobs citing FMCG 425 209 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 0.86% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 297 166 394
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -15.09% -7.02%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £70,625 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -5.00%

FMCG is in the Generic IT Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

All Generic IT Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 44,468 24,346 50,618
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 39.15% 35.49% 35.17%
Number of salaries quoted 26,993 19,391 38,750
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,986 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,994
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.79% +0.94%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FMCG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FMCG.

Salary trend for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FMCG over the 6 months to 30 July 2021.

Salary histogram for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FMCG within the UK over the 6 months to 30 July 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -27 370 £52,500 +16.67% 123
UK excluding London -56 213 £50,000 +17.65% 105
London -47 183 £67,000 +21.82% 27
Work from Home -174 95 £55,000 +5.77% 12
North of England -19 73 £47,500 +18.75% 35
North West -10 41 £52,000 -40.57% 21
Midlands -47 41 £51,250 +70.83% 19
Yorkshire -51 32 £42,500 +6.25% 9
Scotland -51 28 £47,500 -1.04% 5
East of England -66 28 £57,500 +35.29% 12
South East -79 26 £50,000 -14.89% 16
East Midlands - 24 £50,000 - 11
West Midlands -75 16 £62,250 +107.50% 8
South West -65 13 £32,500 -31.58% 14
Wales - 2 £36,250 - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £37,500 - 1

For the 6 months to 30 July 2021, IT jobs citing FMCG also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for FMCG.

1 189 (44.47%) Retail
2 106 (24.94%) Finance
3 101 (23.76%) Social Skills
4 99 (23.29%) Logistics
5 92 (21.65%) SQL
6 88 (20.71%) Agile Software Development
7 82 (19.29%) SAP
8 81 (19.06%) Analytical Skills
9 80 (18.82%) Marketing
10 76 (17.88%) E-Commerce
11 74 (17.41%) ERP
12 68 (16.00%) Degree
13 62 (14.59%) Analytics
14 61 (14.35%) CRM
15 56 (13.18%) Project Management
15 56 (13.18%) Microsoft
16 54 (12.71%) Azure
17 52 (12.24%) Manufacturing
18 49 (11.53%) SDLC
19 43 (10.12%) SQL Server
20 39 (9.18%) .NET
21 37 (8.71%) Python
22 36 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
22 36 (8.47%) AWS
23 35 (8.24%) C#
24 34 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
25 33 (7.76%) Full Stack Development
26 31 (7.29%) Scrum
27 30 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
27 30 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management

FMCG
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
1 14 (3.29%) CMS
2 8 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.65%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (1.65%) SAS
3 7 (1.65%) WebLogic
4 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.71%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.71%) Kentico
4 3 (0.71%) MS Exchange
4 3 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.71%) WordPress
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.47%) Drupal
6 1 (0.24%) Appian
6 1 (0.24%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 28 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.82%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.18%) Simulink
5 4 (0.94%) SPSS
6 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.24%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (3.29%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (3.06%) NetSuite
2 13 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (2.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (2.12%) SAP CO
4 9 (2.12%) SAP FI
4 9 (2.12%) SAP FI/CO
5 8 (1.88%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (1.41%) SAP SD
7 5 (1.18%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.94%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
9 3 (0.71%) Salesforce.com CRM
10 2 (0.47%) Magento
10 2 (0.47%) SAP QM
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.24%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 54 (12.71%) Azure
2 36 (8.47%) AWS
3 28 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 16 (3.76%) SaaS
7 13 (3.06%) Google Analytics
8 11 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.65%) GCP
10 4 (0.94%) Azure Event Grid
10 4 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (0.94%) GitHub
10 4 (0.94%) Google Ads
10 4 (0.94%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (0.94%) Serverless
11 3 (0.71%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.71%) npm
11 3 (0.71%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.47%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.71%) WAN
2 17 (4.00%) LAN
3 8 (1.88%) Internet
4 6 (1.41%) MPLS
4 6 (1.41%) SAN
4 6 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.18%) Firewall
6 4 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.94%) Network Security
7 2 (0.47%) Intranet
7 2 (0.47%) VPN
8 1 (0.24%) DHCP
8 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.24%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.12%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 21 (4.94%) Tableau
5 19 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.76%) MySQL
7 14 (3.29%) Big Data
7 14 (3.29%) Oracle BI EE
7 14 (3.29%) Oracle Database
7 14 (3.29%) Oracle ODI
8 13 (3.06%) Oracle Database 12c
8 13 (3.06%) Power BI
9 10 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
9 10 (2.35%) SQL Server 2012
10 7 (1.65%) SQL Server 2014
10 7 (1.65%) SQL Server 2016
10 7 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.41%) OLAP
12 5 (1.18%) OLAP Cube
12 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.18%) Git (software)
2 16 (3.76%) RSpec
3 4 (0.94%) JIRA
4 3 (0.71%) webpack
5 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.24%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.24%) RStudio
6 1 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 189 (44.47%) Retail
2 106 (24.94%) Finance
3 101 (23.76%) Social Skills
4 81 (19.06%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (18.82%) Marketing
6 52 (12.24%) Manufacturing
7 28 (6.59%) Automotive
8 24 (5.65%) Publishing
9 23 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (4.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (3.29%) Advertising
12 13 (3.06%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.35%) Legal
14 9 (2.12%) Banking
15 7 (1.65%) General Ledger
15 7 (1.65%) Law
16 6 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.18%) French Language
17 5 (1.18%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 69 (16.24%) Analyst
2 55 (12.94%) Developer
3 36 (8.47%) Project Manager
4 34 (8.00%) Consultant
5 27 (6.35%) Business Analyst
6 24 (5.65%) IT Manager
7 23 (5.41%) Full Stack Developer
8 22 (5.18%) Architect
8 22 (5.18%) Senior Manager
9 18 (4.24%) Business Manager
10 17 (4.00%) Support Analyst
11 16 (3.76%) SAP Consultant
12 15 (3.53%) IT Analyst
13 14 (3.29%) Head of Digital
13 14 (3.29%) Head of E-Commerce
13 14 (3.29%) IT Project Manager
13 14 (3.29%) Systems Manager
14 13 (3.06%) C# Developer
14 13 (3.06%) FMCG Manager
14 13 (3.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.18%) .NET
2 27 (6.35%) Web Services
3 25 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 20 (4.71%) AngularJS
5 19 (4.47%) GraphQL
6 17 (4.00%) EDI
7 16 (3.76%) Resque
7 16 (3.76%) Ruby on Rails
7 16 (3.76%) Vue.js
8 15 (3.53%) ASP.NET
9 14 (3.29%) ASP.NET MVC
9 14 (3.29%) ASP.NET Web API
9 14 (3.29%) HTML
10 13 (3.06%) .NET Compact Framework
10 13 (3.06%) WCF
11 11 (2.59%) CSS
12 8 (1.88%) Kafka
12 8 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (1.65%) Laravel
13 7 (1.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.47%) User Experience
2 16 (3.76%) Driving Licence
3 15 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.59%) Raspberry Pi
5 10 (2.35%) Life Science
6 8 (1.88%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.88%) EPoS
6 8 (1.88%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (1.65%) Replication
8 6 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.18%) Robotics
10 4 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.94%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.71%) Biotechnology
11 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.71%) iPad
11 3 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.59%) Windows
2 27 (6.35%) Linux
3 23 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.12%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (1.65%) Oracle Linux
5 7 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.71%) Unix
8 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (23.29%) Logistics
2 88 (20.71%) Agile Software Development
3 76 (17.88%) E-Commerce
4 74 (17.41%) ERP
5 62 (14.59%) Analytics
6 61 (14.35%) CRM
7 56 (13.18%) Project Management
8 49 (11.53%) SDLC
9 36 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (7.76%) Full Stack Development
12 31 (7.29%) Scrum
13 30 (7.06%) Computer Science
13 30 (7.06%) Data Science
13 30 (7.06%) Decision-Making
13 30 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (6.82%) B2B
14 29 (6.82%) Project Delivery
15 28 (6.59%) Data Analysis
16 27 (6.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 92 (21.65%) SQL
2 37 (8.71%) Python
3 35 (8.24%) C#
4 24 (5.65%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.76%) Ruby
6 12 (2.82%) Java
7 11 (2.59%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.59%) R
8 9 (2.12%) VB.NET
9 8 (1.88%) PHP
9 8 (1.88%) VBA
10 7 (1.65%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.41%) C++
12 5 (1.18%) C
12 5 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
12 5 (1.18%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.71%) Java 11
14 3 (0.71%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (16.00%) Degree
2 15 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.59%) MBA
4 5 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (0.94%) CCNA
5 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.71%) CISM
6 3 (0.71%) CISSP
7 2 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.47%) PMP
7 2 (0.47%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.24%) CISA
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.88%) SLA
2 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.94%) PMO
3 3 (0.71%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 3 (0.71%) CDISC
3 3 (0.71%) QA
4 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.24%) GRC
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (5.18%) Docker
1 22 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.65%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (1.65%) vSphere
4 6 (1.41%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.65%) Data Guard
2 7 (1.65%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (1.41%) NetBackup
4 5 (1.18%) SCCM
5 4 (0.94%) Norton AntiVirus
5 4 (0.94%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 2 (0.47%) Ansible
7 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.24%) Opscode Chef
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (19.29%) SAP
2 56 (13.18%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.65%) VMware
4 22 (5.18%) Google
5 21 (4.94%) Salesforce.com
6 20 (4.71%) Oracle
7 14 (3.29%) Citrix
8 13 (3.06%) Xamarin
9 9 (2.12%) Cisco
10 6 (1.41%) EMC
10 6 (1.41%) HP
10 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.41%) Sitecore
11 4 (0.94%) App Annie
11 4 (0.94%) JD Edwards
11 4 (0.94%) Juniper
11 4 (0.94%) Symantec
11 4 (0.94%) YouTube
12 3 (0.71%) Minitab
12 3 (0.71%) Netlify
134 FMCG job vacancies Nationwide