Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
UK

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 cited FMCG over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 483 674
Rank change year-on-year +78 +191 +54
Permanent jobs citing FMCG 318 467 325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 1.33% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 74 265 132
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,688 £36,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -9.77% +20.91%
75th Percentile £72,813 £86,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £97,500 £114,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
UK

FMCG falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,030 35,099 45,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.65% 35.64% 43.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9,845 23,059 23,957
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Top 17 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 1 May 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
England +130 310 £55,000 -8.33% 230
UK excluding London +138 276 £50,000 - 161
North of England +184 186 £52,500 -2.86% 40
North East +103 91 - - 2
Yorkshire +114 66 £60,000 -35.14% 18
South East +106 55 £72,500 +26.09% 51
London +65 36 £77,500 +23.02% 100
Work from Home +132 33 £57,500 -17.86% 69
North West +28 29 £33,500 -33.00% 22
Midlands +27 14 £46,250 +5.11% 36
West Midlands +29 11 £47,500 -5.00% 20
South West +82 7 £62,500 +25.63% 12
East of England +34 7 £32,500 -63.89% 11
Northern Ireland +35 5 - - 1
East Midlands +16 3 £45,000 +4.65% 14
Scotland +130 1 £35,000 -44.00% 7
Wales -22 1 £40,000 +48.15% 4

FMCG
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 18 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.31%) Blender
4 1 (0.31%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.31%) InDesign
4 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.63%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 20 (6.29%) Azure
2 19 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (3.77%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.46%) AWS
5 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (1.89%) GCP
7 4 (1.26%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.94%) Facebook Ads
8 3 (0.94%) SaaS
9 2 (0.63%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.31%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.46%) Firewall
2 3 (0.94%) SD-WAN
2 3 (0.94%) VoIP
2 3 (0.94%) WAN
2 3 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.31%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.14%) Power BI
2 6 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (1.89%) Big Data
2 6 (1.89%) BigQuery
2 6 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.89%) Hadoop
2 6 (1.89%) Metadata
2 6 (1.89%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.94%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
General
1 204 (64.15%) Finance
2 135 (42.45%) Social Skills
3 134 (42.14%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (36.16%) Marketing
5 107 (33.65%) Manufacturing
6 67 (21.07%) Retail
7 57 (17.92%) Law
8 13 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.14%) Automotive
10 9 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.20%) Publishing
12 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.57%) Banking
14 4 (1.26%) Advertising
14 4 (1.26%) Dutch Language
14 4 (1.26%) French Language
14 4 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.94%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.94%) Brand Awareness
15 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (31.13%) Product Manager
2 87 (27.36%) Development Manager
3 82 (25.79%) Product Development Manager
4 50 (15.72%) Project Manager
5 29 (9.12%) Automation Engineer
6 27 (8.49%) Lead
7 20 (6.29%) Analyst
8 16 (5.03%) Data Analytics Director
9 13 (4.09%) IT Support
10 12 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (2.83%) IT Analyst
11 9 (2.83%) IT Manager
12 8 (2.52%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (2.52%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
12 8 (2.52%) IT Support Analyst
12 8 (2.52%) Support Analyst
13 7 (2.20%) Business Manager
13 7 (2.20%) Financial Analyst
13 7 (2.20%) Support Specialist
14 6 (1.89%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.89%) Kafka
2 3 (0.94%) .NET
2 3 (0.94%) EDI
2 3 (0.94%) IDoc
3 2 (0.63%) EDIFACT
3 2 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.31%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.31%) BAPI
4 1 (0.31%) REST
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.31%) SAPUI5
4 1 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.35%) Management Information System
2 44 (13.84%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.66%) Operational Technology
4 17 (5.35%) PMI
5 12 (3.77%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 11 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.83%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.83%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.26%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.26%) Social Media
10 3 (0.94%) IoT
10 3 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.31%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.31%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.31%) Motion Graphics
11 1 (0.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.31%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.66%) Windows
2 14 (4.40%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (55.66%) Project Management
2 127 (39.94%) Problem-Solving
3 99 (31.13%) Product Strategy
4 82 (25.79%) Commercialisation
4 82 (25.79%) Competitor Analysis
5 71 (22.33%) Budget Management
5 71 (22.33%) Budgeting
6 66 (20.75%) Quality Management
7 62 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (19.18%) Analytics
9 57 (17.92%) Coaching
10 54 (16.98%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 44 (13.84%) Decision-Making
12 38 (11.95%) Business Strategy
13 37 (11.64%) Lean Manufacturing
13 37 (11.64%) PDCA
14 34 (10.69%) Thought Leadership
15 33 (10.38%) Data Strategy
15 33 (10.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 25 (7.86%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.40%) SQL
2 4 (1.26%) C#
2 4 (1.26%) PowerShell
3 3 (0.94%) VB.NET
4 1 (0.31%) ABAP
4 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 136 (42.77%) Degree
2 18 (5.66%) PMI Certification
3 13 (4.09%) HNC
4 12 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.46%) MBA
6 5 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.31%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.31%) PhD
8 1 (0.31%) PMP
8 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (26.42%) QA
2 17 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 16 (5.03%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.57%) GRC
5 4 (1.26%) PMO
6 3 (0.94%) GDPR
6 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.94%) Terminal Server
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.40%) Google
3 12 (3.77%) Rockwell
3 12 (3.77%) SAP
3 12 (3.77%) Siemens
4 11 (3.46%) Capita
5 6 (1.89%) Databricks
5 6 (1.89%) Infor
6 4 (1.26%) IBM
7 3 (0.94%) Aruba
7 3 (0.94%) Cisco
7 3 (0.94%) Citrix
7 3 (0.94%) Facebook
7 3 (0.94%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.94%) Okta
7 3 (0.94%) VMware
8 2 (0.63%) Concur
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle
9 1 (0.31%) Adobe