Benchmarking Contracts in England

Benchmarking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Benchmarking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Benchmarking over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 527 644
Rank change year-on-year +25 +117 -111
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 41 111 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.26% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 72 92
10th Percentile £410 £451 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +18.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £506 £788 £679
90th Percentile £700 £975 £854
UK median daily rate £475 £645 £556
% change year-on-year -26.36% +15.96% +25.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £15.11 - -
25th Percentile £15.39 £21.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate £15.79 £22.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% -56.10% +41.38%
75th Percentile £16.20 £24.88 £54.38
90th Percentile £24.51 £25.55 -
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £22.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -29.82% -56.10% +41.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Benchmarking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,786 42,433 64,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.49% 89.93% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,761 45,992
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £443 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,531 1,717
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in England.

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Benchmarking in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Benchmarking in England

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +21 16 £500 -23.08% 62
East of England +15 11 £575 +21.05% 12
South East -1 9 £450 -14.29% 21
South West +13 3 £450 +9.42% 4
Midlands +14 2 - - 28
West Midlands +9 2 - - 23
Benchmarking
UK

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.44%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (17.07%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) NEC Housing
2 1 (2.44%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (2.44%) AWS
2 1 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (2.44%) dbt
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (4.88%) Intranet
1 2 (4.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.44%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Public Sector
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Local Government
4 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.20%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.44%) Law
7 1 (2.44%) Legal
7 1 (2.44%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) Performance Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) HR Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Lead
5 3 (7.32%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) HR Data Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Unix Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Unix Administrator
7 1 (2.44%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Business Process Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Consultant
7 1 (2.44%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Google JAX
1 1 (2.44%) Middleware
1 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (39.02%) Management Information System
2 7 (17.07%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Housing Association
3 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (4.88%) Solar Power
4 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.44%) FMCG
4 1 (2.44%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
1 4 (9.76%) Unix
2 2 (4.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Performance Management
2 9 (21.95%) Mathematics
3 7 (17.07%) Data Collection
3 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
3 7 (17.07%) Decision-Making
3 7 (17.07%) Statistics
4 6 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (14.63%) Project Management
5 5 (12.20%) Business Continuity
5 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
6 4 (9.76%) Business Case
6 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
7 3 (7.32%) Budgeting
7 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.32%) Process Improvement
7 3 (7.32%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.32%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (7.32%) Use Case
7 3 (7.32%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.88%) AWK
1 2 (4.88%) Bourne shell
1 2 (4.88%) Korn
1 2 (4.88%) Perl
1 2 (4.88%) PL/SQL
1 2 (4.88%) Python
1 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
1 2 (4.88%) SQL
2 1 (2.44%) C++
2 1 (2.44%) Julia
2 1 (2.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) RHCE
2 2 (4.88%) RHCSA
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.44%) PhD
3 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.83%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.76%) GDPR
3 3 (7.32%) SLA
4 1 (2.44%) ISO 26262
4 1 (2.44%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Ansible
1 2 (4.88%) NetBackup
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (4.88%) yum
2 1 (2.44%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) EMC
3 2 (4.88%) NEC
3 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.88%) Veritas
4 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft