Benchmarking Contracts in the South East

Benchmarking
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 196 239
Rank change year-on-year +8 +43 -42
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 10 19 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.38% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 10
10th Percentile £353 £450 £450
25th Percentile £425 £513 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% -16.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile £475 £741 £675
90th Percentile £556 £849 £703
England median daily rate £475 £650 £543
% change year-on-year -26.92% +19.82% +24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.52 - -
Median hourly rate £53.03 - -
75th Percentile £54.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.79 £24.00 £36.97
% change year-on-year -34.21% -35.07% +1.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,621 5,004 6,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.96% 89.12% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,457 4,696
10th Percentile £255 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +0.10% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 216 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.22
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.21
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the South East

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in the South East

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in the South East

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in the South East

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Thames Valley +1 6 £453 -13.81% 7
Surrey +24 4 £456 -39.17% 3
Berkshire -10 3 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £280 - 4
Buckinghamshire +21 1 £625 +19.05% 1
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Unix Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Solaris
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (30.00%) Information Security
2 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Business Development
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Critical Success Factor
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (20.00%) Server Hardening
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) AWK
1 2 (20.00%) Bourne shell
1 2 (20.00%) Korn
1 2 (20.00%) Perl
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) RHCE
1 2 (20.00%) RHCSA
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (20.00%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) EMC
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (20.00%) Veritas