FMCG Contracts in the UK excluding London

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FMCG over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 383 448
Rank change year-on-year +48 +65 -45
Contract jobs citing FMCG 50 63 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 0.85% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 38 34
10th Percentile £368 £314 £358
25th Percentile £513 £416 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +35.14%
75th Percentile £769 £584 £550
90th Percentile £898 £661 £634
UK median daily rate £594 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +7.95% +2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £52.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - -75.33%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

FMCG is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,875 7,451 9,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.91% 32.43% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,530 5,010 6,751
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £378 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £670
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 719 422 451
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.38
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -11.81%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £46.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.90 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing FMCG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FMCG in the UK excluding London

FMCG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FMCG in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for FMCG in the UK excluding London

FMCG
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FMCG in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FMCG in the UK excluding London

FMCG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FMCG in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for FMCG in the UK excluding London

FMCG
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FMCG within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Scotland +48 11 £613 +44.12% 16
Midlands +40 11 £700 -5.41% 60
East of England 0 9 £550 -6.38% 34
West Midlands +32 8 £725 -2.03% 32
North of England +18 7 £600 +20.00% 79
South East +9 7 £525 +5.00% 58
North West +10 4 £600 +20.00% 47
South West +3 4 £900 +33.33% 35
Yorkshire +12 3 - - 29
East Midlands - 3 £375 - 28
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
FMCG
UK

FMCG
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Camtasia
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.00%) Azure
2 3 (6.00%) AWS
2 3 (6.00%) WhatsApp
3 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.00%) dbt
3 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.00%) Metadata
2 1 (2.00%) MS Access
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) Power Query
2 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
General
1 21 (42.00%) Retail
2 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 11 (22.00%) Manufacturing
4 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (12.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 5 (10.00%) Lead
2 5 (10.00%) Project Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) Architect
3 3 (6.00%) Cutover Manager
3 3 (6.00%) Developer
3 3 (6.00%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (6.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Coordinator
4 2 (4.00%) Data Migration Lead
4 2 (4.00%) Development Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (4.00%) Head of Analytics
4 2 (4.00%) Senior
4 2 (4.00%) Training Coordinator
5 1 (2.00%) Data Migration Architect
5 1 (2.00%) ERP Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Migration Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) HTML
1 1 (2.00%) Kafka
1 1 (2.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (2.00%) RESTful
1 1 (2.00%) Spring
1 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.00%) Blog
1 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) Migration
2 8 (16.00%) Data Migration
2 8 (16.00%) Project Management
3 7 (14.00%) Logistics
3 7 (14.00%) Project Delivery
4 6 (12.00%) Analytics
4 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (6.00%) Agile
7 3 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (6.00%) Data Engineering
7 3 (6.00%) Data Management
7 3 (6.00%) Data Science
7 3 (6.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 3 (6.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (6.00%) Generative AI
7 3 (6.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (6.00%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.00%) SQL
2 2 (4.00%) C
3 1 (2.00%) C#
3 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.00%) Java
3 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) NEBOSH
2 1 (2.00%) HAZOP
2 1 (2.00%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.00%) Ceridian
1 2 (4.00%) Databricks
2 1 (2.00%) Adobe
2 1 (2.00%) IFS
2 1 (2.00%) Infor
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.00%) SAP
2 1 (2.00%) Workday