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 have cited FMCG over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 657 752
Rank change year-on-year +173 +95 -135
Permanent jobs citing FMCG 481 318 552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 0.76% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 273 139 271
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,750 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £85,250 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +20.00% +5.26%

All Generic Skills
UK

FMCG is in the General and Transferable 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,507 41,619 80,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.38% 42.84% 48.30%
Number of salaries quoted 23,113 22,631 34,154
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 29 May 2024.

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 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +96 355 £51,000 -15.00% 292
England +135 354 £57,500 -11.54% 366
Work from Home +33 102 £70,000 +30.84% 75
Midlands +33 77 £46,250 +27.59% 55
Wales +29 74 £27,000 -22.86% 18
London +92 73 £62,750 -17.70% 97
North of England +52 65 £54,047 +5.46% 90
South East +8 65 £57,500 -19.01% 41
East Midlands +14 43 £42,000 +29.23% 23
South West -11 35 £47,500 -13.64% 41
West Midlands +9 34 £50,000 +2.56% 32
North West +1 34 £51,250 +2.50% 53
Yorkshire +105 30 £92,500 +72.09% 34
East of England +16 29 £90,000 +50.00% 40
Scotland -62 5 £90,000 +44.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 4
North East -10 1 £37,500 - 5

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 20 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.25%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.62%) Anypoint
Applications
1 38 (7.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (6.24%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.25%) AutoCAD
6 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.83%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.83%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.83%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.42%) InDesign
8 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.42%) Trello
9 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.66%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.04%) SAP IBP
4 5 (1.04%) SAP PP
5 4 (0.83%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 4 (0.83%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.62%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.62%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.42%) Magento
7 2 (0.42%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.42%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.42%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.42%) Shopify
8 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 51 (10.60%) Power Platform
2 38 (7.90%) Azure
3 19 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
7 7 (1.46%) AWS
8 6 (1.25%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.25%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.04%) SaaS
10 4 (0.83%) Smartsheet
11 3 (0.62%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.62%) Figma
12 2 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.42%) Amazon ELB
12 2 (0.42%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.21%) GCP
13 1 (0.21%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.29%) VLAN
2 8 (1.66%) Internet
3 7 (1.46%) BGP
3 7 (1.46%) EIGRP
3 7 (1.46%) HSRP
3 7 (1.46%) LAN
3 7 (1.46%) MPLS
3 7 (1.46%) OSPF
3 7 (1.46%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.46%) Spanning Tree
3 7 (1.46%) VoIP
3 7 (1.46%) VRRP
3 7 (1.46%) WAN
3 7 (1.46%) Wireless
3 7 (1.46%) Wireshark
3 7 (1.46%) WLAN
4 4 (0.83%) DHCP
4 4 (0.83%) DNS
4 4 (0.83%) Network Security
4 4 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.28%) Power BI
2 7 (1.46%) Tableau
3 6 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.83%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.42%) GIS
5 2 (0.42%) Metadata
6 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.21%) Big Data
6 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.21%) Looker
6 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (3.74%) Visual Studio
2 16 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (1.04%) Postman
4 2 (0.42%) GitLab
4 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.42%) PowerBuilder
General
1 250 (51.98%) Manufacturing
2 248 (51.56%) Social Skills
3 140 (29.11%) Influencing Skills
4 134 (27.86%) Retail
5 129 (26.82%) Presentation Skills
6 122 (25.36%) Law
7 71 (14.76%) Finance
8 56 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (8.73%) Marketing
10 32 (6.65%) Automotive
11 24 (4.99%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (3.53%) Publishing
13 15 (3.12%) Aerospace
14 13 (2.70%) Legal
15 11 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (2.08%) French Language
17 6 (1.25%) Advertising
17 6 (1.25%) Banking
18 5 (1.04%) Telecoms
19 4 (0.83%) German Language
Job Titles
1 116 (24.12%) Automation Engineer
2 115 (23.91%) Graduate
2 115 (23.91%) Graduate IT Engineer
2 115 (23.91%) IT Engineer
2 115 (23.91%) IT Graduate
3 65 (13.51%) Project Manager
4 45 (9.36%) Analyst
5 39 (8.11%) Senior
6 32 (6.65%) IT Manager
7 29 (6.03%) Lead
8 28 (5.82%) Architect
9 21 (4.37%) Consultant
10 16 (3.33%) Head of Business Systems
11 15 (3.12%) Head of IT
12 14 (2.91%) QA Leader
13 13 (2.70%) Head of FMCG
14 12 (2.49%) IT Procurement Manager
14 12 (2.49%) Procurement Manager
14 12 (2.49%) Senior Manager
14 12 (2.49%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.87%) .NET
2 5 (1.04%) EDI
2 5 (1.04%) SAP TM
2 5 (1.04%) Web Services
3 3 (0.62%) .NET Core
3 3 (0.62%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.42%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.42%) HTML
4 2 (0.42%) J2EE
4 2 (0.42%) XML
5 1 (0.21%) IDoc
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.21%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (2.91%) Renewable Energy
3 11 (2.29%) Product Ownership
4 9 (1.87%) PMI
5 8 (1.66%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.66%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.04%) Animation
6 5 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.04%) Photography
6 5 (1.04%) Virtual Team
7 4 (0.83%) 3D Graphics
7 4 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.83%) CCTV
7 4 (0.83%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.83%) Motion Graphics
8 3 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.62%) Robotics
8 3 (0.62%) Social Media
9 2 (0.42%) Multi-touch
9 2 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.83%) Windows
1 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (35.55%) Problem-Solving
2 143 (29.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 117 (24.32%) Six Sigma
4 116 (24.12%) Lean Manufacturing
4 116 (24.12%) Lean Six Sigma
4 116 (24.12%) Order Management
5 115 (23.91%) Benchmarking
6 90 (18.71%) Project Management
7 80 (16.63%) ERP
8 63 (13.10%) Logistics
9 50 (10.40%) Agile
10 47 (9.77%) Change Management
11 38 (7.90%) Project Delivery
12 35 (7.28%) DevOps
13 34 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (5.61%) Supply Chain Management
15 26 (5.41%) Analytics
15 26 (5.41%) E-Commerce
15 26 (5.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.94%) SQL
2 25 (5.20%) C#
3 5 (1.04%) C
3 5 (1.04%) VBA
4 4 (0.83%) Java
4 4 (0.83%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.83%) Python
5 3 (0.62%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.42%) ABAP
6 2 (0.42%) Bash
6 2 (0.42%) VB
7 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 181 (37.63%) Degree
2 115 (23.91%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 12 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.49%) PMI Certification
4 9 (1.87%) HNC
5 8 (1.66%) HND
6 7 (1.46%) CCDP
6 7 (1.46%) CCIE
6 7 (1.46%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 7 (1.46%) CCNP
6 7 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.04%) PMP
7 5 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.42%) MBA
9 1 (0.21%) CCA
9 1 (0.21%) PhD
9 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.03%) QA
2 19 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.87%) SLA
6 8 (1.66%) PMO
7 6 (1.25%) NEBOSH
8 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.21%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.46%) Firmware
3 4 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.83%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.42%) Docker
4 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.25%) Progress Chef
2 4 (0.83%) Terraform
3 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.42%) Ansible
4 2 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 65 (13.51%) SAP
2 60 (12.47%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.82%) IFS
4 25 (5.20%) Oracle
5 19 (3.95%) VMware
6 13 (2.70%) Google
7 12 (2.49%) Adobe
7 12 (2.49%) Cisco
8 7 (1.46%) Ekahau
8 7 (1.46%) Siemens
9 6 (1.25%) Autodesk
9 6 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.83%) Avaya
10 4 (0.83%) BT
10 4 (0.83%) NetApp
10 4 (0.83%) Sage
10 4 (0.83%) SYSPRO
10 4 (0.83%) WatchGuard
11 3 (0.62%) Allen-Bradley
11 3 (0.62%) MuleSoft