FMCG Contracts

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FMCG over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 484 608
Rank change year-on-year +71 +124 -64
Contract jobs citing FMCG 163 203 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 1.09% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 130 152
10th Percentile £266 £375 £407
25th Percentile £416 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £750 £647 £626
90th Percentile £1,043 £738 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £538 £498
% change year-on-year +6.98% +8.04% +20.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - £16.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £18.50
75th Percentile £52.50 - £20.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FMCG over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for FMCG in the UK

FMCG
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +57 139 £575 +4.55% 354
London +82 98 £580 +5.45% 99
Work from Home +83 58 £650 +18.18% 85
UK excluding London +33 50 £575 +6.98% 271
East of England +1 12 £538 -10.42% 35
Midlands +32 11 £700 +8.53% 52
Scotland +39 10 £613 +44.54% 15
West Midlands +20 8 £725 +12.40% 28
North of England +19 7 £600 +14.29% 79
South East +4 7 £525 +5.00% 45
North West +17 4 £600 +4.35% 49
Yorkshire +18 3 - - 27
East Midlands - 3 £375 - 24
South West +6 2 £750 +11.11% 38
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 3 (1.84%) SAS
2 1 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.61%) CMS
2 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.61%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 33 (20.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.61%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.61%) SAP PLM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.20%) Azure
2 4 (2.45%) AWS
2 4 (2.45%) Yammer
3 3 (1.84%) SaaS
3 3 (1.84%) WhatsApp
4 2 (1.23%) GCP
4 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.23%) Salsify
5 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.61%) dbt
5 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.61%) OCI
5 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (0.61%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Firewall
1 1 (0.61%) GSM
1 1 (0.61%) LAN
1 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.61%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.61%) VPN
1 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.68%) SAP HANA
2 4 (2.45%) Tableau
3 3 (1.84%) Apache Hive
3 3 (1.84%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.84%) Hadoop
3 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.23%) Power BI
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.61%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.61%) Metadata
5 1 (0.61%) MS Access
5 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Power Query
5 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.61%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (2.45%) JIRA
2 3 (1.84%) Git
3 1 (0.61%) LSMW
3 1 (0.61%) TestDirector
General
1 61 (37.42%) Social Skills
2 48 (29.45%) Retail
3 25 (15.34%) Finance
4 20 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.04%) Marketing
6 16 (9.82%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.68%) French Language
8 6 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.84%) Law
12 2 (1.23%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.61%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.61%) Legal
13 1 (0.61%) Local Government
13 1 (0.61%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (16.56%) Lead
1 27 (16.56%) Project Manager
2 13 (7.98%) Senior
3 12 (7.36%) Architect
4 10 (6.13%) Analyst
4 10 (6.13%) Consultant
4 10 (6.13%) IT Manager
5 8 (4.91%) SAP Consultant
5 8 (4.91%) Senior Manager
6 7 (4.29%) SAP Manager
7 6 (3.68%) Programme Manager
7 6 (3.68%) SAP Architect
8 5 (3.07%) Cutover Manager
8 5 (3.07%) FMCG Manager
8 5 (3.07%) Senior Project Manager
9 4 (2.45%) Change Manager
9 4 (2.45%) IT Project Manager
9 4 (2.45%) Project Engineer
9 4 (2.45%) SAP P2P Consultant
9 4 (2.45%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.23%) HTML
1 2 (1.23%) XML
2 1 (0.61%) CSS
2 1 (0.61%) Kafka
2 1 (0.61%) Micronaut
2 1 (0.61%) Middleware
2 1 (0.61%) RESTful
2 1 (0.61%) Sass
2 1 (0.61%) Spring
2 1 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.45%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.45%) Life Science
3 3 (1.84%) CMDB
3 3 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.84%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.61%) Blog
5 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.61%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.61%) PropTech
5 1 (0.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.23%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (16.56%) Project Management
2 22 (13.50%) Agile
3 19 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (10.43%) Analytics
4 17 (10.43%) Business Transformation
4 17 (10.43%) Change Management
5 16 (9.82%) ERP
6 14 (8.59%) E-Commerce
6 14 (8.59%) Migration
6 14 (8.59%) Project Delivery
7 11 (6.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (6.75%) Data Migration
7 11 (6.75%) Decision-Making
7 11 (6.75%) Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (6.75%) Roadmaps
8 10 (6.13%) DevOps
9 9 (5.52%) Budgeting
9 9 (5.52%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (5.52%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.52%) SQL
2 6 (3.68%) Python
3 3 (1.84%) R
4 2 (1.23%) C
5 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.61%) C#
5 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.61%) Java
5 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (14.72%) Degree
2 4 (2.45%) PMI Certification
2 4 (2.45%) PMP
3 3 (1.84%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (1.23%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.52%) SLA
2 4 (2.45%) NEBOSH
3 3 (1.84%) PMO
4 2 (1.23%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.61%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.61%) P3O
5 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.84%) HDFS
2 2 (1.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
1 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (28.22%) SAP
2 6 (3.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.68%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.84%) Alteryx
3 3 (1.84%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.23%) Adobe
4 2 (1.23%) Ariba
4 2 (1.23%) Cadence
4 2 (1.23%) Ceridian
4 2 (1.23%) Databricks
4 2 (1.23%) Google
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle
5 1 (0.61%) Cisco
5 1 (0.61%) Citrix
5 1 (0.61%) Genesys
5 1 (0.61%) IBM
5 1 (0.61%) Infor
5 1 (0.61%) Juniper
5 1 (0.61%) Progress
5 1 (0.61%) VMware