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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FMCG over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 377 447
Rank change year-on-year +29 +70 -49
Contract jobs citing FMCG 53 53 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 0.73% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 33 38
10th Percentile £263 £322 £355
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £485
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +13.40% +17.58%
75th Percentile £750 £600 £534
90th Percentile £775 £680 £629
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% +5.00%
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 £23.00 -
% change year-on-year +117.39% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

FMCG falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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 12 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
Scotland +54 13 £613 +44.54% 16
East of England +1 12 £538 -10.42% 30
Midlands +26 11 £700 +8.53% 68
West Midlands +24 8 £725 +12.40% 33
North of England +14 7 £600 +9.09% 82
South East +9 7 £525 +5.00% 47
North West +11 4 £600 +4.35% 59
Yorkshire +15 3 - - 22
East Midlands - 3 £375 - 35
South West +2 2 £750 +11.11% 40
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
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 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Camtasia
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.55%) Azure
2 3 (5.66%) AWS
2 3 (5.66%) WhatsApp
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.89%) dbt
3 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.89%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.89%) Metadata
2 1 (1.89%) MS Access
2 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.89%) Power BI
2 1 (1.89%) Power Query
2 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.89%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
General
1 24 (45.28%) Retail
2 19 (35.85%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.75%) Finance
4 10 (18.87%) Manufacturing
5 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Law
8 1 (1.89%) Legal
8 1 (1.89%) Local Government
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
8 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (13.21%) Project Manager
2 6 (11.32%) Lead
3 5 (9.43%) IT Manager
4 4 (7.55%) Architect
4 4 (7.55%) Coordinator
4 4 (7.55%) Project Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Cutover Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Developer
5 3 (5.66%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Programme Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (3.77%) Firmware Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Head of Analytics
6 2 (3.77%) Senior
6 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Test Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Training Coordinator
7 1 (1.89%) Consultant
7 1 (1.89%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) HTML
1 1 (1.89%) Kafka
1 1 (1.89%) Micronaut
1 1 (1.89%) RESTful
1 1 (1.89%) Spring
1 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
1 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.89%) Blog
2 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.89%) IoT
2 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.89%) PropTech
2 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.75%) Migration
2 8 (15.09%) Data Migration
2 8 (15.09%) Project Management
3 7 (13.21%) Logistics
3 7 (13.21%) Project Delivery
3 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (11.32%) Analytics
5 5 (9.43%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (7.55%) Agile
6 4 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (7.55%) Data Management
6 4 (7.55%) Mentoring
7 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (5.66%) Data Science
7 3 (5.66%) Decision-Making
7 3 (5.66%) DevOps
7 3 (5.66%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (5.66%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (5.66%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.66%) SQL
2 2 (3.77%) C
3 1 (1.89%) C#
3 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.89%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) NEBOSH
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) HAZOP
2 1 (1.89%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Firmware
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) HAProxy
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.55%) SAP
2 2 (3.77%) Ceridian
2 2 (3.77%) Databricks
3 1 (1.89%) Adobe
3 1 (1.89%) IFS
3 1 (1.89%) Infor
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.89%) Workday