Benchmarking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Benchmarking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Benchmarking over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 495 579
Rank change year-on-year -5 +84 +30
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 288 244 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.43% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.45% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 65 123 123
10th Percentile £26,600 - £32,996
25th Percentile £35,413 £35,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £39,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -25.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £67,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £59,300 £49,500 £58,861
% change year-on-year +19.80% -15.90% +6.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Benchmarking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,321 53,973 69,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.77% 95.48% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,680 28,676 41,266
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Benchmarking in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wales - 73 £40,000 - 4
Scotland -19 56 £60,000 +3.45% 4
Midlands -87 44 £54,650 +43.82% 25
East of England +13 37 £51,250 +2.50% 11
North of England +42 35 £54,612 +21.36% 21
South East -23 32 £29,000 -27.42% 19
West Midlands -97 29 £57,150 +50.39% 18
North West -8 17 £55,000 -26.67% 10
East Midlands -1 15 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Yorkshire +65 14 £35,413 -21.30% 8
South West -41 8 £83,577 +58.59% 7
North East -10 4 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Benchmarking
UK

Benchmarking
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 36 (12.50%) SAS
2 7 (2.43%) Apache
3 3 (1.04%) CMS
3 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 33 (11.46%) UserZoom
2 14 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.04%) Abaqus
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 30 (10.42%) Figma
1 30 (10.42%) SurveyMonkey
2 6 (2.08%) AWS
3 5 (1.74%) AWS IoT
3 5 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (1.39%) GCP
4 4 (1.39%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.04%) OCI
6 2 (0.69%) dbt
6 2 (0.69%) GitHub
6 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.35%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.64%) SAN
2 8 (2.78%) Internet
3 5 (1.74%) Wireless
4 2 (0.69%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.69%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.69%) Intranet
5 1 (0.35%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.35%) Firewall
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) VLAN
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.39%) Power BI
1 4 (1.39%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.04%) MariaDB
2 3 (1.04%) Metadata
2 3 (1.04%) Oracle Database
2 3 (1.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.69%) Looker
3 2 (0.69%) Tableau
4 1 (0.35%) MySQL
4 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (11.81%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.51%) Git
3 5 (1.74%) JIRA
3 5 (1.74%) Xcode
4 3 (1.04%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 200 (69.44%) Social Skills
2 103 (35.76%) Law
3 91 (31.60%) Finance
4 76 (26.39%) Influencing Skills
5 75 (26.04%) Manufacturing
5 75 (26.04%) Presentation Skills
6 59 (20.49%) Legal
7 55 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
8 46 (15.97%) Banking
8 46 (15.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (13.54%) Marketing
10 37 (12.85%) Publishing
11 19 (6.60%) Telecoms
12 14 (4.86%) Retail
13 11 (3.82%) Local Government
13 11 (3.82%) Public Sector
14 9 (3.13%) Automotive
15 7 (2.43%) Mandarin Language
16 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (23.61%) Automation Engineer
1 68 (23.61%) Graduate
1 68 (23.61%) Graduate IT Engineer
1 68 (23.61%) IT Engineer
1 68 (23.61%) IT Graduate
2 46 (15.97%) Senior
3 36 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 35 (12.15%) User Experience Researcher
5 22 (7.64%) Administrator
6 21 (7.29%) IT Administrator
6 21 (7.29%) Server Administrator
7 15 (5.21%) Analyst
8 14 (4.86%) Lead
9 11 (3.82%) IT Manager
10 9 (3.13%) Planning Manager
11 7 (2.43%) Applications Support
11 7 (2.43%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (2.43%) Developer
11 7 (2.43%) IT Procurement Manager
11 7 (2.43%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.51%) RESTful
2 7 (2.43%) OpenCV
2 7 (2.43%) OpenVINO
3 5 (1.74%) Android Jetpack
3 5 (1.74%) Android SDK
3 5 (1.74%) Apache Cordova
3 5 (1.74%) Core Animation
3 5 (1.74%) Core Data
3 5 (1.74%) Jetpack Compose
3 5 (1.74%) Web Services
4 3 (1.04%) CSS
4 3 (1.04%) HTML
4 3 (1.04%) HTML5
4 3 (1.04%) ONNX
5 2 (0.69%) CSS3
5 2 (0.69%) Dagger
5 2 (0.69%) OpenMP
5 2 (0.69%) Retrofit
5 2 (0.69%) RxJava
6 1 (0.35%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 68 (23.61%) FMCG
2 36 (12.50%) Credit Risk
3 24 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (7.29%) Data Centre
5 15 (5.21%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.82%) PACS
7 10 (3.47%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.43%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.08%) IoT
9 6 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
10 5 (1.74%) Animation
10 5 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.04%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.04%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.04%) Social Media
13 2 (0.69%) Beowulf
13 2 (0.69%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.54%) Linux
2 30 (10.42%) Windows
3 21 (7.29%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.13%) Unix
5 5 (1.74%) Android
5 5 (1.74%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.69%) SUSE
6 2 (0.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (38.54%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (33.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 72 (25.00%) Analytics
4 69 (23.96%) Six Sigma
5 68 (23.61%) Lean Manufacturing
5 68 (23.61%) Lean Six Sigma
5 68 (23.61%) Order Management
6 61 (21.18%) Agile
7 45 (15.63%) User Experience
8 41 (14.24%) Data Analysis
9 40 (13.89%) Roadmaps
10 39 (13.54%) Mentoring
11 37 (12.85%) Risk Management
12 36 (12.50%) Budget Responsibility
12 36 (12.50%) Economics
12 36 (12.50%) Stress Testing
13 35 (12.15%) Actionable Insight
13 35 (12.15%) Design Thinking
13 35 (12.15%) User Research
13 35 (12.15%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.64%) PowerShell
2 20 (6.94%) Python
3 17 (5.90%) SQL
4 16 (5.56%) C++
5 12 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.47%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.78%) Bash
8 7 (2.43%) Java
9 5 (1.74%) C
9 5 (1.74%) Fortran
9 5 (1.74%) Go
9 5 (1.74%) Rust
9 5 (1.74%) Swift
10 3 (1.04%) Perl
10 3 (1.04%) R
10 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.35%) AWK
11 1 (0.35%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.35%) Korn
11 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (50.35%) Degree
2 68 (23.61%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 34 (11.81%) Security Cleared
4 25 (8.68%) SC Cleared
5 20 (6.94%) Master's Degree
6 16 (5.56%) PhD
7 4 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) CCDP
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) CCNP
10 1 (0.35%) CCSP
10 1 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.35%) RHCE
10 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.50%) IFRS
1 36 (12.50%) IFRS 9
2 30 (10.42%) Actionable Recommendations
3 8 (2.78%) GDPR
4 7 (2.43%) ISO 14000
4 7 (2.43%) QA
5 4 (1.39%) SLA
6 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.69%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (7.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.74%) Docker
3 2 (0.69%) Lustre
3 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.35%) Ansible
1 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (0.35%) yum
Vendors
1 40 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.46%) Qualtrics
3 23 (7.99%) NetApp
4 21 (7.29%) Citrix
4 21 (7.29%) VMware
5 8 (2.78%) Apple
6 5 (1.74%) Google
7 3 (1.04%) Computacenter
7 3 (1.04%) EMC
7 3 (1.04%) Oracle
7 3 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.69%) BT
8 2 (0.69%) IBM
8 2 (0.69%) Intel
8 2 (0.69%) Mellanox
9 1 (0.35%) Qubit
9 1 (0.35%) SAP
9 1 (0.35%) Veritas