Benchmarking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Benchmarking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking 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 512 509 575
Rank change year-on-year -3 +66 +32
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 279 226 318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.43% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 66 124 127
10th Percentile £26,080 - £32,798
25th Percentile £34,916 £35,500 £40,000
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,500 £58,861
% change year-on-year +11.11% -15.90% +7.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Benchmarking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £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% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
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 12 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wales - 74 £40,000 - 2
Scotland -25 50 £60,000 +3.45% 3
Midlands -116 43 £54,650 +43.82% 22
North of England +23 38 £54,223 +20.50% 16
South East -20 33 £29,000 -27.42% 20
East of England +2 30 £51,250 +2.50% 9
West Midlands -104 28 £58,225 +53.22% 17
North West -17 19 £54,612 -27.18% 8
Yorkshire +71 15 £35,413 -21.30% 5
East Midlands -15 15 £50,000 -28.57% 5
South West -51 8 £83,577 +58.59% 5
North East -16 4 - - 3
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 (12.90%) SAS
2 7 (2.51%) Apache
3 3 (1.08%) CMS
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 27 (9.68%) UserZoom
2 15 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.08%) Abaqus
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 24 (8.60%) Figma
1 24 (8.60%) SurveyMonkey
2 7 (2.51%) AWS
3 5 (1.79%) AWS IoT
3 5 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (1.79%) GCP
4 4 (1.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.08%) OCI
6 2 (0.72%) Azure
6 2 (0.72%) dbt
6 2 (0.72%) GitHub
6 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.38%) SAN
2 8 (2.87%) Internet
3 5 (1.79%) Wireless
4 3 (1.08%) Intranet
5 2 (0.72%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.72%) Firewall
5 2 (0.72%) InfiniBand
5 2 (0.72%) LAN
5 2 (0.72%) Network Security
5 2 (0.72%) VLAN
5 2 (0.72%) VPN
5 2 (0.72%) WAN
6 1 (0.36%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.43%) Power BI
1 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.08%) MariaDB
2 3 (1.08%) Metadata
2 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
2 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.08%) Tableau
3 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.72%) Looker
4 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.36%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (10.04%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.66%) Git
3 5 (1.79%) JIRA
3 5 (1.79%) Xcode
4 3 (1.08%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 189 (67.74%) Social Skills
2 97 (34.77%) Law
3 86 (30.82%) Finance
4 77 (27.60%) Influencing Skills
5 76 (27.24%) Presentation Skills
6 75 (26.88%) Manufacturing
7 58 (20.79%) Legal
8 57 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
9 46 (16.49%) Banking
10 40 (14.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (13.26%) Publishing
12 34 (12.19%) Marketing
13 19 (6.81%) Telecoms
14 14 (5.02%) Retail
15 11 (3.94%) Local Government
15 11 (3.94%) Public Sector
16 9 (3.23%) Automotive
17 7 (2.51%) Mandarin Language
18 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
18 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (24.37%) Automation Engineer
1 68 (24.37%) Graduate
1 68 (24.37%) Graduate IT Engineer
1 68 (24.37%) IT Engineer
1 68 (24.37%) IT Graduate
2 49 (17.56%) Senior
3 36 (12.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 29 (10.39%) User Experience Researcher
5 16 (5.73%) Analyst
6 15 (5.38%) Administrator
7 14 (5.02%) IT Administrator
7 14 (5.02%) Server Administrator
8 13 (4.66%) Lead
9 11 (3.94%) IT Manager
10 10 (3.58%) Developer
11 9 (3.23%) Planning Manager
12 7 (2.51%) Applications Support
12 7 (2.51%) Applications Support Analyst
12 7 (2.51%) Procurement Manager
12 7 (2.51%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.73%) RESTful
2 7 (2.51%) OpenCV
2 7 (2.51%) OpenVINO
3 6 (2.15%) CSS
3 6 (2.15%) HTML
4 5 (1.79%) Android Jetpack
4 5 (1.79%) Android SDK
4 5 (1.79%) Apache Cordova
4 5 (1.79%) Core Animation
4 5 (1.79%) Core Data
4 5 (1.79%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (1.79%) Web Services
5 4 (1.43%) React
6 3 (1.08%) HTML5
6 3 (1.08%) JSON
6 3 (1.08%) JWT
6 3 (1.08%) ONNX
6 3 (1.08%) Redux
7 2 (0.72%) CSS3
7 2 (0.72%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (24.37%) FMCG
2 36 (12.90%) Credit Risk
3 17 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (5.73%) Algorithms
5 14 (5.02%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.94%) PACS
7 10 (3.58%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.51%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.51%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.15%) IoT
9 6 (2.15%) Video\Live Streaming
10 5 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.79%) Animation
10 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.08%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.08%) Social Media
12 2 (0.72%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.47%) Linux
2 23 (8.24%) Windows
3 14 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.23%) Unix
5 5 (1.79%) Android
5 5 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.72%) SUSE
6 2 (0.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (41.22%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (35.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (24.73%) Six Sigma
4 68 (24.37%) Lean Manufacturing
4 68 (24.37%) Lean Six Sigma
4 68 (24.37%) Order Management
5 66 (23.66%) Analytics
6 55 (19.71%) Agile
7 42 (15.05%) Data Analysis
8 39 (13.98%) User Experience
9 37 (13.26%) Risk Management
10 36 (12.90%) Budget Responsibility
10 36 (12.90%) Economics
10 36 (12.90%) Stress Testing
11 35 (12.54%) Roadmaps
12 33 (11.83%) Mentoring
13 29 (10.39%) Actionable Insight
13 29 (10.39%) Design Thinking
13 29 (10.39%) User Research
13 29 (10.39%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.53%) Python
2 17 (6.09%) SQL
3 16 (5.73%) C++
3 16 (5.73%) PowerShell
4 15 (5.38%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.58%) Kotlin
6 9 (3.23%) Bash
7 7 (2.51%) Java
8 5 (1.79%) C
8 5 (1.79%) Fortran
8 5 (1.79%) Go
8 5 (1.79%) Rust
8 5 (1.79%) Swift
9 3 (1.08%) Perl
9 3 (1.08%) R
9 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) AWK
10 1 (0.36%) Bourne shell
10 1 (0.36%) Korn
10 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 140 (50.18%) Degree
2 68 (24.37%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 28 (10.04%) Security Cleared
4 20 (7.17%) Master's Degree
5 19 (6.81%) SC Cleared
6 16 (5.73%) PhD
7 4 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.72%) CCNA
9 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CCDP
10 1 (0.36%) CCNP
10 1 (0.36%) CCSP
10 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.36%) RHCE
10 1 (0.36%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.90%) IFRS
1 36 (12.90%) IFRS 9
2 24 (8.60%) Actionable Recommendations
3 8 (2.87%) GDPR
4 7 (2.51%) ISO 14000
4 7 (2.51%) QA
5 4 (1.43%) SLA
6 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.72%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (5.02%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.79%) Docker
3 2 (0.72%) Lustre
3 2 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.36%) Ansible
1 1 (0.36%) NetBackup
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (0.36%) yum
Vendors
1 33 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.68%) Qualtrics
3 16 (5.73%) NetApp
4 14 (5.02%) Citrix
4 14 (5.02%) VMware
5 8 (2.87%) Apple
6 5 (1.79%) Google
7 3 (1.08%) Computacenter
7 3 (1.08%) EMC
7 3 (1.08%) Oracle
7 3 (1.08%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.72%) BT
8 2 (0.72%) IBM
8 2 (0.72%) Intel
8 2 (0.72%) Mellanox
9 1 (0.36%) Qubit
9 1 (0.36%) SAP
9 1 (0.36%) Veritas