Role & Salary Benchmarking

Benchmark the role before you fill it.

See exactly where your job sits against the live market — salary, skills, conditions, direction — then tighten it in a couple of clicks. Stronger job, stronger candidates.

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One headline number

A 0–100 Market Competitiveness Score.

Open the Benchmark tab on any job — draft or active — and tap Run Benchmark. In a couple of minutes you get a headline verdict and a plain-English summary of the single biggest lever to pull to make the role more competitive.

Headline 0–100 score, at a glance
A 2–3 sentence “biggest lever” summary
Edit the job and re-run to validate improvements
Near-instant on repeat runs — market data is cached

describe.me Role & Salary Benchmarking — market competitiveness score from 0 to 100 with a plain-English summary of the biggest improvement to make

Market Competitiveness Score
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Grounded in real market data

Salary positioning you can defend.

See your job’s range against the market band — median and range — with a clear Below / Competitive / Above classification, a percentile, and a London uplift where it applies. Every figure is computed from real market data, never invented.

Your range vs the market median and band
Below, Competitive or Above — no ambiguity
Percentile position and London uplift where relevant
A concrete, plain-English suggestion to act on

describe.me Role & Salary Benchmarking — salary positioning showing the job's range against the market band, percentile and a concrete suggestion

Salary Positioning report
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What’s in the report

Everything you need to tighten the role.

Beyond the headline score, the benchmark breaks the role down the way the market actually sees it.

Work requirements vs market

Location, schedule, contract, IR35 and more — each tagged Aligned, Stricter or More Flexible, with the implication spelled out (e.g. “on-site-only may deter strong hybrid-expecting candidates”).

Skills & tools

Four colour-coded groups with employer-demand percentages, so you stop over- and under-specifying:

In-demand but missing Well covered Emerging to consider Possibly over-specified

Where this role is heading

Two to four forward-looking market-trend statements, so you can future-proof the role and adjust now rather than next year.

Suggested edits

Three to six prioritised, concrete changes — each with a rationale — that you can apply with Edit Job and validate with a Re-run.

Edit and re-run

Make a change, re-run the benchmark, watch the score move. Refine the role until it’s genuinely competitive before a single candidate sees it.

Better matches downstream

A tighter job description feeds the matching engine better signal — so benchmarking doesn’t just win the candidate, it sharpens every match that follows.

Where the numbers come from: salary figures are computed deterministically from real market data — never invented — and the competitiveness score and trends come from aggregated market research per role title. It’s indicative guidance to help you position the role well, not a guarantee.

Benchmark the role before you fill it.

A 0–100 Market Competitiveness Score.

Salary positioning you can defend.

Everything you need to tighten the role.

Work requirements vs market

Skills & tools

Where this role is heading

Suggested edits

Edit and re-run

Better matches downstream

Win the candidate before they even apply.

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