Informed Hiring and Retention
A full benchmarking solution for tech and change teams
Our talent benchmarking service gives you a clear view of how your roles, salaries, benefits, and brand compare in the current market. Whether you’re struggling to hire, losing people to competitors, or planning for growth, we help you make informed, confident decisions.
Using real-time market data and insights from active candidates, we provide tailored reports on pay, job titles, skill demand, and competitor activity.
The importance of accurate benchmarking
Real Time Market Intelligence
Our data helps hirers and HR teams to:
- Identify gaps in your current reward structure
- Fine-tune job specs to match market expectations
- Improve hiring outcomes and retention
We combine recruitment expertise with up-to-date talent intelligence to help you stay competitive and compelling in a fast-moving market.
Reducing risk and retaining talent
Employers must have a clear evidence-based view of where their compensation, benefits and role expectations sit in the current market. Without it, you risk underpaying and losing great people and creating a situation where new hires are paid more than long term employees creating resentment and turnover caused by perceived unfairness. Accurate information allows you to shape roles and packages that attract the right candidates while staying aligned with your budget. Ultimately, it reduces hiring and retention risk by giving you the confidence that your offer is both compelling and commercially sound
The danger of bad data
Relying on poor-quality or outdated benchmarking data introduces significant risk to your hiring and retention strategy. If your information is based on generalised salary surveys, anecdotal feedback, or last year’s figures, you may be making critical decisions on flawed assumptions. This can lead to roles being pitched at the wrong level, offers being rejected, or top performers quietly looking elsewhere because they feel undervalued
Reducing time to hire
Without high-quality data, it’s also easy to misjudge where your organisation sits in the talent market overestimating your appeal or underestimating the pull of competitors. That false confidence can delay hiring, increase attrition, and drive up long-term costs through reactive salary increases, re-recruitment, and loss of productivity.
In short, inaccurate benchmarking creates blind spots. It weakens your position in negotiations, undermines workforce morale, and makes it far harder to plan or scale effectively. In contrast, robust, current, and role-specific benchmarking empowers you to act decisively, attract the right talent first time, and keep them for the long term.
Frequently asked questions
For each role identified you will receive feedback on market benchmark, demand and supply considerations, replacement availability and cost as well as additional comments and recommendations as appropriate
A consistent methodology paired with multiple verified data sources, validated by live market activity and segmented by role, location and level ensures you receive actionable accurate reports pulled together by our in house data specialist.
We’ll have an initial process to discuss your goals and the roles to be benchmarked after which you’ll populate a simple template to share the key information. We conduct our analysis and you receive a clear report per role. We talk through the results with you and agree a duration until the next update.
Meet the team
Andy is responsible for making sure Bristow Holland delivers results for our clients. Drawing on over 20 years recruitment experience, Andy leads our team of specialist recruiters in combining modern recruitment techniques with old fashioned network building and market knowledge so we can give clients access to the best talent the market has to offer. Since establishing Bristow Holland in 2013 Andy has overseen the building of a team of specialists who are laser focused on delivering the services our clients need to give them the edge in the hunt for the technical skills needed to grow.
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Harry is our networks and infrastructure specialist for the East of England region. Harry is an enthusiastic and engaging recruiter who believes no challenge is too great. He has a keen interest in the real world application of IT infrastructure and enjoys learning from the people in the industry, absorbing their knowledge in the process.
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Marc is our specialist in Change and Transformation and Business Analysis, joining us in early 2017 after several years’ experience at another blue-chip recruitment firm in the construction market. He completed his Prince 2 certification in November 2017. An experienced recruiter, and proud of his track record of success, Marc works hard to build on Bristow Holland’s reputation as the key local supplier for specialised project management, change management and business analysis skills throughout Suffolk and Essex. He’s proactive and supportive in his approach, and takes after-care extremely seriously, making sure the start for new personnel runs smoothly. Marc’s mission is to continue our philosophy of making ourselves available 24/7, building close, long-lasting relationships with everyone he works with, and offering an even better service to candidates and clients alike. Outside of work, Marc is a keen footballer and plays regularly for Wormingford Wanderers FC in Border League Division 1.
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Matt is both Director and a specialist software recruiter with an exclusive network of developers built by word-of-mouth recommendations. He has developed an excellent understanding of the technical skills and environments within the regional development community and his reputation marks him out as a reliable source of guidance to clients and candidates alike. Matt knows that finding a new job or sourcing a new team member can be a challenging time, and he is determined to provide a positive, stress-free experience to everyone he works with. He is focussed on giving you worthwhile and viable options that will enable you to build a structured career path or enhance your team. Matt lives in the locally area with his wife Emma and their sons Charlie, Oscar and Finley. Away from work when not spending time with his family Matt can usually be found on the golf course, gym or charging around the 5-a-side pitch.
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Emily is responsible for compliance and administration across all of the Bristow Holland specialisms. She joins Bristow Holland as a career change from her previous background as a qualified childcare practitioner
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