Target Operating Model Contracts in the Thames Valley

Target Operating Model (TOM)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Target Operating Model skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Target Operating Model over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 134 152
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing Target Operating Model 11 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.41% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.38% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 9
10th Percentile £459 £441 £381
25th Percentile £491 £466 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £405
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +29.63% -16.92%
75th Percentile £588 £565 £675
90th Percentile £592 £800 £720
South East median daily rate £588 £560 £439
% change year-on-year +5.00% +27.48% -26.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Target Operating Model is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,650 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 91.60% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,849 2,109
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +7.22%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 62 88
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £11.91
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.18
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.27% -20.00%

Target Operating Model
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Target Operating Model as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Target Operating Model in the Thames Valley

Target Operating Model
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Target Operating Model in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Target Operating Model in the Thames Valley

Target Operating Model
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Target Operating Model in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Target Operating Model in the Thames Valley

Target Operating Model
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Target Operating Model within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Berkshire +5 10 £550 -
Buckinghamshire +22 1 - -
Target Operating Model
South East

Target Operating Model
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure API Management
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Event Grid
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 3 (27.27%) IaaS
2 3 (27.27%) PaaS
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Business Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
1 3 (27.27%) Product Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Product Business Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Architect
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) FMCG
2 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Affinity Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) API Management
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (27.27%) Cryptography
3 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
3 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (27.27%) ITSM
3 3 (27.27%) Key Management
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (27.27%) Network Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C#
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) PHP
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) P3O
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
1 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) VMware