Thales Contract Job Trends in London

Thales
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Thales products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thales over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Thales Group.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 382 401
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 +160
Contract jobs citing Thales 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Vendors category 0.044% 0.015% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £570 - -
25th Percentile £581 £513 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -25.00% +60.37%
75th Percentile - £538 £725
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +37.46%

All Vendors
London

Thales falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,773 6,636 7,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.10% 44.15% 40.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,408 4,151 5,310
10th Percentile £340 £313 £300
25th Percentile £424 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 69 107
10th Percentile £17.74 £19.66 £16.94
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £24.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% -9.58% +48.41%
75th Percentile £41.89 £63.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £65.63 £83.10 £86.35
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.78 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.84% -32.91% +77.76%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Thales relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Thales job vacancy trend in London

Thales
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Thales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Thales

Thales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) SNMP
2 2 (66.67%) SSH
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cryptography Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
2 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) FIPS 140-2
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk