Thales Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Thales
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 4 November 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
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Thales 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.18% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £362 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £688 - -
England median daily rate £538 £550 £610
% change year-on-year -2.27% -9.84% -9.63%

All Vendors
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,125 1,683 2,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 47.33% 42.63% 47.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 899 1,488
10th Percentile £272 £300 £225
25th Percentile £375 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £588
90th Percentile £685 £675 £650
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 75 110
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.33 £16.24
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.77 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.39
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +23.28% +33.07%
75th Percentile £63.40 £44.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £49.50 £46.97
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.16% -21.35% +73.08%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Thales job vacancy trend in the North of England

Thales
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Thales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Thales

Thales
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thales in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thales in the North of England

Thales
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Thales.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Thales

Thales
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Thales within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. 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
North West - 6 £423 - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £675 - 2
Thales
England

Thales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (75.00%) Confluence
1 6 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) SSH
2 2 (25.00%) SNMP
2 2 (25.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Cryptography Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Tandem
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 8 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (75.00%) Information Security
2 6 (75.00%) ITIL
3 5 (62.50%) Release Management
4 4 (50.00%) Change Management
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
5 3 (37.50%) Key Management
5 3 (37.50%) Project Management
6 2 (25.00%) Attestation
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (25.00%) Data Security
6 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (25.00%) FFIEC
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) GLBA
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Gemalto
1 6 (75.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft