Thales Contract Job Trends in the North West

Thales
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 February 2026, 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
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Thales 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.32% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £275 - -
25th Percentile £303 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 - -
75th Percentile £455 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
England median daily rate £625 - £620
% change year-on-year - - +39.17%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,298 1,081 1,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 45.98% 51.95% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 653 742
10th Percentile £213 £250 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% - +3.15%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £582
90th Percentile £686 £672 £674
England median daily rate £508 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 50 131
10th Percentile £15.84 £20.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £21.06 £25.26 £15.50
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +83.41% -47.50%
75th Percentile £61.33 £60.00 £32.16
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% +19.23% -21.21%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Thales job vacancy trend in the North West

Thales
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Thales
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thales in the North West over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Thales in the North West

Thales
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Cheshire - 9 £374 - 1
Thales
England

Thales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (66.67%) Confluence
1 6 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) SSH
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Tandem
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Unix
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cryptography
2 8 (88.89%) Information Security
2 8 (88.89%) ITIL
2 8 (88.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 6 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 6 (66.67%) Key Management
4 5 (55.56%) Release Management
5 4 (44.44%) Change Management
6 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
6 3 (33.33%) Project Management
6 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
7 2 (22.22%) Attestation
7 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
7 2 (22.22%) Fintech
7 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
7 2 (22.22%) Service Management
7 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Gemalto
2 7 (77.78%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft