Target Operating Model Contracts in the South East

Target Operating Model (TOM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Target Operating Model skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Target Operating Model over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 193 237
Rank change year-on-year +13 +44 -31
Contract jobs citing Target Operating Model 20 22 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.35% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.44% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 20
10th Percentile £456 £441 £381
25th Percentile £509 £509 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £658 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +46.11% -43.75%
75th Percentile £641 £800 £684
90th Percentile £788 £804 £850
England median daily rate £575 £625 £599
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.43% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Target Operating Model falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Target Operating Model
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Target Operating Model in the South East

Target Operating Model
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Target Operating Model in the South East

Target Operating Model
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Target Operating Model in the South East over the 6 months to 24 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Target Operating Model in the South East

Target Operating Model
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Thames Valley +10 11 £550 +4.76%
Berkshire -3 10 £550 +4.76%
Hampshire 0 9 £625 -2.34% 1
Buckinghamshire +21 1 - -
M4 Corridor - 1 £598 -
Target Operating Model
England

Target Operating Model
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure API Management
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (15.00%) IaaS
2 3 (15.00%) PaaS
2 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Network Security
1 3 (15.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Retail
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Lead
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Product Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Product Business Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Programme Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Data Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Information Systems Manager
6 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
6 1 (5.00%) IT Programme Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
1 3 (15.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) FMCG
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 5 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) Affinity Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (15.00%) Cryptography
5 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.00%) High Availability
5 3 (15.00%) ITSM
5 3 (15.00%) Microservices
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Network Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (15.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C#
1 3 (15.00%) Java
1 3 (15.00%) PHP
1 3 (15.00%) Python
1 3 (15.00%) Ruby
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) P3O
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
1 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe
3 1 (5.00%) Sparx