Thales Contract Job Trends in the South East

Thales
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Thales 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £609 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £744 - -
90th Percentile £778 - -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +39.53%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,242 1,891 2,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.32% 50.39% 52.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,585 1,251 1,671
10th Percentile £221 £239 £205
25th Percentile £401 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.34% +2.60%
75th Percentile £600 £633 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £678
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 54 125
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.94 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.31 £24.18 £24.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.67% -32.58% +129.17%
75th Percentile £64.38 £63.45 £66.44
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Thales job vacancy trend in the South East

Thales
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Thales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Thales

Thales
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thales in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thales in the South East

Thales
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Thales.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Thales

Thales
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 Thales within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Hampshire - 4 £700 - 2
Thames Valley - 1 £425 - 2
Berkshire - 1 £425 - 2
Thales
England

Thales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) S/MIME
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) PKI
2 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (40.00%) Smartcard
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Key Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Android Development
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) CISM
3 2 (40.00%) CISSP
3 2 (40.00%) GIAC
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Coverity