ARM Cortex Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

ARM Cortex
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term ARM Cortex in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ARM Cortex over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	143	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing ARM Cortex	14	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley	0.46%	-	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	1.32%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	9	0	0
10^th Percentile	£603	-	-
25^th Percentile	£607	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£615	-	-
75^th Percentile	£623	-	-
90^th Percentile	£630	-	-
South East median daily rate	£615	-	-

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

ARM Cortex falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Thames Valley.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	1,062	601	658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley	34.88%	34.66%	30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted	620	371	373
10^th Percentile	£313	£273	£264
25^th Percentile	£425	£400	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£610	£588	£608
90^th Percentile	£733	£675	£675
South East median daily rate	£525	£490	£500
% change year-on-year	+7.14%	-2.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	154	33	23
10^th Percentile	£12.84	-	£18.55
25^th Percentile	£16.25	£15.13	£23.37
Median hourly rate	£42.96	£26.50	£47.25
Median % change year-on-year	+62.09%	-43.91%	-22.07%
75^th Percentile	£84.65	£58.00	£60.28
90^th Percentile	£93.38	£85.80	£62.24
South East median hourly rate	£34.00	£25.08	£55.00
% change year-on-year	+35.59%	-54.41%	+2.80%

ARM Cortex Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ARM Cortex relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

ARM Cortex Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ARM Cortex.

ARM Cortex Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ARM Cortex.

ARM Cortex Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ARM Cortex within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Buckinghamshire	-	11	£615	-	2
Oxfordshire	-	3	-	-	2
ARM Cortex South East

ARM Cortex Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing ARM Cortex also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region with a requirement for ARM Cortex.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Active Directory	78.6%	11
1	Analytics	78.6%	11
1	ARM Templates	78.6%	11
1	Azure	78.6%	11
1	Azure Monitor	78.6%	11
1	Azure Sentinel	78.6%	11
1	Bash	78.6%	11
1	Bicep	78.6%	11
1	CrowdStrike	78.6%	11
1	Cybersecurity	78.6%	11
1	DNS	78.6%	11
1	Entra ID	78.6%	11
1	Linux	78.6%	11
1	Log Analytics	78.6%	11
1	Microsoft	78.6%	11
1	Microsoft Intune	78.6%	11
1	PowerShell	78.6%	11
1	SCCM	78.6%	11
1	Security Cleared	78.6%	11
1	Terraform	78.6%	11
1	Windows	78.6%	11
1	Windows Server	78.6%	11
23	DV Cleared	71.4%	10
23	Infrastructure Monitoring	71.4%	10
23	Platform Engineering	71.4%	10
26	Ansible	57.1%	8
26	DHCP	57.1%	8
26	Firewall	57.1%	8
26	Security Hardening	57.1%	8
26	TCP/IP	57.1%	8

ARM Cortex Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Hybrid Cloud	71.4%	10
2	Onboarding	57.1%	8
3	Management Information System	28.6%	4