Behavioural Analytics Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Behavioural Analytics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Behavioural Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Behavioural Analytics 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Behavioural Analytics 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 1,537 2,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.27% 92.20% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,296 893 1,481
10th Percentile £271 £254 £213
25th Percentile £400 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £509
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.67% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 42 150
10th Percentile £15.64 £26.03 £16.24
25th Percentile £18.87 £43.69 £20.17
Median hourly rate £25.84 £61.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -57.98% +36.02% +44.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.39 £62.54
90th Percentile £97.50 £79.72 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.28% -5.26% +5.56%

Behavioural Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Behavioural Analytics job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Behavioural Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Behavioural Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Behavioural Analytics

Behavioural Analytics
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 Behavioural Analytics within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Buckinghamshire - 3 £525 - 1
Behavioural Analytics
South East

Behavioural Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) IPv6
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) Multicast
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) SNMP
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) CCDA
3 1 (33.33%) CCDP
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (33.33%) CCIP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) CASB
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Darktrace
3 1 (33.33%) Arista
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) Meraki
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Zscaler