Benchmarking Contracts in the Thames Valley

Benchmarking
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 139 138
Rank change year-on-year +42 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 5 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.22% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.26% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - £313 £450
25th Percentile £513 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £453 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile £538 £548 £713
90th Percentile - £602 £858
South East median daily rate £400 £463 £525
% change year-on-year -13.51% -11.90% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £53.03 -
South East median hourly rate - £53.03 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Benchmarking 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 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the Thames Valley

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in the Thames Valley

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in the Thames Valley

Benchmarking
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 Benchmarking within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +32 4 £525 - 4
Oxfordshire +4 1 - -
Benchmarking
South East

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CATIA
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) 2G
1 1 (20.00%) 3G
1 1 (20.00%) 4G
1 1 (20.00%) 5G
1 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) CAD Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) CAD Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Category Manager
3 1 (20.00%) CATIA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Radio Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Radio Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Category Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Implementation Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (20.00%) Bill of Materials
2 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) CAD
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (20.00%) PLM
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Trend Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) NFS
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) NSN NetAct
1 1 (20.00%) vRealize
1 1 (20.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (20.00%) Huawei
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Nokia
1 1 (20.00%) VMware