BiZZdesign Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

BiZZdesign
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring knowledge or experience of BiZZdesign products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BiZZdesign over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, 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 BiZZdesign.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 106 -
Rank change year-on-year -38 - -
Contract jobs citing BiZZdesign 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.14% 0.066% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £461 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.97% - -
75th Percentile £700 £738 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £700 £725 -
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

BiZZdesign 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,415 775 1,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 51.29% 50.95% 50.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 493 873
10th Percentile £280 £303 £213
25th Percentile £410 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £599 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 34 82
10th Percentile £16.20 £14.20 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.66 £17.50 £22.86
Median hourly rate £71.67 £27.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +159.37% -41.83% +5.56%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.90 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.68 £69.25 £63.29
South East median hourly rate £33.13 £26.34 £42.50
% change year-on-year +25.78% -38.04% -5.56%

BiZZdesign
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

BiZZdesign job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

BiZZdesign
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

BiZZdesign
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BiZZdesign in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BiZZdesign in the Thames Valley

BiZZdesign
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 BiZZdesign within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Berkshire - 4 £559 - 2
BiZZdesign
South East

BiZZdesign
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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) IPsec
1 4 (100.00%) MQTT
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 4 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 4 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Supplier Management
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NCSC
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft