Bluetooth Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Bluetooth
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Bluetooth skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 - 124
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bluetooth 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.098% - 0.045%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.82% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 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 Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

Bluetooth falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 365 255 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.92% 15.71% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 142 176
10th Percentile £313 £272 £300
25th Percentile £400 £359 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £590 £538 £608
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 11 14
10th Percentile £16.01 - £56.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.20 £66.69
Median hourly rate £32.50 £21.90 £80.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.40% -72.71% +15.60%
75th Percentile £53.75 £86.32 £87.46
90th Percentile £70.50 £89.63 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.10% -3.54%

Bluetooth
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Bluetooth job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Bluetooth
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Bluetooth
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Bluetooth

Bluetooth
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 Bluetooth within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Oxfordshire - 3 £525 -
Bluetooth
South East

Bluetooth
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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Device Driver Development
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C++
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware