Collaborative Engineering Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Collaborative Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.046% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Collaborative Engineering 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 1,841 1,556 2,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.27% 91.10% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 893 1,454
10th Percentile £266 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 43 132
10th Percentile £15.62 £24.93 £17.64
25th Percentile £17.40 £41.88 £24.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £59.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.37% +24.21% +78.40%
75th Percentile £58.00 £65.17 £62.66
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.48 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.69 £49.07
% change year-on-year -44.78% -12.99% +12.79%

Collaborative Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Collaborative Engineering job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Engineering
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 Collaborative Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 January 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 - 1 £575 - 2
Collaborative Engineering
South East

Collaborative Engineering
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript