Contingency Planning Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Contingency Planning
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Contingency Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 110 133
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 +36
Contract jobs citing Contingency Planning 15 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.72% 0.60% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.67% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile £546 £490 £458
25th Percentile £631 £501 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -0.43% +8.95%
75th Percentile £670 £684 £588
90th Percentile £738 £720 £618
South East median daily rate £650 £573 £569
% change year-on-year +13.54% +0.66% +6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £95.00 - £28.92

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Contingency Planning 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 1,826 1,786 2,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.70% 88.94% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 1,046 1,459
10th Percentile £268 £293 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 54 104
10th Percentile £15.01 £18.92 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.63 £29.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.80% +137.45%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £89.63 £69.03 £74.37
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
% change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%

Contingency Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contingency Planning job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contingency Planning in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contingency Planning in the Thames Valley

Contingency Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Contingency Planning
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 Contingency Planning within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 December 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 -4 15 £660 +15.28% 2
Contingency Planning
South East

Contingency Planning
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (53.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
1 8 (53.33%) Azure DevOps
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (53.33%) Power Platform
1 8 (53.33%) SaaS
2 6 (40.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle Project Manager
1 6 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (26.67%) Programme Manager
4 2 (13.33%) E-Business Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
1 8 (53.33%) E-business
1 8 (53.33%) Matrix Organization
1 8 (53.33%) PRINCE2
1 8 (53.33%) Waterfall
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Project Management
2 6 (40.00%) Scrum
3 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) ITSM
3 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Project Governance
3 4 (26.67%) Service Management
4 3 (20.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Identification
5 2 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (13.33%) Inventory Management
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) PMP
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) APMP
2 3 (20.00%) MAPM
2 3 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Oracle