CPLEX Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

IBM ILOG CPLEX
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring CPLEX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CPLEX 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.11% - -
As % of the Applications category 1.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £352 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile £392 - -
South East median daily rate £374 - -

All Software Application Skills
Thames Valley

CPLEX falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 229 113 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.38% 7.40% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 54 201
10th Percentile £255 £178 £143
25th Percentile £400 £241 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £419 £290
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% +44.57% -26.30%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £456
90th Percentile £610 £571 £550
South East median daily rate £475 £424 £330
% change year-on-year +12.16% +28.33% -9.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 34
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.86 £12.29
25th Percentile £19.38 £14.20 £16.29
Median hourly rate £29.61 £21.83 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +35.64% -5.97% -7.14%
75th Percentile - £46.30 £45.21
90th Percentile £68.05 £60.50 £61.85
South East median hourly rate £16.00 £25.67 £17.80
% change year-on-year -37.66% +44.20% -60.44%

CPLEX
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

CPLEX job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CPLEX
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

CPLEX
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 CPLEX within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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 - 3 £374 - 1
CPLEX
South East

CPLEX
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
1 3 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (100.00%) Flask
1 3 (100.00%) NumPy
1 3 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (100.00%) Pandas
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Swagger
2 2 (66.67%) Jinja
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) pytest
2 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (100.00%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Linear Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes