Culture Change Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cultural Change
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Culture Change skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 123 138
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing Culture Change 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.24% 0.047% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.054% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £530 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% - -
75th Percentile £580 - -
90th Percentile £592 - -
South East median daily rate £556 £600 -
% change year-on-year -7.29% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Culture Change 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 1,535 1,836 2,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.56% 85.40% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 952 1,034 1,623
10th Percentile £267 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £682 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 76 86
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.73 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.91 £29.44 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.34 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -56.89% +14.28% +155.25%
75th Percentile £51.00 £63.75 £69.81
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.32 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £59.25 £53.00
% change year-on-year -62.02% +11.78% +66.09%

Culture Change
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Culture Change job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Culture Change
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Culture Change
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 Culture Change within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 October 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 +17 3 £600 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £513 -
Culture Change
South East

Culture Change
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 (25.00%) Alation
1 1 (25.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Security Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft