GxP Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

GxP
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring GxP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GxP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.064% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £875 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £950 - -
75th Percentile £1,025 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £950 - £538

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

GxP falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 579 311 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.46% 20.08% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 166 180
10th Percentile £345 £250 £232
25th Percentile £425 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £573
90th Percentile £720 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 26 25
10th Percentile £18.59 £15.12 £18.00
25th Percentile £38.81 £15.13 £22.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £22.69 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +136.94% -17.51% +10.00%
75th Percentile £83.00 £60.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.38 £69.11
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £24.66 £27.50
% change year-on-year +102.76% -10.33% -40.54%

GxP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

GxP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

GxP
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

GxP
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

GxP
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 GxP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 July 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 - 2 £950 -
GxP
South East

GxP
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:

Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Biotechnology
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering