Intranet Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Intranet
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Intranet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 125 138
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 +26
Contract jobs citing Intranet 9 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.49% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.21% 1.11% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £402 - £150
25th Percentile £405 - £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £180
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +122.22% -62.50%
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £413 £400 £180
% change year-on-year +3.13% +122.22% -53.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

Intranet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 280 359 597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.12% 16.86% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 185 349
10th Percentile £219 £244 £205
25th Percentile £293 £400 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -3.70%
75th Percentile £539 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 27
10th Percentile £18.18 - £18.00
25th Percentile £46.00 £56.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £83.32 £57.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.90% +91.67% +87.50%
75th Percentile £89.63 £58.75 £75.67
90th Percentile £90.87 - £79.44
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +21.22% +28.32%

Intranet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Intranet job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Intranet
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Intranet
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Intranet
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 Intranet within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 November 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 +15 8 £413 +3.13%
Oxfordshire -12 1 - - 2
Intranet
South East

Intranet
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 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) OCI
1 1 (11.11%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Internet
2 4 (44.44%) Wireless
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) Firewall
3 3 (33.33%) IPv6
3 3 (33.33%) LAN
3 3 (33.33%) Network Security
3 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (33.33%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Penetration Tester
1 4 (44.44%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Communications Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Kali Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (44.44%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (44.44%) Social Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Network Design
3 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (22.22%) OSINT
3 2 (22.22%) Red Team
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (11.11%) CCSP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) OSCP
1 1 (11.11%) SANS
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Nessus
2 1 (11.11%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft