Logistics Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Logistics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Logistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 90 128
Rank change year-on-year +1 +38 -21
Contract jobs citing Logistics 34 39 17
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.79% 1.84% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.12% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 12
10th Percentile £197 £430 £463
25th Percentile £284 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £558 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +6.29% +8.14%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £645
90th Percentile £664 £656 £688
South East median daily rate £355 £558 £540
% change year-on-year -36.38% +3.33% +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £18.28 - -
25th Percentile £19.44 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £61.76 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.38% - -
75th Percentile £23.50 - -
90th Percentile £57.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £29.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year -24.14% +58.90% -8.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Logistics 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 1,690 1,839 2,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.04% 86.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 1,067 1,551
10th Percentile £268 £308 £225
25th Percentile £405 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £630 £623
90th Percentile £650 £686 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 65 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.33 £16.58
25th Percentile £15.91 £32.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £58.05 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year -56.93% +13.69% +143.12%
75th Percentile £36.00 £63.00 £66.44
90th Percentile £74.40 £72.80 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +19.37%

Logistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Logistics job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Logistics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Logistics in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Logistics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Logistics in the Thames Valley

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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 Logistics within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 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 -6 19 £550 -1.43% 24
Buckinghamshire +10 13 £325 -38.10% 12
Oxfordshire -12 2 - - 24
Logistics
South East

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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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle AGIS
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (5.88%) SAP WM
3 1 (2.94%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) Azure
1 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Finance
3 8 (23.53%) Manufacturing
4 6 (17.65%) Marketing
5 4 (11.76%) Electronics
5 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.88%) General Ledger
6 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.94%) Aviation
7 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Analyst
1 6 (17.65%) Consultant
2 4 (11.76%) Integration Analyst
2 4 (11.76%) Integration Test Analyst
2 4 (11.76%) Test Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Functional Consultant
3 3 (8.82%) IT Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Financials Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 2 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) WebdriverIO
2 2 (5.88%) ADO
2 2 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (5.88%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Life Science
3 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Migration
2 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (23.53%) DevOps
4 7 (20.59%) Agile
4 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 6 (17.65%) Defect Management
5 6 (17.65%) Digital Marketing
5 6 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (17.65%) System Integration Testing
5 6 (17.65%) Test Planning
5 6 (17.65%) Waterfall
6 5 (14.71%) Change Management
6 5 (14.71%) Order Management
6 5 (14.71%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (14.71%) SDLC
6 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.76%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) C#
1 4 (11.76%) VB
2 2 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) PMP
4 1 (2.94%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) SCCM
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
1 9 (26.47%) SAP
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) JDA
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow