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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 93 106
Rank change year-on-year +26 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Logistics 43 33 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.62% 1.47% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 1.72% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 19 18
10th Percentile £265 £165 -
25th Percentile £325 £416 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £641 £558 £616
90th Percentile £664 £638 £688
South East median daily rate £456 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -10.59% +2.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £23.75 - -
25th Percentile £33.13 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £74.25 - -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £29.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year +158.62% +58.90% -65.24%

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 1,488 1,918 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.79% 85.40% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,069 1,665
10th Percentile £270 £281 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £523
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.39% +4.50%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 88 88
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.75 £16.36
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.31 £24.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £59.47 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.71% +18.95% +163.16%
75th Percentile £49.28 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £86.49 £75.08
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%

Logistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Logistics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Logistics 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 September 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 September 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 September 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 23 £625 +12.01% 39
Buckinghamshire +15 18 £350 -17.65% 17
Oxfordshire -4 2 £250 - 8
Logistics
South East

Logistics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle EBS
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (18.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (9.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle iProcurement
5 2 (4.65%) SAP WM
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (2.33%) SAP EWM
6 1 (2.33%) SAP MM
6 1 (2.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.58%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.33%) AWS
4 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (6.98%) MS Access
4 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.65%) Power BI
4 2 (4.65%) SAP HANA
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) QARun
2 2 (4.65%) WinRunner
General
1 22 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Aviation
5 1 (2.33%) Electronics
5 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
5 1 (2.33%) Marketing
5 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Analyst
1 9 (20.93%) Consultant
1 9 (20.93%) Test Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Integration Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Integration Test Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Lead
2 4 (9.30%) Senior
2 4 (9.30%) Test Leader
3 3 (6.98%) Architect
3 3 (6.98%) OBIEE Consultant
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Specialist
3 3 (6.98%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (6.98%) Security Manager
3 3 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (6.98%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Desktop Support
4 2 (4.65%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Programme Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (6.98%) Middleware
2 3 (6.98%) Web Services
3 2 (4.65%) ADO
3 2 (4.65%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (4.65%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.65%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Life Science
3 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (34.88%) Agile
3 13 (30.23%) Waterfall
4 12 (27.91%) DevOps
5 11 (25.58%) Integration Testing
5 11 (25.58%) System Integration Testing
5 11 (25.58%) Test Planning
6 10 (23.26%) Migration
7 9 (20.93%) Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (20.93%) Software Testing
8 8 (18.60%) Data Migration
8 8 (18.60%) Defect Management
8 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
9 7 (16.28%) Scenario Testing
9 7 (16.28%) SDLC
10 6 (13.95%) End-to-End Testing
10 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (11.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) C#
1 6 (13.95%) VB
2 5 (11.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) PMP
3 2 (4.65%) SAP Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CISMP
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
1 12 (27.91%) Oracle
2 7 (16.28%) SAP
3 3 (6.98%) Citrix
3 3 (6.98%) JDA
4 1 (2.33%) BT
4 1 (2.33%) Remedy