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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 84 129
Rank change year-on-year +3 +45 -20
Contract jobs citing Logistics 43 45 14
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 2.12% 2.12% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.41% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 9
10th Percentile £185 £430 £440
25th Percentile £298 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +3.57%
75th Percentile £624 £641 £550
90th Percentile £651 £652 £596
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +2.56%
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 1,799 1,870 2,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.58% 88.25% 91.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,095 1,486
10th Percentile £263 £300 £213
25th Percentile £400 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £687 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 60 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.25 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.30 £28.69 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.49% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.10 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.25 £70.21 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +20.69%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -8 26 £595 -0.92% 57
Buckinghamshire +9 15 £325 -38.10% 10
Oxfordshire -13 2 - - 13
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 (4.65%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (20.93%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (18.60%) Oracle Assets
3 8 (18.60%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (18.60%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (18.60%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (13.95%) Oracle AGIS
4 6 (13.95%) Oracle Cash Management
4 6 (13.95%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (6.98%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (4.65%) SAP WM
7 1 (2.33%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.63%) Azure
1 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.33%) AWS
3 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) JIRA
General
1 19 (44.19%) Finance
2 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.60%) General Ledger
3 8 (18.60%) Manufacturing
4 6 (13.95%) Marketing
5 4 (9.30%) Electronics
5 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Aviation
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Consultant
2 10 (23.26%) Functional Consultant
3 7 (16.28%) Oracle Consultant
3 7 (16.28%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 6 (13.95%) Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) Oracle Financials Consultant
4 6 (13.95%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Test Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Integration Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Integration Test Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Lead
7 2 (4.65%) Logistics Coordinator
7 2 (4.65%) Operational Security Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 2 (4.65%) Security Operations Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Test Leader
7 2 (4.65%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) WebdriverIO
2 2 (4.65%) ADO
2 2 (4.65%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (4.65%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.65%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Life Science
3 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (23.26%) Procure-to-Pay
3 9 (20.93%) Migration
4 8 (18.60%) Accounts Payable
4 8 (18.60%) Accounts Receivable
4 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (16.28%) Agile
5 7 (16.28%) DevOps
5 7 (16.28%) Order Management
5 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.95%) Cash Management
6 6 (13.95%) Defect Management
6 6 (13.95%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (11.63%) Change Management
7 5 (11.63%) Data Migration
7 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.63%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (11.63%) Test Planning
7 5 (11.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.98%) C#
1 3 (6.98%) VB
2 2 (4.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) PMP
4 1 (2.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.65%) SCCM
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Oracle
2 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (20.93%) SAP
4 3 (6.98%) JDA
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow