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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 75 134
Rank change year-on-year -11 +59 -24
Contract jobs citing Logistics 43 44 14
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 2.05% 2.23% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.49% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 8
10th Percentile £163 £486 £463
25th Percentile £253 £513 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £601 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +20.10% +6.38%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £559
90th Percentile £651 £651 £601
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -16.70% +2.89% +19.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £17.26 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - -
Median hourly rate £20.01 £61.76 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.60% - -
75th Percentile £23.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 1,833 1,766 2,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.37% 89.33% 91.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,040 1,463
10th Percentile £263 £265 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £676 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 51 101
10th Percentile £15.29 £19.30 £19.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £30.50 £25.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.49% +138.10%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £89.63 £67.00 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £47.51 £54.39
% change year-on-year -53.14% -12.64% +45.03%

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 20 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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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 20 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 -14 25 £599 -0.25% 71
Buckinghamshire +15 15 £259 -55.44% 27
Oxfordshire -13 3 - - 26
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 1 (2.33%) Confluence
1 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 11 (25.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (23.26%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (20.93%) Oracle Assets
3 9 (20.93%) Oracle Payables
3 9 (20.93%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (18.60%) Oracle EBS R12
5 7 (16.28%) Oracle AGIS
5 7 (16.28%) Oracle Cash Management
5 7 (16.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (6.98%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (4.65%) SAP WM
8 1 (2.33%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.98%) Azure
1 3 (6.98%) 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 2 (4.65%) Power BI
1 2 (4.65%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
General
1 19 (44.19%) Finance
2 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) General Ledger
4 7 (16.28%) Manufacturing
5 6 (13.95%) Marketing
6 4 (9.30%) Electronics
6 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.33%) Aviation
7 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Consultant
2 11 (25.58%) Functional Consultant
3 8 (18.60%) Oracle Consultant
3 8 (18.60%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 7 (16.28%) Oracle Financials Consultant
4 7 (16.28%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Architect
6 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Field Support Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Logistics Coordinator
7 2 (4.65%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Operational Security Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 2 (4.65%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Security Operations Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Test Leader
7 2 (4.65%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) ADO
1 2 (4.65%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (4.65%) SAP PI
2 1 (2.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.65%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) User Acceptance Testing
2 11 (25.58%) Procure-to-Pay
3 9 (20.93%) Accounts Payable
3 9 (20.93%) Accounts Receivable
4 7 (16.28%) Cash Management
4 7 (16.28%) Order Management
4 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (13.95%) Digital Marketing
5 6 (13.95%) Migration
5 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (11.63%) Agile
6 5 (11.63%) Asset Management
6 5 (11.63%) Inventory Management
7 4 (9.30%) Change Management
7 4 (9.30%) DevOps
7 4 (9.30%) Programme Management
7 4 (9.30%) Regression Testing
7 4 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (9.30%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.65%) SQL
2 1 (2.33%) C#
2 1 (2.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (6.98%) SCCM
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Oracle
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.60%) SAP
3 3 (6.98%) JDA
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow