Logistics Contracts in the Thames Valley

Logistics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Logistics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Logistics over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 78 107
Rank change year-on-year +6 +29 +8
Contract jobs citing Logistics 43 42 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.55% 1.84% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.18% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 19 20
10th Percentile £265 £165 £368
25th Percentile £325 £193 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% -1.24% +4.56%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £627
90th Percentile £650 £638 £689
South East median daily rate £438 £474 £500
% change year-on-year -7.77% -5.13% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £23.75 - -
25th Percentile £33.13 £11.79 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £18.91 -
Median % change year-on-year +164.41% - -
75th Percentile £65.63 £26.03 -
90th Percentile £74.25 £28.27 -
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £27.52 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.31% -43.84% -6.68%

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 1,550 1,926 2,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.99% 84.55% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 1,100 1,709
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £679 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 110 83
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.30 £14.45
25th Percentile £15.12 £23.37 £22.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £55.44 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.71% +10.88% +143.90%
75th Percentile £46.30 £66.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.29 £75.20
South East median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +98.02%

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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Logistics in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Logistics in the Thames Valley

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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 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Logistics in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Logistics in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Logistics in the Thames Valley

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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 16 August 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 16 August 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 24 £625 - 32
Buckinghamshire +10 17 £325 +47.73% 14
Oxfordshire -10 2 £250 -47.37% 22
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
Business Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle EBS
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (18.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 6 (13.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle iProcurement
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%) Primavera
6 1 (2.33%) SAP EWM
6 1 (2.33%) SAP MM
6 1 (2.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (2.33%) SAP WM
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%) MS Access
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.65%) Power BI
3 2 (4.65%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) QARun
2 2 (4.65%) WinRunner
General
1 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Automotive
5 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
5 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
5 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Analyst
1 9 (20.93%) Test Analyst
2 8 (18.60%) Consultant
3 4 (9.30%) Integration Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Integration Test Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Lead
3 4 (9.30%) Project Manager
3 4 (9.30%) Test Leader
4 3 (6.98%) Architect
4 3 (6.98%) OBIEE Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle Specialist
4 3 (6.98%) SAP Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Security Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Senior
4 3 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) SAP 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
2 2 (4.65%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) 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%) Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (25.58%) System Integration Testing
5 11 (25.58%) Test Planning
6 10 (23.26%) Migration
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%) SDLC
10 6 (13.95%) End-to-End Testing
10 6 (13.95%) Project Management
10 6 (13.95%) Scenario Testing
11 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) C#
1 6 (13.95%) VB
2 5 (11.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) PMP
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
3 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
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%) SAP 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%) Oracle
2 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
3 7 (16.28%) SAP
4 3 (6.98%) Citrix
4 3 (6.98%) JDA
5 1 (2.33%) BT
5 1 (2.33%) NEC
5 1 (2.33%) Remedy