NLPG Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NLPG in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NLPG over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NLPG 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.037% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £400 - -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

NLPG falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 913 559 888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.19% 36.18% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 316 512
10th Percentile £263 £300 £205
25th Percentile £370 £425 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £597 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £659
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £496
% change year-on-year -3.61% +4.64% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 18 65
10th Percentile £20.32 £16.87 £14.11
25th Percentile £27.50 £23.79 £22.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 £53.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.77% +76.67% -10.45%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £58.70
90th Percentile - £88.69 £63.29
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £32.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +107.69% +6.56% -35.79%

NLPG
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

NLPG job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

NLPG
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 NLPG within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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 - 1 £400 - 3
NLPG
South East

NLPG
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 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) QGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) LLPG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) BS7666
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce