Onboarding Contracts in the Thames Valley

Onboarding
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 116 100
Rank change year-on-year +75 -16 +27
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 64 29 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.24% 1.08% 1.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.74% 3.62% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 21 38
10th Percentile £359 £213 £314
25th Percentile £450 £408 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -3.30% +45.37%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £721
90th Percentile £633 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £495 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -13.73% +4.32% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.00 -
South East median hourly rate £17.62 £16.00 -
% change year-on-year +10.13% - -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Onboarding 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 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the Thames Valley

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the Thames Valley

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the Thames Valley

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the Thames Valley

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +72 60 £523 -8.65% 89
Buckinghamshire +12 4 £425 +27.82% 56
Onboarding
South East

Onboarding
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 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) CMS
2 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.13%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (3.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.19%) Azure
2 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
3 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.25%) AWS
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.69%) Serverless
6 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub
6 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.13%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Collibra
7 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) 3G
1 4 (6.25%) 3GPP
1 4 (6.25%) 4G
1 4 (6.25%) LTE
2 2 (3.13%) 5G
2 2 (3.13%) BGP
2 2 (3.13%) Broadband
2 2 (3.13%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (3.13%) DNS
2 2 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (3.13%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) IPv6
2 2 (3.13%) MVNO
2 2 (3.13%) OSPF
2 2 (3.13%) SAN
2 2 (3.13%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (3.13%) TACACS
2 2 (3.13%) VSAN
3 1 (1.56%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.69%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.69%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) Big Data
3 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.56%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) GitLab
1 2 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) Maven
2 1 (1.56%) Toad
General
1 17 (26.56%) Telecoms
2 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.38%) Finance
4 6 (9.38%) Legal
5 3 (4.69%) Billing
6 2 (3.13%) Law
6 2 (3.13%) Marketing
6 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Publishing
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (10.94%) Analyst
3 6 (9.38%) Architect
3 6 (9.38%) SIEM Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Administrator
4 5 (7.81%) Business Analyst
4 5 (7.81%) Commercial Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Technical Design Authority
6 3 (4.69%) Commercial Project Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Consultant
6 3 (4.69%) Senior
6 3 (4.69%) Transformation Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Designer
7 2 (3.13%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (3.13%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) JSON
1 6 (9.38%) REST
2 2 (3.13%) ADO
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Axis
2 2 (3.13%) HTML
2 2 (3.13%) YAML
3 1 (1.56%) .NET
3 1 (1.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) CSOC
2 5 (7.81%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.56%) FMCG
3 1 (1.56%) Replication
3 1 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.19%) Windows
1 11 (17.19%) Windows Server
2 9 (14.06%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (14.06%) Project Management
3 8 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (10.94%) Agile
4 7 (10.94%) Security Operations
4 7 (10.94%) SIEM
4 7 (10.94%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (9.38%) Analytics
5 6 (9.38%) Incident Response
5 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
5 6 (9.38%) ITIL
5 6 (9.38%) Process Improvement
6 5 (7.81%) Client Onboarding
7 4 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 4 (6.25%) DevOps
7 4 (6.25%) High Availability
7 4 (6.25%) Roadmaps
7 4 (6.25%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (4.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.19%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.50%) SQL
3 3 (4.69%) Python
4 2 (3.13%) C#
4 2 (3.13%) Java
4 2 (3.13%) Ruby
5 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.06%) DV Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) GIAC
4 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.13%) CISSP
5 2 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) Degree
6 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.69%) PMO
3 1 (1.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (20.31%) Active Directory
2 9 (14.06%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.13%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Argo
2 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Virgin Media
2 13 (20.31%) VMware
3 11 (17.19%) Dell
4 9 (14.06%) Wyse
5 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.69%) BT
6 3 (4.69%) Cisco
6 3 (4.69%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.69%) Databricks
6 3 (4.69%) Openreach
6 3 (4.69%) Splunk
7 2 (3.13%) Concur
7 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.13%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.56%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.56%) DocuSign
8 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.56%) Kenna
8 1 (1.56%) Remedy