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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 109 91
Rank change year-on-year +63 -18 +35
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 62 31 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.13% 1.19% 1.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.88% 4.05% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 40
10th Percentile £356 £213 £448
25th Percentile £450 £416 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +45.57%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £721
90th Percentile £638 £670 £738
South East median daily rate £498 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -15.32% +6.82% +15.79%
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 522 766 906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.80% 29.50% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 462 600
10th Percentile £300 £205 £275
25th Percentile £406 £300 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £623
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 58 23
10th Percentile £13.13 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £23.50 £21.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £46.50 £27.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.57% -34.71% +112.50%
75th Percentile £64.18 £58.65 £71.80
90th Percentile £88.46 £65.00 £78.35
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.64% -5.00% +132.56%

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 17 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 17 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 +70 60 £525 -8.30% 56
Buckinghamshire +5 2 £425 +1.19% 24
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 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.23%) CMS
2 2 (3.23%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (3.23%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.90%) Azure
2 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
3 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.84%) AWS
3 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.84%) Serverless
4 2 (3.23%) GitHub
4 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
4 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
4 2 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (1.61%) Collibra
5 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) 3G
1 2 (3.23%) 3GPP
1 2 (3.23%) 4G
1 2 (3.23%) BGP
1 2 (3.23%) Broadband
1 2 (3.23%) DNS
1 2 (3.23%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (3.23%) IPv6
1 2 (3.23%) LTE
1 2 (3.23%) OSPF
1 2 (3.23%) SAN
1 2 (3.23%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (3.23%) TACACS
1 2 (3.23%) VSAN
2 1 (1.61%) 5G
2 1 (1.61%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (1.61%) HTTP
2 1 (1.61%) MVNO
2 1 (1.61%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.84%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.61%) Big Data
3 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) GitLab
1 2 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.61%) Maven
2 1 (1.61%) Toad
General
1 15 (24.19%) Telecoms
2 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Legal
5 3 (4.84%) Billing
5 3 (4.84%) Finance
6 2 (3.23%) Law
6 2 (3.23%) Marketing
6 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (11.29%) Analyst
3 6 (9.68%) SIEM Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Architect
4 5 (8.06%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.06%) Commercial Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Commercial Project Manager
6 3 (4.84%) Consultant
6 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.84%) Senior
6 3 (4.84%) Transformation Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (3.23%) React Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Salesforce Administrator
7 2 (3.23%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) JSON
1 6 (9.68%) REST
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Axis
2 2 (3.23%) HTML
2 2 (3.23%) YAML
3 1 (1.61%) .NET
3 1 (1.61%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) CSOC
1 6 (9.68%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (1.61%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Windows
1 12 (19.35%) Windows Server
2 10 (16.13%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (11.29%) Security Operations
4 7 (11.29%) SIEM
4 7 (11.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (9.68%) Agile
5 6 (9.68%) Incident Response
5 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Management
5 6 (9.68%) ITIL
5 6 (9.68%) Process Improvement
6 5 (8.06%) Client Onboarding
7 4 (6.45%) Analytics
7 4 (6.45%) CI/CD
7 4 (6.45%) Project Management
8 3 (4.84%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (4.84%) High Availability
8 3 (4.84%) ITSM
8 3 (4.84%) Programme Governance
8 3 (4.84%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 7 (11.29%) SQL
3 3 (4.84%) Python
4 2 (3.23%) C#
4 2 (3.23%) Java
4 2 (3.23%) Ruby
5 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.74%) DV Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) GIAC
4 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) CISSP
5 2 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.61%) Degree
6 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
3 1 (1.61%) PMO
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.13%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.23%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Argo
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Virgin Media
2 12 (19.35%) Dell
2 12 (19.35%) VMware
3 10 (16.13%) Wyse
4 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.06%) Cisco
6 3 (4.84%) BT
6 3 (4.84%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.84%) Databricks
6 3 (4.84%) Openreach
6 3 (4.84%) Splunk
7 2 (3.23%) Concur
7 2 (3.23%) Juniper
7 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.23%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.61%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.61%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.61%) Remedy