Operational Resilience Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Operational Resilience
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Operational Resilience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	125	114	-
Rank change year-on-year	-11	-	-
Contract jobs citing Operational Resilience	33	4	0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley	1.07%	0.23%	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.29%	0.25%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	26	2	0
10^th Percentile	£418	£585	-
25^th Percentile	£466	£608	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£615	£669	-
Median % change year-on-year	-8.07%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£741	£733	-
90^th Percentile	£775	£758	-
South East median daily rate	£615	£588	-
% change year-on-year	+4.59%	-	-

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Operational Resilience 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.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	2,563	1,576	1,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley	82.86%	90.21%	86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,503	983	1,071
10^th Percentile	£325	£270	£300
25^th Percentile	£425	£401	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£538	£500	£510
Median % change year-on-year	+7.50%	-1.96%	-0.49%
75^th Percentile	£610	£588	£625
90^th Percentile	£719	£650	£675
South East median daily rate	£525	£500	£510
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-1.96%	-2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted	325	111	71
10^th Percentile	£13.45	£14.75	£18.50
25^th Percentile	£17.19	£15.91	£27.00
Median hourly rate	£52.50	£25.15	£57.50
Median % change year-on-year	+108.75%	-56.26%	+12.62%
75^th Percentile	£87.96	£40.65	£62.85
90^th Percentile	£100.00	£72.00	£74.87
South East median hourly rate	£45.00	£20.71	£58.30
% change year-on-year	+117.29%	-64.48%	+11.05%

Operational Resilience Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Operational Resilience Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Operational Resilience.

Operational Resilience Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Resilience in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Resilience in the Thames Valley

Operational Resilience 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 Operational Resilience within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Buckinghamshire	-11	17	£608	+3.32%
Berkshire	-12	13	£688	-8.33%
Oxfordshire	-	3	£800	-
Operational Resilience South East

Operational Resilience Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Operational Resilience also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region with a requirement for Operational Resilience.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Stakeholder Management	51.5%	17
2	Cybersecurity	39.4%	13
3	Disaster Recovery	36.4%	12
4	Business Continuity	33.3%	11
4	Security Cleared	33.3%	11
6	Continuous Improvement	30.3%	10
7	Azure	27.3%	9
8	Incident Management	24.2%	8
8	Microsoft	24.2%	8
8	Vulnerability Management	24.2%	8
11	Cyber Resilience	21.2%	7
11	Decision-Making	21.2%	7
11	Incident Response	21.2%	7
11	ITIL	21.2%	7
15	Active Directory	18.2%	6
15	Cloud Security	18.2%	6
15	DV Cleared	18.2%	6
15	Regulatory Compliance	18.2%	6
15	Service Delivery	18.2%	6
15	Service Management	18.2%	6
15	Test Strategy	18.2%	6
22	AWS	15.2%	5
22	DevOps	15.2%	5
22	DevSecOps	15.2%	5
22	Resilience Testing	15.2%	5
22	SC Cleared	15.2%	5
22	Terraform	15.2%	5
22	Windows	15.2%	5
22	Windows Server	15.2%	5
30	(ISC)2 CCSP	12.1%	4

Operational Resilience Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Stakeholder Management	51.5%	17
2	Cybersecurity	39.4%	13
3	Disaster Recovery	36.4%	12
4	Business Continuity	33.3%	11
5	Continuous Improvement	30.3%	10
6	Incident Management	24.2%	8
6	Vulnerability Management	24.2%	8
8	Cyber Resilience	21.2%	7
8	Decision-Making	21.2%	7
8	Incident Response	21.2%	7
8	ITIL	21.2%	7
12	Cloud Security	18.2%	6
12	Regulatory Compliance	18.2%	6
12	Service Delivery	18.2%	6
12	Service Management	18.2%	6
12	Test Strategy	18.2%	6
17	DevOps	15.2%	5
17	DevSecOps	15.2%	5
17	Resilience Testing	15.2%	5
20	Business Impact Analysis	12.1%	4