RMADS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Risk Management and Accreditation Documentation Set (RMADS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring RMADS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - 135
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing RMADS 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.14% - 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.77% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £545
25th Percentile £625 - £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.92%
75th Percentile £675 - £641
90th Percentile - - £646
South East median daily rate £632 £675 £613
% change year-on-year -6.37% +10.20% -4.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

RMADS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 389 314 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.68% 15.64% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 143 263
10th Percentile £300 £260 £148
25th Percentile £406 £399 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £690 £736
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +11.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 22
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.88 £24.26
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.58 £26.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +21.71% +140.61%
75th Percentile £81.75 £64.73 £71.62
90th Percentile £89.63 £65.44 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £36.00 £50.00 £52.81
% change year-on-year -28.00% -5.32% +151.46%

RMADS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

RMADS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

RMADS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RMADS

RMADS
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 RMADS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 December 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 - 2 £650 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
RMADS
South East

RMADS
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Consultant
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Information Assurance
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Register
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) VMware