Self-Motivation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Self-Motivation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation 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 59 110 95
Rank change year-on-year +51 -15 -30
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 43 35 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.85% 1.30% 1.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.89% 4.37% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 29
10th Percentile £370 £281 £170
25th Percentile - £541 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £425
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +42.35% -1.85%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £610
90th Percentile £511 - £660
South East median daily rate £475 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -19.15% +6.82% +30.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £16.81 - £18.95
25th Percentile £22.53 - £19.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £26.38
90th Percentile - - £27.05
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £15.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year +25.47% -38.78% -24.62%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Self-Motivation 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%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Self-Motivation in the Thames Valley

Self-Motivation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Self-Motivation in the Thames Valley

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Self-Motivation in the Thames Valley

Self-Motivation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Self-Motivation in the Thames Valley

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Self-Motivation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Self-Motivation in the Thames Valley

Self-Motivation
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 Self-Motivation 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 +42 38 £450 -25.62% 89
Oxfordshire +5 4 £195 -62.86% 63
Buckinghamshire +13 1 - - 61
Self-Motivation
South East

Self-Motivation
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 5 (11.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) CMS
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) Azure
2 9 (20.93%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) GCP
3 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.30%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (48.84%) MPLS
2 16 (37.21%) ATM
2 16 (37.21%) Ethernet
2 16 (37.21%) Frame Relay
2 16 (37.21%) GPRS
2 16 (37.21%) GSM
2 16 (37.21%) LAN
2 16 (37.21%) LTE
2 16 (37.21%) SAN
2 16 (37.21%) SDH
2 16 (37.21%) UMTS
2 16 (37.21%) VPN
2 16 (37.21%) WAN
2 16 (37.21%) Wireshark
3 5 (11.63%) BGP
3 5 (11.63%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.63%) VLAN
4 3 (6.98%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (4.65%) Broadband
6 1 (2.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Power BI
2 4 (9.30%) Big Data
3 3 (6.98%) Power Query
4 1 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Robot Framework
2 4 (9.30%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 33 (76.74%) Social Skills
2 27 (62.79%) Telecoms
3 14 (32.56%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (18.60%) Finance
5 5 (11.63%) Manufacturing
6 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.33%) Automotive
8 1 (2.33%) Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Legal
8 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) IP Engineer
2 14 (32.56%) Test Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Automation Tester
3 5 (11.63%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Network Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Telecoms Tester
3 5 (11.63%) Tester
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) Report Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Agile Scrum Master
6 2 (4.65%) IP Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) IP Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) .NET
1 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
1 5 (11.63%) Life Science
1 5 (11.63%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (4.65%) Learning Management System
2 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (48.84%) Linux
2 16 (37.21%) Unix
3 5 (11.63%) Windows
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (48.84%) Test Strategy
3 19 (44.19%) Project Management
4 16 (37.21%) Fault Management
4 16 (37.21%) Regression Testing
5 8 (18.60%) Agile
6 6 (13.95%) Change Management
6 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (13.95%) Time Management
7 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
7 5 (11.63%) DevOps
7 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.63%) Workflow
8 4 (9.30%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (9.30%) Customer-Centricity
8 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (9.30%) Server Building
8 4 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) Java
2 9 (20.93%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.98%) VBA
5 2 (4.65%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.33%) SQL
6 1 (2.33%) VB
6 1 (2.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) CCNP
1 16 (37.21%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (37.21%) ISEB
1 16 (37.21%) ISTQB
1 16 (37.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 5 (11.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Ansible
2 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.30%) Terraform
4 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.33%) SCCM
4 1 (2.33%) SCOM
4 1 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (67.44%) Microsoft
2 16 (37.21%) Cisco
2 16 (37.21%) Juniper
3 4 (9.30%) Databricks
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle
4 3 (6.98%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) Teradata