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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 85 90
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -32
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 37 43 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.24% 1.77% 1.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.40% 5.96% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 28
10th Percentile £400 £356 £330
25th Percentile - £519 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £599
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +1.04% +33.06%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £650
90th Percentile £538 - £679
South East median daily rate £475 £600 £463
% change year-on-year -20.83% +29.73% +14.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £13.10 - -
25th Percentile £13.25 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile £32.05 - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £90.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -79.09% +227.27% -54.17%

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 578 721 919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.92% 29.60% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 428 617
10th Percentile £303 £210 £300
25th Percentile £400 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 49 28
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.75 £20.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £27.50 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -53.68% +196.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £68.31
90th Percentile £88.05 £65.00 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £51.25
% change year-on-year -40.92% +11.90% +131.90%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 27 £450 -25.62% 51
Oxfordshire - 7 - - 25
Buckinghamshire +11 3 - - 38
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 6 (16.22%) SharePoint
2 4 (10.81%) CMS
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (5.41%) Photoshop
5 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (16.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.41%) GitHub
3 2 (5.41%) Google Analytics
3 2 (5.41%) SaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (29.73%) ATM
1 11 (29.73%) Ethernet
1 11 (29.73%) Frame Relay
1 11 (29.73%) GPRS
1 11 (29.73%) GSM
1 11 (29.73%) LAN
1 11 (29.73%) LTE
1 11 (29.73%) MPLS
1 11 (29.73%) SAN
1 11 (29.73%) SDH
1 11 (29.73%) UMTS
1 11 (29.73%) VPN
1 11 (29.73%) WAN
1 11 (29.73%) Wireshark
2 3 (8.11%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (5.41%) Broadband
4 1 (2.70%) DHCP
4 1 (2.70%) DNS
4 1 (2.70%) Firewall
4 1 (2.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
2 3 (8.11%) Power Query
3 2 (5.41%) Big Data
3 2 (5.41%) Metadata
4 1 (2.70%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
1 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 25 (67.57%) Social Skills
2 16 (43.24%) Telecoms
3 10 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (27.03%) Finance
4 9 (24.32%) Manufacturing
5 8 (21.62%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Marketing
7 1 (2.70%) Automotive
7 1 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Law
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) IP Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Test Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Lead
3 5 (13.51%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Change Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Report Developer
4 3 (8.11%) SAP Change Manager
4 3 (8.11%) SAP Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Agile Scrum Master
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Development Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) IP Network Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Network Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Scrum Master
5 2 (5.41%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) HTML
2 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Life Science
1 9 (24.32%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.41%) Learning Management System
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (37.84%) Linux
2 11 (29.73%) Unix
3 3 (8.11%) Windows
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (32.43%) Agile
2 12 (32.43%) Project Management
3 11 (29.73%) Fault Management
3 11 (29.73%) Regression Testing
3 11 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (29.73%) Test Strategy
4 10 (27.03%) Change Management
4 10 (27.03%) Time Management
5 7 (18.92%) Critical Thinking
5 7 (18.92%) Strategic Thinking
6 6 (16.22%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (13.51%) Analytics
7 5 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (13.51%) Migration
8 4 (10.81%) Content Management
8 4 (10.81%) ERP
8 4 (10.81%) Workflow
9 3 (8.11%) Data Management
9 3 (8.11%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) Java
2 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.11%) VBA
3 2 (5.41%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
4 1 (2.70%) C#
4 1 (2.70%) VB
4 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) CCNP
1 11 (29.73%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (29.73%) ISEB
1 11 (29.73%) ISTQB
1 11 (29.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 5 (13.51%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Ansible
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.70%) SCCM
2 1 (2.70%) SCOM
2 1 (2.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (70.27%) Microsoft
2 11 (29.73%) Cisco
2 11 (29.73%) Juniper
3 6 (16.22%) SAP
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle
5 2 (5.41%) Adobe
5 2 (5.41%) Databricks
5 2 (5.41%) Google
5 2 (5.41%) Hotjar
6 1 (2.70%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.70%) Teradata