Signal Processing Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Signal Processing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Signal Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing Signal Processing 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.062% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £850 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - -
75th Percentile £950 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £718 £613 £550
% change year-on-year +17.14% +11.36% +122.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Signal Processing 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,612 1,521 2,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.27% 92.74% 85.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,674 917 1,240
10th Percentile £306 £300 £234
25th Percentile £412 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £695 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 98 170
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £14.84 £19.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £24.91 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.24% -47.57% -5.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £54.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.25 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -

Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Signal Processing job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Signal Processing
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Signal Processing
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Signal Processing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Signal Processing

Signal Processing
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 Signal Processing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire - 2 £900 - 2
Signal Processing
South East

Signal Processing
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 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI