Software Assurance Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Software Assurance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Software Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.031% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South East median daily rate £525 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +28.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Software Assurance 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 2,644 1,530 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.96% 92.45% 84.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 911 1,152
10th Percentile £313 £303 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -0.20% -2.72%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.57% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 109 129
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £14.29
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.12 £20.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 £25.15 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year +224.06% -52.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £53.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £80.60 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £57.79 £21.67 £55.08
% change year-on-year +166.72% -60.66% +10.15%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Software Assurance job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Software Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Software Assurance
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 Software Assurance within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire - 1 £550 -
Software Assurance
South East

Software Assurance
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) tSQLt
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Software Assurance Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Software Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance