Spanish Language Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Spanish Language
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Spanish Language in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spanish Language over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 112 121
Rank change year-on-year -42 +9 +21
Contract jobs citing Spanish Language 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.033% 0.061% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.062% 0.099% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile £463 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +69.23%
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +68.00%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

Spanish Language falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,623 1,014 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.80% 61.94% 53.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 640 604
10th Percentile £325 £222 £234
25th Percentile £430 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £725 £665 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 60 69
10th Percentile £15.10 £14.20 £18.66
25th Percentile £20.31 £14.75 £38.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.83 £60.46
Median % change year-on-year +103.29% -57.28% +24.91%
75th Percentile £86.56 £58.00 £70.39
90th Percentile £104.15 £87.64 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £57.35
% change year-on-year +98.73% -67.10% +9.24%

Spanish Language
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Spanish Language job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Spanish Language
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Spanish Language
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spanish Language.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spanish Language

Spanish Language
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 Spanish Language within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 -26 1 £475 - 3
Spanish Language
South East

Spanish Language
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) IBM