Technical Analysis Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Technical Analysis
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Technical Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 123 140
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 +33
Contract jobs citing Technical Analysis 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.29% 0.050% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.056% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £312 - -
25th Percentile £329 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.81% - -
75th Percentile £409 - -
90th Percentile £431 - -
South East median daily rate £365 £520 £604
% change year-on-year -29.81% -13.87% +23.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Technical Analysis 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 1,830 1,780 2,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.48% 89.04% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,046 1,460
10th Percentile £266 £276 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £686 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 51 103
10th Percentile £15.23 £19.30 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.00 £30.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +14.11% +136.81%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.00 £63.90
90th Percentile £89.63 £67.00 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

Technical Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Technical Analysis job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Technical Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis
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 Technical Analysis within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 December 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 -8 5 £430 -17.31% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 -
Technical Analysis
South East

Technical Analysis
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 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Behavioural Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
3 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) CFCE
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) GCFA
1 3 (50.00%) GCIA
1 3 (50.00%) GCIH
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) GDPR
3 2 (33.33%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) ArcSight
2 2 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (33.33%) LogRhythm
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft