Text Analytics Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Text Analytics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Text Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Text Analytics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.045% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Text Analytics 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 1,886 1,525 2,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.03% 91.48% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 880 1,503
10th Percentile £268 £250 £213
25th Percentile £385 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 43 152
10th Percentile £15.62 £24.93 £16.30
25th Percentile £18.87 £42.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £59.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.37% +24.21% +68.89%
75th Percentile £72.75 £65.17 £63.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £75.48 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

Text Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Text Analytics job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Text Analytics
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 Text Analytics within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 February 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Text Analytics
South East

Text Analytics
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI