Thales Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Thales
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring knowledge or experience of Thales products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thales over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Thales Group.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Thales 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.048% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.083% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £700 - -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

Thales falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,207 991 1,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 57.70% 49.57% 52.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 648 857
10th Percentile £263 £300 £205
25th Percentile £413 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.30%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £620
90th Percentile £655 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.34% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 20 60
10th Percentile £14.68 £18.73 £16.39
25th Percentile £18.00 £23.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £37.08 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -20.15% -33.22% +194.43%
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.85 £63.29
90th Percentile £91.17 £65.81 £70.20
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £37.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.67% -32.58% +129.17%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Thales job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Thales
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Thales
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 Thales 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 - 1 £425 - 2
Thales
South East

Thales
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%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Coverity
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft