Value Proposition Contracts in the Thames Valley

Value Proposition
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Value Proposition skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Value Proposition over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 132 140
Rank change year-on-year +34 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Value Proposition 4 13 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.48% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.56% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £513 £418 £368
25th Percentile £531 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £975 £538
90th Percentile - - £620
South East median daily rate £538 £450 £588
% change year-on-year +19.44% -23.40% +17.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Value Proposition 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 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Value Proposition
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Value Proposition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Value Proposition in the Thames Valley

Value Proposition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Value Proposition in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Value Proposition in the Thames Valley

Value Proposition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Value Proposition in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Value Proposition in the Thames Valley

Value Proposition
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 Value Proposition within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +23 4 £575 +27.78% 34
Value Proposition
South East

Value Proposition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Business Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OpenID
1 2 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Case
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Commercialisation
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) eTOM
3 1 (25.00%) Sales Enablement
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Enablement
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft