WFM Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Workforce Management (WFM)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring WFM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Contract jobs citing WFM 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.34% - 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £469 - £508
25th Percentile £498 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.89%
75th Percentile £593 - £750
90th Percentile £621 - -
South East median daily rate £545 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +45.33% -31.82% -16.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

WFM 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 1,817 1,784 2,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.74% 88.84% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,045 1,475
10th Percentile £268 £292 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
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 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 54 104
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.92 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.40 £29.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.80% +137.45%
75th Percentile £56.50 £63.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £89.63 £69.03 £74.37
South East median hourly rate £22.23 £50.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -55.55% -5.66% +41.33%

WFM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

WFM job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

WFM
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

WFM
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WFM in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WFM in the Thames Valley

WFM
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 WFM within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 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 - 6 £450 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 1 £640 - 2
WFM
South East

WFM
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 4 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (57.14%) dbt
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
1 4 (57.14%) Tableau
2 2 (28.57%) Data Hub
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Operations Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (57.14%) Data Transformation
1 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Validation
1 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
1 4 (57.14%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Attestation
2 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Master's Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dell