Thales Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Thales
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 November 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
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 358 419
Rank change year-on-year -15 +61 +91
Contract jobs citing Thales 10 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.030% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.067% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £362 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £688 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £610
% change year-on-year +9.09% -9.84% -9.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.50 - -
Median hourly rate £44.00 - -
75th Percentile £44.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year +46.67% - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,082 7,439 9,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.00% 44.72% 47.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,135 4,291 6,274
10th Percentile £220 £220 £210
25th Percentile £365 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £659 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 643 429 520
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £17.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.00 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% -32.16% +97.55%
75th Percentile £39.47 £62.56 £59.63
90th Percentile £71.19 £70.00 £73.81
UK median hourly rate £25.11 £32.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -21.53% -27.11% +75.60%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Thales relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Thales job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Thales
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Thales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Thales

Thales
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thales in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thales in the UK excluding London

Thales
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Thales.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Thales

Thales
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Thales within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
North of England - 8 £438 - 6
North West - 6 £423 - 4
Yorkshire - 2 £675 - 2
South West +4 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 - -
Thales
UK

Thales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (60.00%) Confluence
1 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) SSH
2 2 (20.00%) SNMP
2 2 (20.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Cryptography Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Information Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Tandem
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Unix
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Cryptography
2 8 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (70.00%) Information Security
4 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (60.00%) ITIL
5 5 (50.00%) Release Management
6 4 (40.00%) Change Management
6 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (40.00%) Key Management
7 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (30.00%) Project Management
8 2 (20.00%) Attestation
8 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (20.00%) Data Security
8 2 (20.00%) Observability
8 2 (20.00%) OWASP
8 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
8 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
8 2 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (20.00%) FFIEC
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) GLBA
2 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (10.00%) NCSC
3 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Gemalto
1 6 (60.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys