Thales Contracts

Thales
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 575 701
Rank change year-on-year +60 +126 +134
Contract jobs citing Thales 5 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.016% 0.028%
As % of the Vendors category 0.036% 0.038% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 13
10th Percentile - £430 £417
25th Percentile - £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £446
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +0.90% -22.43%
75th Percentile - £584 £650
90th Percentile - £649 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £600
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £83.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.71% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Thales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Thales in the UK

Thales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Thales.

Daily rate trend for Thales in the UK

Thales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Thales.

Hourly rate trend for Thales in the UK

Thales
Top 4 Contract Locations

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 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
England +54 4 - - 25
UK excluding London +62 3 - - 33
South East - 3 - - 16
Work from Home +41 1 £600 +33.33% 22

Thales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) X.509
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cryptography Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Key Management
3 3 (60.00%) Digital Identity
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Information Security
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
5 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Use Case
5 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) GIAC
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Gemalto
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft