Thales Contract Job Trends

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 5 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
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 548 620
Rank change year-on-year -7 +72 +215
Contract jobs citing Thales 15 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.027% 0.028%
As % of the Vendors category 0.091% 0.061% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 8
10th Percentile £313 £528 £476
25th Percentile £421 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £610
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -9.84% -9.63%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £664
90th Percentile £700 £715 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £550 -
% change year-on-year -20.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.50 - -
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% - -
75th Percentile £44.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 - -

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 16,461 16,408 21,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.61% 44.93% 45.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,296 9,661 13,519
10th Percentile £281 £293 £260
25th Percentile £404 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.80% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 511 665
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.91 £17.00 £19.76
Median hourly rate £25.04 £31.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% -28.25% +75.60%
75th Percentile £39.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.75 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year -21.70% -33.33% +94.32%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Thales job vacancy trend in the UK

Thales
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Thales
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thales over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thales in the UK

Thales
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Thales
Top 9 Contract Job 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 5 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
England -1 13 £538 -2.27% 22
UK excluding London -30 10 £438 -20.45% 21
North of England - 8 £438 - 7
North West - 6 £423 - 5
London +12 3 £600 +14.29% 1
Work from Home 0 3 £325 -43.48% 11
Yorkshire - 2 £675 - 2
South West +7 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 - -

Thales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (53.33%) Confluence
2 6 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (20.00%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) SSH
2 6 (40.00%) SSL
3 5 (33.33%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Cryptography Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Information Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Programmer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) EJB
1 1 (6.67%) JCE
1 1 (6.67%) JSON Web Signature
1 1 (6.67%) JWT
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (6.67%) OpenID
1 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Tandem
2 5 (33.33%) PKI
3 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Unix
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Cryptography
2 9 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (53.33%) Incident Response
4 7 (46.67%) Information Security
4 7 (46.67%) Key Management
5 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (40.00%) ITIL
6 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (33.33%) Release Management
7 4 (26.67%) Change Management
7 4 (26.67%) Observability
8 3 (20.00%) Attestation
8 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (20.00%) Data Security
8 3 (20.00%) OWASP
8 3 (20.00%) Project Management
8 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
9 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (20.00%) CISSP
4 3 (20.00%) FFIEC
4 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (13.33%) CEH
6 1 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (6.67%) CISM
6 1 (6.67%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (33.33%) NIST
3 3 (20.00%) GDPR
3 3 (20.00%) GLBA
4 2 (13.33%) FIPS 140-2
5 1 (6.67%) NCSC
5 1 (6.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Gemalto
1 6 (40.00%) IBM
2 5 (33.33%) Splunk
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (6.67%) Intel
5 1 (6.67%) Qualys