Thales Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Thales
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 17 September 2026, 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
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Thales 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.085% - 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.19% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £550
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £434 - -
England median daily rate £475 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -8.33%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,563 925 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.40% 50.52% 46.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 609 583
10th Percentile £313 £235 £250
25th Percentile £405 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £624
90th Percentile £675 £639 £713
England median daily rate £514 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.65% -4.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 27 13
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.59 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.57 £28.11 £15.22
Median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -4.76% +40.00%
75th Percentile £33.99 £46.63 £48.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £33.25
% change year-on-year +19.28% -24.36% -22.22%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Thales job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Thales
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Thales within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 2026. 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
Coventry - 3 £413 -
Thales
England

Thales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GRC
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk