Thales Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Thales
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 20 June 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
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 89
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Thales 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.62% - 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £450
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
South West median daily rate £525 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Vendors
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 269 226 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 33.13% 50.90% 49.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 159 361
10th Percentile £300 £232 £304
25th Percentile £413 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.88% -2.18%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £675
90th Percentile £694 £688 £775
South West median daily rate £514 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.24% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 9
10th Percentile £25.78 £18.69 £13.76
25th Percentile £37.69 - -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £18.87 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year +149.07% +29.78% -78.93%
75th Percentile £51.00 £22.53 £30.25
90th Percentile - £26.15 -
South West median hourly rate £51.00 £32.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year +56.92% -38.68% -11.67%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Thales job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Thales
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Thales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Thales

Thales
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Thales within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Swindon - 1 £525 -
Corsham - 1 £515 -
Thales
South West

Thales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Ant
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (40.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (60.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 3 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) Key Management
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (80.00%) VxRail
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) BeyondTrust
1 4 (80.00%) Dell
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle