Junior Contracts in the Thames Valley

Junior
South East > Thames Valley

The median Junior daily rate in the Thames Valley is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 131 154
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 13 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.52% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.55% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 9
10th Percentile £246 £210 £170
25th Percentile £308 £251 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £300 £290
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +3.45% +45.00%
75th Percentile £425 £371 £400
90th Percentile £438 £408 £430
South East median daily rate £365 £190 £274
% change year-on-year +92.11% -30.53% +36.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £16.73 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £17.44 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £19.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +120.78% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £20.44 -
90th Percentile - £20.78 -
South East median hourly rate £42.50 £15.33 £18.00
% change year-on-year +177.32% -14.86% -34.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,487 2,718 3,419
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.44% 96.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,848 2,344
10th Percentile £213 £300 £209
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 82 97
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £20.17 £21.16 £13.00
Median hourly rate £48.29 £49.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +182.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.97 £64.29
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year - +138.10% -13.47%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the Thames Valley

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Junior in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Junior in the Thames Valley

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in the Thames Valley

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Junior in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Junior in the Thames Valley

Junior
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 June 2024. 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
Berkshire -7 8 £400 +40.99% 10
Buckinghamshire +25 3 £243 -32.69% 9
Oxfordshire +5 2 - - 6
Junior
South East

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Junior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 3 (23.08%) Automotive
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
3 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
3 2 (15.38%) Istio
3 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (15.38%) GitOps
3 2 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (15.38%) RSA Archer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Unix

Junior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
1 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (23.08%) Automotive
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) YAML
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Energy Management
2 2 (15.38%) GitOps
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (15.38%) Supplier Management
2 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Customer Value Proposition
3 1 (7.69%) Data Science
3 1 (7.69%) Risk Register
3 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (7.69%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
1 2 (15.38%) Istio
1 2 (15.38%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) VMware