Onboarding Contracts in the Thames Valley

Onboarding
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 114 134
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 36 28 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.68% 1.05% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.57% 3.29% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 36
10th Percentile £294 £500 £168
25th Percentile £392 £522 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £573 £381
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% +50.16% -21.79%
75th Percentile £781 £631 £538
90th Percentile £820 £694 £638
South East median daily rate £539 £541 £500
% change year-on-year -0.46% +8.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.75 £60.63 -
Median hourly rate £21.50 £61.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.90% - -
75th Percentile £22.25 £61.88 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £21.50 £39.13 £13.13
% change year-on-year -45.05% +197.98% -44.13%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 646 851 1,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.20% 32.03% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 545 803
10th Percentile £279 £210 £263
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% - +7.64%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £610
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 33 24
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.00 £13.55
25th Percentile £25.99 £24.00 £15.95
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.21 £18.46
Median % change year-on-year +16.12% +144.91% -61.14%
75th Percentile £60.60 £66.44 £31.38
90th Percentile £62.24 £74.12 £65.83
South East median hourly rate £52.75 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +0.48% +61.54% -27.08%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Onboarding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the Thames Valley

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the Thames Valley

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the Thames Valley

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the Thames Valley

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +11 26 £615 +11.82% 37
Buckinghamshire +14 9 £420 -30.00% 21
Oxfordshire - 1 £475 - 13
Onboarding
South East

Onboarding
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.56%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.78%) IaaS
4 1 (2.78%) PaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Network Security
1 2 (5.56%) VSAN
2 1 (2.78%) DHCP
2 1 (2.78%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) MPLS
2 1 (2.78%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) GIS
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
1 1 (2.78%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (2.78%) SAP HANA
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) LSMW
General
1 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Legal
2 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Law
3 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.78%) Billing
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Consultant
1 9 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
2 5 (13.89%) SAP Technical Consultant
2 5 (13.89%) Technical Consultant
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Desktop Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Security Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Systems Support Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) BAPI
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) React
2 1 (2.78%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.78%) RESTful
2 1 (2.78%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (2.78%) SAP PI
2 1 (2.78%) SAP Smart Forms
2 1 (2.78%) SAPUI5
2 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 3 (8.33%) PKI
2 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.78%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Identity Management
1 8 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
2 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (16.67%) Agile
3 6 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (11.11%) ITIL
4 4 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 3 (8.33%) Change Control
5 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.33%) Client Onboarding
5 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (8.33%) Information Management
5 3 (8.33%) IT Strategy
5 3 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (8.33%) TOGAF
6 2 (5.56%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (5.56%) DevSecOps
6 2 (5.56%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.56%) ABAP
1 2 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) C#
2 1 (2.78%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) R
2 1 (2.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 16 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (13.89%) Degree
6 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (5.56%) APMP
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.56%) ISEB
7 2 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (2.78%) MCITP
8 1 (2.78%) MCSE
8 1 (2.78%) MCTS
8 1 (2.78%) SAP Certification
8 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.56%) NCSC
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
1 11 (30.56%) SAP
2 4 (11.11%) Apple
3 3 (8.33%) Virgin Media
3 3 (8.33%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) Workday
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.78%) Ariba
5 1 (2.78%) Netskope
5 1 (2.78%) Remedy
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce