Validation Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Validation
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 60 74
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 -9
Contract jobs citing Validation 4 15 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.83% 1.75% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.87% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 3
10th Percentile - £252 £241
25th Percentile £563 £374 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £310
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +69.35% -29.14%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £405
90th Percentile - £617 £459
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +0.05% +7.53% +10.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 399 801 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.44% 93.57% 90.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 639 625
10th Percentile £276 £295 £244
25th Percentile £400 £409 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +1.05% +2.98%
75th Percentile £567 £580 £573
90th Percentile £645 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 41
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.18 -
25th Percentile £18.00 £11.19 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.00 £13.75 £12.31
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +11.70% -5.31%
75th Percentile £30.00 £16.69 £14.51
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.93 £55.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.93
% change year-on-year -5.00% +128.00% -20.25%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Buckinghamshire

Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Validation in Buckinghamshire

Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Buckinghamshire

Validation
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 26 May 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
Milton Keynes +28 4 £575 +16.16% 9
Validation
South East

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) Impala
1 1 (25.00%) Sqoop
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Credit Risk Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Internal Audit
2 3 (75.00%) Stress Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Logistic Regression
3 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) IFRS
1 3 (75.00%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica