Validation Contracts in Cheshire

Validation
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 -12
Contract jobs citing Validation 22 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.39% 1.51% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 1.66% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 4
10th Percentile £338 £377 £476
25th Percentile £416 £392 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £400 £533
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% -24.88% +20.75%
75th Percentile £580 £409 £575
90th Percentile - £426 -
North West median daily rate £500 £510 £463
% change year-on-year -1.96% +10.27% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £53.35 £44.68
% change year-on-year -20.34% +19.40% +103.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 483 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.43% 91.13% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 328 263
10th Percentile £277 £275 £214
25th Percentile £400 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £637 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.06 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -27.06%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £39.20 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Knutsford +19 11 £570 +42.50% 1
Chester - 6 - - 3
Warrington +7 2 £413 - 4
Macclesfield -17 1 - - 2
Runcorn - 1 £475 - 2
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North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (13.64%) SAS
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) BrowserStack
2 1 (4.55%) Commercetools
2 1 (4.55%) dbt
2 1 (4.55%) GitHub
2 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Essbase
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) Postman
1 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
1 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Analyst
2 9 (40.91%) Test Analyst
3 8 (36.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 5 (22.73%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) IT Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) IT Support
5 3 (13.64%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Compliance Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Project Manager
7 1 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Life Science
2 1 (4.55%) Digital Media
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Business Continuity
1 8 (36.36%) Business Strategy
1 8 (36.36%) Cyber Resilience
1 8 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (36.36%) Data Protection
1 8 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (36.36%) IT Strategy
1 8 (36.36%) Roadmaps
1 8 (36.36%) Strategic Roadmap
1 8 (36.36%) Use Case
2 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (27.27%) Project Management
2 6 (27.27%) Test Scripting
3 5 (22.73%) Analytics
3 5 (22.73%) Data Analytics
3 5 (22.73%) Data Extraction
3 5 (22.73%) Data Validation
3 5 (22.73%) FMEA
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) Groovy
2 1 (4.55%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.55%) PMP
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) NIST
2 6 (27.27%) GAMP
2 6 (27.27%) GxP
3 2 (9.09%) QA
4 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (4.55%) GDPR
4 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (4.55%) ISO17020
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle
1 2 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) HP
2 1 (4.55%) Hyperion
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce