Validation Contracts in Chester

Validation
Cheshire > Chester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Validation 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 11.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £570 £400 £533
% change year-on-year +42.50% -24.88% +19.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £42.50 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year +54.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38 77 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 71.70% 89.53% 92.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 44 31
10th Percentile £266 £288 £211
25th Percentile £445 £340 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -5.88% +43.46%
75th Percentile £738 £528 £538
90th Percentile - £676 £625
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 4
10th Percentile - £23.15 £12.38
25th Percentile £41.25 £29.58 £12.59
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.54 £17.21
Median % change year-on-year +39.16% +77.48% -33.08%
75th Percentile £47.50 £35.00 £23.09
90th Percentile - - £25.96
Cheshire median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -27.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Chester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Chester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Chester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) IT Support
2 3 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Compliance Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (83.33%) Data Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Data Extraction
1 5 (83.33%) FMEA
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (83.33%) Process Improvement
1 5 (83.33%) Project Management
1 5 (83.33%) Smart Manufacturing
1 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) GxP
2 5 (83.33%) GAMP
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) SAP