Validation Contracts in Edinburgh

Validation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 64 85 117
Rank change year-on-year +21 +32 -42
Contract jobs citing Validation 7 28 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.87% 2.17% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 2.28% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 22 7
10th Percentile - £401 £313
25th Percentile - £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +10.47% +1.18%
75th Percentile - £519 £550
90th Percentile - £600 £611
Scotland median daily rate £475 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.87 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.94 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 714 1,229 1,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.26% 95.27% 93.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 877 1,257
10th Percentile £227 £252 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £563
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 12 18
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.62 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.47 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -41.19% -32.99%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.94 £52.50
90th Percentile - £66.20 £53.92
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (42.86%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) OCI
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 3 (42.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Avaya Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Change Management
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Business Case
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (28.57%) Data Enrichment
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) DataOps
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) Financial Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) Statistics
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Avaya
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft