Validation Contracts in England

Validation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 118 143 189
Rank change year-on-year +25 +46 -18
Contract jobs citing Validation 708 956 1,090
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.92% 1.89% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.10% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 552 633
10th Percentile £313 £356 £331
25th Percentile £409 £458 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £503
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.45% +11.67%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £600
90th Percentile £700 £950 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.28% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 164 75
10th Percentile £24.19 £42.50 £26.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.65 £42.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £61.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +12.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £75.16 £65.75 £63.44
90th Percentile £86.40 £75.92 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.53 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.04% +13.68% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in England

Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +9 278 £550 -15.38% 181
South East +2 108 £501 +5.37% 179
North of England +72 85 £445 -12.75% 103
South West -11 84 £450 -18.18% 111
East of England +2 83 £488 -0.51% 126
Midlands +7 52 £450 +12.50% 140
North West +26 41 £500 - 65
Yorkshire +42 35 £425 -43.33% 30
West Midlands +22 34 £488 +8.33% 97
East Midlands +11 20 £405 +15.71% 42
North East +20 9 £454 -30.15% 11
Validation
UK

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (4.38%) Confluence
2 19 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.27%) SAS
4 8 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.13%) CMS
5 6 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.56%) Apache
6 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (5.23%) Simulink
4 30 (4.24%) Stateflow
5 18 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (1.84%) AutoCAD
7 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.99%) MS Visio
9 6 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.71%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.28%) Sketch
12 1 (0.14%) InVision
12 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.85%) Magento
3 5 (0.71%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.71%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.71%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.56%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.42%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.28%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.14%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (7.63%) Azure
2 26 (3.67%) Power Platform
3 22 (3.11%) AWS
4 17 (2.40%) GCP
5 14 (1.98%) dbt
6 13 (1.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 12 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.13%) GitHub
9 8 (1.13%) SaaS
10 7 (0.99%) OCI
11 6 (0.85%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.71%) BrowserStack
12 5 (0.71%) Serverless
13 4 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (0.56%) BlazeMeter
13 4 (0.56%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.82%) SNMP
2 16 (2.26%) Software-Defined Radio
3 13 (1.84%) Internet
3 13 (1.84%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.55%) Firewall
4 11 (1.55%) WAN
5 10 (1.41%) DNS
5 10 (1.41%) Ethernet
5 10 (1.41%) LAN
6 9 (1.27%) SSL
7 8 (1.13%) VPN
8 7 (0.99%) DHCP
8 7 (0.99%) VSAN
9 6 (0.85%) MPLS
9 6 (0.85%) Wireless
10 5 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.56%) SDH
11 4 (0.56%) VoIP
11 4 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (3.53%) Power BI
3 15 (2.12%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.98%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.41%) Electronic Patient Records
7 9 (1.27%) Big Data
8 7 (0.99%) Couchbase
8 7 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.71%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.71%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
11 4 (0.56%) Tableau
12 3 (0.42%) GIS
12 3 (0.42%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 60 (8.47%) JIRA
2 37 (5.23%) Git
3 34 (4.80%) Rational DOORS
4 22 (3.11%) Eclipse
5 20 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.12%) GoogleTest
6 15 (2.12%) Robot Framework
7 11 (1.55%) JMeter
7 11 (1.55%) Selenium
7 11 (1.55%) Subversion
8 10 (1.41%) Rational Rhapsody
9 8 (1.13%) Jenkins
9 8 (1.13%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.85%) Postman
11 5 (0.71%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.56%) CppUnit
12 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.56%) GitLab
12 4 (0.56%) LSMW
12 4 (0.56%) PVCS
General
1 167 (23.59%) Finance
2 162 (22.88%) Social Skills
3 94 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 37 (5.23%) Automotive
6 36 (5.08%) Aerospace
6 36 (5.08%) Manufacturing
7 34 (4.80%) Legal
8 33 (4.66%) Banking
9 29 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (3.95%) Marketing
11 27 (3.81%) Telecoms
12 25 (3.53%) Electronics
13 20 (2.82%) Military
14 19 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (2.68%) Retail
15 13 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.84%) Law
16 12 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 133 (18.79%) Analyst
2 81 (11.44%) Software Engineer
3 56 (7.91%) Architect
4 51 (7.20%) Business Analyst
5 44 (6.21%) Developer
5 44 (6.21%) Senior
6 42 (5.93%) Lead
6 42 (5.93%) Systems Engineer
7 37 (5.23%) Embedded Engineer
8 34 (4.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 31 (4.38%) Consultant
10 27 (3.81%) Data Analyst
10 27 (3.81%) Project Manager
11 22 (3.11%) Principal Engineer
12 21 (2.97%) Test Engineer
13 20 (2.82%) Integration Engineer
13 20 (2.82%) Principal Systems Engineer
14 18 (2.54%) Data Migration Analyst
14 18 (2.54%) Test Analyst
14 18 (2.54%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.68%) CSS
1 19 (2.68%) HTML
2 11 (1.55%) Kafka
2 11 (1.55%) PySpark
3 10 (1.41%) ADO
4 7 (0.99%) JSON
4 7 (0.99%) Node.js
4 7 (0.99%) REST
5 6 (0.85%) Flash
5 6 (0.85%) Web Services
6 5 (0.71%) Middleware
7 4 (0.56%) Swagger
7 4 (0.56%) WebdriverIO
8 3 (0.42%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.42%) Playwright
8 3 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (0.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 3 (0.42%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.07%) Algorithms
2 29 (4.10%) Management Information System
3 20 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 12 (1.69%) NHS
5 11 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.41%) Life Science
7 9 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.13%) LIMS
8 8 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.13%) Operational Technology
9 7 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.85%) Clustering
10 6 (0.85%) CMDB
10 6 (0.85%) DataPower
11 5 (0.71%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.65%) Linux
1 40 (5.65%) Windows
2 19 (2.68%) Unix
3 6 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
3 6 (0.85%) Solaris
3 6 (0.85%) VMS
4 4 (0.56%) SafeRTOS
5 3 (0.42%) Android
5 3 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (19.21%) Verification and Validation
2 112 (15.82%) Software Engineering
3 111 (15.68%) Agile
4 105 (14.83%) Migration
5 100 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (10.03%) Computer Science
7 69 (9.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 68 (9.60%) Data Migration
9 67 (9.46%) Project Management
10 60 (8.47%) Test Automation
11 55 (7.77%) Data Modelling
12 52 (7.34%) Systems Engineering
13 51 (7.20%) Data Validation
13 51 (7.20%) ETL
14 46 (6.50%) Scrum
15 44 (6.21%) Data Management
15 44 (6.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 44 (6.21%) Use Case
16 43 (6.07%) Risk Management
17 40 (5.65%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 68 (9.60%) SQL
2 67 (9.46%) C++
3 56 (7.91%) C
4 53 (7.49%) Python
5 41 (5.79%) MATLAB
6 31 (4.38%) JavaScript
7 25 (3.53%) Java
8 19 (2.68%) C#
9 16 (2.26%) Embedded C
10 13 (1.84%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.69%) Embedded C++
12 10 (1.41%) Ada
12 10 (1.41%) Bash
13 7 (0.99%) Assembly Language
13 7 (0.99%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.85%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.71%) Perl
15 5 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.71%) VBA
16 4 (0.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 129 (18.22%) Degree
2 102 (14.41%) Security Cleared
3 74 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 40 (5.65%) Master's Degree
5 26 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (1.69%) ISTQB
8 11 (1.55%) CCNA
9 10 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.27%) PhD
11 8 (1.13%) Chartered Engineer
11 8 (1.13%) PMI Certification
11 8 (1.13%) PMP
12 4 (0.56%) CCNP
12 4 (0.56%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.42%) CCA
13 3 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (11.44%) QA
2 70 (9.89%) Data Quality
3 29 (4.10%) NIST
4 13 (1.84%) PMO
5 11 (1.55%) GxP
6 10 (1.41%) GDPR
7 9 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.13%) HL7
8 8 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.99%) AUTOSAR
10 6 (0.85%) GAMP
10 6 (0.85%) ISO 26262
11 5 (0.71%) IFRS
11 5 (0.71%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.71%) MISRA
11 5 (0.71%) MISRA C
12 4 (0.56%) COBIT
12 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 4 (0.56%) ISO17020
12 4 (0.56%) JTAG
System Software
1 27 (3.81%) Firmware
2 23 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.27%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.27%) KVM
6 7 (0.99%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.42%) Docker
8 3 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.28%) vSphere
10 1 (0.14%) HDFS
10 1 (0.14%) NFS
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.41%) vCenter Server
2 6 (0.85%) Ansible
3 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
3 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (0.42%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.28%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.28%) Nmap
5 2 (0.28%) OpenNMS
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) QRadar
6 1 (0.14%) SCCM
6 1 (0.14%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 77 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.89%) SAP
3 36 (5.08%) Oracle
4 26 (3.67%) Google
4 26 (3.67%) VMware
5 23 (3.25%) Atlassian
6 16 (2.26%) EMC
7 15 (2.12%) Cisco
7 15 (2.12%) IBM
8 14 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.41%) Databricks
10 8 (1.13%) Workday
11 6 (0.85%) HP
11 6 (0.85%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.71%) MathWorks
13 4 (0.56%) Aruba
13 4 (0.56%) Barracuda Networks
13 4 (0.56%) DocuSign
13 4 (0.56%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.42%) Pardot