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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 149 191
Rank change year-on-year +30 +42 -24
Contract jobs citing Validation 721 900 1,114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.94% 1.80% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 2.00% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 517 640
10th Percentile £313 £363 £325
25th Percentile £405 £461 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £600
90th Percentile £700 £950 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 148 73
10th Percentile £24.78 £42.50 £26.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.37 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +13.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £75.08 £65.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.55 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.28% +13.73% +33.33%

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 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
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% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

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

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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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 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
London +6 277 £550 -12.00% 204
South East +8 108 £501 +0.10% 195
South West +10 93 £400 -28.70% 104
East of England +5 88 £488 -2.50% 129
North of England +69 84 £445 -14.83% 117
Midlands +21 53 £425 +6.25% 164
North West +40 42 £500 -3.85% 75
West Midlands +14 35 £475 +5.56% 111
Yorkshire +42 33 £425 -43.33% 34
East Midlands +17 20 £405 +1.25% 52
North East +18 9 £454 -24.33% 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 30 (4.16%) Confluence
2 20 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.66%) SAS
4 8 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.11%) CMS
5 6 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.55%) Apache
6 4 (0.55%) 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 45 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (5.13%) Simulink
3 36 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (4.16%) Stateflow
5 18 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 17 (2.36%) AutoCAD
7 9 (1.25%) MS Visio
8 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.69%) TargetLink
11 3 (0.42%) Sketch
12 1 (0.14%) InVision
12 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 25 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.83%) Magento
3 5 (0.69%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.69%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.55%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.42%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
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
6 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (7.77%) Azure
2 26 (3.61%) Power Platform
3 22 (3.05%) AWS
4 17 (2.36%) GCP
5 14 (1.94%) dbt
6 13 (1.80%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 11 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.11%) GitHub
9 8 (1.11%) SaaS
10 7 (0.97%) OCI
11 5 (0.69%) BrowserStack
11 5 (0.69%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.69%) Serverless
12 4 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.55%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (0.55%) Miro
12 4 (0.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.77%) SNMP
2 17 (2.36%) TCP/IP
3 16 (2.22%) Software-Defined Radio
4 14 (1.94%) Ethernet
5 13 (1.80%) Internet
6 12 (1.66%) WAN
7 11 (1.53%) Firewall
8 10 (1.39%) DNS
8 10 (1.39%) LAN
9 9 (1.25%) SSL
10 8 (1.11%) VPN
11 7 (0.97%) DHCP
11 7 (0.97%) MPLS
12 6 (0.83%) VSAN
12 6 (0.83%) Wireless
13 5 (0.69%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.55%) SDH
14 4 (0.55%) VoIP
14 4 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (3.47%) Power BI
3 15 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 9 (1.25%) Big Data
8 7 (0.97%) Couchbase
8 7 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.83%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.83%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.83%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.69%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.55%) SAP Data Services
11 4 (0.55%) Tableau
12 3 (0.42%) Apache Hive
12 3 (0.42%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 61 (8.46%) JIRA
2 39 (5.41%) Git
3 35 (4.85%) Rational DOORS
4 26 (3.61%) Eclipse
5 20 (2.77%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.08%) GoogleTest
6 15 (2.08%) Robot Framework
7 12 (1.66%) Subversion
7 12 (1.66%) Visual Studio
8 11 (1.53%) JMeter
9 10 (1.39%) Rational Rhapsody
9 10 (1.39%) Selenium
10 8 (1.11%) Jenkins
11 6 (0.83%) Postman
12 5 (0.69%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.55%) CppUnit
13 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.55%) GitLab
13 4 (0.55%) LSMW
13 4 (0.55%) PVCS
General
1 169 (23.44%) Finance
2 167 (23.16%) Social Skills
3 95 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (6.10%) Public Sector
5 37 (5.13%) Aerospace
5 37 (5.13%) Automotive
5 37 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 35 (4.85%) Banking
6 35 (4.85%) Legal
7 33 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (3.74%) Marketing
9 26 (3.61%) Telecoms
10 25 (3.47%) Electronics
11 24 (3.33%) Military
12 19 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.50%) Retail
14 14 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.80%) Law
16 11 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 131 (18.17%) Analyst
2 85 (11.79%) Software Engineer
3 62 (8.60%) Architect
4 50 (6.93%) Business Analyst
5 45 (6.24%) Developer
5 45 (6.24%) Senior
6 43 (5.96%) Systems Engineer
7 41 (5.69%) Lead
8 37 (5.13%) Embedded Engineer
9 34 (4.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 30 (4.16%) Consultant
11 27 (3.74%) Data Analyst
11 27 (3.74%) Project Manager
12 22 (3.05%) Principal Engineer
13 21 (2.91%) C++ Software Engineer
13 21 (2.91%) Test Engineer
14 20 (2.77%) Integration Engineer
14 20 (2.77%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 18 (2.50%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.50%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.77%) CSS
1 20 (2.77%) HTML
2 12 (1.66%) PySpark
3 11 (1.53%) Kafka
3 11 (1.53%) Node.js
3 11 (1.53%) Web Services
4 10 (1.39%) ADO
5 8 (1.11%) JSON
5 8 (1.11%) REST
6 6 (0.83%) Middleware
7 5 (0.69%) Flash
8 4 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (0.55%) Swagger
8 4 (0.55%) WebdriverIO
9 3 (0.42%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.42%) Playwright
9 3 (0.42%) React
9 3 (0.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (0.42%) XML
9 3 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.96%) Algorithms
2 27 (3.74%) Management Information System
3 21 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 12 (1.66%) NHS
4 12 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.25%) Life Science
6 9 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.11%) LIMS
7 8 (1.11%) Operational Technology
8 7 (0.97%) Credit Risk
8 7 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.83%) CMDB
9 6 (0.83%) DataPower
10 5 (0.69%) Clustering
10 5 (0.69%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.38%) Linux
2 44 (6.10%) Windows
3 20 (2.77%) Unix
4 6 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
4 6 (0.83%) Solaris
4 6 (0.83%) VMS
5 4 (0.55%) SafeRTOS
6 3 (0.42%) Android
6 3 (0.42%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (19.56%) Verification and Validation
2 118 (16.37%) Agile
3 116 (16.09%) Software Engineering
4 105 (14.56%) Migration
5 102 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (9.85%) User Acceptance Testing
7 68 (9.43%) Computer Science
7 68 (9.43%) Project Management
8 66 (9.15%) Data Migration
9 62 (8.60%) Test Automation
10 55 (7.63%) Data Modelling
11 51 (7.07%) Data Validation
11 51 (7.07%) Systems Engineering
12 50 (6.93%) ETL
13 48 (6.66%) Scrum
13 48 (6.66%) Use Case
14 44 (6.10%) Data Management
15 42 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (5.83%) Risk Management
15 42 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (10.40%) SQL
2 74 (10.26%) C++
3 58 (8.04%) Python
4 57 (7.91%) C
5 41 (5.69%) MATLAB
6 36 (4.99%) JavaScript
7 27 (3.74%) Java
8 24 (3.33%) C#
9 16 (2.22%) Embedded C
10 13 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.66%) Bash
11 12 (1.66%) Embedded C++
12 10 (1.39%) Ada
13 8 (1.11%) Assembly Language
14 7 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.97%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.69%) Perl
15 5 (0.69%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.69%) VBA
16 4 (0.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 129 (17.89%) Degree
2 105 (14.56%) Security Cleared
3 74 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 43 (5.96%) Master's Degree
5 29 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.66%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.53%) PhD
10 10 (1.39%) CCNA
11 9 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 8 (1.11%) Chartered Engineer
12 8 (1.11%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.11%) PMP
13 4 (0.55%) CCNP
13 4 (0.55%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.42%) CCA
14 3 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (11.37%) QA
2 66 (9.15%) Data Quality
3 29 (4.02%) NIST
4 13 (1.80%) PMO
5 12 (1.66%) GxP
6 11 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.39%) GDPR
8 8 (1.11%) HL7
8 8 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.97%) AUTOSAR
10 6 (0.83%) GAMP
10 6 (0.83%) ISO 26262
11 5 (0.69%) IFRS
11 5 (0.69%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.69%) MISRA
11 5 (0.69%) MISRA C
12 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 4 (0.55%) ISO17020
12 4 (0.55%) JTAG
13 3 (0.42%) Def Stans
System Software
1 28 (3.88%) Firmware
2 22 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.25%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.25%) KVM
6 6 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.42%) Docker
7 3 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.28%) vSphere
9 1 (0.14%) HDFS
9 1 (0.14%) NFS
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.25%) vCenter Server
2 6 (0.83%) Ansible
3 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
3 4 (0.55%) 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%) 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 82 (11.37%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.71%) SAP
3 37 (5.13%) Oracle
4 26 (3.61%) Google
5 25 (3.47%) VMware
6 22 (3.05%) Atlassian
7 16 (2.22%) EMC
7 16 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.08%) IBM
9 14 (1.94%) Cisco
10 10 (1.39%) Databricks
11 6 (0.83%) Sitecore
11 6 (0.83%) Workday
12 5 (0.69%) MathWorks
13 4 (0.55%) Aruba
13 4 (0.55%) Barracuda Networks
13 4 (0.55%) Cadence
13 4 (0.55%) DocuSign
13 4 (0.55%) HP
13 4 (0.55%) ServiceNow