Validation Contracts in the North of England

Validation
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 173 175
Rank change year-on-year +70 +2 -56
Contract jobs citing Validation 84 40 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.79% 0.70% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 0.77% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 26 47
10th Percentile £363 £394 £308
25th Percentile £388 £408 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% +16.11% +16.88%
75th Percentile £500 £625 £500
90th Percentile £580 £775 £575
England median daily rate £500 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.27% +12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 5
10th Percentile £11.77 £26.25 £16.44
25th Percentile £11.79 £31.96 £25.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £53.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.34% +105.19% +89.09%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.25 £44.68
90th Percentile - £59.71 £62.96
England median hourly rate £61.50 £62.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.81% +12.73% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +39 43 £500 -3.85% 66
Yorkshire +48 33 £425 -43.33% 35
North East +16 8 £460 -23.33% 11
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (3.57%) SAS
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (4.76%) Simulink
4 4 (4.76%) Stateflow
5 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.38%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.19%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (1.19%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (1.19%) SAP Retail
3 1 (1.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (4.76%) Azure
3 2 (2.38%) AWS
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.38%) OCI
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.19%) BrowserStack
4 1 (1.19%) Commercetools
4 1 (1.19%) dbt
4 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.19%) GCP
4 1 (1.19%) GitHub
4 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) DHCP
1 5 (5.95%) DNS
2 3 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.19%) Firewall
3 1 (1.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) Power BI
2 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.19%) Essbase
4 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.19%) Metadata
4 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.19%) MySQL
4 1 (1.19%) OLAP
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.19%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.19%) Postman
2 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.19%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (33.33%) Finance
2 21 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.10%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (9.52%) Banking
5 8 (9.52%) Legal
6 7 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.76%) Automotive
7 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.76%) Retail
8 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.38%) Law
9 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.19%) Aviation
10 1 (1.19%) German Language
10 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Analyst
2 12 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 7 (8.33%) Consultant
5 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Administrator
6 4 (4.76%) Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Data Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Developer
6 4 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (4.76%) Test Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) IT Support
7 3 (3.57%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (3.57%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (1.19%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.19%) CSS
2 1 (1.19%) HTML
2 1 (1.19%) jQuery
2 1 (1.19%) Node.js
2 1 (1.19%) PySpark
2 1 (1.19%) React
2 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Life Science
2 4 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.38%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.38%) NHS
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) PMI
5 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Windows
2 3 (3.57%) Windows 10
2 3 (3.57%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.38%) Android
3 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.62%) Migration
2 17 (20.24%) ITIL
3 15 (17.86%) DevOps
4 14 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 14 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (16.67%) Project Management
5 13 (15.48%) Build Automation
5 13 (15.48%) Continuous Delivery
5 13 (15.48%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (15.48%) Data Protection
5 13 (15.48%) Performance Analysis
5 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (10.71%) Agile
6 9 (10.71%) Data Validation
6 9 (10.71%) Roadmaps
6 9 (10.71%) Test Automation
6 9 (10.71%) Test Scripting
6 9 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (9.52%) Business Strategy
7 8 (9.52%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) SQL
2 5 (5.95%) C#
2 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.95%) Python
3 4 (4.76%) Bash
3 4 (4.76%) MATLAB
3 4 (4.76%) Perl
4 2 (2.38%) Java
4 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.19%) Groovy
5 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.33%) Degree
1 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.57%) PMP
3 3 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.19%) CCDA
5 1 (1.19%) CCIE
5 1 (1.19%) CCNP
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.19%) HNC
5 1 (1.19%) HND
5 1 (1.19%) ISEB
5 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.19%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) QA
2 8 (9.52%) NIST
3 7 (8.33%) GxP
4 6 (7.14%) GAMP
4 6 (7.14%) GDPR
5 4 (4.76%) PMO
6 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 2 (2.38%) ISO17020
8 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (1.19%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.57%) KVM
3 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.57%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Ansible
2 3 (3.57%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.19%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.48%) EMC
3 7 (8.33%) SAP
4 5 (5.95%) VMware
5 4 (4.76%) Oracle
6 2 (2.38%) Databricks
6 2 (2.38%) NEC
6 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.19%) AlgoSec
7 1 (1.19%) Ariba
7 1 (1.19%) Cisco
7 1 (1.19%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.19%) HP
7 1 (1.19%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.19%) Juniper
7 1 (1.19%) Sophos
7 1 (1.19%) Splunk
7 1 (1.19%) Workday
7 1 (1.19%) Zuora