Verification and Validation Contracts in the North West

Verification and Validation
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Verification and Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Verification and 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 131 155 179
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 -43
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 6 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.25% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.28% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.15%
England median daily rate £513 £547 £500
% change year-on-year -6.22% +9.35% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £43.30 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.75 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.25 £75.14
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -26.47% +59.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £59.25 -
90th Percentile - £59.95 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.55 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.92% +13.73% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Verification and 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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,334 2,876 3,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.19% 90.70% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,042 2,607
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £690 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 142 160
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.36 £23.15 £14.19
Median hourly rate £22.31 £36.65 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -39.14% +82.66% +9.41%
75th Percentile £45.66 £49.52 £42.82
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.98 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in the North West

Verification and Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Verification and Validation in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Verification and Validation in the North West

Verification and Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Verification and Validation in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Verification and Validation in the North West

Verification and Validation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Verification and Validation within the North West 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
Manchester +20 5 £500 +25.00% 7
Cheshire +4 1 £500 -4.76% 4
Verification and Validation
England

Verification and Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (66.67%) Simulink
1 4 (66.67%) Stateflow
General
1 4 (66.67%) Automotive
1 4 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Forensic Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
3 2 (33.33%) Internal Audit
3 2 (33.33%) Quality Management
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 2 (33.33%) ISO17020
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland