Validation Contracts in Northern Ireland

Validation
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 32 31
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Validation 11 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.53% 0.99% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% 1.29% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £350
75th Percentile £672 - -
90th Percentile £689 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 110 155 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.34% 76.73% 82.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 80 91
10th Percentile £211 £160 £145
25th Percentile £352 £267 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £406 £438
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% -7.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £594 £504 £500
90th Percentile £668 £624 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 11
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.26
Median hourly rate £13.94 £15.25 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -3.11% +16.59%
75th Percentile £23.54 £16.78 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.12 -
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Northern Ireland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 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
County Antrim - 11 £600 - 2
Validation
UK

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 10 (90.91%) Azure
3 6 (54.55%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Functions
3 6 (54.55%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Lead
2 5 (45.45%) Platform Specialist
2 5 (45.45%) Power Platform Specialist
3 3 (27.27%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Coaching
1 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
1 6 (54.55%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft