Validation Contracts in the South West

Validation
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 61 68 102
Rank change year-on-year +7 +34 -25
Contract jobs citing Validation 96 115 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.03% 3.24% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 3.62% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 42 36
10th Percentile £200 £413 £300
25th Percentile £220 £463 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £561 £513
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +9.46% +20.59%
75th Percentile £546 £612 £546
90th Percentile £635 £637 £606
England median daily rate £500 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.27% +12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 54 12
10th Percentile £47.83 £50.41 £37.57
25th Percentile £52.50 £57.25 £44.08
Median hourly rate £60.25 £61.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +36.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70.87 £65.75 £51.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.05 £54.45
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
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,638 3,178 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.17% 89.57% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 2,329 2,324
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 329 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £15.44 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +12.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.95
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Validation in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the South West 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
Bristol +2 35 - - 39
Wiltshire +8 26 £463 -19.14% 12
Somerset +7 10 £120 -59.79% 18
Gloucestershire +4 10 £400 - 11
Dorset -12 8 £600 -1.80% 5
Devon +1 6 - - 10
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.33%) CMS
2 6 (6.25%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (5.21%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) Apache
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 18 (18.75%) AutoCAD
2 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (7.29%) Simulink
4 5 (5.21%) Stateflow
5 4 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Magento
2 2 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 5 (5.21%) OCI
3 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.04%) Azure
4 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.04%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) VSAN
2 5 (5.21%) Ethernet
2 5 (5.21%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.17%) Internet
3 4 (4.17%) LAN
3 4 (4.17%) WAN
3 4 (4.17%) WLAN
4 2 (2.08%) 4G
4 2 (2.08%) 5G
4 2 (2.08%) MPLS
4 2 (2.08%) Network Security
4 2 (2.08%) RTP
4 2 (2.08%) VoIP
5 1 (1.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Power BI
2 2 (2.08%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.04%) Big Data
3 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.04%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.04%) Metadata
3 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) JIRA
2 5 (5.21%) Eclipse
2 5 (5.21%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.04%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (1.04%) Selenium
5 1 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.58%) Military
3 9 (9.38%) Aerospace
4 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.29%) Legal
6 6 (6.25%) Automotive
6 6 (6.25%) Finance
7 5 (5.21%) Law
7 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Aviation
9 2 (2.08%) Retail
9 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.04%) Avionics
10 1 (1.04%) Billing
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (20.83%) Architect
2 16 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 10 (10.42%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
4 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (6.25%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 6 (6.25%) Web Specialist
5 5 (5.21%) C# Software Engineer
5 5 (5.21%) Cloud Specialist
5 5 (5.21%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
5 5 (5.21%) Oracle Specialist
6 4 (4.17%) Administrator
6 4 (4.17%) Consultant
6 4 (4.17%) Data Administrator
6 4 (4.17%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Integration Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Lead
7 3 (3.13%) Operations Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) Flash
1 5 (5.21%) Node.js
1 5 (5.21%) Web Services
2 1 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.04%) JSON
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.04%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Algorithms
1 5 (5.21%) Clustering
1 5 (5.21%) CMDB
1 5 (5.21%) Operational Technology
2 4 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.08%) Blog
4 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.04%) Animation
5 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Linux
2 7 (7.29%) Windows
3 4 (4.17%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.88%) Verification and Validation
2 16 (16.67%) Agile
2 16 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 14 (14.58%) User Acceptance Testing
4 11 (11.46%) Computer Science
5 8 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (8.33%) Migration
5 8 (8.33%) System Testing
5 8 (8.33%) User Experience
6 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (7.29%) Service Management
6 7 (7.29%) Test Automation
7 6 (6.25%) Critical Thinking
7 6 (6.25%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 6 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (6.25%) Project Management
7 6 (6.25%) Visualisation
8 5 (5.21%) Data Entry
8 5 (5.21%) Data Reconciliation
8 5 (5.21%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.25%) C
1 6 (6.25%) C++
1 6 (6.25%) MATLAB
2 5 (5.21%) C#
2 5 (5.21%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.13%) SQL
4 2 (2.08%) Python
5 1 (1.04%) Assembly Language
5 1 (1.04%) Java
5 1 (1.04%) Perl
5 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (44.79%) Security Cleared
2 24 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (22.92%) DV Cleared
4 16 (16.67%) Degree
5 11 (11.46%) Master's Degree
6 6 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (5.21%) CCNA
7 5 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.17%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.08%) HNC
10 2 (2.08%) HND
10 2 (2.08%) ISTQB
11 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (1.04%) MCP
11 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.04%) DO-178B
3 1 (1.04%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (6.25%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.08%) vSphere
3 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.38%) Atlassian
3 8 (8.33%) VMware
4 6 (6.25%) Oracle
4 6 (6.25%) Sitecore
5 5 (5.21%) Cisco
6 2 (2.08%) Remedy
7 1 (1.04%) BT
7 1 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.04%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.04%) Databricks
7 1 (1.04%) Wind River