Validation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 121 158
Rank change year-on-year +23 +37 -38
Contract jobs citing Validation 441 482 512
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.15% 2.05% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.29% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 236 268
10th Percentile £262 £273 £306
25th Percentile £383 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +4.21% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £629 £636
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -8.18% +5.77% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 142 62
10th Percentile £26.88 £42.50 £25.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.76 £42.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £51.93
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +20.37% +22.18%
75th Percentile £75.04 £65.75 £56.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.00 £69.88
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the UK excluding London

Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Validation in the UK excluding London

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the UK excluding London

Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the UK excluding London

Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the UK excluding London

Validation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +8 103 £500 - 183
South West +2 97 £431 -23.13% 100
East of England +4 86 £488 -1.52% 113
North of England +71 85 £448 -12.25% 107
Midlands +23 51 £488 +21.88% 143
North West +32 44 £500 - 65
West Midlands +17 37 £450 - 104
Yorkshire +41 33 £425 -43.33% 34
East Midlands +19 16 £540 +35.00% 38
Northern Ireland +14 11 £600 - 4
Scotland +1 10 £575 +16.16% 45
North East +14 8 £460 -16.36% 10
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1
Wales +15 1 - - 18
Validation
UK

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (4.99%) Confluence
2 11 (2.49%) CMS
3 6 (1.36%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (0.91%) SAS
5 3 (0.68%) Apache
5 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 30 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (6.58%) Simulink
3 28 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (5.22%) Stateflow
5 18 (4.08%) AutoCAD
6 13 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (1.13%) TargetLink
9 4 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.45%) Sketch
11 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 12 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.36%) Magento
3 5 (1.13%) SAP CO
3 5 (1.13%) SAP FI
3 5 (1.13%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.68%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.45%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.45%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.45%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.23%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.23%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (6.80%) Power Platform
2 21 (4.76%) Azure
3 8 (1.81%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 7 (1.59%) AWS
4 7 (1.59%) OCI
5 6 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (1.36%) Azure Functions
5 6 (1.36%) Serverless
6 5 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.91%) GCP
8 3 (0.68%) GitHub
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.45%) Figma
9 2 (0.45%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.45%) SaaS
9 2 (0.45%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.63%) SNMP
1 16 (3.63%) Software-Defined Radio
2 14 (3.17%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.72%) Ethernet
4 10 (2.27%) Internet
4 10 (2.27%) WAN
5 8 (1.81%) LAN
6 6 (1.36%) DNS
6 6 (1.36%) VSAN
7 5 (1.13%) DHCP
7 5 (1.13%) MPLS
7 5 (1.13%) WLAN
8 4 (0.91%) Wireless
9 3 (0.68%) 4G
9 3 (0.68%) Network Security
9 3 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.45%) 5G
10 2 (0.45%) Modbus
10 2 (0.45%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.08%) Power BI
2 8 (1.81%) Electronic Patient Records
2 8 (1.81%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.13%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.68%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.68%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.68%) MySQL
5 3 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.45%) Big Data
6 2 (0.45%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.45%) Metadata
6 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.45%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (10.20%) JIRA
2 33 (7.48%) Git
3 31 (7.03%) Rational DOORS
4 27 (6.12%) Eclipse
5 18 (4.08%) Bitbucket
6 15 (3.40%) GoogleTest
6 15 (3.40%) Robot Framework
7 13 (2.95%) Visual Studio
8 12 (2.72%) Subversion
9 10 (2.27%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.68%) CppUnit
10 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.68%) PVCS
10 3 (0.68%) Rational Team Concert
11 2 (0.45%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.45%) LabVIEW
11 2 (0.45%) Selenium
11 2 (0.45%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 83 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 76 (17.23%) Finance
3 53 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.16%) Aerospace
5 30 (6.80%) Automotive
6 28 (6.35%) Manufacturing
7 27 (6.12%) Public Sector
8 26 (5.90%) Legal
8 26 (5.90%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (5.67%) Electronics
10 24 (5.44%) Military
11 20 (4.54%) Telecoms
12 18 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (3.40%) Marketing
14 11 (2.49%) Banking
14 11 (2.49%) Retail
15 10 (2.27%) Law
16 7 (1.59%) Aviation
17 6 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (17.23%) Software Engineer
2 46 (10.43%) Analyst
3 39 (8.84%) Architect
3 39 (8.84%) Systems Engineer
4 36 (8.16%) Embedded Engineer
5 34 (7.71%) Lead
6 33 (7.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 22 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
8 20 (4.54%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 20 (4.54%) Project Manager
8 20 (4.54%) Test Engineer
9 18 (4.08%) Senior
10 17 (3.85%) C++ Software Engineer
10 17 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
11 16 (3.63%) Consultant
11 16 (3.63%) Validation Engineer
12 15 (3.40%) Test Analyst
13 13 (2.95%) Administrator
14 12 (2.72%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.72%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.08%) HTML
2 17 (3.85%) CSS
3 13 (2.95%) Node.js
4 11 (2.49%) Web Services
5 5 (1.13%) Flash
5 5 (1.13%) PySpark
6 4 (0.91%) JSON
6 4 (0.91%) React
6 4 (0.91%) REST
7 3 (0.68%) YAML
8 2 (0.45%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.45%) jQuery
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.45%) XML
9 1 (0.23%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.35%) Algorithms
2 18 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.27%) NHS
4 9 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.81%) LIMS
6 7 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (1.59%) Life Science
6 7 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 6 (1.36%) CMDB
7 6 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.13%) Clustering
8 5 (1.13%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.13%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.91%) Device Driver
9 4 (0.91%) Digital Media
9 4 (0.91%) Infotainment
9 4 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.91%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.16%) Linux
1 36 (8.16%) Windows
2 12 (2.72%) Unix
3 4 (0.91%) SafeRTOS
4 3 (0.68%) Android
4 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.68%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.68%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (29.71%) Verification and Validation
2 98 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 78 (17.69%) Agile
4 60 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (11.11%) Project Management
6 48 (10.88%) Migration
6 48 (10.88%) Systems Engineering
7 37 (8.39%) UML
8 36 (8.16%) Test Automation
9 32 (7.26%) Computer Science
9 32 (7.26%) ITIL
10 31 (7.03%) Software Testing
11 30 (6.80%) CI/CD
11 30 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (6.80%) Test Scripting
12 27 (6.12%) User Acceptance Testing
13 26 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (5.90%) Scrum
14 25 (5.67%) Continuous Integration
14 25 (5.67%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (12.47%) C++
2 52 (11.79%) C
3 33 (7.48%) MATLAB
3 33 (7.48%) SQL
4 30 (6.80%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.12%) Python
6 23 (5.22%) Java
7 19 (4.31%) C#
8 15 (3.40%) Embedded C
9 11 (2.49%) Embedded C++
10 10 (2.27%) Ada
10 10 (2.27%) Bash
11 8 (1.81%) Assembly Language
11 8 (1.81%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.59%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.13%) Perl
14 4 (0.91%) SystemVerilog
14 4 (0.91%) Tcl
15 3 (0.68%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 78 (17.69%) Degree
3 53 (12.02%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.71%) Master's Degree
5 28 (6.35%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.04%) ISTQB
7 9 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (1.81%) Chartered Engineer
9 7 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.36%) CCNA
11 5 (1.13%) PhD
11 5 (1.13%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.13%) PMP
12 3 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.68%) HNC
12 3 (0.68%) HND
13 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.26%) QA
2 17 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.04%) NIST
3 9 (2.04%) PMO
4 8 (1.81%) HL7
5 7 (1.59%) AUTOSAR
5 7 (1.59%) GDPR
5 7 (1.59%) GxP
5 7 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.36%) GAMP
6 6 (1.36%) ISO 26262
7 5 (1.13%) MISRA
7 5 (1.13%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (0.91%) ISO17020
8 4 (0.91%) JTAG
9 3 (0.68%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.68%) IFRS
9 3 (0.68%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (5.44%) Firmware
2 14 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.36%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.36%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.13%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.68%) KVM
6 3 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.45%) vSphere
8 1 (0.23%) HDFS
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (2.04%) vCenter Server
2 4 (0.91%) Ansible
3 3 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.45%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.23%) Kibana
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 63 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.71%) SAP
3 22 (4.99%) Atlassian
4 16 (3.63%) VMware
5 15 (3.40%) EMC
5 15 (3.40%) Google
6 13 (2.95%) Oracle
7 11 (2.49%) IBM
8 7 (1.59%) Cisco
9 6 (1.36%) Sitecore
10 5 (1.13%) MathWorks
10 5 (1.13%) Workday
11 4 (0.91%) Cadence
12 3 (0.68%) Avaya
12 3 (0.68%) Databricks
12 3 (0.68%) Remedy
12 3 (0.68%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.68%) Synopsys
12 3 (0.68%) Xilinx
13 2 (0.45%) Concur