V-Model
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for V-Model skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited V-Model over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 666 798
Rank change year-on-year +107 +132 -147
Contract jobs citing V-Model 28 49 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.081% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.090% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 33
10th Percentile £440 - £333
25th Percentile £513 £231 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £280 £425
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -34.12% -21.84%
75th Percentile £641 £550 £525
90th Percentile £673 £740 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £524 £280 £425
% change year-on-year +87.05% -34.12% +14.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.39 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £41.23 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +42.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £44.07 £63.75 £39.38
90th Percentile - £67.50 £42.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.23 £65.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.57% +52.94% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

V-Model 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,760 54,632 81,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 89.84% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,440 37,790 57,209
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,780 1,950
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.90 £16.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.83 £75.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year - +75.39% -8.21%

V-Model
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing V-Model as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing V-Model.

Daily rate trend for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing V-Model over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing V-Model.

Hourly rate trend for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing V-Model within the UK over the 6 months to 18 April 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
England +111 23 £575 +105.36% 27
UK excluding London +25 14 £524 +87.05% 24
London +120 13 £625 +25.00% 4
Work from Home +129 9 £550 +10.00% 9
South East +18 8 £555 -14.62% 8
Scotland +39 4 £425 -5.56% 3
Midlands +24 1 £500 +110.53% 7
East Midlands +2 1 £500 +110.53% 3
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1

V-Model
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (3.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
1 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (14.29%) IaaS
2 4 (14.29%) PaaS
2 4 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) RS-422
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) JIRA
2 7 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 4 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 4 (14.29%) Git
3 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.29%) Selenium
3 4 (14.29%) Subversion
3 4 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 4 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Aviation
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Defect Manager
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Test Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Automation Test Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Test Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) QA Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Telecoms Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Client/Server
1 4 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Systems Engineering
2 14 (50.00%) Agile
3 12 (42.86%) UML
3 12 (42.86%) Waterfall
4 9 (32.14%) DevOps
5 7 (25.00%) Defect Management
6 6 (21.43%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (21.43%) Software Testing
6 6 (21.43%) SysML
6 6 (21.43%) System Testing
7 5 (17.86%) Change Management
7 5 (17.86%) Migration
7 5 (17.86%) Requirements Management
7 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Test Strategy
8 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 4 (14.29%) Mathematics
8 4 (14.29%) SOA
8 4 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) C#
1 5 (17.86%) C++
1 5 (17.86%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) VBA
2 4 (14.29%) VBScript
3 1 (3.57%) Ada
3 1 (3.57%) C
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) ISTQB
4 5 (17.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (14.29%) Degree
5 4 (14.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.57%) Def Stans
4 1 (3.57%) DO-178B
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Sparx
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) SAP