Validation Contracts in Aberdeen

Validation
Scotland > Aberdeen

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Aberdeen requiring Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Validation over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Validation 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Aberdeen 4.76% 3.85% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 4.17% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £275 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £625
75th Percentile £425 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £481 £495
% change year-on-year -1.30% -2.78% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £65.00 £17.00 -
% change year-on-year +282.35% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Aberdeen

Validation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Aberdeen.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 24 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen 85.71% 92.31% 76.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 19
10th Percentile £158 £256 £157
25th Percentile £219 £325 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +33.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £519
90th Percentile £548 £633 £568
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £17.93 £17.26
25th Percentile - £19.31 £17.34
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £17.47
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +24.53% -1.44%
75th Percentile £26.55 £24.31 £17.59
90th Percentile £27.39 £25.78 £17.67
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £15.99
% change year-on-year +2.41% +21.95% -57.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Aberdeen

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Aberdeen

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Aberdeen

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Aberdeen 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow