Verification and Validation Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Verification and Validation
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Verification and Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 6.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Essex median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
Essex median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basildon

Verification and 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 Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16 9 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 100.00% 75.00% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 14
10th Percentile £110 - £236
25th Percentile £195 £315 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £320 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.34% -28.89% -7.93%
75th Percentile £682 £321 £556
90th Percentile £693 £399 £593
Essex median daily rate £425 £317 £444
% change year-on-year +34.28% -28.72% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £66.00 - £35.65
25th Percentile £67.50 - £41.82
Median hourly rate £70.00 £30.00 £51.38
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -41.61% -21.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £56.05
90th Percentile £74.00 - £57.50
Essex median hourly rate £18.87 £32.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -41.94% +54.76% -39.57%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Verification and Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Verification and Validation job vacancy trend in Basildon

Verification and Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenText
1 1 (100.00%) Serena