Validation Contracts in Bath

Validation
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bath 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Validation 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bath 7.46% 4.76% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.94% 5.77% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £562 - -
25th Percentile £616 £325 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £350 £145
Median % change year-on-year +80.71% +141.38% -62.58%
75th Percentile £649 £375 £301
90th Percentile - - £391
Somerset median daily rate £591 £120 £298
% change year-on-year +394.29% -59.79% -23.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bath

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 Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63 52 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 94.03% 82.54% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 40 44
10th Percentile £225 £370 £159
25th Percentile £407 £405 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £675 £528 £475
90th Percentile - £589 £520
Somerset median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
Somerset median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.96% -50.00% -

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Bath

Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bath

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Bath

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bath 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 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) IPsec
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
1 4 (80.00%) Unified Communications
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Switch Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) NETCONF
1 4 (80.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Critical Thinking
1 4 (80.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (80.00%) NsoIT
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
1 4 (80.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) VMware