Validation Contracts in Berkshire

Validation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 100 78
Rank change year-on-year +44 -22 -15
Contract jobs citing Validation 37 24 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.15% 1.21% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 1.36% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 26
10th Percentile £478 £323 £416
25th Percentile £500 £372 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £584 £623 £584
90th Percentile £638 £950 £620
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £490
% change year-on-year -2.49% +4.64% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £20.50
25th Percentile - £60.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate - £61.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +144.00% -52.83%
75th Percentile - £61.50 £50.63
90th Percentile - - £65.70
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -14.81% +50.00% -18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +44 25 £550 +9.89% 37
Wokingham -6 6 £500 - 1
Bracknell +17 3 £615 -31.67% 3
Slough - 2 - - 26
Validation
South East

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (5.41%) Confluence
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (5.41%) GCP
3 2 (5.41%) Miro
4 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.70%) Figma
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.70%) OCI
4 1 (2.70%) PaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.70%) SaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) 5G
1 2 (5.41%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (5.41%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (5.41%) SMS
1 2 (5.41%) SS7
1 2 (5.41%) VoLTE
1 2 (5.41%) VoWiFi
1 2 (5.41%) Wireshark
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
2 1 (2.70%) MQTT
2 1 (2.70%) PuTTY
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.41%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (5.41%) Metadata
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) Git
3 2 (5.41%) DBeaver
3 2 (5.41%) GitLab
3 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Selenium
3 2 (5.41%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.70%) Maven
4 1 (2.70%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.70%) Toad
4 1 (2.70%) Vite
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Telecoms
4 4 (10.81%) Finance
5 2 (5.41%) Electronics
5 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Analyst
1 8 (21.62%) Senior
2 6 (16.22%) Tester
3 5 (13.51%) Security Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Network Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Web Services
2 2 (5.41%) Gherkin
2 2 (5.41%) PySpark
3 1 (2.70%) ADO
3 1 (2.70%) CSS
3 1 (2.70%) Express.js
3 1 (2.70%) Framer.js
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) Node.js
3 1 (2.70%) PostGIS
3 1 (2.70%) React
3 1 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) TanStack
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Data Structures
1 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.81%) SCADA
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Infotainment
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (18.92%) Data Validation
2 7 (18.92%) SOA
3 6 (16.22%) DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (16.22%) Information Security
4 5 (13.51%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
4 5 (13.51%) Migration
4 5 (13.51%) Security Architecture
5 4 (10.81%) Data Integration
5 4 (10.81%) Defect Management
5 4 (10.81%) Test Assurance
5 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
5 4 (10.81%) Test Management
5 4 (10.81%) Test Strategy
6 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.11%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (8.11%) High Availability
6 3 (8.11%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) PL/SQL
3 4 (10.81%) Perl
4 3 (8.11%) Python
5 2 (5.41%) Java
6 1 (2.70%) Bash
6 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) CISM
1 5 (13.51%) CISSP
2 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
3 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) HNC
4 1 (2.70%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Data Quality
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) Databricks
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) SAP
3 2 (5.41%) Splunk
3 2 (5.41%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.70%) Genesys
4 1 (2.70%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.70%) Remedy