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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 92 91
Rank change year-on-year +51 -1 -24
Contract jobs citing Validation 60 18 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.00% 1.06% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 1.23% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 10 16
10th Percentile £405 £323 £375
25th Percentile £475 £363 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £388 £518
Median % change year-on-year +31.61% -25.12% -0.48%
75th Percentile £594 £474 £573
90th Percentile £638 £539 £613
South East median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.15% -7.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - £23.20
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £75.93 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.92% +38.05% +22.22%

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 1,106 1,460 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.17% 85.88% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 774 993
10th Percentile £350 £316 £313
25th Percentile £420 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £699 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 78 58
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.25 £17.30
25th Percentile £16.66 £41.25 £36.42
Median hourly rate £32.05 £60.83 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -47.31% +5.21% +106.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.39 £72.69
90th Percentile £87.64 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.74 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.10% +14.70% +100.00%

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

Validation
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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +54 43 £550 +22.22% 18
Bracknell +6 6 - - 3
Wokingham - 6 £500 - 1
Slough - 2 - - 7
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 4 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.00%) Smallworld
3 2 (3.33%) ArcGIS
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.67%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.67%) AWS
2 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.67%) Azure
3 4 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (6.67%) dbt
3 4 (6.67%) GCP
4 3 (5.00%) OCI
4 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.67%) Miro
6 1 (1.67%) PaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) BGP
1 3 (5.00%) LAN
1 3 (5.00%) MPLS
1 3 (5.00%) OSPF
1 3 (5.00%) SNMP
1 3 (5.00%) TACACS
1 3 (5.00%) WAN
1 3 (5.00%) Wireless
2 2 (3.33%) 5G
2 2 (3.33%) Broadband
2 2 (3.33%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (3.33%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (3.33%) SMS
2 2 (3.33%) SS7
2 2 (3.33%) VoLTE
2 2 (3.33%) VoWiFi
2 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.67%) Network Security
3 1 (1.67%) PuTTY
3 1 (1.67%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.33%) Power BI
2 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.67%) Tableau
4 3 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.00%) GIS
4 3 (5.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (5.00%) Spatial Data
5 2 (3.33%) Metadata
6 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Maven
3 1 (1.67%) MLflow
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
3 1 (1.67%) Toad
General
1 31 (51.67%) Social Skills
2 20 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Finance
6 2 (3.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Automotive
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Analyst
2 6 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (10.00%) Senior
2 6 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Tester
4 4 (6.67%) Architect
4 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Consultant
4 4 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Designer
5 3 (5.00%) Developer
5 3 (5.00%) IP Designer
5 3 (5.00%) Lead
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) Web Services
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.33%) CSS
3 2 (3.33%) Jest
3 2 (3.33%) Middleware
3 2 (3.33%) PostGIS
3 2 (3.33%) React
3 2 (3.33%) Sass
4 1 (1.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.67%) SCADA
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Linux
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (20.00%) DevOps
3 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
4 9 (15.00%) Data Migration
4 9 (15.00%) Migration
5 8 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 8 (13.33%) Data Validation
5 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 7 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (11.67%) Data Transformation
6 7 (11.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 7 (11.67%) Scenario Testing
6 7 (11.67%) Test Scripting
6 7 (11.67%) Verification and Validation
7 6 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 6 (10.00%) ETL
7 6 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
7 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (10.00%) SOA
7 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) SQL
2 15 (25.00%) Python
3 9 (15.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (6.67%) Perl
5 2 (3.33%) Magik
5 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.67%) Java
6 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) AWS Certification
3 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) Degree
5 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.67%) Master's Degree
7 3 (5.00%) CCIE
7 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.00%) CISM
7 3 (5.00%) CISSP
7 3 (5.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 8 (13.33%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) GDPR
2 3 (5.00%) NIST
2 3 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.33%) COBIT
3 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.67%) GRC
4 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (10.00%) vSphere
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Oracle
2 9 (15.00%) VMware
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.67%) Virgin Media
5 3 (5.00%) Cisco
5 3 (5.00%) Databricks
5 3 (5.00%) ESRI
5 3 (5.00%) F5
5 3 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.00%) Juniper
6 2 (3.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.67%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.67%) Remedy