Verification and Validation Contracts in Berkshire

Verification and Validation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Verification and Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Verification and 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 90 121 108
Rank change year-on-year +31 -13 +22
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% 0.15% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.17% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £485 £500 £511
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £501 £544
Median % change year-on-year +19.88% -7.91% +27.88%
75th Percentile £750 £588 £569
90th Percentile £795 £640 £595
South East median daily rate £725 £525 £523
% change year-on-year +38.10% +0.48% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.75 £70.32 £62.55
% change year-on-year -17.87% +12.41% -10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 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%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in Berkshire

Verification and Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Verification and Validation in Berkshire

Verification and Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Verification and Validation in Berkshire

Verification and Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Verification and Validation in Berkshire

Verification and Validation
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 Verification and 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 +31 2 £500 -0.05% 6
Verification and Validation
South East

Verification and 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) PuTTY
1 1 (33.33%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (33.33%) Toad
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Support Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) HNC
2 1 (33.33%) HND
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk