Validation Contracts in Birmingham

Validation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 53 72
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 -11
Contract jobs citing Validation 10 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.86% 1.67% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 2.10% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile £384 £253 £290
25th Percentile £405 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +21.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £475 £600 £425
90th Percentile £550 £637 £470
West Midlands median daily rate £405 £564 £475
% change year-on-year -28.13% +18.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 469 620 783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.17% 79.69% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 421 530
10th Percentile £163 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £630
90th Percentile £689 £700 £714
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 31
10th Percentile - £13.55 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £13.10
Median hourly rate £17.44 £26.00 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% +23.99% +25.19%
75th Percentile £24.44 £43.63 £29.38
90th Percentile £26.89 £55.75 £53.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £19.95 £25.00
% change year-on-year +12.78% -20.20% +47.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Service Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (20.00%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) ITSM
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Service Management
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Business Case
3 2 (20.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Release Management
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Service Design
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (40.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (20.00%) BMC
3 2 (20.00%) Remedy