Validation Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Validation
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Validation 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 6.45% 3.57% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.27% 5.00% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £654 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £575 £265
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% +116.98% -
75th Percentile £685 £613 -
90th Percentile £686 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £420 £415
% change year-on-year +42.86% +1.20% -44.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 20 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 88.71% 71.43% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 10 59
10th Percentile £323 £363 £303
25th Percentile £443 £399 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £420 £485
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -13.40% -3.00%
75th Percentile £618 £438 £581
90th Percentile £682 £455 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £12.21 - -
25th Percentile £14.30 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.61%
75th Percentile £21.30 - -
90th Percentile £30.66 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £32.81 £15.37
% change year-on-year -42.49% +113.54% -52.72%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford.

Validation job vacancy trend in Bradford

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 4 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Build Manager
2 3 (75.00%) Software Manager
3 2 (50.00%) Consultant
3 2 (50.00%) Software Consultant
4 1 (25.00%) Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Software Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) ESRI
1 4 (100.00%) SAP