Validation Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Validation
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 22 49 62
Rank change year-on-year +27 +13 0
Contract jobs citing Validation 16 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.78% 1.05% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.31% 1.27% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 18
10th Percentile £335 £403 £252
25th Percentile £375 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +24.32% +14.91%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £499
90th Percentile - - £608
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £490
% change year-on-year -2.49% +4.64% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Buckinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +19 11 £600 +4.35% 22
Amersham - 1 £500 -
Validation
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 5 (31.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Figma
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) MS Access
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) QARun
1 2 (12.50%) WinRunner
2 1 (6.25%) Axure RP
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Avionics
4 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Credit Risk Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Risk Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Verification Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
1 2 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (6.25%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.25%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Credit Risk Management
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Internal Audit
3 5 (31.25%) Portfolio Management
3 5 (31.25%) Stress Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Logistics
4 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) User Stories
6 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (6.25%) ABAP
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) IFRS
1 5 (31.25%) IFRS 9
2 4 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) SAP