Validation Contracts in Cambridge

Validation
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 15 27 28
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Validation 5 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.39% 2.58% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 2.82% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £528 £348 £342
25th Percentile £531 £518 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £465
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +34.41% +12.05%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £521
90th Percentile £608 £646 £550
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £575 £488 £414
% change year-on-year +17.95% +17.82% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £57.50
75th Percentile - £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £26.50 £51.50 £48.25
% change year-on-year -48.54% +6.74% +7.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 177 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.60% 91.24% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 99 177
10th Percentile £296 £235 £185
25th Percentile £411 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £16.28 £20.40 £17.12
25th Percentile £17.46 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% +156.10% -64.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Business Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Business Systems Manager
1 2 (40.00%) IT Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) Express.js
1 1 (20.00%) NgRx
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) FPGA
1 1 (20.00%) PCIe
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (20.00%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Biotechnology
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Line Management
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) FPGA Design
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) SystemVerilog
1 1 (20.00%) Tcl
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
1 1 (20.00%) KVM
1 1 (20.00%) QEMU
1 1 (20.00%) Xen
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Xilinx