Validation Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Validation
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 37 36 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing Validation 8 19 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.90% 3.84% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 4.63% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £528 £268 £326
25th Percentile £531 £306 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £414
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% +17.82% -0.30%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £497
90th Percentile £608 £644 £540
East of England median daily rate £450 £488 £490
% change year-on-year -7.69% -0.51% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 2
10th Percentile £19.83 £26.88 £38.93
25th Percentile £22.24 £35.52 £41.81
Median hourly rate £26.50 £51.50 £48.25
Median % change year-on-year -48.54% +6.74% +7.22%
75th Percentile £34.63 £57.50 £54.31
90th Percentile £39.35 £58.13 £56.98
East of England median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% -0.76% +16.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 410 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.83% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 284
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £553 £536
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 194 150
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £52.25 £22.06
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Cambridgeshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in Cambridgeshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge +12 5 £575 -8.00% 54
Peterborough +3 2 - - 24
Validation
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Simulink
1 1 (12.50%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Automotive
2 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Local Government
3 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Business Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Business Systems Manager
1 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality Officer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) Express.js
1 1 (12.50%) NgRx
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) FPGA
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) PCIe
1 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (12.50%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) FMEA
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Line Management
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
4 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
4 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 1 (12.50%) Product Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
1 1 (12.50%) SystemVerilog
1 1 (12.50%) Tcl
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
1 1 (12.50%) KVM
1 1 (12.50%) QEMU
1 1 (12.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Xilinx