Validation Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Validation
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Validation 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 4.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £375 - £615
% change year-on-year - - +23.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 185 180 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 86.45% 74.69% 91.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 122 170
10th Percentile £226 £140 £174
25th Percentile £293 £209 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £499 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £649 £625
South Wales median daily rate £405 £413 £450
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 5
10th Percentile - - £18.70
25th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £14.54 £21.59 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.65% -16.96% +44.44%
75th Percentile £18.36 £25.60 £26.50
90th Percentile £22.82 £27.50 £36.10
South Wales median hourly rate £17.65 £25.27 £29.83
% change year-on-year -30.16% -15.29% +49.16%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Validation

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle Service Bus
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (88.89%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (88.89%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle Consultant
2 5 (55.56%) Oracle SOA Consultant
2 5 (55.56%) SOA Consultant
3 3 (33.33%) BPM Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) IT Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Lead
4 2 (22.22%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Middleware Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Oracle Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Junior
5 1 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) JSON
1 8 (88.89%) OAuth
1 8 (88.89%) OAuth2
1 8 (88.89%) OpenAPI
1 8 (88.89%) REST
1 8 (88.89%) SOAP
1 8 (88.89%) Swagger
1 8 (88.89%) XML
1 8 (88.89%) XSD
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (22.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) API Design
1 8 (88.89%) API Management
1 8 (88.89%) BPEL
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (88.89%) SDLC
1 8 (88.89%) SOA
1 8 (88.89%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (11.11%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PL/SQL
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks