Validation Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Validation
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 8 24
Rank change year-on-year -25 +16 +11
Contract jobs citing Validation 2 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.12% 12.63% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 14.12% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £425 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £475 £450 £463
90th Percentile £490 £535 £470
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £540
% change year-on-year -3.61% -3.94% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.59
Median hourly rate - - £78.19
75th Percentile - - £79.78
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £37.46 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +134.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 168 85 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 94.38% 89.47% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 55 134
10th Percentile £263 £375 £350
25th Percentile £318 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.31%
75th Percentile £555 £581 £561
90th Percentile £638 £626 £648
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £522 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% +4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £52.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -67.68% +78.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.03 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.60% +16.00% +41.08%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Coventry

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Validation

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce