Validation Contract Job Trends in Darlington

Validation
Durham > Darlington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Darlington requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Validation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Darlington 5.88% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
Durham median daily rate £525 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.75 - -
Median hourly rate £53.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Durham median hourly rate £43.89 - £29.77

All Process & Methodology Skills
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Darlington 88.24% 100.00% 56.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 2
10th Percentile - - £175
25th Percentile £325 £625 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £650 £275
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +136.36% -31.25%
75th Percentile £450 £675 £338
90th Percentile £525 - £375
Durham median daily rate £350 £525 £438
% change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.00 - -
Median hourly rate £36.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +109.54% +15.33% -
75th Percentile £42.88 - -
90th Percentile £50.30 - -
Durham median hourly rate £35.00 £17.30 £13.22
% change year-on-year +102.31% +30.86% -

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Darlington

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Darlington

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens