Validation Contract Job Trends in Durham

Validation
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Validation 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 2.30% - 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% - 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
North East median daily rate £438 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -2.78% +7.14% +52.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.11 - -
Median hourly rate £34.28 - £29.77
75th Percentile £36.46 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £39.00 - £29.77

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77 20 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 88.51% 60.61% 67.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 13 16
10th Percentile £229 £374 -
25th Percentile £325 £419 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £552
90th Percentile £580 £630 £616
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% -0.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £12.71 - -
25th Percentile £14.81 - £11.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.30 £13.22
Median % change year-on-year +102.31% +30.86% -
75th Percentile £38.75 - £18.69
90th Percentile £72.50 - £25.34
North East median hourly rate £58.75 £17.30 £46.18
% change year-on-year +239.60% -62.54% +77.62%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Durham

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Durham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Validation

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Durham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Validation

Validation
Contract Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Durham region over the 6 months to 28 August 2026. 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
Darlington - 1 £525 - 2
Peterlee - 1 - - 4
Validation
North East

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) J1939
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
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
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%) Continuous Improvement
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%) Mechatronics
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
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
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle