Validation Contracts in the East Midlands

Validation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 59 65
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing Validation 19 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.93% 1.30% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 1.65% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 11
10th Percentile £205 £300 £231
25th Percentile £367 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +14.38% -17.95%
75th Percentile £600 £717 -
90th Percentile £628 £856 £408
England median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £60.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 573 665 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 88.43% 78.51% 87.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 446 677
10th Percentile £225 £200 £223
25th Percentile £338 £291 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £591
90th Percentile £590 £623 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 58 49
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.50 £12.52
25th Percentile £14.42 £12.75 £16.70
Median hourly rate £17.87 £16.82 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% -29.94% +20.00%
75th Percentile £21.79 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £34.91 £42.33 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.46 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.12% +4.17% +44.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Validation in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Northamptonshire +8 13 £382 -6.95% 18
Derbyshire +11 5 £623 -30.78% 12
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.26%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Fusion 360
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (5.26%) Primavera
2 1 (5.26%) SAP MDG
2 1 (5.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (10.53%) BrowserStack
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (10.53%) SaaS
2 2 (10.53%) Serverless
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) Impala
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Postman
2 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) JMeter
2 2 (10.53%) Selenium
2 2 (10.53%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Local Government
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Automation Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Junior
3 3 (15.79%) Junior Automation Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Junior Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Integration Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Deployment Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.53%) Credit Risk
1 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Derivative
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
2 5 (26.32%) Analytics
2 5 (26.32%) API Testing
2 5 (26.32%) Data Analytics
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
3 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
3 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) ETL
3 4 (21.05%) Integration Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
4 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis
4 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.79%) Data Validation
4 3 (15.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) Scala
4 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Nintex
3 1 (5.26%) Autodesk
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Siemens