Validation Contracts in Edinburgh

Validation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 65 84
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 +38
Contract jobs citing Validation 11 7 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.76% 0.86% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.97% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 22
10th Percentile - - £401
25th Percentile £400 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +21.05% -3.06%
75th Percentile £478 - £519
90th Percentile £500 - £600
Scotland median daily rate £456 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -3.95% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.87 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.94 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Validation in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) IaaS
2 3 (27.27%) PaaS
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) PowerApps
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (18.18%) Big Data
4 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
4 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Postman
2 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) Subversion
2 3 (27.27%) TeamCity
2 3 (27.27%) WebDriver
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Data Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) QA Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) PySpark
3 1 (9.09%) Great Expectations
3 1 (9.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Solaris
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) ETL
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Business Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (27.27%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Kanban
4 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) SOA
4 3 (27.27%) Software Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) TDD
4 3 (27.27%) Use Case
4 3 (27.27%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) C++
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
2 3 (27.27%) VBA
2 3 (27.27%) VBScript
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) ISEB
2 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
2 3 (27.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) QA
2 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Data Guard
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Commvault