Validation Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Validation
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 62 74
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 +35
Contract jobs citing Validation 7 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.04% 0.60% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.70% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £419 - £264
25th Percentile £433 £325 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £350 £420
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -16.67% -6.67%
75th Percentile £483 £403 £556
90th Percentile £493 £419 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £385 £425
% change year-on-year +28.57% -9.41% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 601 573 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.91% 85.39% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 366 670
10th Percentile £306 £334 £350
25th Percentile £400 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £666 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.38 £16.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.13 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £20.66
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +45.24% -2.80%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £23.14
90th Percentile £28.30 £51.00 £27.58
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -19.49% +41.03% -7.14%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Leeds

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Validation

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AtomSphere
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Boomi
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) TestRail
1 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Commercial Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) SOAP
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Intelligent Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 1 (14.29%) Exploratory Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Observability
6 1 (14.29%) Quality Management
6 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Groovy
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk