Validation Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Validation
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 14 29
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 +6
Contract jobs citing Validation 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 1.78% 1.04% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 1.15% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £459 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile £601 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £430 £406 £313
% change year-on-year +5.85% +29.79% -21.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 87 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 76.33% 90.63% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 67 108
10th Percentile £131 £203 £157
25th Percentile £250 £278 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -0.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £575
90th Percentile £638 £690 £707
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £17.05 - £12.80
25th Percentile £20.51 £23.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £23.15 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +14.29% -55.79%
75th Percentile £29.31 £24.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £30.25 - £57.80
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.19 £23.25 £22.39
% change year-on-year -17.48% +3.85% +33.02%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Validation

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Validation

Validation
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Leicester -3 1 £575 +35.29%
Validation
East Midlands

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) General Ledger
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle