Verification and Validation Contract Job Trends in London

Verification and Validation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Verification and Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 378 387
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +150
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 8 3 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.056% 0.020% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.022% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile - £332 £450
25th Percentile £475 £334 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £337 £550
Median % change year-on-year +70.62% -38.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £339 £588
90th Percentile £725 £340 £600
England median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.66
% change year-on-year - -8.01% +8.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Verification and 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,051 13,742 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 89.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 8,839 12,265
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 165 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.80 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +8.24% -13.38%
75th Percentile £47.94 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Verification and Validation job vacancy trend in London

Verification and Validation
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Verification and Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Verification and Validation

Verification and Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Verification and Validation in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Verification and Validation in London

Verification and Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Verification and Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Verification and Validation

Verification and Validation
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Verification and Validation within the London region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
South London - 3 £500 -
Central London - 1 - -
Verification and Validation
England

Verification and Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 5G
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) QADirector
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (12.50%) Deployment Specialist
1 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Software QA Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Software Quality Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Validation
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (37.50%) Test Management
3 3 (37.50%) Workload Management
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Edge AI
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 1 (12.50%) DataOps
5 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
5 1 (12.50%) Red Team
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) EMC Certification
2 3 (37.50%) HNC
2 3 (37.50%) HND
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Def Stans
1 3 (37.50%) IEC 61508
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (12.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (12.50%) EU AI Act
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (12.50%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) UiPath