Validation Contracts in Luton

Validation
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Luton 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 15 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Validation 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Luton 12.24% - 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% - 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £440
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £500
75th Percentile - - £519
90th Percentile - - £530
Bedfordshire median daily rate £600 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £63.50 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £72.50 £31.80 -
% change year-on-year +127.99% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 144 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 97.96% 94.74% 96.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 86 80
10th Percentile £500 £338 £281
25th Percentile £503 £477 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £678 £596 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £633
Bedfordshire median daily rate £580 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 5
10th Percentile £24.23 - £29.50
25th Percentile £60.56 £15.39 £51.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 £21.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +237.21% -71.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £83.88 £43.75 £90.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £60.75 £21.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +182.56% -66.27% +15.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Luton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Luton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Luton

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Luton

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in Luton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in Luton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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 8 (66.67%) Confluence
1 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Teamcenter
2 2 (16.67%) SAP ERP
2 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
1 3 (25.00%) JMeter
1 3 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (25.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (25.00%) FMCG
2 3 (25.00%) Life Science
2 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Management
1 9 (75.00%) Verification and Validation
2 8 (66.67%) PDM
2 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (58.33%) Document Management
4 5 (41.67%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (25.00%) Cryptography
6 3 (25.00%) Matrix Management
6 3 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Security Management
6 3 (25.00%) Service Management
6 3 (25.00%) Test Management
6 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (16.67%) ERP
7 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GxP
1 3 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Ariba