Validation Contracts in Manchester

Validation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 44 82 109
Rank change year-on-year +38 +27 +13
Contract jobs citing Validation 35 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.78% 0.92% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 1.06% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 7 8
10th Percentile £193 £443 £396
25th Percentile £338 £490 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £641 £550 £550
90th Percentile £670 £620 £580
North West median daily rate £438 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -12.50% -1.96% +10.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £62.25 £11.79 -
25th Percentile £63.75 £32.15 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - -
75th Percentile £71.25 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £72.75 £62.05 -
North West median hourly rate £59.27 £42.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +39.46% -20.34% +19.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bury - 4 £205 - 5
Stockport - 1 £501 - 10
Altrincham - 1 - - 5
Validation
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (2.86%) CICS
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
2 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
2 1 (2.86%) Slack
2 1 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) 4G
1 5 (14.29%) 5G
2 4 (11.43%) 2G
2 4 (11.43%) 3G
3 1 (2.86%) 3GPP
3 1 (2.86%) LTE
3 1 (2.86%) MIMO
3 1 (2.86%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) MySQL
1 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.86%) EDRMS
3 1 (2.86%) Power BI
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JMeter
1 4 (11.43%) LoadRunner
1 4 (11.43%) Selenium
2 3 (8.57%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
General
1 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 13 (37.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Automotive
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Migration Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Data Migration Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Software Tester
5 4 (11.43%) Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Records Management Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Report Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) Safety Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) SharePoint Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) ISPF
1 1 (2.86%) Middleware
1 1 (2.86%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (11.43%) IoT
2 4 (11.43%) Smartphone
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) CMDB
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.86%) Life Science
4 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Android
1 4 (11.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 15 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 13 (37.14%) Data Modelling
2 13 (37.14%) ETL
3 11 (31.43%) Migration
4 10 (28.57%) Data Mapping
4 10 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 8 (22.86%) Knowledge Transfer
5 8 (22.86%) Performance Testing
5 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
5 8 (22.86%) Test Strategy
6 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (17.14%) Data Validation
7 6 (17.14%) Process Improvement
8 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
8 5 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (14.29%) Integration Testing
8 5 (14.29%) Manual Testing
8 5 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
8 5 (14.29%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 3 (8.57%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.86%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) ISTQB
2 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) ISEB
4 1 (2.86%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) HAZOP
3 1 (2.86%) IEC 61508
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) CA Endevor
1 1 (2.86%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Oracle
2 6 (17.14%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.43%) Databricks
4 3 (8.57%) Informatica
4 3 (8.57%) Talend
5 2 (5.71%) IBM
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.71%) SAP
6 1 (2.86%) Huawei
6 1 (2.86%) Siemens