Validation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Validation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Validation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 62 86
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +38
Contract jobs citing Validation 30 24 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.97% 1.99% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 2.28% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 16
10th Percentile £280 - £363
25th Percentile £309 £406 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% -6.67% +47.68%
75th Percentile £522 £613 £619
90th Percentile £611 £672 £653
North West median daily rate £425 £463 £510
% change year-on-year -8.11% -9.31% +27.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £62.48 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £64.31 £39.38 -
Median hourly rate £70.75 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.64% - -
75th Percentile £79.31 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £82.43 - -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +19.05% -2.33% +173.40%

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 901 1,052 1,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.12% 87.09% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 654 1,098
10th Percentile £303 £338 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £661 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 44 55
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.94 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.81 £16.46
Median hourly rate £22.63 £34.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.44% +74.36% +11.43%
75th Percentile £54.38 £59.13 £43.13
90th Percentile £74.88 £73.60 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% +15.21% +60.70%

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

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Validation

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Manchester

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Validation

Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 29 August 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 - 1 £205 -
Validation
North West

Validation
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 5 (16.67%) CMS
2 3 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Sketch
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) SAP ERP
2 1 (3.33%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Figma
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.33%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.33%) Slack
4 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) VSAN
2 1 (3.33%) 2G
2 1 (3.33%) 3G
2 1 (3.33%) 4G
2 1 (3.33%) 5G
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) SSL
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.33%) Looker
2 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Analyst
1 5 (16.67%) Consultant
1 5 (16.67%) Designer
2 4 (13.33%) UX Designer
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Banking Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Content Designer
4 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Digital Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Tester
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (3.33%) SAP Migration Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) LDAP
1 1 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Onboarding
2 4 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.67%) Smart Energy
4 2 (6.67%) Smart Meter
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) CMDB
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) IoT
5 1 (3.33%) Life Science
5 1 (3.33%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Android
1 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Agile
1 10 (33.33%) User Experience
2 9 (30.00%) Migration
3 6 (20.00%) Interaction Design
3 6 (20.00%) Personalization
3 6 (20.00%) UX Design
4 5 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 5 (16.67%) Usability Testing
5 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (13.33%) Content Management
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (10.00%) Contingency Planning
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (10.00%) Edge Computing
6 3 (10.00%) Minimum Viable Product
6 3 (10.00%) Security Hardening
6 3 (10.00%) User Stories
6 3 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) CISSP
4 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.33%) ISEB
4 1 (3.33%) MCSA
4 1 (3.33%) MCSE
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.67%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) PSD2
3 2 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (3.33%) HAZOP
4 1 (3.33%) IEC 61508
4 1 (3.33%) PMO
4 1 (3.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.67%) Firmware
2 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (6.67%) vSphere
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (6.67%) PowerCLI
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) AirWatch
3 1 (3.33%) CASB
3 1 (3.33%) Functional Safety
3 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Hopewiser
3 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
3 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Remedy
5 1 (3.33%) Samsung
5 1 (3.33%) Siemens
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Tenable