Validation Contract Job Trends in Middlesbrough

Validation
North Yorkshire > Middlesbrough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Middlesbrough requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Validation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Middlesbrough 30.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 37.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £319 - -
25th Percentile £335 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £453 - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £375 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +54.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Middlesbrough

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 Middlesbrough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8 6 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesbrough 80.00% 75.00% 56.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 12
10th Percentile £186 £196 £127
25th Percentile £188 £275 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £500 £290
Median % change year-on-year -37.00% +72.41% +19.59%
75th Percentile £388 - £425
90th Percentile £436 £525 £470
North Yorkshire median daily rate £250 £450 £433
% change year-on-year -44.44% +4.05% +8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £19.71 - -
25th Percentile £21.75 - £41.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.55%
75th Percentile £27.72 - £44.50
90th Percentile £29.26 - -
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.71% -20.45% +9.32%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesbrough

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Middlesbrough

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Middlesbrough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Middlesbrough citing Validation

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Middlesbrough

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Middlesbrough

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesbrough 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) TestRail
1 3 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft