Validation Contracts in the Midlands

Validation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 69 111
Rank change year-on-year +5 +42 +21
Contract jobs citing Validation 63 72 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.84% 2.44% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 3.04% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 25
10th Percentile £205 £350 £335
25th Percentile £350 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £557 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.21% +39.25% -21.57%
75th Percentile £594 £616 £500
90th Percentile £688 £675 £573
England median daily rate £525 £500 £565
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.50% +8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £14.00 -
25th Percentile - £34.44 £55.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -4.17% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,966 2,369 2,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.48% 80.22% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,258 1,573 1,984
10th Percentile £207 £242 £257
25th Percentile £356 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 97
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.28 £18.99 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.06% -24.81% +29.49%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
West Midlands -13 41 £403 -29.24% 248
East Midlands +13 21 £455 +12.22% 105
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.59%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Fusion 360
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.59%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (4.76%) SAP PM
2 2 (3.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.59%) Primavera
3 1 (1.59%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.29%) Azure
2 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 6 (9.52%) AWS
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (6.35%) SaaS
5 3 (4.76%) Collibra
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.17%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.17%) OCI
6 2 (3.17%) Serverless
6 2 (3.17%) Taleo
7 1 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) Modbus
2 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (6.35%) Delta Lake
2 4 (6.35%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.76%) GIS
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.17%) Metadata
4 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.59%) Big Data
5 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.59%) Impala
5 1 (1.59%) MySQL
5 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) JIRA
1 5 (7.94%) Postman
2 2 (3.17%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.17%) JMeter
2 2 (3.17%) Selenium
2 2 (3.17%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.59%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.59%) Toad
General
1 31 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Legal
4 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Automotive
5 2 (3.17%) Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.59%) Aviation
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Local Government
6 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (17.46%) Analyst
2 7 (11.11%) Consultant
2 7 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 5 (7.94%) Lead
3 5 (7.94%) Tester
4 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (4.76%) Architect
5 3 (4.76%) Automation Tester
5 3 (4.76%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (4.76%) Junior
5 3 (4.76%) Junior Automation Tester
5 3 (4.76%) Junior Tester
5 3 (4.76%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.76%) Service Manager
6 2 (3.17%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (3.17%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (3.17%) Migration Manager
6 2 (3.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) Kafka
2 3 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (1.59%) REST
3 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Onboarding
1 6 (9.52%) SCADA
2 5 (7.94%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.76%) IoT
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Pricing Data
4 2 (3.17%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.17%) Replication
5 1 (1.59%) CMDB
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Derivative
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Windows
2 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (26.98%) Migration
3 14 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 13 (20.63%) Data Migration
5 12 (19.05%) ETL
6 11 (17.46%) Data Validation
7 10 (15.87%) Test Automation
8 9 (14.29%) Agile
8 9 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (12.70%) Analytics
9 8 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (12.70%) Data Mapping
9 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
9 8 (12.70%) Visualisation
10 7 (11.11%) Data Analysis
10 7 (11.11%) Data Management
10 7 (11.11%) Risk Management
11 6 (9.52%) Data Analytics
11 6 (9.52%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) SQL
2 8 (12.70%) Python
3 6 (9.52%) Java
4 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) ISEB
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.63%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.52%) GDPR
2 6 (9.52%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) NIST
4 1 (1.59%) EMIR
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) MiFID
4 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (6.35%) vSphere
2 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Oracle
1 10 (15.87%) SAP
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) Databricks
3 4 (6.35%) Informatica
3 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.35%) VMware
4 2 (3.17%) BMC
4 2 (3.17%) Nintex
4 2 (3.17%) OpenText
4 2 (3.17%) Remedy
5 1 (1.59%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.59%) KANA
5 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) Siemens
5 1 (1.59%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) Trayport
5 1 (1.59%) webMethods
5 1 (1.59%) Workday