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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 87 94
Rank change year-on-year +25 +7 +26
Contract jobs citing Validation 59 51 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.95% 1.90% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 2.31% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 34
10th Percentile £205 £312 £243
25th Percentile £350 £350 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £484
90th Percentile £713 £731 £550
England median daily rate £525 £500 £553
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.50% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £25.45 £14.00 -
25th Percentile £29.13 £34.44 £55.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £45.13 £58.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £49.55 - -
England median hourly rate £56.77 £60.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -6.17% -3.20% +17.92%

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 1,764 2,205 2,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.29% 82.06% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,486 2,037
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 169 103
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.10
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.76
Median hourly rate £18.63 £18.00 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -19.14% +26.98%
75th Percentile £25.04 £33.25 £37.66
90th Percentile £44.60 £55.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

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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 21 May 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 21 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
West Midlands +11 39 £463 -2.63% 140
East Midlands +15 19 £455 -15.83% 68
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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 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.69%) Confluence
1 1 (1.69%) MS Project Server
1 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Fusion 360
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.69%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.69%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) SAP PM
2 2 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (3.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.69%) Primavera
3 1 (1.69%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Azure
2 6 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (8.47%) AWS
4 4 (6.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (5.08%) Collibra
5 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.39%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.39%) OCI
6 2 (3.39%) SaaS
6 2 (3.39%) Serverless
6 2 (3.39%) Taleo
7 1 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (1.69%) Modbus
2 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.69%) WAN
2 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (6.78%) Delta Lake
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle Database
2 3 (5.08%) GIS
2 3 (5.08%) Power BI
3 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.69%) Big Data
4 1 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.69%) Impala
4 1 (1.69%) MySQL
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Postman
2 3 (5.08%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) JMeter
3 2 (3.39%) Selenium
3 2 (3.39%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.69%) GitLab
4 1 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.69%) Toad
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Legal
3 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Automotive
4 2 (3.39%) Finance
5 1 (1.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Local Government
5 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (11.86%) Analyst
2 6 (10.17%) Architect
2 6 (10.17%) Consultant
3 4 (6.78%) Business Analyst
3 4 (6.78%) Data Engineer
3 4 (6.78%) Lead
3 4 (6.78%) Tester
4 3 (5.08%) Data Analyst
4 3 (5.08%) Data Migration Specialist
4 3 (5.08%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (5.08%) Project Manager
4 3 (5.08%) SAP Architect
4 3 (5.08%) Test Manager
5 2 (3.39%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (3.39%) Automation Tester
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (3.39%) Data Migration Manager
5 2 (3.39%) Junior Automation Tester
5 2 (3.39%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) CSS
1 5 (8.47%) CSS3
1 5 (8.47%) HTML
1 5 (8.47%) HTML5
1 5 (8.47%) jQuery
1 5 (8.47%) Kafka
1 5 (8.47%) SAP Fiori
1 5 (8.47%) SAPUI5
2 2 (3.39%) RESTful
3 1 (1.69%) REST
3 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (8.47%) SCADA
3 4 (6.78%) IoT
4 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.39%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.39%) Replication
5 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.69%) Derivative
5 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.69%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Windows
2 2 (3.39%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.12%) Migration
2 14 (23.73%) ETL
3 13 (22.03%) Data Governance
3 13 (22.03%) Data Migration
3 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.64%) Data Mapping
4 11 (18.64%) Data Modelling
5 9 (15.25%) Agile
5 9 (15.25%) Analytics
5 9 (15.25%) Data Integration
5 9 (15.25%) Data Validation
6 8 (13.56%) Risk Management
6 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
6 8 (13.56%) Workflow
7 7 (11.86%) Data Analytics
7 7 (11.86%) User Experience
8 6 (10.17%) Code Quality
8 6 (10.17%) Data Transformation
8 6 (10.17%) Test Strategy
9 5 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.12%) SQL
2 6 (10.17%) Python
3 5 (8.47%) ABAP
3 5 (8.47%) COBOL
3 5 (8.47%) Java
3 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.08%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (5.08%) Scala
5 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Degree
2 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) CISSP
4 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) GIAC
4 1 (1.69%) ISEB
4 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.69%) SANS
4 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.86%) GDPR
2 7 (11.86%) QA
3 3 (5.08%) NIST
4 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.69%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.39%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) SAP
2 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.95%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) Informatica
4 4 (6.78%) Databricks
5 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.39%) BMC
6 2 (3.39%) Nintex
6 2 (3.39%) Remedy
6 2 (3.39%) VMware
7 1 (1.69%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.69%) AVEVA
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco
7 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.69%) KANA
7 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.69%) Siemens
7 1 (1.69%) Splunk
7 1 (1.69%) webMethods