Validation Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Validation
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 46 47
Rank change year-on-year +19 +1 +32
Contract jobs citing Validation 14 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.31% 1.76% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 2.03% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 9
10th Percentile £221 £428 £360
25th Percentile £232 £459 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +23.53% -19.05%
75th Percentile £400 £581 £625
90th Percentile £545 £608 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £388 £575 £400
% change year-on-year -32.61% +43.75% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 277 246 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 85.23% 86.62% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 175 379
10th Percentile £223 £248 £279
25th Percentile £356 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% +7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £613
90th Percentile £625 £668 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 13
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.09 £16.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.35 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +28.54% +20.59%
75th Percentile £31.21 £36.56 £24.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £37.37 £28.80
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £35.08 £21.25
% change year-on-year -28.31% +65.09% +34.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Validation

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Milton Keynes

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Validation

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Lucidchart
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) NAS
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) Metadata
1 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) MSTest
2 1 (7.14%) NUnit
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
2 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Change Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Change and Release Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Data Migration Tester
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Release Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
2 2 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Change Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (7.14%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL
1 4 (28.57%) ITSM
1 4 (28.57%) Migration
1 4 (28.57%) Service Management
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Data Reconciliation
2 3 (21.43%) Defect Management
2 3 (21.43%) ETL
2 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
2 3 (21.43%) Release Management
2 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
2 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
2 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) ISO 9001
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) BMC
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) F5
3 1 (7.14%) Isilon
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) NetApp
3 1 (7.14%) Remedy
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) UiPath
3 1 (7.14%) Veeam
3 1 (7.14%) VMware