Validation Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Validation
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 34 25
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +27
Contract jobs citing Validation 10 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.18% 1.04% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 1.10% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £399 - £358
25th Percentile £425 £538 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +53.33% -50.00%
75th Percentile £549 £613 £421
90th Percentile £583 - £441
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £575 £375
% change year-on-year -17.39% +53.33% -50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 283 181 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 90.13% 93.78% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 92 97
10th Percentile £174 £278 £240
25th Percentile £364 £353 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £600
90th Percentile £585 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £442 £452 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% -4.84% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.97 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.75 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £37.25 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Validation

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Validation

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Gatling
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) JMeter
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Subject Matter Expert
1 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Manager
2 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Release Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Service Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (10.00%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) GitOps
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Secrets Management
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Design Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (20.00%) QA Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Bash
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) Go
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Ansible
3 4 (40.00%) Argo
3 4 (40.00%) Istio
4 2 (20.00%) Grafana
4 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (10.00%) Google