Validation Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Validation
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 24 29
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +29
Contract jobs citing Validation 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.63% 2.01% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 2.24% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £416 £387 -
25th Percentile £425 £394 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £363
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% +13.10% -49.30%
75th Percentile £575 £418 £369
90th Percentile £586 £419 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £550 £410 £363
% change year-on-year +34.15% +13.10% -49.30%

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 161 134 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 83.42% 89.93% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 78 110
10th Percentile £200 £339 £350
25th Percentile £425 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £648
90th Percentile £638 £641 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £480 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 6
10th Percentile £13.67 £17.83 £17.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.25 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.47% +8.86% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £65.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £39.20 £70.00 £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.30 £21.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year -19.53% +8.86% +19.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Validation in Newcastle upon Tyne

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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 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Keycloak
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) GitOps
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
6 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) Competitor Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
6 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Argo
2 4 (57.14%) Istio
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft