Validation Contract Job Trends in the North East

Validation
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 36 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +34
Contract jobs citing Validation 15 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.90% 1.69% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 1.81% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £399 £588 £358
25th Percentile £425 £663 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £825 £375
Median % change year-on-year -42.42% +120.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £549 £869 £421
90th Percentile £583 £873 £441
England median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.32% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £28.91 £29.77 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 341 277 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.57% 93.58% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 134 150
10th Percentile £175 £305 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £575
90th Percentile £594 £714 £711
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 10
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.22 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £28.91 £18.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.19% +7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Validation job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Validation

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the North East over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the North East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Validation

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Tyne and Wear -1 10 £475 -17.39% 14
Durham +4 1 - - 4
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) OpenShift
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Gatling
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) JMeter
3 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Designer
1 2 (13.33%) Subject Matter Expert
1 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Lead
2 1 (6.67%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Platform Manager
2 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Release Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Service Designer
2 1 (6.67%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Test Technician
2 1 (6.67%) Tester
2 1 (6.67%) UX Designer
2 1 (6.67%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Keycloak
2 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Swagger
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (53.33%) GitOps
3 8 (53.33%) Migration
4 6 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 5 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (20.00%) Microservices
7 3 (20.00%) Secrets Management
7 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (13.33%) Design Thinking
8 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (13.33%) QA Automation
9 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy
9 1 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Bash
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
2 1 (6.67%) Go
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Kubernetes
1 11 (73.33%) Terraform
2 9 (60.00%) Ansible
3 8 (53.33%) Argo
3 8 (53.33%) Istio
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Hitachi