Validation Contracts in the North of England

Validation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 102 178
Rank change year-on-year +13 +76 -17
Contract jobs citing Validation 79 85 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.40% 1.78% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 2.08% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 51 27
10th Percentile £320 £363 £395
25th Percentile £383 £388 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £520
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -14.42% +15.56%
75th Percentile £628 £500 £663
90th Percentile £703 £580 £775
England median daily rate £538 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 7
10th Percentile £44.70 £11.77 £26.25
25th Percentile £49.51 £11.79 £31.96
Median hourly rate £59.27 £42.50 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +39.46% -20.34% +105.19%
75th Percentile £66.25 £57.50 £57.25
90th Percentile £70.75 - £59.71
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% - +12.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Validation in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +35 60 £438 -12.50% 144
Yorkshire -13 14 £445 +4.59% 64
North East -4 5 £725 +59.69% 23
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (5.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) CICS
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.27%) SAS
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.59%) AWS
1 6 (7.59%) Azure
2 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.27%) GCP
3 1 (1.27%) Miro
3 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.27%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.27%) Slack
3 1 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) Firewall
2 5 (6.33%) 4G
2 5 (6.33%) 5G
3 4 (5.06%) 2G
3 4 (5.06%) 3G
4 2 (2.53%) Network Security
4 2 (2.53%) SAN
4 2 (2.53%) SSL
5 1 (1.27%) 3GPP
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.27%) DMZ
5 1 (1.27%) DNS
5 1 (1.27%) DWDM
5 1 (1.27%) LTE
5 1 (1.27%) MIMO
5 1 (1.27%) MPLS
5 1 (1.27%) OSPF
5 1 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.27%) VPN
5 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.80%) MySQL
2 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.80%) Power BI
3 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.53%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.27%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.27%) Power Query
4 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Selenium
2 7 (8.86%) JIRA
3 6 (7.59%) JMeter
4 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.06%) GitLab
5 4 (5.06%) LoadRunner
6 3 (3.80%) Git
7 2 (2.53%) Postman
7 2 (2.53%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (2.53%) TestNG
8 1 (1.27%) DBeaver
8 1 (1.27%) Katalon Studio
General
1 39 (49.37%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.72%) Finance
4 8 (10.13%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Banking
7 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.53%) Automotive
8 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Legal
9 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (16.46%) Analyst
2 10 (12.66%) Data Engineer
3 9 (11.39%) Migration Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Business Analyst
4 8 (10.13%) Senior
5 7 (8.86%) Data Migration Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Consultant
6 4 (5.06%) Software Tester
6 4 (5.06%) Tester
7 3 (3.80%) Architect
7 3 (3.80%) Change Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Developer
7 3 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.53%) Data Analyst
8 2 (2.53%) Oracle Consultant
8 2 (2.53%) QA Engineer
8 2 (2.53%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.53%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.53%) pytest
1 2 (2.53%) REST
2 1 (1.27%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.27%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.27%) ISPF
2 1 (1.27%) Middleware
2 1 (1.27%) RESTful
2 1 (1.27%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (10.13%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.86%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.06%) IoT
4 4 (5.06%) Smartphone
5 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (2.53%) Replication
7 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.27%) CMDB
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.27%) Infotainment
7 1 (1.27%) Life Science
7 1 (1.27%) NHS
7 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Android
1 4 (5.06%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.18%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.58%) User Acceptance Testing
3 20 (25.32%) Migration
4 18 (22.78%) Data Modelling
5 17 (21.52%) CI/CD
5 17 (21.52%) Test Automation
6 15 (18.99%) Agile
7 14 (17.72%) Data Migration
7 14 (17.72%) DevOps
8 13 (16.46%) ETL
8 13 (16.46%) Test Strategy
9 12 (15.19%) Data Validation
10 10 (12.66%) Data Mapping
11 9 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (11.39%) Process Improvement
12 8 (10.13%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (10.13%) Knowledge Transfer
12 8 (10.13%) Performance Testing
12 8 (10.13%) Workshop Facilitation
13 7 (8.86%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.11%) SQL
2 13 (16.46%) Python
3 10 (12.66%) PL/SQL
4 7 (8.86%) Bash
5 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.53%) Go
7 1 (1.27%) JCL
7 1 (1.27%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.27%) Perl
7 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.80%) CCNP
3 3 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) CCNA
4 2 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.27%) CBAP
5 1 (1.27%) CCIE
5 1 (1.27%) ISEB
5 1 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.27%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) QA
2 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.53%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.27%) HAZOP
4 1 (1.27%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.27%) PMO
4 1 (1.27%) SLA
4 1 (1.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (7.59%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Ansible
2 3 (3.80%) Grafana
2 3 (3.80%) Terraform
3 2 (2.53%) Functional Safety
3 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.53%) Puppet
3 2 (2.53%) vRealize
4 1 (1.27%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Oracle
2 13 (16.46%) ServiceNow
3 8 (10.13%) IBM
4 6 (7.59%) Cisco
4 6 (7.59%) Fortinet
5 5 (6.33%) Infoblox
6 4 (5.06%) Databricks
6 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.80%) Informatica
7 3 (3.80%) Talend
7 3 (3.80%) Workday
8 2 (2.53%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.53%) Brocade
8 2 (2.53%) EMC
8 2 (2.53%) HP
8 2 (2.53%) SAP
8 2 (2.53%) VMware
9 1 (1.27%) Google
9 1 (1.27%) McAfee
9 1 (1.27%) Siemens