Verification and Validation Contracts in the North of England

Verification and Validation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Verification and Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Verification and 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 162 178 214
Rank change year-on-year +16 +36 +18
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 4 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +25.00% -20.00%
England median daily rate £600 £513 £543
% change year-on-year +17.02% -5.57% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £54.09 - £43.30
25th Percentile £56.95 £52.50 £51.75
Median hourly rate £64.27 £55.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -0.45% -26.47%
75th Percentile £70.29 £57.50 £59.25
90th Percentile £72.37 - £59.95
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.92% +13.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Verification and 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%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in the North of England

Verification and Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Verification and Validation in the North of England

Verification and Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Verification and Validation in the North of England

Verification and Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Verification and Validation in the North of England

Verification and Validation
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 Verification and 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 +15 4 £600 +20.00% 31
Verification and Validation
England

Verification and Validation
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:

Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Requirements Management
4 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) ITSM
4 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow