Validation Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Validation
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 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 16 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing Validation 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 3.41% 1.94% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 2.67% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £319 - £275
25th Percentile £335 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £600
75th Percentile £428 - £625
90th Percentile £453 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £440 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 75 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 81.82% 72.82% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 34 82
10th Percentile £120 £195 £167
25th Percentile £153 £300 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -11.71% -
75th Percentile £492 £550 £500
90th Percentile £629 £638 £609
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 6
10th Percentile £16.80 £11.45 £19.13
25th Percentile £24.56 £13.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% -20.45% +9.32%
75th Percentile £26.83 £18.69 -
90th Percentile £52.38 £18.73 £33.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Validation job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Validation

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in North Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in North Yorkshire

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Validation

Validation
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Middlesbrough - 3 £375 - 1
Validation
Yorkshire

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) TestRail
1 3 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft