Validation Contracts in the North West

Validation
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 126 138
Rank change year-on-year +26 +12 -37
Contract jobs citing Validation 41 31 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.48% 0.96% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.06% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 31
10th Percentile £325 £400 £325
25th Percentile £416 £413 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +11.99%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £511
90th Percentile - £775 £575
England median daily rate £500 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.73% +11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 3
10th Percentile £11.77 £26.25 £17.26
25th Percentile £11.79 £31.96 £27.54
Median hourly rate £42.50 £53.35 £44.68
Median % change year-on-year -20.34% +19.40% +103.09%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.25 £59.91
90th Percentile - £59.71 £69.05
England median hourly rate £61.50 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +11.82% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,398 2,935 3,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.92% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 2,090 2,574
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 149 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.73 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.28 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £56.80 £65.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Cheshire +19 22 £570 +42.50% 13
Manchester +22 14 £500 - 33
Lancashire +1 4 - - 10
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (7.32%) SAS
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (9.76%) Simulink
4 4 (9.76%) Stateflow
5 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.44%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.44%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
2 3 (7.32%) Azure
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.44%) AWS
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.44%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.44%) Commercetools
4 1 (2.44%) dbt
4 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.44%) GitHub
4 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) Power BI
2 3 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.44%) Essbase
4 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.44%) Metadata
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
1 1 (2.44%) Postman
1 1 (2.44%) SoapUI
1 1 (2.44%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (17.07%) Finance
5 6 (14.63%) Manufacturing
6 5 (12.20%) Legal
7 4 (9.76%) Automotive
8 2 (4.88%) Banking
8 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.44%) Aviation
9 1 (2.44%) German Language
9 1 (2.44%) Law
9 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Analyst
2 9 (21.95%) Test Analyst
3 8 (19.51%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Administrator
5 4 (9.76%) Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Software Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (7.32%) IT Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) IT Support
6 3 (7.32%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Forensic Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Assistant
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.44%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Life Science
2 4 (9.76%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.88%) Digital Media
3 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.44%) NHS
4 1 (2.44%) PMI
4 1 (2.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Android
1 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) Data Protection
2 8 (19.51%) Business Continuity
2 8 (19.51%) Business Strategy
2 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (19.51%) Cyber Resilience
2 8 (19.51%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (19.51%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (19.51%) IT Strategy
2 8 (19.51%) Roadmaps
2 8 (19.51%) Strategic Roadmap
2 8 (19.51%) Use Case
3 7 (17.07%) Agile
3 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.07%) Project Management
4 6 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (14.63%) Data Validation
4 6 (14.63%) Migration
4 6 (14.63%) Test Scripting
4 6 (14.63%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (14.63%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.95%) SQL
2 4 (9.76%) MATLAB
3 2 (4.88%) Python
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) Groovy
4 1 (2.44%) Java
4 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.88%) PMP
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) ISEB
3 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) NIST
2 7 (17.07%) GxP
3 6 (14.63%) GAMP
3 6 (14.63%) GDPR
4 5 (12.20%) QA
5 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 2 (4.88%) ISO17020
6 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (2.44%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) SAP
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.44%) HP
4 1 (2.44%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) Sophos