Validation Contracts in Northampton

Validation
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 16 17 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 +18
Contract jobs citing Validation 9 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 7.32% 3.15% 12.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.83% 3.33% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 16
10th Percentile £291 £402 -
25th Percentile £368 £405 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £310
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +32.26% -31.11%
75th Percentile £503 £458 £400
90th Percentile £591 £486 £404
Northamptonshire median daily rate £450 £410 £310
% change year-on-year +9.76% +32.26% -31.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 120 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.50% 94.49% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 91 89
10th Percentile £262 £325 £163
25th Percentile £356 £356 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £460 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +22.67% -18.48%
75th Percentile £475 £595 £500
90th Percentile £529 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £445 £375
% change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% +7.56%
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Northampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Validation in Northampton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Northampton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in Northampton.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Northampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (22.22%) BrowserStack
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
1 2 (22.22%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) Impala
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JMeter
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) SoapUI
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Automation Test Lead
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Deployment Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Deployment Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Product Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Credit Risk
1 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Data Analytics
1 4 (44.44%) Data Integration
1 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) API Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (22.22%) Compliance Management
3 2 (22.22%) Credit Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (22.22%) Data Lineage
3 2 (22.22%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Nintex
2 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft