Validation Contracts in Northamptonshire

Validation
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Validation 13 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 4.32% 1.88% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 2.12% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 1
10th Percentile £205 £335 -
25th Percentile £243 £377 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% - -36.00%
75th Percentile £591 £405 -
90th Percentile £634 £413 -
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £413 £468
% change year-on-year +21.21% -11.76% -10.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 287 236 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 95.35% 88.72% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 182 134
10th Percentile £268 £353 £213
25th Percentile £347 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £455
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -2.29% -2.06%
75th Percentile £447 £561 £548
90th Percentile £525 £619 £592
East Midlands median daily rate £405 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile £17.57 £25.41 £12.64
25th Percentile - £28.88 £32.58
Median hourly rate £21.39 £36.34 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.14% -28.75% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £44.36 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.20 £48.17 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £33.40
% change year-on-year -5.65% -40.11% +55.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Northamptonshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Northamptonshire

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Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Northampton -7 12 £395 -1.25% 5
Towcester - 1 £700 - 2
Validation
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) BrowserStack
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) Impala
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Postman
2 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (15.38%) JMeter
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Automation Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Junior
2 3 (23.08%) Junior Automation Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Junior Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Test Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Deployment Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.69%) ERP Manager
4 1 (7.69%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 2 (15.38%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk
1 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
1 2 (15.38%) SCADA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
2 5 (38.46%) API Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
4 3 (23.08%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Change Control
5 2 (15.38%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (15.38%) Compliance Management
5 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Acquisition
5 2 (15.38%) Cutover Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (15.38%) Data Privacy
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
1 2 (15.38%) PMP
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Nintex
2 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft