Validation Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Validation
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Validation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 13 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Validation 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxford 3.39% 2.47% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 3.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £260 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.69% - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £475 £350 £441
% change year-on-year +35.71% -20.54% -25.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £50.15 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -22.85% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 60 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 93.22% 74.07% 80.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 49 61
10th Percentile £218 £180 £175
25th Percentile £222 £280 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% - +1.12%
75th Percentile £541 £500 £600
90th Percentile £609 £570 £675
Oxfordshire median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £23.43 £12.50 -
25th Percentile - £13.38 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.02 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% - -
75th Percentile £86.32 £29.38 -
90th Percentile £89.63 £47.75 -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.15 £14.25 £32.30
% change year-on-year +76.49% -55.88% +72.59%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Oxford

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Validation

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Validation

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) RS-232
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA
1 1 (50.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Intel
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens