Validation Contracts in Oxfordshire

Validation
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 16 29
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Validation 4 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.55% 2.72% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 3.65% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £269 £408
25th Percentile - £290 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £441
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -20.54% -25.97%
75th Percentile - £406 £461
90th Percentile - £425 £473
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £531
% change year-on-year +2.56% -8.24% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £29.89 - -
25th Percentile £36.99 - -
Median hourly rate £50.15 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.85% - -
75th Percentile £64.49 - -
90th Percentile £72.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £76.86 £57.50
% change year-on-year -26.81% +33.67% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 136 137 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.62% 74.46% 88.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 96 137
10th Percentile £181 £180 £196
25th Percentile £250 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
75th Percentile £550 £500 £625
90th Percentile £688 £619 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £517 £520
% change year-on-year -3.34% -0.53% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 18
10th Percentile £20.32 £11.50 £25.67
25th Percentile £25.15 £11.62 £25.96
Median hourly rate £25.23 £20.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +23.05% -36.53% +72.59%
75th Percentile £78.88 £28.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £65.00 £51.13
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.90% +14.70% +80.31%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Oxfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Validation

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Validation

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in Oxfordshire

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford -7 2 £475 +82.69% 2
Validation
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) EPoS
1 1 (25.00%) FPGA
1 1 (25.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Data Entry
2 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Intel
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Siemens