Verification and Validation Contracts in Portsmouth

Verification and Validation
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth requiring Verification and Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Verification and 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 20 20 40
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 8 26 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 6.50% 8.70% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.00% 9.77% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £63 -
Hampshire median daily rate - £63 £543
% change year-on-year - -88.49% -22.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 0
10th Percentile £54.51 £61.40 -
25th Percentile £56.03 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £59.13 £70.32 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 -
90th Percentile £62.88 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.75 £70.32 £52.50
% change year-on-year -17.87% +33.93% -37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

Verification and 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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 266 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 81.30% 88.96% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 112 138
10th Percentile £363 £400 £201
25th Percentile £438 £450 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +14.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £574
90th Percentile £660 £848 £672
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 100 22
10th Percentile £40.88 £51.06 £45.06
25th Percentile £53.13 £53.40 £51.44
Median hourly rate £58.88 £59.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +3.37% +27.78%
75th Percentile £63.44 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £66.88 £76.86 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Job postings citing Verification and Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in Portsmouth

Verification and Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Verification and Validation in Portsmouth.

Daily rate trend for Verification and Validation in Portsmouth

Verification and Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Verification and Validation in Portsmouth.

Hourly rate trend for Verification and Validation in Portsmouth

Verification and Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 6 (75.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) SNMP
1 8 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (37.50%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
1 8 (100.00%) GoogleTest
1 8 (100.00%) JIRA
1 8 (100.00%) Robot Framework
2 6 (75.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (62.50%) Eclipse
4 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
1 1 (12.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) CSS
1 8 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Scrum
1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 8 (100.00%) SysML
1 8 (100.00%) UML
1 8 (100.00%) Validation
2 6 (75.00%) Prototyping
3 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C++
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Atlassian
1 6 (75.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Twitter