Validation Contracts in Reading

Validation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 78 81
Rank change year-on-year +52 +3 -21
Contract jobs citing Validation 43 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.10% 1.00% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% 1.16% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 3 9
10th Percentile £441 £354 £450
25th Percentile £475 £390 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £466 £575
90th Percentile £638 £476 £613
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £388 £518
% change year-on-year +31.61% -25.12% -0.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 559 948 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.24% 85.95% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 513 633
10th Percentile £351 £350 £349
25th Percentile £450 £475 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 22
10th Percentile - £14.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.52 £54.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -6.67% +135.71%
75th Percentile £38.42 £74.87 £74.59
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £76.82
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £60.60 £58.75
% change year-on-year -47.11% +3.15% +125.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Reading over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 4 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.98%) OpenStack
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.33%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.23%) AWS
2 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.30%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (9.30%) dbt
3 4 (9.30%) GCP
4 3 (6.98%) Azure
4 3 (6.98%) OCI
4 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.33%) Miro
5 1 (2.33%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) BGP
1 3 (6.98%) LAN
1 3 (6.98%) MPLS
1 3 (6.98%) OSPF
1 3 (6.98%) SNMP
1 3 (6.98%) TACACS
1 3 (6.98%) WAN
1 3 (6.98%) Wireless
2 2 (4.65%) 5G
2 2 (4.65%) Broadband
2 2 (4.65%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (4.65%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (4.65%) SMS
2 2 (4.65%) SS7
2 2 (4.65%) VoLTE
2 2 (4.65%) VoWiFi
2 2 (4.65%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) PuTTY
3 1 (2.33%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) NoSQL
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (11.63%) Power BI
3 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) Tableau
4 3 (6.98%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (4.65%) Metadata
6 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.33%) GIS
6 1 (2.33%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Maven
3 1 (2.33%) MLflow
3 1 (2.33%) Toad
General
1 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
2 16 (37.21%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (25.58%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Finance
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Analyst
2 6 (13.95%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (9.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Consultant
5 3 (6.98%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Designer
5 3 (6.98%) IP Designer
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Telecoms Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Web Services
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (4.65%) CSS
3 2 (4.65%) Jest
3 2 (4.65%) React
3 2 (4.65%) Sass
4 1 (2.33%) Middleware
4 1 (2.33%) PostGIS
4 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
2 10 (23.26%) DevOps
3 7 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (16.28%) Data Transformation
3 7 (16.28%) End-to-End Testing
3 7 (16.28%) Test Scripting
3 7 (16.28%) Verification and Validation
4 6 (13.95%) Analytical Thinking
4 6 (13.95%) Data Migration
4 6 (13.95%) High Availability
4 6 (13.95%) Information Security
4 6 (13.95%) Load Testing
4 6 (13.95%) Migration
4 6 (13.95%) Performance Testing
4 6 (13.95%) Risk Analysis
4 6 (13.95%) Scenario Testing
4 6 (13.95%) SOA
4 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
5 5 (11.63%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) Python
1 14 (32.56%) SQL
2 5 (11.63%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.33%) Magik
4 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) AWS Certification
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Degree
4 4 (9.30%) Master's Degree
5 3 (6.98%) CCIE
5 3 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.98%) CISM
5 3 (6.98%) CISSP
5 3 (6.98%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) QA
2 6 (13.95%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.98%) GDPR
3 3 (6.98%) NIST
3 3 (6.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (4.65%) COBIT
4 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.33%) EU AI Act
5 1 (2.33%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (6.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 3 (6.98%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Oracle
2 4 (9.30%) Virgin Media
3 3 (6.98%) Cisco
3 3 (6.98%) F5
3 3 (6.98%) Fortinet
3 3 (6.98%) Juniper
3 3 (6.98%) VMware
4 2 (4.65%) Databricks
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.33%) ESRI
5 1 (2.33%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.33%) Remedy