Verification and Validation Contracts in Reading

Verification and Validation
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Verification and Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Verification and Validation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 81 93
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -27
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 2 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 0.68% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.76% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £500 £511 -
25th Percentile £500 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% +27.88% +18.06%
75th Percentile £501 £569 £531
90th Percentile £501 £595 £588
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £544 £425
% change year-on-year -7.91% +27.88% +18.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £75.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Verification and Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,061 925 1,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.99% 90.07% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 625 817
10th Percentile £213 £365 £263
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £657
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.57 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +4.76% +174.67% -

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Verification and 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA