Verification and Validation Contracts in Reading

Verification and Validation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 58 89 80
Rank change year-on-year +31 -9 +15
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 2 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.17% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.19% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £500 £511
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -7.96% +27.88%
75th Percentile £525 £501 £569
90th Percentile - £501 £595
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £501 £544
% change year-on-year +19.88% -7.91% +27.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £75.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +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

Verification and Validation
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) PuTTY
1 1 (50.00%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Toad
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk