Verification and Validation Contract Job Trends in Reading

Verification and Validation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Verification and Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 91 84
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.06% 0.092% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.10% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile - - £528
25th Percentile £475 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £550 - £603
90th Percentile - - £609
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £450 £581
% change year-on-year +16.67% -22.58% -3.13%

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 593 958 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.12% 88.54% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 528 633
10th Percentile £350 £350 £240
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £574 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +9.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £535 £501
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.89% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 14
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.50 £29.04
25th Percentile £14.75 £38.44 £59.32
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £63.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -4.52% +15.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.74 £67.42
90th Percentile £74.40 £76.13 £75.18
Berkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -52.98% -5.34% +23.58%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Verification and Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Verification and Validation job vacancy trend in Reading

Verification and Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Verification and Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Verification and Validation

Verification and Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
1 7 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 7 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 7 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 7 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes