Validation Contracts in Scotland

Validation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 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 97 119 113
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 +45
Contract jobs citing Validation 19 10 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 0.45% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.51% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 41
10th Percentile - £395 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £495 £525 £588
90th Percentile £542 £555 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.94 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £60.50 £62.55
% change year-on-year -4.96% -3.28% +13.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +9 11 £450 -21.74% 29
Glasgow +6 4 £530 +41.33% 17
Stirling - 1 £400 - 4
Highlands - 1 - - 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) SaaS
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) IaaS
4 3 (15.79%) PaaS
4 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 3 (15.79%) PowerApps
5 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (10.53%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Postman
3 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
3 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
3 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) Selenium
3 3 (15.79%) Subversion
3 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
3 3 (15.79%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 9 (47.37%) Public Sector
2 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Data Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Business Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Field Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Product Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) PySpark
3 1 (5.26%) Great Expectations
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.26%) Pandas
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Client/Server
1 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Solaris
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (31.58%) ETL
2 6 (31.58%) Migration
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) Analytics
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
3 5 (26.32%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Business Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) ATDD
5 3 (15.79%) BDD
5 3 (15.79%) Data Governance
5 3 (15.79%) Feature Driven Development
5 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) SOA
5 3 (15.79%) Software Delivery
5 3 (15.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) C++
3 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
3 3 (15.79%) VBA
3 3 (15.79%) VBScript
4 2 (10.53%) Python
5 1 (5.26%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) ISEB
2 3 (15.79%) ISTQB
2 3 (15.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) QA
2 5 (26.32%) Data Quality
3 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Commvault
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Workday