Validation Contracts in Sheffield

Validation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 55 51
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 -22
Contract jobs citing Validation 14 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.94% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 0.48% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £397 - -
25th Percentile £425 - £665
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £475 £680
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% -30.15% +94.29%
75th Percentile £445 - £695
90th Percentile £446 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £513 £680
% change year-on-year -17.07% -24.63% +94.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 328 414 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.39% 95.39% 92.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 295 283
10th Percentile £371 £363 £350
25th Percentile £414 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £658 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.05 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £11.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -28.13% +18.06%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.88 £18.11
90th Percentile - £34.35 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.38
% change year-on-year +65.71% -35.08% +37.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 13 (92.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Storage Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Data Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Data Storage Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Data Storage Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) EMC Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) EMC Storage Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Build Automation
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 12 (85.71%) Continuous Delivery
1 12 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
1 12 (85.71%) ITIL
1 12 (85.71%) Performance Analysis
2 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.14%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (7.14%) Business Case
3 1 (7.14%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (7.14%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (7.14%) Migration
3 1 (7.14%) Objectives and Key Results
3 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.14%) Resource Management
3 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.14%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Bash
1 4 (28.57%) Perl
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) EMC
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk