Validation Contracts in Sheffield

Validation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 41 40 55
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing Validation 9 15 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.82% 3.96% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 4.27% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 0
10th Percentile £370 £397 -
25th Percentile £383 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £434 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% - -
75th Percentile £504 £445 -
90th Percentile £541 £446 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £407 £425 £550
% change year-on-year -4.24% -22.73% -19.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (11.11%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) InfluxDB
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JMeter
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) TestNG
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Katalon Studio
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Chief Operating Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) pytest
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) EMC VMAX
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (22.22%) Benchmarking
4 2 (22.22%) Business Case
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
1 2 (22.22%) Puppet
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
1 2 (22.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) 3PAR
2 2 (22.22%) Brocade
2 2 (22.22%) EMC
2 2 (22.22%) HP
2 2 (22.22%) VMware