Validation Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Validation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Validation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 50 37
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 +32
Contract jobs citing Validation 15 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.59% 1.76% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 1.98% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 3
10th Percentile £358 £494 -
25th Percentile £383 £496 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -3.62% -26.57%
75th Percentile £521 £515 £569
90th Percentile £600 £516 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -8.42% -3.81% -26.57%

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 554 354 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.52% 88.94% 96.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 184 257
10th Percentile £291 £360 £400
25th Percentile £381 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -11.02% +12.38%
75th Percentile £550 £591 £688
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £587
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £14.77 £15.88 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
% change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%

Validation
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

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Validation

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Sheffield over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Sheffield

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Validation

Validation
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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 12 (80.00%) Finance
2 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
5 2 (13.33%) Legal
6 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 3 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Chief Operating Officer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Strategy Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Business Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Planning Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Portfolio Planning Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (53.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 8 (53.33%) Business Case
3 8 (53.33%) Portfolio Management
3 8 (53.33%) Roadmaps
3 8 (53.33%) Strategic Planning
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 4 (26.67%) Commercial Awareness
5 4 (26.67%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (26.67%) Emotional Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) Fintech
5 4 (26.67%) Time Management
6 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
7 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 2 (13.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) VCAP
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) PMO
2 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) PowerCLI
1 1 (6.67%) Puppet
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
1 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Broadcom
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) F5
3 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft