Validation Contracts in Somerset

Validation
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Validation 5 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 3.42% 4.90% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 6.37% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £419 £104 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £120 £298
Median % change year-on-year +281.43% -59.79% -23.23%
75th Percentile £509 £195 £472
90th Percentile £549 £303 £511
South West median daily rate £575 £431 £572
% change year-on-year +33.33% -24.61% +11.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% +5.69% +36.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 136 157 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 93.15% 76.96% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 89 133
10th Percentile £263 £186 £210
25th Percentile £411 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £675
90th Percentile £775 £625 £738
South West median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 29 16
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.50 £17.38
25th Percentile - - £32.11
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -50.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile - £40.00 £61.09
90th Percentile - £50.65 £76.84
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +23.08%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Somerset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Somerset

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Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Somerset over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Somerset

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Somerset

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Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 15 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
Street - 3 £438 - 3
Bath -10 1 £550 +57.14% 4
Yeovil - 1 £475 -
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Change Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) BPMN
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco