Validation Contracts in the South East

Validation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 48 101 99
Rank change year-on-year +53 -2 +20
Contract jobs citing Validation 135 107 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.49% 1.93% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 2.27% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 50 78
10th Percentile £311 £327 £252
25th Percentile £423 £391 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% +4.64% +3.16%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £572
90th Percentile £650 £699 £626
England median daily rate £538 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 34 35
10th Percentile £47.50 £25.60 £37.22
25th Percentile £51.25 £60.88 £42.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +50.00% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £54.38
90th Percentile £63.00 - £62.55
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% - +12.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Validation in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the South East 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
Thames Valley +57 56 £550 +10.00% 114
Berkshire +44 37 £548 +9.50% 57
Hampshire +20 30 £495 -20.80% 69
West Sussex +31 22 £423 -0.52% 16
Surrey +15 17 £365 -30.48% 30
Buckinghamshire +27 16 £575 - 28
Oxfordshire -4 3 £475 +5.56% 36
Sussex - 1 £700 - 10
Kent - 1 - - 15
Validation
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (9.63%) Confluence
2 5 (3.70%) SAS
3 3 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.22%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.48%) TPMS
Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.48%) Maximo
3 2 (1.48%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.74%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.74%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.74%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.74%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.74%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.52%) Azure
2 14 (10.37%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.70%) PowerApps
5 4 (2.96%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (2.96%) AWS
5 4 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.96%) GCP
5 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.96%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.48%) Figma
7 2 (1.48%) Miro
7 2 (1.48%) OCI
7 2 (1.48%) SaaS
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.67%) SNMP
1 9 (6.67%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (5.93%) Network Security
3 7 (5.19%) Firewall
3 7 (5.19%) VPN
4 6 (4.44%) 5G
5 4 (2.96%) 2G
5 4 (2.96%) 3G
5 4 (2.96%) 4G
5 4 (2.96%) HTTP
6 2 (1.48%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (1.48%) SIGTRAN
6 2 (1.48%) SMS
6 2 (1.48%) SS7
6 2 (1.48%) VoLTE
6 2 (1.48%) VoWiFi
6 2 (1.48%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.74%) MQTT
7 1 (0.74%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.74%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.67%) Power BI
2 8 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.44%) Metadata
3 6 (4.44%) Qlik Sense
3 6 (4.44%) Tableau
4 5 (3.70%) Big Data
4 5 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.48%) MS Access
6 2 (1.48%) MySQL
6 2 (1.48%) NewSQL
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.74%) Looker
7 1 (0.74%) QlikView
7 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (20.00%) JIRA
2 14 (10.37%) Git
3 9 (6.67%) GoogleTest
3 9 (6.67%) Robot Framework
4 7 (5.19%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.44%) Eclipse
6 5 (3.70%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.96%) Toad
8 3 (2.22%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (1.48%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.48%) DBeaver
9 2 (1.48%) GitLab
9 2 (1.48%) Postman
9 2 (1.48%) QARun
9 2 (1.48%) Selenium
9 2 (1.48%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.48%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.48%) WinRunner
10 1 (0.74%) Maven
10 1 (0.74%) Vite
General
1 47 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.48%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.41%) Finance
4 8 (5.93%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.44%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.70%) Banking
7 4 (2.96%) Electronics
7 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.96%) Marketing
7 4 (2.96%) Retail
8 3 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.48%) Avionics
9 2 (1.48%) Billing
9 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Automotive
10 1 (0.74%) Aviation
10 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (22.96%) Analyst
2 18 (13.33%) Senior
3 14 (10.37%) Data Analyst
3 14 (10.37%) Test Engineer
4 11 (8.15%) Consultant
5 10 (7.41%) Test Analyst
6 9 (6.67%) FPGA Engineer
6 9 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (5.93%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.19%) Architect
8 7 (5.19%) Network Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Software Test Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Security Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Senior Test Analyst
9 6 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Tester
10 4 (2.96%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (2.96%) Data Consultant
10 4 (2.96%) Developer
10 4 (2.96%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.41%) CSS
1 10 (7.41%) HTML
1 10 (7.41%) Web Services
2 4 (2.96%) Node.js
2 4 (2.96%) XML
3 3 (2.22%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.48%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.48%) Middleware
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.48%) Playwright
4 2 (1.48%) PySpark
5 1 (0.74%) ADO
5 1 (0.74%) Express.js
5 1 (0.74%) Framer.js
5 1 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.74%) PostGIS
5 1 (0.74%) React
5 1 (0.74%) REST
5 1 (0.74%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.89%) FPGA
2 9 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.67%) Verilog
3 7 (5.19%) IoT
4 6 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.70%) Credit Risk
5 5 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.96%) SCADA
6 4 (2.96%) Smartphone
7 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.48%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.48%) Replication
8 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.74%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.52%) Linux
2 16 (11.85%) Windows
3 13 (9.63%) Unix
4 4 (2.96%) Android
4 4 (2.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (25.93%) Migration
3 28 (20.74%) Agile
4 21 (15.56%) Data Migration
4 21 (15.56%) Software Engineering
5 20 (14.81%) Test Automation
5 20 (14.81%) Verification and Validation
6 18 (13.33%) Software Testing
7 17 (12.59%) Analytics
7 17 (12.59%) DevOps
8 14 (10.37%) Data Collection
9 13 (9.63%) Data Validation
9 13 (9.63%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (8.89%) Integration Testing
10 12 (8.89%) Scrum
11 11 (8.15%) Data Mapping
11 11 (8.15%) ETL
11 11 (8.15%) Test Management
12 10 (7.41%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 36 (26.67%) SQL
2 18 (13.33%) Python
3 10 (7.41%) Shell Script
4 9 (6.67%) SystemVerilog
4 9 (6.67%) Tcl
5 8 (5.93%) PL/SQL
6 7 (5.19%) C++
6 7 (5.19%) Java
6 7 (5.19%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.96%) Perl
8 3 (2.22%) C#
8 3 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.48%) Scala
9 2 (1.48%) VB
10 1 (0.74%) ABAP
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) C
10 1 (0.74%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.59%) Degree
4 9 (6.67%) CISSP
5 8 (5.93%) CISM
6 7 (5.19%) CCNA
6 7 (5.19%) CCNP
6 7 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.22%) ISEB
7 3 (2.22%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.48%) CEH
8 2 (1.48%) RIBA
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.74%) CRISC
9 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.74%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.33%) QA
2 6 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.70%) IFRS
3 5 (3.70%) IFRS 9
4 4 (2.96%) GDPR
5 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.48%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.48%) NIST
7 1 (0.74%) COBIT
7 1 (0.74%) COSO
7 1 (0.74%) ITGC
7 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.96%) Firmware
2 3 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.63%) Oracle
3 11 (8.15%) SAP
4 10 (7.41%) Google
5 9 (6.67%) Xilinx
6 7 (5.19%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.70%) Adobe
8 4 (2.96%) Databricks
8 4 (2.96%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.22%) webMethods
10 2 (1.48%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.48%) Autodesk
10 2 (1.48%) Cisco
10 2 (1.48%) Citrix
10 2 (1.48%) Mentor Graphics
10 2 (1.48%) Palantir
10 2 (1.48%) Splunk
10 2 (1.48%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.74%) Twitter