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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 119 123
Rank change year-on-year +30 +4 -34
Contract jobs citing Validation 120 97 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.09% 1.71% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 1.92% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 50 70
10th Percentile £313 £430 £335
25th Percentile £391 £464 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £587 £600 £550
90th Percentile £654 £630 £653
England median daily rate £500 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -13.04% +12.09% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 31 24
10th Percentile £13.00 £24.50 £26.22
25th Percentile £62.00 £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £70.32 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.26% - -
75th Percentile £76.86 £58.75 £65.08
90th Percentile - £62.55 £78.29
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% +25.00%

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 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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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 16 June 2024.

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 16 June 2024.

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 16 June 2024. 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
Hampshire +23 53 £584 -2.99% 40
Thames Valley +4 34 £475 -7.77% 84
Surrey +7 22 £525 +5.00% 24
Berkshire -12 19 £479 -4.30% 35
Oxfordshire +7 11 £450 +12.50% 32
Buckinghamshire +19 4 £575 -4.17% 17
West Sussex - 2 £425 - 10
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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 12 (10.00%) Confluence
2 4 (3.33%) IIS
3 2 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.33%) Sketch
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.67%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.83%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.67%) Azure
2 4 (3.33%) Figma
3 3 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.67%) AWS
4 2 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (1.67%) GCP
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.67%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.83%) dbt
5 1 (0.83%) PaaS
5 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.83%) SaaS
5 1 (0.83%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.83%) SNMP
1 13 (10.83%) Software-Defined Radio
2 6 (5.00%) Wireless
3 5 (4.17%) Internet
4 3 (2.50%) Firewall
4 3 (2.50%) Kerberos
4 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.50%) VLAN
5 2 (1.67%) 4G
5 2 (1.67%) 5G
5 2 (1.67%) BGP
5 2 (1.67%) DVB
5 2 (1.67%) Modbus
5 2 (1.67%) Network Security
5 2 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.83%) LAN
6 1 (0.83%) RS-232
6 1 (0.83%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.83%) WAN
6 1 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.67%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.67%) Power BI
4 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.83%) Big Data
5 1 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.83%) Impala
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.83%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 28 (23.33%) Git
2 22 (18.33%) JIRA
3 13 (10.83%) Eclipse
4 12 (10.00%) GoogleTest
4 12 (10.00%) Robot Framework
5 10 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 9 (7.50%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (3.33%) Subversion
8 1 (0.83%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.83%) Selenium
8 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (16.67%) Finance
2 17 (14.17%) Telecoms
3 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.50%) Marketing
4 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.17%) Manufacturing
6 10 (8.33%) Aerospace
7 8 (6.67%) Electronics
8 7 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (5.83%) Social Skills
9 5 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.50%) Legal
10 3 (2.50%) Retail
11 2 (1.67%) Aviation
11 2 (1.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (15.83%) Systems Engineer
2 16 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 15 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 15 (12.50%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) Analyst
5 11 (9.17%) Project Manager
6 8 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
6 8 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 8 (6.67%) LIMS Manager
6 8 (6.67%) LIMS Project Manager
7 7 (5.83%) C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Java Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Senior
7 7 (5.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Software Integration Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.50%) HTML
2 14 (11.67%) CSS
3 10 (8.33%) YAML
4 5 (4.17%) PySpark
5 4 (3.33%) React
6 3 (2.50%) LDAP
7 2 (1.67%) Redux
8 1 (0.83%) .NET
8 1 (0.83%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.83%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.50%) LIMS
2 8 (6.67%) NHS
3 6 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.17%) Biopharmaceutical
4 5 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.33%) Device Driver
5 4 (3.33%) PKI
6 3 (2.50%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.50%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.50%) Replication
7 2 (1.67%) CMDB
7 2 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.67%) VHDL
8 1 (0.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.50%) Windows
2 25 (20.83%) Linux
3 10 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (5.83%) Unix
5 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.83%) Verification and Validation
2 20 (16.67%) Agile
2 20 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 19 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (15.00%) Systems Engineering
4 18 (15.00%) UML
5 14 (11.67%) Prototyping
6 13 (10.83%) Data Modelling
7 11 (9.17%) Analytics
7 11 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (9.17%) SysML
8 10 (8.33%) Configuration Management
8 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (8.33%) Scrum
8 10 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (8.33%) Test Scripting
8 10 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 9 (7.50%) Migration
9 9 (7.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.83%) C++
2 16 (13.33%) Python
3 15 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 15 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.17%) C
5 9 (7.50%) Java
5 9 (7.50%) SQL
6 6 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.17%) MATLAB
8 4 (3.33%) Assembly Language
8 4 (3.33%) Embedded C
9 3 (2.50%) C#
10 2 (1.67%) Bash
10 2 (1.67%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.67%) VBA
11 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (17.50%) Degree
4 11 (9.17%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.83%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.33%) PhD
7 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.50%) OSCP
8 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) HL7
2 7 (5.83%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.33%) JTAG
4 4 (3.33%) QA
5 3 (2.50%) IFRS
5 3 (2.50%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.67%) PMO
7 1 (0.83%) GDPR
7 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (13.33%) Firmware
2 14 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.67%) VMFS
6 2 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (9.17%) Ansible
1 11 (9.17%) Terraform
2 9 (7.50%) Progress Chef
2 9 (7.50%) Puppet
2 9 (7.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (12.50%) VMware
2 14 (11.67%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.00%) Google
4 10 (8.33%) Atlassian
4 10 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 10 (8.33%) SAP
5 8 (6.67%) SaltStack
6 4 (3.33%) CA
7 3 (2.50%) Cisco
8 2 (1.67%) Adobe
8 2 (1.67%) Ceridian
8 2 (1.67%) Concur
8 2 (1.67%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.83%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.83%) IBM
9 1 (0.83%) Informatica
9 1 (0.83%) New Relic
9 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.83%) Sparx
9 1 (0.83%) Workday