Validation Contracts in South London

Validation
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 37 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +22
Contract jobs citing Validation 8 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 4.68% 0.54% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.30% 0.58% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £463 - £448
25th Percentile £475 £521 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -1.36% -
75th Percentile £581 £564 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
London median daily rate £513 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.22
25th Percentile - - £28.10
Median hourly rate - - £41.32
75th Percentile - - £55.28
90th Percentile - - £62.61
London median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -52.73% +15.79% -15.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 151 173 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.30% 93.51% 83.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 118 208
10th Percentile £213 £300 £338
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £527
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.03% -4.27%
75th Percentile £634 £567 £613
90th Percentile £707 £747 £704
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 17
10th Percentile - - £14.88
25th Percentile - £17.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.06
London median hourly rate £29.29 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.33% -12.50% +10.34%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in South London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in South London

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in South London over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in South London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Merton +3 3 £500 -7.83%
Kingston Upon Thames - 3 £500 - 3
Bromley - 2 £600 -
Croydon - 2 - - 4
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (25.00%) DMZ
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) DWDM
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
1 2 (25.00%) IPsec
1 2 (25.00%) L2TP
1 2 (25.00%) MPLS
1 2 (25.00%) Multicast
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) OSPF
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (12.50%) Great Expectations
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
1 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Test Management
3 3 (37.50%) Verification and Validation
3 3 (37.50%) Workload Management
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) B2B
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) EMC Certification
3 3 (37.50%) HNC
3 3 (37.50%) HND
4 2 (25.00%) CCIE
4 2 (25.00%) CCNP
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Def Stans
1 3 (37.50%) IEC 61508
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Functional Safety
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Kibana
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) EMC
2 2 (25.00%) Arista
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) McAfee
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft