Validation Contracts in the South West

Validation
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 64 101
Rank change year-on-year -10 +37 -17
Contract jobs citing Validation 86 123 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.71% 3.39% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.78% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 35
10th Percentile £208 £413 £300
25th Percentile £220 £463 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £563 £612 £546
90th Percentile £725 £636 £608
England median daily rate £500 £550 £504
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.07% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 61 12
10th Percentile £47.83 £51.25 £37.57
25th Percentile £52.50 £57.25 £44.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +36.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70.66 £65.75 £51.76
90th Percentile £73.10 - £54.45
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.61% +12.73% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,629 3,250 3,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.83% 89.63% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,396 2,332
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 335 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.00 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Bristol +1 30 £450 -5.26% 46
Wiltshire 0 26 £475 -15.33% 10
Gloucestershire +7 9 £400 - 5
Dorset -11 8 £600 -1.80% 8
Somerset +7 7 £120 -59.79% 19
Devon +3 5 - - 11
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (9.30%) CMS
2 6 (6.98%) Confluence
2 6 (6.98%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.16%) Apache
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 17 (19.77%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (17.44%) AutoCAD
3 7 (8.14%) Simulink
4 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (5.81%) Stateflow
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.98%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 5 (5.81%) OCI
3 1 (1.16%) Azure
3 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.16%) GitHub
3 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) VSAN
2 4 (4.65%) Internet
2 4 (4.65%) LAN
2 4 (4.65%) WAN
2 4 (4.65%) WLAN
3 2 (2.33%) 4G
3 2 (2.33%) 5G
3 2 (2.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.33%) MPLS
3 2 (2.33%) Network Security
3 2 (2.33%) RTP
3 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.33%) VoIP
4 1 (1.16%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.16%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.16%) Big Data
1 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.16%) Data Mining
1 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
1 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.16%) Metadata
1 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.16%) Power BI
1 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
1 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) JIRA
2 2 (2.33%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.16%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (1.16%) Selenium
3 1 (1.16%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (12.79%) Military
3 10 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.47%) Aerospace
4 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.14%) Finance
6 6 (6.98%) Automotive
7 5 (5.81%) Law
7 5 (5.81%) Legal
8 3 (3.49%) Aviation
8 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.33%) Retail
10 1 (1.16%) Avionics
10 1 (1.16%) Billing
10 1 (1.16%) Electronics
10 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.16%) Marketing
10 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Architect
2 13 (15.12%) Software Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Web Specialist
6 5 (5.81%) Cloud Specialist
6 5 (5.81%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
6 5 (5.81%) Oracle Specialist
7 4 (4.65%) Administrator
7 4 (4.65%) Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Consultant
7 4 (4.65%) Data Administrator
7 4 (4.65%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Lead
8 3 (3.49%) Test Engineer
9 2 (2.33%) Integration Manager
9 2 (2.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) Flash
2 2 (2.33%) Node.js
2 2 (2.33%) Web Services
3 1 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.16%) JSON
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Clustering
2 5 (5.81%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.81%) CMDB
2 5 (5.81%) Operational Technology
3 4 (4.65%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.33%) Blog
4 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.16%) Animation
5 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.16%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
2 4 (4.65%) SafeRTOS
2 4 (4.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.93%) Verification and Validation
2 15 (17.44%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (15.12%) Agile
3 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
4 12 (13.95%) Computer Science
5 9 (10.47%) System Testing
6 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (9.30%) Migration
6 8 (9.30%) User Experience
7 7 (8.14%) Critical Thinking
7 7 (8.14%) Test Automation
8 6 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (6.98%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 6 (6.98%) High Availability
8 6 (6.98%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (6.98%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (6.98%) NsoIT
8 6 (6.98%) Power Management
8 6 (6.98%) Service Management
8 6 (6.98%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.98%) C
1 6 (6.98%) MATLAB
2 3 (3.49%) C++
2 3 (3.49%) SQL
3 2 (2.33%) C#
3 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.33%) Python
4 1 (1.16%) Assembly Language
4 1 (1.16%) Java
4 1 (1.16%) Perl
4 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (47.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 20 (23.26%) DV Cleared
4 15 (17.44%) Degree
5 10 (11.63%) Master's Degree
6 7 (8.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (6.98%) CCNA
7 6 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.65%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (2.33%) HNC
9 2 (2.33%) HND
9 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (1.16%) MCP
10 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.16%) DO-178B
3 1 (1.16%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.16%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (8.14%) VMware ESXi
1 7 (8.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (8.14%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.33%) vSphere
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.14%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) Atlassian
3 9 (10.47%) VMware
4 6 (6.98%) Cisco
4 6 (6.98%) Oracle
4 6 (6.98%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.16%) BT
5 1 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.16%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.16%) Databricks
5 1 (1.16%) SAP
5 1 (1.16%) Wind River