Validation Contracts in South Yorkshire

Validation
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 53 59
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 -25
Contract jobs citing Validation 21 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.67% 0.38% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% 0.41% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £386 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -
75th Percentile £445 - -
90th Percentile £460 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £750 £450
% change year-on-year -43.33% +66.67% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - +79.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 401 489 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.11% 92.97% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 319 362
10th Percentile £318 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £463 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +11.39% +23.44%
75th Percentile £588 £669 £550
90th Percentile £645 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 39 23
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.76
25th Percentile £12.64 £9.80 £11.00
Median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +22.31%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £22.44
90th Percentile - £10.70 £23.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.00
% change year-on-year +27.00% -40.94% -8.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Sheffield +14 15 £434 - 8
Doncaster - 2 £325 - 1
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) NEC Housing
2 1 (4.76%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) OCI
1 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) OLAP
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
General
1 15 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Consultant
1 5 (23.81%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Data Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Storage Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Configuration Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) Data Storage Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Data Storage Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Business Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) EMC Storage Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Master Data Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Data Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Retail Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Build Automation
1 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
1 13 (61.90%) Continuous Delivery
1 13 (61.90%) Continuous Integration
1 13 (61.90%) DevOps
1 13 (61.90%) ITIL
1 13 (61.90%) Performance Analysis
2 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
4 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
4 2 (9.52%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (9.52%) Data Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.76%) Data Extraction
5 1 (4.76%) Ergonomics
5 1 (4.76%) Human Factors
5 1 (4.76%) Resource Management
5 1 (4.76%) Test Scripting
5 1 (4.76%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Bash
1 4 (19.05%) Perl
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) EMC
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) NEC
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk