Validation Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Validation
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Validation 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 3.74% - 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% - 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +201.56%
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £478 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +12.47% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.60 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.50 £73.50
% change year-on-year +39.78% -36.73% +13.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79 82 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 73.83% 77.36% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 36 43
10th Percentile £216 £203 £189
25th Percentile £351 £225 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -6.58% -20.83%
75th Percentile £666 £538 £544
90th Percentile £728 £685 £656
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.95% +2.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £14.92 - £11.25
25th Percentile £19.00 - £11.81
Median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +351.61% +2.51%
75th Percentile £24.38 - £35.94
90th Percentile £24.53 - £60.71
East of England median hourly rate £20.72 £50.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.56% +31.16% +15.69%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Validation job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Validation

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Validation

Validation
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Ipswich - 1 - - 10
Validation
East of England

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (25.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
1 1 (25.00%) Newman
1 1 (25.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Data Security
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) QMS
1 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) GAMP
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto