Validation Contracts in Surrey

Validation
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 37 30
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +27
Contract jobs citing Validation 17 19 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 5.70% 3.24% 5.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 3.93% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 16
10th Percentile £303 £335 -
25th Percentile £326 £488 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £525 £466
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +12.66% -15.27%
75th Percentile £497 £563 £500
90th Percentile £620 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £490
% change year-on-year -2.49% +4.64% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £76.86 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +70.80% +5.88%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £47.50
90th Percentile - - £62.55
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -14.81% +50.00% -18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Surrey

Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Surrey

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Surrey

Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Surrey

Validation
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Woking - 4 £469 - 10
Chertsey +8 2 £365 +21.67% 2
Redhill +6 2 - -
Epsom - 2 - - 1
Leatherhead +9 1 £475 -9.52% 3
Validation
South East

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (11.76%) TPMS
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 4 (23.53%) Adobe Analytics
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Asana
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Google Ads
4 1 (5.88%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (29.41%) Power BI
1 5 (29.41%) Tableau
2 4 (23.53%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.88%) Looker
3 1 (5.88%) QlikView
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Data Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Data Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Coordinator
4 2 (11.76%) Information Assurance Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Information Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) SAP Test Coordinator
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Coordinator
5 1 (5.88%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Marketing Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (35.29%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Data Collection
4 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (17.65%) Customer Segmentation
5 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (17.65%) Data Mapping
5 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
5 3 (17.65%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (11.76%) CEH
1 2 (11.76%) CISM
1 2 (11.76%) CISSP
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) RIBA
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Adobe
2 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) TikTok