Validation Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Validation
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 20 54
Rank change year-on-year -8 +34 -23
Contract jobs citing Validation 25 33 22
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 6.22% 7.21% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 7.99% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 14
10th Percentile £397 £126 £349
25th Percentile £500 £350 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £519
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -22.89% +107.50%
75th Percentile £688 £542 £563
90th Percentile - £575 £771
South East median daily rate £500 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £46.40
25th Percentile - £62.63 -
Median hourly rate - £67.27 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year - +9.14% +36.96%
75th Percentile - £71.90 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £60.50 £61.63
% change year-on-year -13.22% -1.83% +36.96%

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 362 413 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 90.05% 90.17% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 287 479
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £250 £262 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £463 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -10.19% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £678 £653 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 15 35
10th Percentile £25.15 £16.07 £19.20
25th Percentile £28.25 - £45.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -60.77% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.45 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.02
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Surrey

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Validation

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Surrey over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Surrey

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Validation

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 13 December 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
Staines - 10 £500 -
Weybridge - 4 £688 -
Camberley +2 2 - -
Guildford -6 1 £600 +757.14% 7
Validation
South East

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) Mattermost
1 7 (28.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Tricentis Tosca
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) OCI
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) GitLab
1 7 (28.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) MLflow
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Marketing
3 4 (16.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.00%) Billing
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) Messaging Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) Messaging Support
2 7 (28.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) QA Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Data Scientist
4 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) QA Leader
5 3 (12.00%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Administration Assistant
6 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) IFS Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) IFS Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) SAP Data Migration Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (8.00%) ADO
3 1 (4.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Synthetic Data
2 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
1 9 (36.00%) ERP
1 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 7 (28.00%) B2B
3 7 (28.00%) Data Management
3 7 (28.00%) Data Privacy
3 7 (28.00%) Data Strategy
3 7 (28.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 7 (28.00%) Information Security
3 7 (28.00%) ITIL
3 7 (28.00%) ITSM
3 7 (28.00%) Problem Management
3 7 (28.00%) QA Automation
3 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (28.00%) Test Planning
3 7 (28.00%) User Experience
3 7 (28.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) PL/SQL
2 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (24.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) ITIL Certification
1 7 (28.00%) OCA
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 7 (28.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.00%) ITGC
4 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (28.00%) SCOM
2 1 (4.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle
2 7 (28.00%) Remedy
2 7 (28.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) IFS
3 1 (4.00%) SAP