Validation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Validation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 80 86
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Validation 46 70 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.69% 2.36% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.57% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 53 41
10th Percentile £348 £400 £313
25th Percentile £366 £425 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £460
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +4.87% +8.24%
75th Percentile £611 £573 £600
90th Percentile £703 £624 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £482 £465
% change year-on-year +3.75% +3.74% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile - £20.50 -
25th Percentile £13.00 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £25.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +144.00% -52.83% +41.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.63 -
90th Percentile - £65.70 -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £45.00 £57.74
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.06% +28.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,381 2,727 3,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.57% 92.10% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 1,893 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 62 86
10th Percentile £15.55 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.86 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.05 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.57 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £46.87 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.26% +122.22% -11.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire -26 25 £500 -1.96% 34
Oxfordshire +13 12 £450 +1.99% 29
Buckinghamshire +17 9 £425 -5.56% 14
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) SAP CO
1 5 (10.87%) SAP FI
1 5 (10.87%) SAP FI/CO
1 5 (10.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (2.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.52%) Azure
1 3 (6.52%) GitHub
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
2 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.17%) AWS
3 1 (2.17%) Figma
3 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.17%) SaaS
3 1 (2.17%) Smartsheet
3 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Internet
1 4 (8.70%) Wireless
2 2 (4.35%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.17%) 2G
3 1 (2.17%) 3G
3 1 (2.17%) 4G
3 1 (2.17%) Firewall
3 1 (2.17%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.17%) Big Data
1 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
1 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.17%) Impala
1 1 (2.17%) Power BI
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.17%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) JIRA
2 5 (10.87%) Git
3 4 (8.70%) Subversion
4 3 (6.52%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.17%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 12 (26.09%) Finance
2 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.87%) Aerospace
4 5 (10.87%) Legal
5 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Aviation
6 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Retail
7 1 (2.17%) Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Analyst
2 6 (13.04%) Embedded Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Software Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) Consultant
4 3 (6.52%) Credit Risk Modeller
4 3 (6.52%) Data Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Data Manager
4 3 (6.52%) Finance Manager
4 3 (6.52%) Risk Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) SAP Data Manager
4 3 (6.52%) SAP Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Business Change Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) SAP Financial Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Software Verification Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (2.17%) .NET
2 1 (2.17%) CSS
2 1 (2.17%) HTML
2 1 (2.17%) Kafka
2 1 (2.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Algorithms
1 4 (8.70%) Credit Risk
1 4 (8.70%) Device Driver
2 2 (4.35%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.17%) Life Science
3 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (19.57%) Analytics
2 9 (19.57%) Data Modelling
2 9 (19.57%) Migration
3 8 (17.39%) Project Management
4 7 (15.22%) Data Migration
5 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
5 6 (13.04%) ETL
5 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 5 (10.87%) Change Management
6 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
6 5 (10.87%) Data Validation
6 5 (10.87%) Verification and Validation
7 4 (8.70%) Data Architecture
7 4 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (8.70%) Data Protection
7 4 (8.70%) Data Strategy
7 4 (8.70%) Internal Audit
7 4 (8.70%) Signal Processing
7 4 (8.70%) Software Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) Python
2 6 (13.04%) C
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) Assembly Language
4 4 (8.70%) C++
4 4 (8.70%) MATLAB
4 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.35%) Embedded C
5 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.70%) PhD
5 1 (2.17%) MBCS
5 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 4 (8.70%) IFRS
2 4 (8.70%) IFRS 9
2 4 (8.70%) JTAG
3 2 (4.35%) PMO
4 1 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Firmware
2 4 (8.70%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.17%) HDFS
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 6 (13.04%) SAP
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle
3 2 (4.35%) Ceridian
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco
3 2 (4.35%) Concur
3 2 (4.35%) Workday
4 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.17%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.17%) HP
4 1 (2.17%) Informatica
4 1 (2.17%) Mavenir
4 1 (2.17%) Micro Focus
4 1 (2.17%) OpenText
4 1 (2.17%) Remedy