Validation Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Validation
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 24 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +29
Contract jobs citing Validation 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.26% 1.84% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 2.04% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £416 £387 -
25th Percentile £425 £394 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £363
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% +13.10% -49.30%
75th Percentile £575 £418 £369
90th Percentile £586 £419 -
North East median daily rate £550 £415 £363
% change year-on-year +32.53% +14.48% -49.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 177 147 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.33% 90.18% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 81 118
10th Percentile £200 £345 £350
25th Percentile £411 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £639
90th Percentile £638 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £11.60 £17.83 £17.50
25th Percentile £13.56 £18.25 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.30 £21.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +8.86% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £65.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.30 £38.27 £26.00
% change year-on-year -54.79% +47.19% +57.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Validation in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Tyne and Wear

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +2 7 £550 +34.15% 3
Validation
North East

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Keycloak
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) GitOps
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
6 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) Competitor Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
6 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Argo
2 4 (57.14%) Istio
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft