V-Model Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

V-Model
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring V-Model skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 352 367
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 +78
Contract jobs citing V-Model 14 10 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.089% 0.058% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.069% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 42
10th Percentile - £398 £351
25th Percentile £400 £402 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £419 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% +11.67% -30.56%
75th Percentile £525 £509 £560
90th Percentile - £635 £586
UK median daily rate £475 £431 £538
% change year-on-year +10.14% -19.84% +1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

V-Model 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,073 14,421 18,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.09% 83.59% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,466 8,151 12,261
10th Percentile £225 £243 £256
25th Percentile £368 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,546 1,014 1,293
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £18.24 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £40.33 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.79% -7.83% +69.08%
75th Percentile £39.37 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

V-Model
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing V-Model relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

V-Model job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

V-Model
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing V-Model.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing V-Model

V-Model
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing V-Model.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing V-Model

V-Model
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing V-Model within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
South East +20 12 £488 +20.97% 9
Scotland -9 2 £400 -4.48% 2
V-Model
UK

V-Model
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (14.29%) IaaS
1 2 (14.29%) PaaS
1 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Jenkins
1 13 (92.86%) JIRA
2 11 (78.57%) SoapUI
3 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 2 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) Postman
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) Subversion
3 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Senior
2 9 (64.29%) Tester
3 8 (57.14%) Senior Tester
4 3 (21.43%) Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Test Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) SOAP
1 11 (78.57%) XML
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 14 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 12 (85.71%) Software Testing
3 11 (78.57%) Test Scripting
4 10 (71.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (64.29%) Mentoring
6 8 (57.14%) Programme Delivery
6 8 (57.14%) Test Strategy
7 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
8 3 (21.43%) Defect Management
9 2 (14.29%) ATDD
9 2 (14.29%) BDD
9 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 2 (14.29%) DevOps
9 2 (14.29%) Feature Driven Development
9 2 (14.29%) Kanban
9 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
9 2 (14.29%) TDD
9 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) C#
1 2 (14.29%) C++
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
1 2 (14.29%) VBA
1 2 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) ISEB
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA