V-Model
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for V-Model skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited V-Model over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 672 795
Rank change year-on-year +93 +123 -155
Contract jobs citing V-Model 19 47 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.079% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.087% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 28
10th Percentile £505 - £351
25th Percentile £519 £231 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £280 £435
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -35.63% -17.14%
75th Percentile £656 £578 £528
90th Percentile £675 £785 £627
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £275 £425
% change year-on-year +90.91% -35.29% +14.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.39 £47.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.23 £50.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +29.03% -13.89%
75th Percentile £44.07 £63.75 £49.06
90th Percentile - £67.50 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.23 £65.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -36.57% +20.93% +19.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

V-Model 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

V-Model
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing V-Model as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing V-Model.

Daily rate trend for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing V-Model over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing V-Model.

Hourly rate trend for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +106 17 £568 +102.68% 26
UK excluding London +42 10 £525 +90.91% 21
London +105 9 £625 +25.00% 4
South East +19 6 £550 -15.38% 6
Work from Home +119 4 £525 +5.00% 9
Scotland - 2 £425 -
Midlands +11 1 £500 +110.53% 8
East Midlands +7 1 £500 +110.53% 5
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

V-Model
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (5.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
1 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.53%) IaaS
2 2 (10.53%) PaaS
2 2 (10.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) RS-422
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
2 5 (26.32%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 2 (10.53%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) Selenium
3 2 (10.53%) Subversion
3 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
3 2 (10.53%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Military
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Defect Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) QA Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
1 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Agile
1 10 (52.63%) Systems Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) UML
3 8 (42.11%) Waterfall
4 5 (26.32%) Defect Management
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) SysML
5 4 (21.05%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
5 4 (21.05%) System Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Change Management
6 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
6 3 (15.79%) Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Requirements Management
6 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.79%) Test Strategy
7 2 (10.53%) SOA
7 2 (10.53%) TDD
7 2 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) C#
1 3 (15.79%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) C++
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) VBA
2 2 (10.53%) VBScript
3 1 (5.26%) C
3 1 (5.26%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) ISTQB
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (10.53%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (15.79%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Sparx
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) SAP