V-Model Contracts

V-Model
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring V-Model skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited V-Model over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 571 638
Rank change year-on-year +68 +67 +181
Contract jobs citing V-Model 10 15 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.035% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.040% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 32
10th Percentile £390 £500 £235
25th Percentile - £525 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 £374
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +67.11% -22.89%
75th Percentile £413 £669 £486
90th Percentile £445 £675 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £500 £374
% change year-on-year -20.00% +33.69% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £38.39 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £41.23 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.54% +29.03%
75th Percentile - £44.07 £63.75
90th Percentile - - £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £41.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -36.57% +20.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,416 37,097 52,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 86.26% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,973 23,888 36,212
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 2,438 1,719
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.00 £16.23
Median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%

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
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 5 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 13 May 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
UK excluding London +47 10 £400 -20.00% 19
England +59 5 £400 -36.00% 20
South East +50 5 £400 -38.46% 3
Scotland +12 5 £400 -5.88%
Work from Home +47 2 £400 -23.81% 6

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) IaaS
1 3 (30.00%) PaaS
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (30.00%) PowerApps
1 3 (30.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
2 7 (70.00%) SoapUI
3 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (30.00%) Git
3 3 (30.00%) Postman
3 3 (30.00%) Selenium
3 3 (30.00%) Subversion
3 3 (30.00%) TeamCity
3 3 (30.00%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) QA Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Tester
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) SOAP
1 7 (70.00%) XML
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 10 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 7 (70.00%) Test Scripting
3 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Defect Management
4 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) ATDD
5 3 (30.00%) BDD
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Feature Driven Development
5 3 (30.00%) Kanban
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Software Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 3 (30.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) C++
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
1 3 (30.00%) VBA
1 3 (30.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) ISEB
3 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (30.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) SAP