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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 630 810
Rank change year-on-year +60 +180 -121
Contract jobs citing V-Model 14 67 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.12% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.13% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 39 18
10th Percentile £500 £299 £348
25th Percentile £544 £363 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £374 £510
Median % change year-on-year +67.11% -26.67% +6.53%
75th Percentile £675 £509 £669
90th Percentile £688 £645 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £374 £650
% change year-on-year +53.74% -42.46% +62.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £47.50 -
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £65.30
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00

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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 20 June 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 8 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 20 June 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 +44 11 £625 +67.11% 12
London +80 8 £625 +8.70% 3
UK excluding London -12 6 £575 +53.74% 9
Work from Home +91 5 £550 +47.06% 2
Scotland +47 3 £588 +38.24%
South East -15 2 £650 +73.80% 3
Midlands +14 1 £500 +78.57% 3
East Midlands +4 1 £500 +78.57% 2

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 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) IaaS
2 2 (14.29%) PaaS
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
1 5 (35.71%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) Subversion
2 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
2 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Defect Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
1 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) SysML
2 5 (35.71%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) UML
3 4 (28.57%) Defect Management
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) ATDD
5 2 (14.29%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Design for Manufacturing
5 2 (14.29%) Functional Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) C++
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) VBA
2 2 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (14.29%) ISEB
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe