Validation Contracts in Wales

Validation
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 45 52
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Validation 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.59% 0.24% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 0.33% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £174 - -
25th Percentile £205 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £330 - £588
90th Percentile £365 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £23.66 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.60% - -
UK median hourly rate £58.88 £60.00 £63.23
% change year-on-year -1.88% -5.11% +26.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 280 305 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 89.17% 72.10% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 193 354
10th Percentile £190 £143 £180
25th Percentile £298 £288 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -3.80% -1.25%
75th Percentile £488 £551 £579
90th Percentile £625 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.57% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 43 27
10th Percentile £13.54 £11.75 £15.68
25th Percentile £14.61 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £20.24 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +3.82% -2.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.88 £24.38
90th Percentile £36.45 £82.75 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Validation in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Wales over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 July 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 Wales - 5 £265 - 69
Validation
UK

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (40.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) SOA Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XSD
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) API Design
2 2 (40.00%) API Management
2 2 (40.00%) BPEL
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
2 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Swim Lanes
3 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle