Validation Contracts in West Yorkshire

Validation
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 97 93
Rank change year-on-year +36 -4 -21
Contract jobs citing Validation 14 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.40% 0.68% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 0.74% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 13
10th Percentile £328 £625 £211
25th Percentile £375 £725 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -49.33% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £498 £788 £500
90th Percentile £530 £800 £523
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £750 £450
% change year-on-year -43.33% +66.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - +79.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Validation 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 advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 878 1,493 1,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.71% 91.65% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 1,023 1,258
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £573
90th Percentile £668 £700 £649
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 44
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.81 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.12 £11.88
Median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year -53.59% +51.52% -20.34%
75th Percentile £15.24 £63.75 £22.49
90th Percentile £38.25 £70.00 £28.30
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Leeds +26 7 £495 -34.00% 6
Wakefield - 4 £380 - 1
Bradford - 2 £265 - 1
Validation
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
1 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DHCP
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Health Technology
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Data Migration Lead
1 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Lead
1 2 (14.29%) SAP Data Migration Lead
1 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Data Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) HR Advisor
2 1 (7.14%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Business Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Data Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Migration
2 6 (42.86%) Runbook
3 5 (35.71%) Project Management
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 2 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (14.29%) Data Mapping
6 2 (14.29%) Data Reconciliation
6 2 (14.29%) Due Diligence
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (14.29%) SAP Implementation
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Data Collection
7 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (7.14%) CCDA
2 1 (7.14%) CCIE
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.14%) JNCIA
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) KVM
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) AlgoSec
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) Databricks
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Workday