Validation Contracts in West Yorkshire

Validation
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 63 96
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 +2
Contract jobs citing Validation 5 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.91% 1.40% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.60% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £465 £328 £625
25th Percentile £468 £375 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £380 £750
Median % change year-on-year +27.63% -49.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £503 £498 £788
90th Percentile £506 £530 £800
Yorkshire median daily rate £445 £425 £750
% change year-on-year +4.59% -43.33% +66.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

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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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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 1 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
Leeds 0 4 £475 -4.04% 26
Bradford +9 1 £495 +86.79% 16
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Miro
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) DBeaver
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) DBA
4 1 (20.00%) HR Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) HR Data Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Software Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Model Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CBAP
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Workday