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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 67 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +19
Contract jobs citing Validation 12 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.67% 0.91% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.07% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 5
10th Percentile £356 £325 £246
25th Percentile £436 £353 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £380 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.26% -10.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £508 £498 £525
90th Percentile £515 £530 £570
Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £428 £575
% change year-on-year +1.75% -25.65% +35.29%

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 652 748 1,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 90.81% 84.71% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 477 845
10th Percentile £303 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £623 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 29 18
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -27.03% -7.50%
75th Percentile £30.18 £19.50 £21.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £33.75 £25.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £19.94
% change year-on-year +64.00% -32.31% +5.98%

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 27 July 2025.

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 27 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
Leeds +5 8 £475 -3.06% 19
Bradford - 3 £495 - 1
Wakefield +7 1 £525 +38.16% 2
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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Miro
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) DBeaver
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) TestRail
2 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Commercial Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) DBA
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (8.33%) Software Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 3 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) User Stories
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Six Sigma
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CBAP
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Workday