Validation Contracts in Wiltshire

Validation
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 23 63 68
Rank change year-on-year +40 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing Validation 34 26 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 7.57% 2.75% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.42% 3.34% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 20
10th Percentile £513 £208 £413
25th Percentile £531 £220 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £561
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -17.56% +5.80%
75th Percentile £688 £538 £626
90th Percentile £699 £725 £728
South West median daily rate £575 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +27.78% -18.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% -10.57% +36.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Wiltshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Wiltshire

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Wiltshire 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
Corsham +43 26 £575 +9.52%
Chippenham - 3 - - 2
Swindon - 2 £465 - 6
Validation
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 16 (47.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) PaaS
1 3 (8.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) BGP
1 5 (14.71%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (14.71%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (14.71%) DMVPN
1 5 (14.71%) Firewall
1 5 (14.71%) OSPF
1 5 (14.71%) VXLAN
2 3 (8.82%) PBX
2 3 (8.82%) VoIP
3 2 (5.88%) iSCSI
3 2 (5.88%) SAN
3 2 (5.88%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) JIRA
2 11 (32.35%) Bitbucket
2 11 (32.35%) Git
3 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 11 (32.35%) Public Sector
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Network Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Computer Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Lead
7 1 (2.94%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Release Manager
7 1 (2.94%) SAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) REST
1 11 (32.35%) SOAP
2 10 (29.41%) Flash
3 5 (14.71%) Spine.js
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Clustering
2 3 (8.82%) Blackberry
2 3 (8.82%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (5.88%) PKI
4 1 (2.94%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Windows
1 12 (35.29%) Windows Server
2 10 (29.41%) Linux
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (5.88%) VMS
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) Service Management
1 27 (79.41%) System Testing
2 23 (67.65%) NsoIT
3 20 (58.82%) Agile
4 15 (44.12%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (35.29%) Configuration Management
6 12 (35.29%) Deployment Automation
7 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (32.35%) Network Virtualisation
7 11 (32.35%) Reverse Engineering
8 10 (29.41%) High Availability
8 10 (29.41%) Power Management
9 9 (26.47%) Computer Science
9 9 (26.47%) Critical Thinking
10 8 (23.53%) Waterfall
11 5 (14.71%) Network Architecture
12 3 (8.82%) Product Roadmap
12 3 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
12 3 (8.82%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Bash
1 11 (32.35%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 29 (85.29%) SC Cleared
2 29 (85.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 26 (76.47%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (58.82%) CCNP
5 10 (29.41%) OCA
5 10 (29.41%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (29.41%) RHCA
5 10 (29.41%) RHCE
6 9 (26.47%) Degree
6 9 (26.47%) Master's Degree
7 8 (23.53%) CCNA
8 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
8 3 (8.82%) MCSA
8 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (5.88%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 29 (85.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (29.41%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (73.53%) vCenter Server
2 11 (32.35%) Ansible
2 11 (32.35%) Progress Chef
2 11 (32.35%) Puppet
3 2 (5.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (85.29%) VMware
2 26 (76.47%) Cisco
3 16 (47.06%) Atlassian
4 11 (32.35%) Oracle
5 3 (8.82%) Avaya
5 3 (8.82%) Ericsson
5 3 (8.82%) F5
5 3 (8.82%) Juniper
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.82%) Nokia
5 3 (8.82%) Palo Alto
5 3 (8.82%) Ribbon
6 1 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (2.94%) Workday