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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 32 65
Rank change year-on-year +5 +33 -11
Contract jobs citing Validation 26 44 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 5.54% 5.88% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 6.86% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 12
10th Percentile £531 £456 £418
25th Percentile £559 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +5.82% +3.68%
75th Percentile £655 £638 £626
90th Percentile £688 £672 £671
South West median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +6.02%

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 425 641 873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 90.62% 85.70% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 498 678
10th Percentile £308 £363 £375
25th Percentile £466 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £642 £675 £650
90th Percentile £695 £700 £719
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.37% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 9
10th Percentile £18.73 £12.55 £56.85
25th Percentile £18.87 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.79 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.92% -79.70% +14.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £69.50
90th Percentile £26.51 - £79.33
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -61.46% +0.38% +23.60%

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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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +8 14 £600 +2.83%
Chippenham +1 3 - -
Salisbury +2 2 - - 3
Swindon - 1 £500 - 7
Malmesbury - 1 £650 -
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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 7 (26.92%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) Documentum
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Teamcenter
1 1 (3.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) PaaS
1 3 (11.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) BGP
2 4 (15.38%) MPLS
3 3 (11.54%) DNS
3 3 (11.54%) IPsec
3 3 (11.54%) PBX
3 3 (11.54%) Unified Communications
3 3 (11.54%) VoIP
3 3 (11.54%) VPN
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (7.69%) DMVPN
4 2 (7.69%) Firewall
4 2 (7.69%) OSPF
4 2 (7.69%) VXLAN
5 1 (3.85%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) JIRA
2 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
2 5 (19.23%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Network Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) REST
1 5 (19.23%) SOAP
2 3 (11.54%) Flash
2 3 (11.54%) NETCONF
2 3 (11.54%) RESTCONF
3 2 (7.69%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) CMDB
2 3 (11.54%) Blackberry
2 3 (11.54%) Clustering
2 3 (11.54%) PKI
2 3 (11.54%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
1 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
2 4 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) System Testing
2 13 (50.00%) Service Management
3 12 (46.15%) NsoIT
4 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (30.77%) Network Virtualisation
6 7 (26.92%) Agile
6 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
7 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) Migration
8 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
8 5 (19.23%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (19.23%) ITIL
8 5 (19.23%) Reverse Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (15.38%) Architectural Design
9 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 23 (88.46%) SC Cleared
3 15 (57.69%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (50.00%) CCNP
5 12 (46.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (23.08%) Degree
7 4 (15.38%) OCA
7 4 (15.38%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (15.38%) RHCA
7 4 (15.38%) RHCE
8 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
9 2 (7.69%) CCNA
9 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
10 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) ISO 22301
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (11.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) vCenter Server
2 8 (30.77%) Ansible
3 5 (19.23%) Progress Chef
3 5 (19.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) VMware
2 14 (53.85%) Cisco
3 7 (26.92%) Atlassian
4 4 (15.38%) Oracle
4 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 3 (11.54%) Avaya
5 3 (11.54%) Ericsson
5 3 (11.54%) F5
5 3 (11.54%) Juniper
5 3 (11.54%) Nokia
5 3 (11.54%) Palo Alto
5 3 (11.54%) Ribbon
6 2 (7.69%) EMC
6 2 (7.69%) McAfee
6 2 (7.69%) Sophos
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.85%) Workday