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 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 71 55
Rank change year-on-year +21 -16 -5
Contract jobs citing Validation 47 21 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 4.93% 1.98% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.91% 2.18% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 17
10th Percentile £213 £413 £438
25th Percentile £373 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +5.85% +11.58%
75th Percentile £627 £626 £561
90th Percentile £672 £738 £589
South West median daily rate £525 £594 £513
% change year-on-year -11.62% +15.90% +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.00 - -
Median hourly rate £71.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £60.25 £61.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -2.03% +36.67% -14.29%

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 795 965 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.33% 91.12% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 789 590
10th Percentile £315 £400 £362
25th Percentile £463 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +8.44% +6.05%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 20
10th Percentile £12.08 £58.43 £23.83
25th Percentile £12.79 £60.38 £45.31
Median hourly rate £14.54 £69.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.93% +26.61% +9.00%
75th Percentile £17.25 £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile £30.25 £90.00 £70.60
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%

Validation
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 24 June 2024.

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 24 June 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
Corsham +7 32 £576 +4.73% 3
Malmesbury - 8 £218 -
Salisbury +17 1 £475 -20.03% 3
Trowbridge - 1 - -
Bradford-on-Avon - 1 - -
Chippenham - 1 - -
Validation
South West

Validation
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 8 (17.02%) CMS
2 6 (12.77%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (8.51%) Confluence
4 3 (6.38%) IIS
5 1 (2.13%) Apache
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Magento
2 2 (4.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.13%) Azure
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.13%) OCI
3 1 (2.13%) PaaS
3 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) VSAN
2 4 (8.51%) BGP
2 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 4 (8.51%) Network Security
2 4 (8.51%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.51%) VLAN
3 3 (6.38%) Kerberos
4 2 (4.26%) RTP
5 1 (2.13%) DNS
5 1 (2.13%) LAN
5 1 (2.13%) PBX
5 1 (2.13%) VoIP
5 1 (2.13%) WAN
5 1 (2.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.13%) Big Data
2 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.13%) Metadata
2 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) JIRA
General
1 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.13%) Aviation
5 1 (2.13%) Law
5 1 (2.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (12.77%) Web Specialist
2 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (10.64%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 3 (6.38%) Consultant
3 3 (6.38%) Lead
4 2 (4.26%) Auditor
4 2 (4.26%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) Subject Matter Expert
4 2 (4.26%) VMware Specialist
4 2 (4.26%) Web Content Specialist
5 1 (2.13%) Data Architect
5 1 (2.13%) Data Consultant
5 1 (2.13%) Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (2.13%) Instrumentation Engineer
5 1 (2.13%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (2.13%) QA Tester
5 1 (2.13%) Service Improvement Manager
5 1 (2.13%) Service Manager
5 1 (2.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) YAML
2 4 (8.51%) Flash
3 3 (6.38%) LDAP
4 1 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Clustering
1 4 (8.51%) PKI
2 3 (6.38%) Replication
3 2 (4.26%) CMDB
3 2 (4.26%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.13%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.04%) Windows
2 9 (19.15%) Linux
2 9 (19.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (19.15%) Configuration Management
2 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Automation
2 9 (19.15%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (17.02%) User Experience
3 8 (17.02%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 6 (12.77%) Agile
4 6 (12.77%) Service Management
5 5 (10.64%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (8.51%) Computer Science
6 4 (8.51%) High Availability
6 4 (8.51%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 4 (8.51%) Migration
6 4 (8.51%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (8.51%) NsoIT
6 4 (8.51%) Power Management
6 4 (8.51%) System Testing
6 4 (8.51%) Waterfall
7 3 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.26%) SQL
3 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (72.34%) Security Cleared
2 30 (63.83%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.89%) Degree
4 6 (12.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (8.51%) CCNA
6 4 (8.51%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared
6 4 (8.51%) Master's Degree
7 3 (6.38%) OSCP
8 2 (4.26%) HNC
8 2 (4.26%) HND
9 1 (2.13%) CCNP
9 1 (2.13%) MCP
9 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.13%) PMO
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 23 (48.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (27.66%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (19.15%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (10.64%) VMware NSX
5 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
5 4 (8.51%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Ansible
1 10 (21.28%) Terraform
2 9 (19.15%) Progress Chef
2 9 (19.15%) Puppet
2 9 (19.15%) Salt
3 5 (10.64%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) VMware
2 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
3 9 (19.15%) Cisco
3 9 (19.15%) Red Hat
4 8 (17.02%) Atlassian
4 8 (17.02%) SaltStack
5 6 (12.77%) Sitecore
6 3 (6.38%) CA
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle
7 2 (4.26%) Remedy
8 1 (2.13%) Avaya
8 1 (2.13%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.13%) Databricks
8 1 (2.13%) Ericsson
8 1 (2.13%) F5
8 1 (2.13%) Juniper
8 1 (2.13%) Nokia
8 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.13%) Ribbon