Verification and Validation Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Verification and Validation
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Verification and Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 0.68% - 6.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% - 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £521
25th Percentile £563 - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
75th Percentile £588 - £591
90th Percentile - - £600
West Midlands median daily rate £500 - £540
% change year-on-year - - +74.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £37.46 £50.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -25.08% -33.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

Verification and 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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 114 55 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 78.08% 84.62% 87.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 33 52
10th Percentile £440 £210 £201
25th Percentile £525 £350 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -9.57% +15.00%
75th Percentile £688 £613 £650
90th Percentile £728 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 8
10th Percentile £15.40 £16.74 £16.35
25th Percentile £17.14 £19.03 £16.54
Median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% +21.84% +0.11%
75th Percentile £22.45 £23.21 £33.81
90th Percentile £77.95 £23.79 £77.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% +2.61% +29.94%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Verification and Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Verification and Validation job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Verification and Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Verification and Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Verification and Validation

Verification and Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Verification and Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Verification and Validation

Verification and Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) SciPy
1 1 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) MicroBlaze
1 1 (100.00%) RISC-V
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) UVM
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared