Validation Contracts in Yorkshire

Validation
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 78 65 114
Rank change year-on-year -13 +49 +4
Contract jobs citing Validation 14 35 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.38% 2.07% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 2.40% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 8
10th Percentile £373 £364 £528
25th Percentile £389 £384 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £750
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% -43.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £506 £453 £781
90th Percentile £524 £496 £800
England median daily rate £538 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% - +12.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire -4 9 £407 -4.24% 13
West Yorkshire +6 5 £485 +27.63% 29
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
1 1 (7.14%) Miro
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) InfluxDB
2 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
1 4 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JMeter
2 2 (14.29%) Postman
2 2 (14.29%) TestNG
3 1 (7.14%) DBeaver
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Katalon Studio
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) HR Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) HR Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) pytest
1 2 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) EMC VMAX
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
2 5 (35.71%) Workshop Facilitation
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Data Validation
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Business Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 3 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
5 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Go
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) CBAP
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 2 (14.29%) Puppet
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
1 2 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) 3PAR
3 2 (14.29%) Brocade
3 2 (14.29%) EMC
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Workday