Validation Contracts in Yorkshire

Validation
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 112 118
Rank change year-on-year +41 +6 -35
Contract jobs citing Validation 35 14 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.07% 0.61% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 0.67% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 15
10th Percentile £364 £528 £236
25th Percentile £384 £681 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £453 £781 £500
90th Percentile £496 £800 £521
England median daily rate £500 £550 £503
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.45% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.50 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +11.82% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,459 2,083 2,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.43% 90.96% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 1,376 1,767
10th Percentile £263 £286 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 63 83
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.71
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £22.00 £21.47 £22.88
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.45
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 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
South Yorkshire +16 21 £425 -22.73% 7
West Yorkshire +36 14 £380 -49.33% 10
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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:

Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.71%) NEC Housing
3 1 (2.86%) SAP MDG
3 1 (2.86%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) OCI
2 1 (2.86%) AWS
2 1 (2.86%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) GCP
2 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) DHCP
1 5 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (8.57%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.86%) OLAP
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
1 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.86%) Tableau
General
1 17 (48.57%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Legal
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.86%) Law
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Consultant
2 5 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Data Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Storage Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Configuration Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Data Migration Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Data Storage Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Data Storage Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) SAP Data Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) SAP Data Migration Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Data Migration Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) EMC Storage Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) IT Technician
6 1 (2.86%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Windows 10
2 3 (8.57%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (37.14%) Build Automation
2 13 (37.14%) Continuous Delivery
2 13 (37.14%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (37.14%) DevOps
2 13 (37.14%) ITIL
2 13 (37.14%) Migration
2 13 (37.14%) Performance Analysis
3 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (17.14%) Project Management
3 6 (17.14%) Runbook
4 5 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
5 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
6 3 (8.57%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (5.71%) Asset Management
7 2 (5.71%) Incident Management
7 2 (5.71%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) Bash
1 4 (11.43%) Perl
1 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (2.86%) CCDA
2 1 (2.86%) CCIE
2 1 (2.86%) CCNP
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.86%) JNCIA
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) KVM
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.57%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) EMC
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.29%) SAP
3 5 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (5.71%) NEC
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) AlgoSec
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco
5 1 (2.86%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.86%) Juniper
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) Workday