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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 73 99
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 +25
Contract jobs citing Validation 27 33 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.95% 2.00% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.39% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 12
10th Percentile £342 £325 £358
25th Percentile £372 £383 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £430 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -28.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £495 £470 £625
90th Percentile £517 £509 £783
England median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +9.52%

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 1,272 1,382 1,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 91.97% 83.81% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 839 1,230
10th Percentile £263 £300 £281
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 55 32
10th Percentile £16.13 - £12.12
25th Percentile £18.29 £12.15 £17.42
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +6.81%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.75 £25.31
90th Percentile £30.68 £42.75 £48.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

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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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -13 16 £407 -5.79% 7
West Yorkshire +6 10 £475 +9.20% 28
Validation
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 6 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP CAR
1 1 (3.70%) SAP POS DM
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) Miro
2 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) SAN
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.70%) InfluxDB
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.70%) Power Query
2 1 (3.70%) SAP BW
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JIRA
2 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) Selenium
4 2 (7.41%) Postman
4 2 (7.41%) TestNG
5 1 (3.70%) DBeaver
5 1 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) JMeter
5 1 (3.70%) TestRail
5 1 (3.70%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 13 (48.15%) Finance
3 10 (37.04%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Chief Operating Officer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Strategy Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Centre Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Migration Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) HR Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) pytest
1 2 (7.41%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) Playwright
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
1 2 (7.41%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (29.63%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) Architecture Roadmap
3 8 (29.63%) Business Case
3 8 (29.63%) Portfolio Management
3 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
3 8 (29.63%) Strategic Planning
4 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 5 (18.52%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
4 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 4 (14.81%) Commercial Awareness
5 4 (14.81%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Emotional Intelligence
5 4 (14.81%) Fintech
5 4 (14.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) Python
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) CBAP
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.70%) SAP Certification
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) VCAP
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) PMO
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) QA
4 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Ansible
1 3 (11.11%) Puppet
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
2 2 (7.41%) vRealize
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
3 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) 3PAR
3 2 (7.41%) Brocade
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco
3 2 (7.41%) EMC
3 2 (7.41%) HP
4 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.70%) Broadcom
4 1 (3.70%) F5
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.70%) NCR
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Toshiba
4 1 (3.70%) Workday