Validation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Validation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 108 87
Rank change year-on-year +10 -21 +11
Contract jobs citing Validation 34 42 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.29% 1.47% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.62% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 42
10th Percentile £318 £400 £315
25th Percentile £363 £437 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £498 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% +13.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £590
90th Percentile £596 £609 £649
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +5.00% +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.00 £14.00 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £20.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +205.00% -62.26% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £25.50 -
90th Percentile - £55.65 -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +55.56% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire -11 18 £475 - 33
Oxfordshire +11 12 £450 +12.50% 34
Buckinghamshire +22 4 £575 -4.17% 14
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (8.82%) Sketch
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) SAP CO
1 2 (5.88%) SAP FI
1 2 (5.88%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) Azure
1 3 (8.82%) Figma
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) SaaS
3 1 (2.94%) Smartsheet
3 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Internet
1 4 (11.76%) Wireless
2 1 (2.94%) 2G
2 1 (2.94%) 3G
2 1 (2.94%) 4G
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) RNC
2 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.94%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.94%) Big Data
1 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.94%) Data Mining
1 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.94%) Impala
1 1 (2.94%) Power BI
1 1 (2.94%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
2 5 (14.71%) Git
3 4 (11.76%) Subversion
4 1 (2.94%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 5 (14.71%) Aerospace
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (8.82%) Legal
5 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Aviation
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (17.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Administrator
3 4 (11.76%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) React Developer
4 3 (8.82%) UX Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Credit Risk Modeller
5 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Software Verification Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) PySpark
2 3 (8.82%) CSS
2 3 (8.82%) HTML
2 3 (8.82%) React
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Algorithms
1 4 (11.76%) Biopharmaceutical
1 4 (11.76%) Data Structures
1 4 (11.76%) Device Driver
2 3 (8.82%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.94%) Life Science
4 1 (2.94%) LIMS
4 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Analytics
1 9 (26.47%) Data Modelling
1 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (20.59%) Data Validation
3 6 (17.65%) Agile
3 6 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
4 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
4 5 (14.71%) Migration
4 5 (14.71%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (14.71%) Visualisation
5 4 (11.76%) Data Migration
5 4 (11.76%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (11.76%) ETL
5 4 (11.76%) Project Management
5 4 (11.76%) Software Optimisation
5 4 (11.76%) Time Management
5 4 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) C
3 4 (11.76%) Assembly Language
3 4 (11.76%) C++
3 4 (11.76%) MATLAB
3 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) SQL
5 2 (5.88%) Embedded C
5 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) Bash
6 1 (2.94%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Master's Degree
2 4 (11.76%) PhD
2 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 4 (11.76%) JTAG
3 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (8.82%) IFRS
3 3 (8.82%) IFRS 9
4 2 (5.88%) PMO
5 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Firmware
2 4 (11.76%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.94%) HDFS
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Ceridian
2 2 (5.88%) Concur
2 2 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco
3 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.94%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.94%) Informatica
3 1 (2.94%) Mavenir
3 1 (2.94%) Remedy
3 1 (2.94%) Workday