V-Model
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for V-Model skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited V-Model over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 635 808
Rank change year-on-year +66 +173 -142
Contract jobs citing V-Model 15 61 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.11% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.12% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 35 19
10th Percentile £500 £247 £353
25th Percentile £525 £314 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £374 £500
Median % change year-on-year +67.11% -25.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £669 £406 £628
90th Percentile £675 £573 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £374 £430
% change year-on-year +33.69% -13.02% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.39 £47.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.23 £50.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £44.07 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - £67.50 £65.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.23 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -36.57% - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

V-Model 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,644 51,414 79,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,622 55,798
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,693 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -5.27%

V-Model
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing V-Model as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing V-Model.

Daily rate trend for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing V-Model over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing V-Model.

Hourly rate trend for V-Model in the UK

V-Model
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing V-Model within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 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
England +72 13 £625 +68.01% 25
London +99 9 £625 +25.00% 3
UK excluding London +12 6 £500 +33.69% 22
Work from Home +92 4 £525 +40.37% 10
Scotland +37 2 £425 -
South East -5 2 £650 +73.80% 7
Midlands +16 1 £500 +97.04% 9
East Midlands +11 1 £500 +97.04% 4
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1

V-Model
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) IaaS
2 2 (13.33%) PaaS
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) RS-422
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 5 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
3 2 (13.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) Selenium
3 2 (13.33%) Subversion
3 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
3 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Military
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Defect Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) QA Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) SysML
3 5 (33.33%) UML
4 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
5 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) ATDD
6 2 (13.33%) BDD
6 2 (13.33%) Feature Driven Development
6 2 (13.33%) Kanban
6 2 (13.33%) SOA
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C#
1 3 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) VBA
2 2 (13.33%) VBScript
3 1 (6.67%) C
3 1 (6.67%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) SAP