Validation Contracts in Wiltshire

Validation
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 45 72 56
Rank change year-on-year +27 -16 -12
Contract jobs citing Validation 48 22 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 4.94% 2.06% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 2.25% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 17 15
10th Percentile £214 £413 £425
25th Percentile £386 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +3.81% +11.54%
75th Percentile £637 £625 £546
90th Percentile £674 £735 £577
South West median daily rate £525 £561 £488
% change year-on-year -6.42% +15.08% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.00 - -
Median hourly rate £71.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +5.26% +37.22% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 810 977 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.33% 91.39% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 813 599
10th Percentile £320 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +8.49% +6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £689
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 23
10th Percentile £12.00 £60.00 £17.75
25th Percentile £12.79 £61.50 £28.25
Median hourly rate £14.54 £75.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.61% +38.89% +13.68%
75th Percentile £23.75 £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile £39.00 £92.50 £69.90
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.38
% change year-on-year -8.33% +24.03% +7.50%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Wiltshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Wiltshire

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Wiltshire 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
Corsham +8 33 £582 +5.82%
Malmesbury - 8 £218 -
Salisbury +14 1 £475 -20.03% 3
Trowbridge - 1 - -
Bradford-on-Avon - 1 - - 1
Chippenham - 1 - -
Validation
South West

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 8 (16.67%) CMS
2 6 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (10.42%) Confluence
4 3 (6.25%) IIS
5 1 (2.08%) Apache
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Magento
2 2 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.08%) Azure
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.08%) OCI
3 1 (2.08%) PaaS
3 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) VSAN
2 4 (8.33%) BGP
2 4 (8.33%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) Network Security
2 4 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.33%) VLAN
3 3 (6.25%) Kerberos
4 2 (4.17%) RTP
5 1 (2.08%) DNS
5 1 (2.08%) LAN
5 1 (2.08%) PBX
5 1 (2.08%) VoIP
5 1 (2.08%) WAN
5 1 (2.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.08%) Big Data
2 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.08%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.08%) Metadata
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Git
2 5 (10.42%) JIRA
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.08%) Aviation
5 1 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 6 (12.50%) Web Specialist
2 3 (6.25%) Consultant
2 3 (6.25%) Lead
3 2 (4.17%) Auditor
3 2 (4.17%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (4.17%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (4.17%) VMware Specialist
3 2 (4.17%) Web Content Specialist
4 1 (2.08%) Data Architect
4 1 (2.08%) Data Consultant
4 1 (2.08%) Data Migration Consultant
4 1 (2.08%) Instrumentation Engineer
4 1 (2.08%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (2.08%) QA Tester
4 1 (2.08%) Service Improvement Manager
4 1 (2.08%) Service Manager
4 1 (2.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) YAML
2 5 (10.42%) Flash
3 3 (6.25%) LDAP
4 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Clustering
2 4 (8.33%) PKI
3 3 (6.25%) Replication
4 2 (4.17%) CMDB
4 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.08%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (33.33%) Windows
2 9 (18.75%) Linux
2 9 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (18.75%) Configuration Management
2 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
2 9 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (16.67%) User Experience
3 8 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 7 (14.58%) Agile
4 7 (14.58%) Service Management
5 6 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
5 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
6 5 (10.42%) High Availability
6 5 (10.42%) Network Virtualisation
6 5 (10.42%) NsoIT
6 5 (10.42%) Power Management
6 5 (10.42%) System Testing
6 5 (10.42%) Waterfall
7 4 (8.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 4 (8.33%) Migration
8 3 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.17%) SQL
3 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (72.92%) Security Cleared
2 31 (64.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) Degree
4 7 (14.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (10.42%) CCNA
6 5 (10.42%) Master's Degree
7 4 (8.33%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
8 3 (6.25%) OSCP
9 2 (4.17%) HNC
9 2 (4.17%) HND
10 1 (2.08%) CCNP
10 1 (2.08%) MCP
10 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.08%) PMO
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 24 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (27.08%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (20.83%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (12.50%) VMware NSX
5 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 4 (8.33%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Ansible
1 10 (20.83%) Terraform
2 9 (18.75%) Progress Chef
2 9 (18.75%) Puppet
2 9 (18.75%) Salt
3 6 (12.50%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (52.08%) VMware
2 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 10 (20.83%) Cisco
4 9 (18.75%) Atlassian
4 9 (18.75%) Red Hat
5 8 (16.67%) SaltStack
6 6 (12.50%) Sitecore
7 3 (6.25%) CA
8 2 (4.17%) Oracle
8 2 (4.17%) Remedy
9 1 (2.08%) Avaya
9 1 (2.08%) Cloudera
9 1 (2.08%) Databricks
9 1 (2.08%) Ericsson
9 1 (2.08%) F5
9 1 (2.08%) Juniper
9 1 (2.08%) Nokia
9 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.08%) Ribbon