Validation Contracts in the North of England

Validation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 157 190
Rank change year-on-year +56 +33 -62
Contract jobs citing Validation 85 45 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.75% 0.83% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 0.92% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 31 34
10th Percentile £324 £388 £304
25th Percentile £400 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +13.64% +14.29%
75th Percentile £518 £550 £488
90th Percentile £580 £650 £555
England median daily rate £500 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -13.04% +12.09% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 7
10th Percentile £11.77 £26.25 £16.86
25th Percentile £11.79 £34.82 £23.34
Median hourly rate £42.50 £47.18 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +81.44% +100.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £56.25 £36.80
90th Percentile - £60.38 £56.86
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Validation in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +28 44 £500 - 77
Yorkshire +37 34 £432 -21.45% 32
North East +11 7 £500 -9.09% 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (3.53%) SAS
2 2 (2.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.18%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.18%) Smallworld
Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (4.71%) Simulink
4 4 (4.71%) Stateflow
5 1 (1.18%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (1.18%) MicroStation
5 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.18%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (1.18%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.18%) SAP PP
2 1 (1.18%) SAP Retail
2 1 (1.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.76%) Azure
2 8 (9.41%) AWS
2 8 (9.41%) GCP
3 7 (8.24%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.35%) OCI
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.18%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.18%) Commercetools
5 1 (1.18%) dbt
5 1 (1.18%) GitHub
5 1 (1.18%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.18%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) DHCP
1 2 (2.35%) DNS
2 1 (1.18%) DWDM
2 1 (1.18%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) Internet
2 1 (1.18%) Network Security
2 1 (1.18%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.24%) Power BI
2 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.35%) Metadata
4 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.35%) MySQL
4 2 (2.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.18%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.18%) Essbase
5 1 (1.18%) GIS
5 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.18%) OLAP
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.18%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Git
2 2 (2.35%) JIRA
3 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.18%) Postman
3 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.18%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (30.59%) Finance
2 22 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 10 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (8.24%) Banking
6 6 (7.06%) Legal
7 4 (4.71%) Automotive
7 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Retail
9 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.18%) Aviation
10 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.18%) German Language
10 1 (1.18%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Analyst
2 12 (14.12%) Test Analyst
3 8 (9.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 7 (8.24%) Developer
5 6 (7.06%) Consultant
6 5 (5.88%) Manufacturing Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Administrator
7 4 (4.71%) Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Data Consultant
7 4 (4.71%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (4.71%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Functional Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) IT Support
8 3 (3.53%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) GraphQL
1 6 (7.06%) gRPC
1 6 (7.06%) JWT
1 6 (7.06%) OAuth
1 6 (7.06%) OpenAPI
1 6 (7.06%) RESTful
1 6 (7.06%) Swagger
2 4 (4.71%) REST
3 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.35%) CSS
3 2 (2.35%) HTML
3 2 (2.35%) jQuery
3 2 (2.35%) Node.js
3 2 (2.35%) React
3 2 (2.35%) XML
4 1 (1.18%) LangChain
4 1 (1.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Life Science
2 4 (4.71%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.53%) NHS
3 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.18%) PMI
5 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Android
1 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.35%) Windows
3 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 17 (20.00%) ITIL
4 14 (16.47%) DevOps
5 13 (15.29%) Build Automation
5 13 (15.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 13 (15.29%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (15.29%) Data Protection
5 13 (15.29%) Migration
5 13 (15.29%) Performance Analysis
6 12 (14.12%) Data Modelling
7 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.59%) Project Management
8 9 (10.59%) Roadmaps
8 9 (10.59%) Test Scripting
9 8 (9.41%) Business Strategy
9 8 (9.41%) Cyber Resilience
9 8 (9.41%) IT Strategy
9 8 (9.41%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.82%) SQL
2 13 (15.29%) Python
3 9 (10.59%) Java
4 5 (5.88%) C#
4 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.71%) Bash
5 4 (4.71%) MATLAB
5 4 (4.71%) Perl
6 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.18%) Groovy
7 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.24%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.06%) Degree
3 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.53%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.53%) PMP
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.18%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) CCDA
6 1 (1.18%) CCIE
6 1 (1.18%) CCNP
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.18%) HNC
6 1 (1.18%) HND
6 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.18%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) GDPR
2 8 (9.41%) NIST
3 6 (7.06%) GAMP
3 6 (7.06%) GxP
3 6 (7.06%) HIPAA
3 6 (7.06%) QA
4 4 (4.71%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.71%) PMO
5 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.18%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.71%) Ansible
3 1 (1.18%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) EMC
2 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.41%) SAP
4 7 (8.24%) Google
5 4 (4.71%) Oracle
6 2 (2.35%) Databricks
6 2 (2.35%) VMware
7 1 (1.18%) AlgoSec
7 1 (1.18%) Ariba
7 1 (1.18%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.18%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.18%) Cisco
7 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.18%) HP
7 1 (1.18%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.18%) Juniper
7 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.18%) Sophos
7 1 (1.18%) Splunk
7 1 (1.18%) Workday