Validation Contracts in the East Midlands

Validation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 58 61 85
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 -28
Contract jobs citing Validation 12 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.38% 1.61% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.84% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 10
10th Percentile £320 £350 £445
25th Percentile £400 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -17.95% +27.45%
75th Percentile £646 £404 £620
90th Percentile £843 £500 £814
England median daily rate £500 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -13.04% +12.09% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
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
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 678 868 1,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.02% 87.50% 82.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 676 856
10th Percentile £200 £213 £200
25th Percentile £304 £345 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +15.38%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £525
90th Percentile £623 £700 £608
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 50 72
10th Percentile £11.67 £13.11 £9.75
25th Percentile £12.75 £17.82 £14.61
Median hourly rate £17.00 £26.07 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.79% +30.35% +53.85%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £32.06
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £35.00
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 East Midlands

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Validation in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire -6 5 £405 +1.25% 11
Nottinghamshire +9 4 £200 -50.00% 4
Derbyshire -1 2 £900 - 12
Lincolnshire - 1 £775 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (8.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP Business One
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
1 2 (16.67%) SAP HANA
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Electrical Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Electrical Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Planning Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Strategy Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (25.00%) ETL
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Contingency Planning
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (16.67%) Data Extraction
3 2 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
4 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (8.33%) Data Science
4 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) C
2 2 (16.67%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) Embedded C
2 2 (16.67%) Embedded C++
2 2 (16.67%) MATLAB
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CISA
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft