Verification and Validation Contracts in the Midlands

Verification and Validation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Verification and Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Verification and Validation over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 128 203
Rank change year-on-year -7 +75 -5
Contract jobs citing Verification and Validation 1 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.038% 0.50% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.60% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 8
10th Percentile - £307 £307
25th Percentile - £312 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £310
Median % change year-on-year - +61.29% -43.64%
75th Percentile - £555 £359
90th Percentile - £575 £526
England median daily rate £575 £533 £556
% change year-on-year +7.98% -4.27% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £64.12
% change year-on-year -13.33% +16.98% +16.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Verification and 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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,226 2,344 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.59% 84.32% 87.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 1,614 2,955
10th Percentile £255 £252 £250
25th Percentile £375 £387 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -1.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -4.02% -0.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 106 116
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.34 £11.80
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.55 £14.47
Median hourly rate £24.18 £27.25 £16.88
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% +61.41% +12.55%
75th Percentile £35.00 £51.50 £20.75
90th Percentile £51.50 £68.13 £35.19
England median hourly rate £36.90 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.08% +27.14% +67.54%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in the Midlands

Verification and Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Verification and Validation in the Midlands

Verification and Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Verification and Validation in the Midlands

Verification and Validation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Verification and Validation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
East Midlands -1 1 - - 3
Verification and Validation
England

Verification and Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Simulink
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) DO-160
1 1 (100.00%) DO-254
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 26262
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) EMC