Validation Contracts in the West Midlands

Validation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 54 103 115
Rank change year-on-year +49 +12 -15
Contract jobs citing Validation 57 26 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.79% 1.17% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 1.34% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 15 37
10th Percentile £352 £335 £316
25th Percentile £400 £381 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £622 £550 £600
90th Percentile £674 £573 £638
England median daily rate £500 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -13.04% +12.09% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £34.44 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Warwickshire +21 31 £575 +21.05% 19
Birmingham +19 11 £450 +12.50% 18
Staffordshire +6 2 - - 7
Worcestershire - 2 £400 - 6
Shropshire -4 1 - - 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 5 (8.77%) IIS
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Simulink
2 5 (8.77%) Stateflow
2 5 (8.77%) TargetLink
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.75%) InfoPath
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) NetSuite
1 2 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.75%) Matillion
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.75%) OCI
2 1 (1.75%) ShareGate
2 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) Kerberos
1 5 (8.77%) WAN
2 3 (5.26%) LAN
2 3 (5.26%) MPLS
2 3 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.51%) Internet
3 2 (3.51%) VPN
4 1 (1.75%) BGP
4 1 (1.75%) DWDM
4 1 (1.75%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.75%) Firewall
4 1 (1.75%) Network Security
4 1 (1.75%) SDH
4 1 (1.75%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.75%) SONET
4 1 (1.75%) VLAN
4 1 (1.75%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (3.51%) Power BI
2 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (28.07%) Git
2 5 (8.77%) Bitbucket
2 5 (8.77%) Subversion
3 2 (3.51%) JIRA
4 1 (1.75%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (17.54%) Automotive
1 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Finance
3 5 (8.77%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.26%) Legal
4 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (12.28%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (10.53%) Lead
3 5 (8.77%) Control Systems Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Data Migration Lead
5 3 (5.26%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (3.51%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) CCTV Project Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Consultant
6 2 (3.51%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) IAM Consultant
6 2 (3.51%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Security Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Software Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Subject Matter Expert
6 2 (3.51%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) YAML
2 5 (8.77%) LDAP
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.77%) Infotainment
3 5 (8.77%) PKI
3 5 (8.77%) Replication
4 2 (3.51%) CCTV
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) CMDB
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (35.09%) Windows
2 11 (19.30%) Linux
2 11 (19.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (19.30%) Configuration Management
2 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (19.30%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 10 (17.54%) Migration
3 10 (17.54%) Project Management
4 9 (15.79%) Data Migration
5 8 (14.04%) Agile
6 7 (12.28%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 7 (12.28%) Verification and Validation
7 6 (10.53%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 6 (10.53%) Software Engineering
8 5 (8.77%) Integration Testing
8 5 (8.77%) Product Strategy
8 5 (8.77%) QMS
8 5 (8.77%) Quality Management
8 5 (8.77%) Software Testing
8 5 (8.77%) UML
8 5 (8.77%) Use Case
8 5 (8.77%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.53%) MATLAB
3 5 (8.77%) C
4 2 (3.51%) Python
4 2 (3.51%) SQL
5 1 (1.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (40.35%) Security Cleared
2 20 (35.09%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.54%) Degree
4 6 (10.53%) Master's Degree
5 5 (8.77%) OSCP
6 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.75%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) CCNA
7 1 (1.75%) CCNP
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) ISO 26262
2 5 (8.77%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.77%) MISRA
2 5 (8.77%) MISRA C
3 4 (7.02%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (24.56%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.26%) VMFS
4 3 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (21.05%) Ansible
1 12 (21.05%) Terraform
2 11 (19.30%) Progress Chef
2 11 (19.30%) Puppet
2 11 (19.30%) Salt
3 1 (1.75%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 16 (28.07%) VMware
2 11 (19.30%) Red Hat
3 9 (15.79%) SaltStack
4 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.77%) CA
6 4 (7.02%) SAP
7 3 (5.26%) Oracle
7 3 (5.26%) Sage
8 1 (1.75%) Cisco
8 1 (1.75%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.75%) IBM
8 1 (1.75%) Informatica