Validation Contracts in the South West

Validation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 73 94
Rank change year-on-year +29 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing Validation 131 99 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.98% 2.93% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 3.28% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 38 40
10th Percentile £208 £413 £301
25th Percentile £299 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +13.76% +16.13%
75th Percentile £606 £612 £547
90th Percentile £672 £641 £601
England median daily rate £500 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -13.04% +12.09% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 45 10
10th Percentile £28.00 £50.55 £34.61
25th Percentile £50.17 £56.30 £42.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +37.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 £45.15
90th Percentile - £77.50 £52.10
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
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,703 3,014 3,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.03% 89.09% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 2,171 2,322
10th Percentile £244 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 317 204
10th Percentile £13.83 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.44 £15.40 £23.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +18.29% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the South West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the South West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Wiltshire +23 47 £525 -6.42% 12
Bristol +12 39 - - 39
Gloucestershire +6 13 £400 - 12
Devon +9 12 - - 18
Somerset +3 10 £120 -77.22% 19
Dorset -12 8 £600 -1.80% 9
Validation
England

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (6.11%) CMS
2 6 (4.58%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (3.05%) Confluence
4 3 (2.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 18 (13.74%) AutoCAD
2 15 (11.45%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (5.34%) Simulink
4 5 (3.82%) Stateflow
5 4 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Magento
2 2 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.58%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 5 (3.82%) OCI
2 5 (3.82%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.76%) Azure
3 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (0.76%) GitHub
3 1 (0.76%) PaaS
3 1 (0.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.87%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.58%) Network Security
3 5 (3.82%) Ethernet
3 5 (3.82%) VSAN
4 4 (3.05%) BGP
4 4 (3.05%) Firewall
4 4 (3.05%) Internet
4 4 (3.05%) LAN
4 4 (3.05%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (3.05%) VLAN
4 4 (3.05%) WAN
4 4 (3.05%) WLAN
5 3 (2.29%) Kerberos
5 3 (2.29%) VoIP
6 2 (1.53%) 4G
6 2 (1.53%) 5G
6 2 (1.53%) MPLS
6 2 (1.53%) RTP
7 1 (0.76%) DNS
7 1 (0.76%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.82%) Power BI
2 2 (1.53%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.76%) Big Data
3 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.76%) Metadata
3 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Git
2 5 (3.82%) Eclipse
2 5 (3.82%) JIRA
2 5 (3.82%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.29%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.76%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (0.76%) Selenium
5 1 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (15.27%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (10.69%) Military
3 11 (8.40%) Aerospace
3 11 (8.40%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.11%) Finance
5 7 (5.34%) Legal
6 6 (4.58%) Automotive
7 5 (3.82%) Law
7 5 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Aviation
8 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.53%) Marketing
9 2 (1.53%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Avionics
10 1 (0.76%) Billing
Job Titles
1 20 (15.27%) Architect
2 16 (12.21%) Software Engineer
3 10 (7.63%) Systems Engineer
4 9 (6.87%) Integration Manager
4 9 (6.87%) Operations Manager
5 6 (4.58%) Administrator
5 6 (4.58%) C++ Software Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) Web Specialist
6 5 (3.82%) Analyst
6 5 (3.82%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) Cloud Specialist
6 5 (3.82%) Consultant
6 5 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
6 5 (3.82%) Oracle Specialist
6 5 (3.82%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 4 (3.05%) Data Administrator
7 4 (3.05%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (3.05%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (3.05%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.87%) YAML
2 5 (3.82%) Node.js
2 5 (3.82%) Web Services
3 4 (3.05%) Flash
4 3 (2.29%) LDAP
5 2 (1.53%) .NET
6 1 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.76%) JSON
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.82%) Algorithms
1 5 (3.82%) CMDB
1 5 (3.82%) Operational Technology
2 4 (3.05%) Clustering
2 4 (3.05%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (3.05%) PKI
3 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.29%) Replication
3 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.53%) Blog
4 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.76%) Animation
5 1 (0.76%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.56%) Windows
2 17 (12.98%) Linux
3 9 (6.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.05%) SafeRTOS
4 4 (3.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (16.03%) Verification and Validation
2 16 (12.21%) Software Engineering
3 15 (11.45%) Agile
4 14 (10.69%) User Acceptance Testing
5 13 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (8.40%) Configuration Management
7 10 (7.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (6.87%) Computer Science
8 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (6.87%) Migration
8 9 (6.87%) User Experience
9 8 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.11%) Project Planning
9 8 (6.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 7 (5.34%) Data Validation
10 7 (5.34%) ERP
10 7 (5.34%) Project Management
10 7 (5.34%) Test Automation
11 6 (4.58%) Service Management
11 6 (4.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.69%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.34%) C#
3 6 (4.58%) C
3 6 (4.58%) C++
3 6 (4.58%) MATLAB
4 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.05%) SQL
6 2 (1.53%) Python
7 1 (0.76%) Assembly Language
7 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.76%) Java
7 1 (0.76%) Perl
7 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (48.09%) Security Cleared
2 41 (31.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (17.56%) DV Cleared
4 14 (10.69%) Degree
5 10 (7.63%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.05%) CCNA
8 4 (3.05%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.29%) OSCP
10 2 (1.53%) HNC
10 2 (1.53%) HND
11 1 (0.76%) CCNP
11 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.76%) MCP
11 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.82%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) PMO
3 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.76%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.76%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 23 (17.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (9.92%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (6.87%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.82%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.05%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.05%) VMFS
6 2 (1.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (7.63%) Ansible
1 10 (7.63%) Terraform
2 9 (6.87%) Progress Chef
2 9 (6.87%) Puppet
2 9 (6.87%) Salt
3 5 (3.82%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (19.85%) VMware
2 23 (17.56%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.87%) Cisco
3 9 (6.87%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.11%) Atlassian
4 8 (6.11%) SaltStack
5 6 (4.58%) Oracle
5 6 (4.58%) Sitecore
6 3 (2.29%) CA
7 2 (1.53%) Remedy
8 1 (0.76%) Avaya
8 1 (0.76%) BT
8 1 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.76%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.76%) F5
8 1 (0.76%) Juniper
8 1 (0.76%) Nokia
8 1 (0.76%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.76%) Ribbon
8 1 (0.76%) Wind River