Data Validation Contracts in Central London

Data Validation
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Data Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Validation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 169 190
Rank change year-on-year +43 +21 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 7 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.29% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile - £468 £407
25th Percentile £450 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £672 £708 £616
90th Percentile £734 - £689
London median daily rate £500 £648 £550
% change year-on-year -22.81% +17.77% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,190 3,501 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.61% 91.34% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 2,371 3,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 42
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £29.11 £57.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.43
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in Central London

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in Central London

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in Central London

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in Central London

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
City of London +45 3 £750 +7.14% 1
West End of London - 1 - -
Camden - 1 £625 -
Data Validation
London

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Parquet
3 1 (14.29%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Deequ
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Data Migration Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Cutover Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Avro
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) Great Expectations
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) JSON Schema
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Validation
2 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 4 (57.14%) Data Migration
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) CRM
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
4 2 (28.57%) Data Mapping
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Wealth Management
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks