Validation Contracts in Central London

Validation
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 115 154
Rank change year-on-year +51 +39 -36
Contract jobs citing Validation 64 65 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.67% 1.74% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 1.90% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 29 32
10th Percentile £356 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £469 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +16.16% -5.71%
75th Percentile £597 £700 £578
90th Percentile £649 £730 £728
London median daily rate £535 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -17.69% +18.18% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 2,172 3,421 4,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.58% 91.32% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,542 2,326 3,171
10th Percentile £350 £325 £369
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £676
90th Percentile £800 £819 £775
London median daily rate £550 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £28.98 £53.75 £55.38
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Central London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Central London

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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 Validation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +33 59 £550 -4.35% 18
West End of London - 1 - -
Camden - 1 £625 -
Lambeth - 1 £245 -
Validation
London

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 15 (23.44%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.25%) SAS
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.81%) Azure
2 3 (4.69%) dbt
3 2 (3.13%) AWS
3 2 (3.13%) GCP
3 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
3 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.56%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (1.56%) BrowserStack
4 1 (1.56%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.56%) Firebase
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.56%) Miro
4 1 (1.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) Firewall
1 1 (1.56%) SSL
1 1 (1.56%) VLAN
1 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.13%) Power BI
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.56%) Big Data
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.56%) GIS
4 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.56%) Parquet
4 1 (1.56%) Power Query
4 1 (1.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
1 3 (4.69%) JMeter
2 2 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (1.56%) Appium
3 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.56%) Deequ
3 1 (1.56%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Postman
3 1 (1.56%) RStudio
3 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (57.81%) Finance
2 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.75%) Banking
4 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.13%) Back Office
6 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Billing
7 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.56%) French Language
7 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Local Government
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (50.00%) Analyst
2 23 (35.94%) Business Analyst
3 13 (20.31%) Data Migration Analyst
3 13 (20.31%) Migration Analyst
4 11 (17.19%) Data Business Analyst
4 11 (17.19%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 8 (12.50%) SharePoint Analyst
5 8 (12.50%) SharePoint Business Analyst
6 7 (10.94%) Data Analyst
7 6 (9.38%) Finance Business Analyst
7 6 (9.38%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (7.81%) Architect
8 5 (7.81%) Developer
8 5 (7.81%) Financial Business Analyst
8 5 (7.81%) Financial Services Business Analyst
8 5 (7.81%) Lead
8 5 (7.81%) Service Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) SAS Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) Senior
9 4 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) ADO
1 2 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Avro
2 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.56%) Dojo
2 1 (1.56%) EDI
2 1 (1.56%) Great Expectations
2 1 (1.56%) JSON Schema
2 1 (1.56%) Middleware
2 1 (1.56%) PySpark
2 1 (1.56%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.56%) SAP ALE
2 1 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.56%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.56%) Spring
2 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.56%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.56%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (1.56%) Blog
3 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.56%) DataPower
3 1 (1.56%) DTCC
3 1 (1.56%) IoT
3 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Solaris
2 2 (3.13%) VMS
2 2 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (1.56%) Unix
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) Migration
2 19 (29.69%) Data Migration
2 19 (29.69%) Requirements Gathering
2 19 (29.69%) User Acceptance Testing
3 16 (25.00%) Data Management
3 16 (25.00%) User Stories
4 15 (23.44%) GAP Analysis
4 15 (23.44%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (17.19%) Agile
6 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (10.94%) Due Diligence
7 7 (10.94%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (10.94%) Performance Management
7 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.94%) Risk Assessment
7 7 (10.94%) Risk Management
8 6 (9.38%) Data Extraction
8 6 (9.38%) Data Modelling
8 6 (9.38%) ETL
9 5 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.50%) SQL
2 4 (6.25%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) C++
3 3 (4.69%) Java
3 3 (4.69%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (1.56%) Go
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Degree
2 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.56%) ISEB
4 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.56%) PhD
4 1 (1.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (32.81%) QA
2 18 (28.13%) Data Quality
3 10 (15.63%) NIST
4 7 (10.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.56%) GRC
5 1 (1.56%) GxP
5 1 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.56%) MiFID
5 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) KVM
1 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) SAP
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.13%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.13%) Google
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle
3 2 (3.13%) VMware
4 1 (1.56%) Aruba
4 1 (1.56%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (1.56%) CyberSource
4 1 (1.56%) Databricks
4 1 (1.56%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.56%) Salesforce