Validation Contracts in the City of London

Validation
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 107 148
Rank change year-on-year +47 +41 -46
Contract jobs citing Validation 66 66 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.00% 1.81% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 1.98% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 32 33
10th Percentile £380 £413 £368
25th Percentile £494 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £597 £700 £595
90th Percentile £792 £748 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Validation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Validation in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Validation in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Validation in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 18 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.06%) SAS
3 1 (1.52%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.55%) Azure
1 3 (4.55%) WhatsApp
2 2 (3.03%) AWS
2 2 (3.03%) dbt
2 2 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (1.52%) ChatGPT
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Firewall
1 1 (1.52%) SSL
1 1 (1.52%) VLAN
1 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.52%) Big Data
3 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.52%) Power BI
3 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) JIRA
1 2 (3.03%) JMeter
1 2 (3.03%) Selenium
2 1 (1.52%) RStudio
2 1 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (57.58%) Finance
2 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.70%) Banking
4 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (1.52%) Billing
6 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.52%) French Language
6 1 (1.52%) Front Office
6 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.52%) International Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (48.48%) Analyst
2 24 (36.36%) Business Analyst
3 14 (21.21%) Data Business Analyst
3 14 (21.21%) Data Migration Analyst
3 14 (21.21%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 14 (21.21%) Migration Analyst
4 11 (16.67%) SharePoint Analyst
4 11 (16.67%) SharePoint Business Analyst
5 6 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 6 (9.09%) Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Architect
6 5 (7.58%) Finance Business Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) Financial Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) Financial Business Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) Service Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) SAS Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) SAS Data Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) ADO
2 1 (1.52%) Dojo
2 1 (1.52%) JSON
2 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.52%) Spring
2 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.52%) Blog
3 1 (1.52%) DataPower
3 1 (1.52%) Derivative
3 1 (1.52%) DTCC
3 1 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.52%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (1.52%) IoT
3 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Solaris
2 2 (3.03%) VMS
2 2 (3.03%) Windows
3 1 (1.52%) Unix
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Migration
2 21 (31.82%) Data Management
2 21 (31.82%) User Acceptance Testing
3 20 (30.30%) Data Migration
3 20 (30.30%) Requirements Gathering
4 18 (27.27%) GAP Analysis
4 18 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
4 18 (27.27%) User Stories
5 10 (15.15%) Risk Management
5 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.61%) Due Diligence
7 7 (10.61%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (10.61%) Performance Management
7 7 (10.61%) Risk Assessment
8 6 (9.09%) Agile
8 6 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.58%) Data Extraction
9 5 (7.58%) Data Validation
9 5 (7.58%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.06%) C++
2 3 (4.55%) C#
2 3 (4.55%) Java
2 3 (4.55%) Python
3 2 (3.03%) SQL
4 1 (1.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.52%) ISEB
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (34.85%) Data Quality
2 21 (31.82%) QA
3 10 (15.15%) NIST
4 7 (10.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.52%) COBIT
5 1 (1.52%) GRC
5 1 (1.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) KVM
1 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (7.58%) SAP
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.03%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.03%) Google
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle
3 2 (3.03%) VMware
4 1 (1.52%) Aruba
4 1 (1.52%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (1.52%) Salesforce