Data Validation Contracts in England

Data Validation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 570 640
Rank change year-on-year +81 +70 -79
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 50 75 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 57 84
10th Percentile £319 £335 £300
25th Percentile £374 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £555 £499
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +11.28% +10.83%
75th Percentile £562 £800 £575
90th Percentile £638 £1,100 £615
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - £27.05 £18.63
25th Percentile - £30.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £10.42 £37.50 £32.08
Median % change year-on-year -72.21% +16.90% +60.39%
75th Percentile £35.96 £43.88 £62.29
90th Percentile £51.28 £47.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £10.42 £37.50 £32.08
% change year-on-year -72.21% +16.90% +57.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,798 44,069 63,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 30,926 45,337
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,559 1,731
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Validation in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +84 26 £540 -15.29% 22
North of England +36 9 £480 -40.00% 9
South East +12 7 £319 -29.17% 8
North West - 6 £398 - 3
South West +11 4 £441 -7.11% 2
Midlands +25 3 £400 -5.88% 4
North East +18 3 £500 -23.08% 1
East Midlands - 2 £405 - 1
East of England +13 1 - - 2
West Midlands +10 1 £225 -47.06% 3
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (12.00%) SAS
2 4 (8.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.00%) Apache
3 2 (4.00%) Confluence
3 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (4.00%) Sketch
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.00%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) Azure
1 8 (16.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.00%) AWS
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (4.00%) dbt
4 2 (4.00%) Figma
4 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) 2G
1 1 (2.00%) 3G
1 1 (2.00%) 4G
1 1 (2.00%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (16.00%) Power BI
4 7 (14.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.00%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.00%) KDB
7 2 (4.00%) Apache Hive
7 2 (4.00%) Big Data
7 2 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.00%) Metadata
7 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.00%) Impala
8 1 (2.00%) Power Query
8 1 (2.00%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.00%) Deequ
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (40.00%) Finance
2 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.00%) Retail
6 2 (4.00%) Front Office
6 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Billing
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Local Government
7 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Analyst
1 12 (24.00%) Developer
2 10 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Data Analyst
4 3 (6.00%) Consultant
4 3 (6.00%) Data Consultant
4 3 (6.00%) Data Migration Analyst
4 3 (6.00%) KDB Developer
4 3 (6.00%) Migration Analyst
4 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Quality Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Risk Analyst
4 3 (6.00%) VBA Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Administrator
5 2 (4.00%) Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Lead
5 2 (4.00%) React Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Senior
5 2 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) PySpark
2 3 (6.00%) HTML
3 2 (4.00%) CSS
3 2 (4.00%) JSON
3 2 (4.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.00%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.00%) JSON Schema
4 1 (2.00%) Kafka
4 1 (2.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.00%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.00%) Blog
4 2 (4.00%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) NHS
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Life Science
5 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Validation
2 20 (40.00%) ETL
3 19 (38.00%) Data Modelling
4 13 (26.00%) Analytics
4 13 (26.00%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (24.00%) Agile
6 11 (22.00%) Data Integration
6 11 (22.00%) Migration
7 10 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 9 (18.00%) Data Analysis
9 8 (16.00%) Data Cleansing
9 8 (16.00%) Data Governance
9 8 (16.00%) Data Migration
9 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
11 6 (12.00%) Visualisation
12 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 5 (10.00%) Data Management
12 5 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) SQL
2 14 (28.00%) Python
3 4 (8.00%) C#
3 4 (8.00%) C++
3 4 (8.00%) Java
3 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.00%) VBA
4 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.00%) Groovy
5 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (8.00%) PhD
4 2 (4.00%) MBA
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) MBCS
5 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.00%) QA
3 3 (6.00%) PMO
4 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Databricks
3 2 (4.00%) CA
3 2 (4.00%) Cloudera
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.00%) Informatica
4 1 (2.00%) Mavenir
4 1 (2.00%) Remedy
4 1 (2.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Yardi