Validation Contracts in London

Validation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 155 164 214
Rank change year-on-year +9 +50 -11
Contract jobs citing Validation 278 444 532
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.57% 1.64% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.80% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 305 341
10th Percentile £380 £450 £355
25th Percentile £463 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £800 £638
90th Percentile £730 £960 £738
England median daily rate £500 £550 £503
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.45% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £23.99 - £26.65
25th Percentile £24.25 £45.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +111.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £85.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £103.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £61.00 £61.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.21% +12.27% +22.22%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Validation in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London +39 71 £550 - 12
West London +24 14 £475 -13.64% 10
East London -2 6 £539 -43.32% 7
Validation
England

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (6.83%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.16%) Confluence
3 5 (1.80%) SAS
4 4 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.08%) Apache
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.08%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.88%) Simulink
3 7 (2.52%) Stateflow
4 6 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.80%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.36%) InVision
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.36%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.72%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.36%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.36%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.36%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.36%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.36%) Shopify
4 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.47%) Azure
2 18 (6.47%) AWS
3 15 (5.40%) GCP
4 13 (4.68%) dbt
5 11 (3.96%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (2.16%) SaaS
9 5 (1.80%) Serverless
10 4 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.44%) PaaS
11 3 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.08%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.72%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.88%) Firewall
2 7 (2.52%) SSL
3 6 (2.16%) VPN
4 4 (1.44%) DNS
4 4 (1.44%) Internet
4 4 (1.44%) SNMP
4 4 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.44%) VLAN
5 3 (1.08%) BGP
5 3 (1.08%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.08%) LAN
5 3 (1.08%) MPLS
5 3 (1.08%) SDH
5 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.08%) WAN
6 2 (0.72%) Broadband
6 2 (0.72%) DHCP
6 2 (0.72%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.72%) OSPF
6 2 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.59%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (3.96%) Power BI
3 10 (3.60%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.88%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.52%) Couchbase
6 6 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.80%) Big Data
7 5 (1.80%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.44%) SAP Data Services
8 4 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.08%) GIS
9 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.72%) Parquet
10 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.40%) JIRA
2 9 (3.24%) JMeter
2 9 (3.24%) Selenium
3 6 (2.16%) Git
4 4 (1.44%) LSMW
5 3 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.08%) Postman
5 3 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.72%) Appium
6 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.72%) GitLab
6 2 (0.72%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) Deequ
7 1 (0.36%) NUnit
7 1 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.36%) RStudio
7 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 89 (32.01%) Finance
2 85 (30.58%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.63%) Banking
5 16 (5.76%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.32%) Legal
7 11 (3.96%) Marketing
8 9 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.88%) Retail
10 7 (2.52%) Automotive
10 7 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.16%) Back Office
11 6 (2.16%) Front Office
11 6 (2.16%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.72%) Billing
14 2 (0.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 80 (28.78%) Analyst
2 42 (15.11%) Business Analyst
3 35 (12.59%) Developer
4 24 (8.63%) Senior
5 23 (8.27%) Architect
6 17 (6.12%) Lead
7 16 (5.76%) Data Migration Analyst
7 16 (5.76%) Migration Analyst
8 15 (5.40%) Data Analyst
9 14 (5.04%) Data Business Analyst
9 14 (5.04%) Data Migration Business Analyst
10 13 (4.68%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.32%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.96%) Consultant
12 11 (3.96%) SharePoint Analyst
12 11 (3.96%) SharePoint Business Analyst
13 10 (3.60%) Network Engineer
13 10 (3.60%) Technical Architect
13 10 (3.60%) Tester
14 9 (3.24%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.60%) ADO
2 9 (3.24%) Kafka
3 6 (2.16%) PySpark
4 5 (1.80%) CSS
5 4 (1.44%) HTML
5 4 (1.44%) JSON
5 4 (1.44%) Swagger
6 3 (1.08%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.08%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.08%) Middleware
6 3 (1.08%) Playwright
6 3 (1.08%) REST
6 3 (1.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (1.08%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (1.08%) XML
7 2 (0.72%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.72%) NETCONF
7 2 (0.72%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.72%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.72%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.76%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.68%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.96%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.80%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.44%) DataPower
7 4 (1.44%) IoT
7 4 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.08%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (1.08%) Freedom of Information Act
8 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.72%) Multi-touch
9 2 (0.72%) NHS
9 2 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.60%) Linux
2 8 (2.88%) Windows
3 5 (1.80%) Oracle Linux
3 5 (1.80%) Solaris
3 5 (1.80%) VMS
4 3 (1.08%) Unix
4 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.72%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (19.42%) Migration
2 45 (16.19%) Agile
3 41 (14.75%) Data Migration
4 39 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (13.31%) ETL
6 35 (12.59%) Computer Science
6 35 (12.59%) Data Modelling
6 35 (12.59%) User Acceptance Testing
7 28 (10.07%) Requirements Gathering
7 28 (10.07%) User Stories
8 27 (9.71%) Data Validation
9 26 (9.35%) Data Management
10 24 (8.63%) Risk Management
10 24 (8.63%) Test Automation
11 23 (8.27%) Business Continuity
11 23 (8.27%) Disaster Recovery
11 23 (8.27%) Use Case
12 22 (7.91%) Data Protection
12 22 (7.91%) GAP Analysis
12 22 (7.91%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.67%) SQL
2 30 (10.79%) Python
3 16 (5.76%) C++
4 8 (2.88%) MATLAB
5 7 (2.52%) C#
5 7 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.16%) Java
6 6 (2.16%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.80%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.44%) Go
8 4 (1.44%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.08%) C
9 3 (1.08%) VBA
10 2 (0.72%) Bash
10 2 (0.72%) R
11 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.36%) Scala
11 1 (0.36%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 46 (16.55%) Degree
2 18 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.80%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.44%) CCNA
6 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.44%) PhD
7 3 (1.08%) CCA
7 3 (1.08%) Citrix Certification
7 3 (1.08%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.72%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) CCDP
8 2 (0.72%) CCIP
8 2 (0.72%) CCNP
8 2 (0.72%) CISSP
8 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (17.27%) Data Quality
2 47 (16.91%) QA
3 20 (7.19%) NIST
4 7 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.80%) PMO
6 4 (1.44%) COBIT
7 3 (1.08%) GDPR
8 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.72%) GxP
8 2 (0.72%) IFRS
8 2 (0.72%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.36%) MiFID
9 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.80%) KVM
4 4 (1.44%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.44%) Firmware
5 3 (1.08%) Docker
6 1 (0.36%) NFS
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (1.44%) FortiGate
2 3 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.72%) Ansible
3 2 (0.72%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.72%) Nmap
3 2 (0.72%) OpenNMS
4 1 (0.36%) QRadar
4 1 (0.36%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 29 (10.43%) SAP
2 28 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.47%) Oracle
4 11 (3.96%) Google
4 11 (3.96%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.52%) Databricks
5 7 (2.52%) VMware
6 5 (1.80%) Cisco
7 4 (1.44%) Aruba
7 4 (1.44%) Barracuda Networks
7 4 (1.44%) DocuSign
7 4 (1.44%) IBM
7 4 (1.44%) Workday
8 3 (1.08%) Citrix
8 3 (1.08%) Pardot
8 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.72%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 2 (0.72%) HP
9 2 (0.72%) Informatica
9 2 (0.72%) Juniper