Data Validation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 408 465
Rank change year-on-year +43 +57 -56
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 23 39 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 30
10th Percentile £230 £252 £300
25th Percentile £322 £376 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% -4.26% +13.94%
75th Percentile £490 £706 £505
90th Percentile £500 £1,071 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile - £27.05 £15.88
25th Percentile - £30.88 £22.06
Median hourly rate £10.42 £37.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.21% +44.23% +25.00%
75th Percentile £35.96 £43.88 £29.66
90th Percentile £51.28 £47.55 £35.36
UK median hourly rate £10.42 £37.50 £32.08
% change year-on-year -72.21% +16.90% +54.22%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North of England +29 9 £480 -40.00% 8
South East +14 7 £319 -29.17% 8
North West - 6 £398 - 4
South West +22 4 £441 -7.11% 2
Midlands +27 3 £400 -5.88% 3
North East +19 3 £500 -23.08% 1
East Midlands - 2 £405 - 1
West Midlands +14 1 £225 -47.06% 2
East of England +9 1 - - 4
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
1 3 (13.04%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.70%) Sketch
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) AWS
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (8.70%) Figma
1 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
1 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (4.35%) dbt
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub
2 1 (4.35%) SaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) 2G
1 1 (4.35%) 3G
1 1 (4.35%) 4G
1 1 (4.35%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
2 3 (13.04%) Hadoop
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Hive
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Metadata
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI
3 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.35%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (4.35%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.35%) Essbase
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.35%) Sqoop
4 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Billing
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Local Government
6 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Data Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Data Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (8.70%) React Developer
3 2 (8.70%) UX Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Data Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Data Migration Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) HR Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Lead
4 1 (4.35%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) PMO Lead
4 1 (4.35%) PMO Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) PySpark
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (8.70%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (4.35%) JSON
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.04%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (8.70%) Blog
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Life Science
4 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Validation
2 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) Data Engineering
3 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
3 6 (26.09%) Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Analytics
4 5 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (21.74%) Visualisation
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) Data Cleansing
5 4 (17.39%) ETL
5 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
5 4 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Data Entry
6 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
6 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.04%) Use Case
7 2 (8.70%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) Groovy
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) MBCS
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) PMO
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Cloudera
1 2 (8.70%) Databricks
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Ericsson
2 1 (4.35%) Hyperion
2 1 (4.35%) Informatica
2 1 (4.35%) Mavenir
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Remedy
2 1 (4.35%) SAP