Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Data Validation
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 1.86% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £400 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Data Validation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 193 134 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 89.77% 82.21% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 59 70
10th Percentile £279 £145 £206
25th Percentile £325 £165 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £532
90th Percentile £635 £630 £626
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 8
10th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 - £11.96
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +79.68% +31.68%
75th Percentile £17.30 - £14.27
90th Percentile £24.50 £40.80 £16.60
County Antrim median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
% change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +31.70%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Belfast

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Data Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (75.00%) Parquet
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Test Data Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Avro
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared