Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Validation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Validation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 106 116
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 6 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 0.29% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.34% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £358 £299 -
25th Percentile £369 £363 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £263
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £388 £269
90th Percentile £670 £478 -
South East median daily rate £402 £375 £681
% change year-on-year +7.20% -44.95% +42.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,080 1,487 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.22% 87.16% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 766 1,005
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £691 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 72 64
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.51 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £45.31 £48.18
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £58.44
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +5.40% +41.87%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.39 £72.08
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.32 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in Berkshire

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in Berkshire

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Reading - 3 £550 -
Maidenhead -1 1 - -
Data Validation
South East

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
2 1 (16.67%) GIS
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Spatial Data
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) GIS Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) GIS Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Inmon Methodology
4 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) COBIT
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) ESRI
2 1 (16.67%) Foundry
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Palantir