Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Validation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 12 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.39% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £350 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% - -
75th Percentile - £519 -
90th Percentile £461 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -17.07% +13.89% +2.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 729 470 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.28% 88.85% 83.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 337 426
10th Percentile £308 £190 £250
25th Percentile £405 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 44
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.20
25th Percentile £16.02 £12.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £20.25 £14.70 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.76% -46.06% +67.33%
75th Percentile £25.00 £29.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.29 £18.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +34.45% -19.71% +26.98%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in Birmingham

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) GitHub
2 8 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (58.33%) Azure
3 7 (58.33%) GCP
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (25.00%) dbt
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (58.33%) Cucumber
2 7 (58.33%) Git
2 7 (58.33%) GitLab
2 7 (58.33%) JIRA
2 7 (58.33%) JMeter
2 7 (58.33%) JUnit
2 7 (58.33%) Selenium
2 7 (58.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 8 (66.67%) Tester
2 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 7 (58.33%) Senior Automation Tester
2 7 (58.33%) Senior Tester
3 4 (33.33%) Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Insight Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Tester
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Integration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Spring
1 7 (58.33%) WireMock
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 7 (58.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Validation
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Stress Testing
2 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 7 (58.33%) BDD
3 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (58.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 7 (58.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Load Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Microservices
3 7 (58.33%) Observability
3 7 (58.33%) Performance Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (58.33%) TDD
3 7 (58.33%) Test Strategy
3 7 (58.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Grafana
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (58.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Cognos
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Teradata