Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Data Validation
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.40% - 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.89%
75th Percentile £369 - £288
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £618 £238 £228
% change year-on-year +160.00% +4.40% -49.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 260 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 80.80% 91.87% 85.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 192 353
10th Percentile £236 £201 £279
25th Percentile £359 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £748
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 32
10th Percentile £15.91 £14.20 £15.87
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -19.09% +42.32%
75th Percentile £29.61 £53.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £34.72 £56.00 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £47.50
% change year-on-year -41.35% -9.73% +5.56%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 February 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 2 £363 - 2
Data Validation
South East

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Web Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow