Data Validation Contracts in Central London

Data Validation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Validation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 124 167
Rank change year-on-year +5 +43 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 10 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.50% 0.37% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.41% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £460 - £468
25th Percentile £475 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £565 £672 £708
90th Percentile £574 £734 -
London median daily rate £488 £500 £638
% change year-on-year -2.50% -21.57% +15.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in Central London

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in Central London

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in Central London

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +13 10 £500 -33.33% 1
Data Validation
London

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Actimize
2 1 (10.00%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Fivetran
2 2 (20.00%) WhatsApp
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (20.00%) DataStage
3 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) Appium
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Implementation Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) pytest
2 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Validation
2 7 (70.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 5 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Data Management
6 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Informatica
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Workday