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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 131 166
Rank change year-on-year +7 +35 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 14 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.68% 0.087% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.095% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile £384 - £268
25th Percentile £464 £375 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £400 £300
Median % change year-on-year +36.88% +33.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £663 £425 £325
90th Percentile £685 - £333
London median daily rate £475 £575 £719
% change year-on-year -17.39% -20.00% +30.68%

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 1,921 2,105 3,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.84% 91.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 1,431 2,171
10th Percentile £325 £375 £350
25th Percentile £423 £472 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 17
10th Percentile £19.14 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.43 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -16.67%
75th Percentile £49.22 £65.63 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £39.92
% change year-on-year -16.94% -12.31% +10.88%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in Central London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 18 August 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 +12 13 £548 +36.88% 10
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Aladdin
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (7.14%) Unit4 Business World
1 1 (7.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.14%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Migration Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) ERP Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) HR Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ADO
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (7.14%) Pandas
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) pytest
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Validation
2 7 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 7 (50.00%) Migration
2 7 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Data Cleansing
3 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Data Mapping
4 4 (28.57%) ETL
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Business Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
5 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) COBIT
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Informatica
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Workday