Validation Contracts in Central London

Validation
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 112 151
Rank change year-on-year +46 +39 -47
Contract jobs citing Validation 70 68 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.84% 1.76% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 1.92% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 33 32
10th Percentile £388 £343 £363
25th Percentile £469 £475 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £606
90th Percentile £775 £745 £751
London median daily rate £550 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,234 3,542 4,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.52% 91.74% 91.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,586 2,395 3,189
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.42 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Central London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Central London

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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 Validation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +42 65 £550 -2.22% 11
West End of London - 1 - -
Camden - 1 £625 -
City of Westminster - 1 £800 -
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London

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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 18 (25.71%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.71%) SAS
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.71%) Azure
2 3 (4.29%) AWS
2 3 (4.29%) dbt
2 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.29%) WhatsApp
3 2 (2.86%) GCP
3 2 (2.86%) Power Automate
3 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.43%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Firewall
1 1 (1.43%) SSL
1 1 (1.43%) VLAN
1 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.29%) Power BI
3 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.43%) Big Data
5 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.43%) MySQL
5 1 (1.43%) Parquet
5 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) JIRA
1 2 (2.86%) JMeter
1 2 (2.86%) Selenium
2 1 (1.43%) Deequ
2 1 (1.43%) RStudio
2 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (57.14%) Finance
2 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.14%) Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Legal
6 1 (1.43%) Billing
6 1 (1.43%) French Language
6 1 (1.43%) Front Office
6 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.43%) International Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Marketing
6 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (48.57%) Analyst
2 24 (34.29%) Business Analyst
3 16 (22.86%) Data Migration Analyst
3 16 (22.86%) Migration Analyst
4 14 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 14 (20.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 11 (15.71%) SharePoint Analyst
5 11 (15.71%) SharePoint Business Analyst
6 8 (11.43%) Data Analyst
7 6 (8.57%) Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Architect
8 5 (7.14%) Finance Business Analyst
8 5 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (7.14%) Financial Business Analyst
8 5 (7.14%) Financial Services Business Analyst
8 5 (7.14%) Service Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Finance Systems Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) SAS Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) SAS Data Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) ADO
1 2 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Avro
2 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.43%) Dojo
2 1 (1.43%) Great Expectations
2 1 (1.43%) JSON Schema
2 1 (1.43%) PySpark
2 1 (1.43%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.43%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.43%) Spring
2 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.43%) Blog
3 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.43%) DataPower
3 1 (1.43%) Derivative
3 1 (1.43%) DTCC
3 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.43%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (1.43%) IoT
3 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Solaris
2 2 (2.86%) VMS
2 2 (2.86%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Unix
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Migration
2 23 (32.86%) Data Migration
3 21 (30.00%) Data Management
3 21 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 20 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 18 (25.71%) GAP Analysis
5 18 (25.71%) Root Cause Analysis
5 18 (25.71%) User Stories
6 12 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 9 (12.86%) Data Validation
9 8 (11.43%) Data Governance
9 8 (11.43%) ETL
9 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.00%) Agile
10 7 (10.00%) Data Modelling
10 7 (10.00%) Due Diligence
10 7 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (10.00%) Performance Management
10 7 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.00%) SQL
2 4 (5.71%) T-SQL
3 3 (4.29%) C++
3 3 (4.29%) Java
3 3 (4.29%) Python
4 2 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (1.43%) Go
5 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Degree
2 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.43%) ISEB
5 1 (1.43%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 21 (30.00%) QA
3 10 (14.29%) NIST
4 7 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.43%) COBIT
5 1 (1.43%) GRC
5 1 (1.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) KVM
1 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 5 (7.14%) SAP
2 2 (2.86%) CyberArk
2 2 (2.86%) Google
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle
2 2 (2.86%) VMware
3 1 (1.43%) Aruba
3 1 (1.43%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (1.43%) Databricks
3 1 (1.43%) Salesforce