Data Validation Contracts in the City of London

Data Validation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 109 122 173
Rank change year-on-year +13 +51 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 10 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.25% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £460 - £468
25th Percentile £475 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £565 £775 £708
90th Percentile £574 - -
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the City of London

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the City of London

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the City of London

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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