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

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 120 158
Rank change year-on-year +10 +38 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 13 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.70% 0.048% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.053% 0.14%
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% -31.43%
75th Percentile £663 £425 £325
90th Percentile £685 - £333
Central London median daily rate £548 £400 £300
% change year-on-year +36.88% +33.33% -31.43%

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 1,746 1,901 2,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.28% 91.84% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 1,265 2,018
10th Percentile £325 £378 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
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 £765 £789 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 15
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.15 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £50.25 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -17.65%

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

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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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the City of London

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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

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Aladdin
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (7.69%) Unit4 Business World
1 1 (7.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
1 2 (15.38%) Tableau
2 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.69%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Postman
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) ERP Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Migration Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) HR Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) HR Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (7.69%) Pandas
1 1 (7.69%) PySpark
1 1 (7.69%) pytest
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Validation
2 7 (53.85%) Data Migration
2 7 (53.85%) Migration
2 7 (53.85%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (46.15%) Data Cleansing
3 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Data Mapping
4 4 (30.77%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) ERP
5 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) COBIT
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Databricks
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Informatica
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Workday