Validation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Validation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 71 73
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 +55
Contract jobs citing Validation 72 58 73
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.99% 2.68% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 2.92% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 39 46
10th Percentile £334 £411 £386
25th Percentile £411 £438 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £597
90th Percentile £725 £695 £759
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 1,678 1,983 2,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.91% 91.55% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,179 1,212 1,686
10th Percentile £338 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £783 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 13
10th Percentile £18.97 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £21.57 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +54.55% -47.62%
75th Percentile £46.11 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.71% +30.84% -48.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Validation job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Validation

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Validation

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Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 27 November 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
Moorgate +2 1 £625 -
Validation
Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) CMS
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.39%) SAS
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Aladdin
2 2 (2.78%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.39%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.39%) SAP PLM
3 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.39%) SAP VC
3 1 (1.39%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (1.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.61%) Azure
2 10 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.94%) AWS
5 3 (4.17%) GCP
6 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.78%) GitHub
6 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.39%) dbt
7 1 (1.39%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.39%) SaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (1.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) Power BI
2 4 (5.56%) Tableau
3 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.78%) MySQL
3 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.39%) Big Data
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.39%) Informix
4 1 (1.39%) Metadata
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.39%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Power Query
4 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (13.89%) JIRA
2 5 (6.94%) Postman
2 5 (6.94%) Selenium
3 4 (5.56%) Git
4 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.39%) Appium
5 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.39%) JMeter
5 1 (1.39%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.39%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.39%) TestRail
General
1 40 (55.56%) Finance
2 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
3 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.67%) Banking
5 9 (12.50%) Front Office
6 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
7 6 (8.33%) Investment Banking
7 6 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (4.17%) Back Office
9 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (4.17%) Marketing
10 2 (2.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.39%) Automotive
11 1 (1.39%) Billing
11 1 (1.39%) Legal
11 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) Analyst
2 17 (23.61%) Business Analyst
3 12 (16.67%) Lead
4 8 (11.11%) Consultant
5 6 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 6 (8.33%) Senior
6 5 (6.94%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Business Consultant
7 4 (5.56%) Business Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Lead Business Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Lead Consultant
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Data Migration Lead
8 3 (4.17%) HR Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (2.78%) ADO
2 2 (2.78%) JSON
2 2 (2.78%) REST
2 2 (2.78%) XML
3 1 (1.39%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.39%) Faiss
3 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.39%) Flutter
3 1 (1.39%) Kafka
3 1 (1.39%) LangChain
3 1 (1.39%) Middleware
3 1 (1.39%) Murex MxML
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.39%) Pandas
3 1 (1.39%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.39%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.17%) Derivative
2 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.78%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.39%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.39%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.39%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.39%) Multi-touch
4 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.39%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Unix
1 1 (1.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.33%) Agile
2 20 (27.78%) Data Analysis
2 20 (27.78%) Data Validation
2 20 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 17 (23.61%) Migration
5 16 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (20.83%) Business Analysis
7 14 (19.44%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (19.44%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 12 (16.67%) Data Migration
9 11 (15.28%) Data Cleansing
9 11 (15.28%) DevOps
9 11 (15.28%) ETL
10 10 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (13.89%) Data Mapping
10 10 (13.89%) Data Modelling
10 10 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (13.89%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 25 (34.72%) SQL
2 12 (16.67%) Python
3 5 (6.94%) C#
3 5 (6.94%) Java
4 3 (4.17%) C++
4 3 (4.17%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.78%) R
5 2 (2.78%) VBA
6 1 (1.39%) ABAP
6 1 (1.39%) Assembly Language
6 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.39%) REXX
Qualifications
1 12 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.17%) CBAP
4 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.17%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.78%) PhD
6 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.39%) CISM
6 1 (1.39%) CISSP
6 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.39%) MBA
6 1 (1.39%) MCP
6 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (25.00%) QA
2 9 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 6 (8.33%) GDPR
4 4 (5.56%) EMIR
4 4 (5.56%) MiFID
5 3 (4.17%) IFRS
5 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.17%) NIST
6 2 (2.78%) IFRS 17
7 1 (1.39%) COBIT
7 1 (1.39%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.39%) GAAP
7 1 (1.39%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.39%) PMO
7 1 (1.39%) SLA
7 1 (1.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) Terraform
2 1 (1.39%) Ansible
2 1 (1.39%) Grafana
2 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.94%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.56%) Oracle
3 4 (5.56%) SAP
4 3 (4.17%) UiPath
5 2 (2.78%) Charles River
5 2 (2.78%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) SmartStream
5 2 (2.78%) Workday
6 1 (1.39%) Adobe
6 1 (1.39%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.39%) Ariba
6 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (1.39%) Informatica
6 1 (1.39%) Marketo
6 1 (1.39%) Murex
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Talend