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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 69 64
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +64
Contract jobs citing Validation 66 58 73
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.60% 2.85% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.09% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 38 46
10th Percentile £313 £404 £425
25th Percentile £384 £413 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% - -
75th Percentile £688 £638 £588
90th Percentile £790 £725 £700
Central London median daily rate £494 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -8.14% -2.27% -
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 & 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 1,657 1,878 2,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.30% 92.15% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,145 1,584
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% - -1.71%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.29 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.30 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.25 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.84% +27.27% -34.13%

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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 28 December 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 28 December 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 +3 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 (3.03%) Apache
1 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) CMS
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Algo Collateral
1 2 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.52%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.52%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.52%) Summit
2 1 (1.52%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.24%) Azure
2 9 (13.64%) AWS
3 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (12.12%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.06%) GCP
4 4 (6.06%) GitHub
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.55%) SaaS
5 3 (4.55%) Serverless
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.03%) ChatGPT
6 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (3.03%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) Internet
2 1 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) Power BI
2 4 (6.06%) Metadata
2 4 (6.06%) Tableau
3 3 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.03%) CockroachDB
4 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.03%) MySQL
4 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.52%) Big Data
5 1 (1.52%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.52%) Informix
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) JIRA
2 5 (7.58%) Selenium
3 4 (6.06%) Postman
4 3 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.03%) Git
5 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.52%) JMeter
6 1 (1.52%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.52%) TestRail
6 1 (1.52%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (48.48%) Finance
2 29 (43.94%) Social Skills
3 18 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (21.21%) Banking
5 7 (10.61%) Investment Banking
6 6 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.06%) Front Office
8 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.55%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.03%) Back Office
9 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.03%) Marketing
10 1 (1.52%) Legal
10 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Analyst
2 10 (15.15%) Business Analyst
3 8 (12.12%) Lead
4 6 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Senior
6 4 (6.06%) Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Tester
7 3 (4.55%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Consultant
7 3 (4.55%) Data Migration Lead
7 3 (4.55%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) ERP Specialist
8 2 (3.03%) HR Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) .NET
1 3 (4.55%) JSON
1 3 (4.55%) PyTorch
1 3 (4.55%) REST
1 3 (4.55%) TensorFlow
1 3 (4.55%) XML
2 2 (3.03%) boto
2 2 (3.03%) LangChain
2 2 (3.03%) NumPy
2 2 (3.03%) Pandas
2 2 (3.03%) PySpark
3 1 (1.52%) ADO
3 1 (1.52%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.52%) Faiss
3 1 (1.52%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.52%) HTML
3 1 (1.52%) Kafka
3 1 (1.52%) Middleware
3 1 (1.52%) Murex MxML
3 1 (1.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.06%) Derivative
3 3 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.03%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.52%) Blog
5 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.52%) DTCC
5 1 (1.52%) Equities
5 1 (1.52%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Unix
1 1 (1.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Agile
2 20 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (27.27%) Data Validation
4 16 (24.24%) ETL
5 15 (22.73%) Migration
6 13 (19.70%) Data Analysis
6 13 (19.70%) Data Governance
7 11 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (15.15%) DevOps
8 10 (15.15%) Project Delivery
9 9 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (13.64%) Data Mapping
9 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
10 8 (12.12%) Analytics
10 8 (12.12%) Data Cleansing
10 8 (12.12%) Data Migration
10 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 24 (36.36%) SQL
2 17 (25.76%) Python
3 6 (9.09%) C#
3 6 (9.09%) Java
4 4 (6.06%) C++
5 2 (3.03%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.52%) Assembly Language
6 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.52%) R
6 1 (1.52%) REXX
6 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.52%) VBA
6 1 (1.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Degree
2 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.03%) PMP
5 1 (1.52%) CISM
5 1 (1.52%) CISSP
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.52%) MBA
5 1 (1.52%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (27.27%) QA
2 14 (21.21%) Data Quality
3 7 (10.61%) GDPR
4 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (6.06%) NIST
5 2 (3.03%) IFRS
5 2 (3.03%) IFRS 17
6 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.52%) Basel III
6 1 (1.52%) EMIR
6 1 (1.52%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.52%) GAAP
6 1 (1.52%) GRC
6 1 (1.52%) MiFID
6 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.52%) PMO
6 1 (1.52%) SLA
6 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) Ansible
2 1 (1.52%) Grafana
2 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 6 (9.09%) SAP
3 5 (7.58%) Oracle
4 3 (4.55%) Google
5 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.03%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.03%) Murex
5 2 (3.03%) SmartStream
5 2 (3.03%) UiPath
5 2 (3.03%) Workday
6 1 (1.52%) Adobe
6 1 (1.52%) Ariba
6 1 (1.52%) Databricks
6 1 (1.52%) IBM
6 1 (1.52%) Informatica
6 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.52%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.52%) Talend