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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 69 72
Rank change year-on-year +36 +3 +40
Contract jobs citing Validation 125 55 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.35% 3.27% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.26% 3.49% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 34 42
10th Percentile £383 £351 £365
25th Percentile £463 £422 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £735 £725 £625
90th Percentile £800 - £675
Central London median daily rate £550 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.23 - -
Central London median hourly rate £17.23 - -

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 1,997 1,575 1,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.41% 93.64% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 995 1,367
10th Percentile £357 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 12
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +6.38% -23.93%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.46
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £49.41
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -20.54%

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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 3 June 2026.

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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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 9 (7.20%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.40%) Apache
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) iTrent
2 1 (0.80%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.80%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.80%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.80%) Azure
2 26 (20.80%) AWS
3 16 (12.80%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.00%) Snowflake
5 8 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (4.80%) GCP
6 6 (4.80%) GitHub
6 6 (4.80%) SaaS
6 6 (4.80%) Serverless
7 5 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.00%) dbt
8 4 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.40%) OCI
10 2 (1.60%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.60%) Prefect
10 2 (1.60%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) Firewall
1 3 (2.40%) WAN
2 2 (1.60%) Internet
2 2 (1.60%) LAN
2 2 (1.60%) Network Security
2 2 (1.60%) VLAN
2 2 (1.60%) VPN
2 2 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.60%) Wireless
3 1 (0.80%) BGP
3 1 (0.80%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.80%) FTP
3 1 (0.80%) MPLS
3 1 (0.80%) OSPF
3 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.80%) VSAN
3 1 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (8.80%) Power BI
3 9 (7.20%) Metadata
4 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.00%) Tableau
6 4 (3.20%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.40%) Power Query
7 3 (2.40%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.60%) Big Data
8 2 (1.60%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.60%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.80%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.80%) Postman
3 5 (4.00%) JIRA
3 5 (4.00%) JMeter
4 3 (2.40%) Git
5 2 (1.60%) GitLab
5 2 (1.60%) MLflow
5 2 (1.60%) Selenium
5 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.80%) Appium
6 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.80%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.80%) MonkeyTalk
6 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.80%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.80%) Selendroid
6 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.80%) WinAutomation
6 1 (0.80%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.80%) Zephyr
General
1 63 (50.40%) Finance
2 32 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 29 (23.20%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (18.40%) Banking
5 8 (6.40%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.00%) General Ledger
7 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Front Office
7 4 (3.20%) Publishing
8 3 (2.40%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.40%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.60%) Back Office
9 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.60%) Legal
9 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.80%) Automotive
10 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (20.00%) Analyst
2 16 (12.80%) Data Engineer
3 13 (10.40%) Data Analyst
4 11 (8.80%) Consultant
5 10 (8.00%) Migration Manager
5 10 (8.00%) Migration Project Manager
5 10 (8.00%) Project Manager
6 8 (6.40%) Lead
6 8 (6.40%) Senior
7 7 (5.60%) Tester
8 6 (4.80%) Architect
8 6 (4.80%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Data Migration Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Report Analyst
10 4 (3.20%) Workday Analyst
11 3 (2.40%) Automation Tester
11 3 (2.40%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.60%) REST
2 6 (4.80%) PyTorch
3 5 (4.00%) Kafka
3 5 (4.00%) Swagger
3 5 (4.00%) TensorFlow
4 4 (3.20%) JSON
4 4 (3.20%) Pandas
4 4 (3.20%) Playwright
4 4 (3.20%) XML
5 3 (2.40%) NumPy
5 3 (2.40%) PySpark
5 3 (2.40%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.60%) boto
6 2 (1.60%) HTML
6 2 (1.60%) Middleware
6 2 (1.60%) Node.js
6 2 (1.60%) OAuth
6 2 (1.60%) RESTful
6 2 (1.60%) SAML
6 2 (1.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.40%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.60%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.00%) Clustering
3 5 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.20%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.20%) Derivative
5 3 (2.40%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.40%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.40%) Replication
6 2 (1.60%) Equities
6 2 (1.60%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.60%) Synthetic Data
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.80%) Android
2 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.80%) SUSE
2 1 (0.80%) VMS
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.40%) Migration
2 34 (27.20%) Analytics
3 30 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (20.80%) Agile
5 25 (20.00%) AI
5 25 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 20 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 20 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (15.20%) ETL
7 19 (15.20%) Test Automation
8 18 (14.40%) Data Engineering
8 18 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (14.40%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (13.60%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (13.60%) Data Analysis
9 17 (13.60%) Data Governance
9 17 (13.60%) Data Validation
9 17 (13.60%) Project Delivery
10 15 (12.00%) Data Migration
10 15 (12.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (32.00%) SQL
2 33 (26.40%) Python
3 6 (4.80%) Java
4 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.20%) Bash
6 3 (2.40%) C#
6 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.60%) C++
7 2 (1.60%) Korn
7 2 (1.60%) Scala
7 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.80%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.80%) Groovy
8 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.80%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (9.60%) PMI Certification
1 12 (9.60%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.80%) PMP
3 10 (8.00%) Degree
4 9 (7.20%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.60%) CCNP
6 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.60%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.60%) PhD
6 2 (1.60%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.80%) CBAP
7 1 (0.80%) CCIE
7 1 (0.80%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) CWNA
7 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (28.80%) Data Quality
2 21 (16.80%) QA
3 18 (14.40%) GDPR
4 13 (10.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (9.60%) NIST
6 5 (4.00%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.60%) EMIR
7 2 (1.60%) GAAP
7 2 (1.60%) IFRS
7 2 (1.60%) MiFID
7 2 (1.60%) SLA
7 2 (1.60%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.80%) GxP
8 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.80%) Firmware
2 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.00%) Ansible
2 5 (4.00%) Grafana
3 4 (3.20%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.60%) Terraform
5 1 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.80%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.00%) CyberArk
3 9 (7.20%) SAP
4 8 (6.40%) Oracle
5 7 (5.60%) Workday
6 6 (4.80%) Databricks
6 6 (4.80%) Google
6 6 (4.80%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.00%) Informatica
8 3 (2.40%) Anaplan
8 3 (2.40%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.40%) Murex
9 2 (1.60%) Cisco
9 2 (1.60%) Kronos
10 1 (0.80%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.80%) Cerner
10 1 (0.80%) Dell
10 1 (0.80%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.80%) PTC
10 1 (0.80%) Siemens