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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 66 82
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +62
Contract jobs citing Validation 64 60 68
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.72% 2.84% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.10% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 42 39
10th Percentile £328 £413 £356
25th Percentile £413 £453 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £559 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% +1.59% +2.33%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £594
90th Percentile £725 £721 £696
Central London median daily rate £625 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% +2.33%
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 1,617 1,933 2,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.96% 91.65% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,187 1,740
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £758 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.26%

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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 6 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 6 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 (3.13%) Confluence
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.56%) Apache
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.13%) SAP MDG
2 2 (3.13%) SAP PLM
2 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.13%) SAP VC
3 1 (1.56%) Algo Collateral
3 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.56%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (1.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.88%) Azure
2 9 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.69%) AWS
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) GitHub
5 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.56%) Boomi
6 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.56%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Serverless
6 1 (1.56%) Vertex AI
6 1 (1.56%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) LAN
2 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Power BI
2 3 (4.69%) Tableau
3 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.13%) MySQL
3 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.56%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.56%) Informix
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.56%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Power Query
4 1 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) Postman
2 5 (7.81%) Selenium
3 4 (6.25%) Git
4 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.69%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.56%) Appium
5 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.56%) JMeter
5 1 (1.56%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.56%) TestRail
General
1 34 (53.13%) Finance
2 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.63%) Banking
4 10 (15.63%) Front Office
5 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.81%) Investment Banking
6 5 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Back Office
7 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Marketing
8 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.56%) Automotive
9 1 (1.56%) Billing
9 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.56%) Legal
9 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Analyst
2 14 (21.88%) Business Analyst
3 13 (20.31%) Lead
4 10 (15.63%) Consultant
5 5 (7.81%) Data Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Lead Consultant
5 5 (7.81%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Business Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Business Systems Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Lead Business Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Charles River Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Data Migration Lead
7 3 (4.69%) Migration Specialist
8 2 (3.13%) Charles River Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Finance Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) .NET
2 2 (3.13%) ADO
2 2 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (1.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.56%) Faiss
3 1 (1.56%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.56%) Flutter
3 1 (1.56%) JSON
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) LangChain
3 1 (1.56%) Middleware
3 1 (1.56%) Murex MxML
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.56%) Pandas
3 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Derivative
3 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.56%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) Multi-touch
4 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.56%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Unix
1 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Agile
2 17 (26.56%) Data Analysis
3 16 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.44%) Migration
4 15 (23.44%) Project Delivery
4 15 (23.44%) Requirements Gathering
5 14 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (20.31%) Business Analysis
7 12 (18.75%) Data Migration
7 12 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (17.19%) Data Cleansing
9 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
9 10 (15.63%) Data Governance
9 10 (15.63%) Data Mapping
9 10 (15.63%) DevOps
9 10 (15.63%) ETL
9 10 (15.63%) Project Management
9 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (14.06%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) SQL
2 10 (15.63%) Python
3 5 (7.81%) C#
3 5 (7.81%) Java
4 3 (4.69%) VB.NET
5 2 (3.13%) ABAP
5 2 (3.13%) C++
5 2 (3.13%) VBA
6 1 (1.56%) Assembly Language
6 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.56%) R
6 1 (1.56%) REXX
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Degree
2 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) CBAP
4 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.13%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.13%) PhD
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) CISM
6 1 (1.56%) CISSP
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) QA
2 8 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.81%) EMIR
3 5 (7.81%) GDPR
3 5 (7.81%) MiFID
4 2 (3.13%) IFRS
4 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.13%) NIST
5 1 (1.56%) COBIT
5 1 (1.56%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.56%) GAAP
5 1 (1.56%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.56%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.56%) PMO
5 1 (1.56%) SLA
5 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.56%) Grafana
2 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (4.69%) Charles River
4 3 (4.69%) SAP
4 3 (4.69%) UiPath
5 2 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) Workday
6 1 (1.56%) Adobe
6 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.56%) Ariba
6 1 (1.56%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.56%) Informatica
6 1 (1.56%) Marketo
6 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.56%) Murex
6 1 (1.56%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.56%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.56%) Talend