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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 69 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +57
Contract jobs citing Validation 64 60 66
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.78% 2.83% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.08% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 42 37
10th Percentile £328 £413 £324
25th Percentile £413 £453 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £719 £636 £600
90th Percentile £725 £721 £695
Central London median daily rate £625 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% +10.55%
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 1,601 1,946 2,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.51% 91.88% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,200 1,800
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.40%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.79%

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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 19 October 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 19 October 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 Spark
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Aladdin
2 3 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (3.13%) SAP MDG
3 2 (3.13%) SAP PLM
3 2 (3.13%) SAP VC
4 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.56%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.56%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.56%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.56%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (1.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.75%) Azure
2 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.13%) AWS
4 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.13%) GitHub
4 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.56%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Run
5 1 (1.56%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.56%) Google Gemini
5 1 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.56%) Pulumi
5 1 (1.56%) SaaS
5 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.56%) Vertex AI
5 1 (1.56%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) Firewall
1 1 (1.56%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Power BI
2 2 (3.13%) Tableau
3 1 (1.56%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.56%) Informix
3 1 (1.56%) MySQL
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.56%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.56%) Power Query
3 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Git
2 3 (4.69%) Postman
2 3 (4.69%) Selenium
3 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.56%) Appium
4 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.56%) JMeter
4 1 (1.56%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.56%) TestRail
General
1 36 (56.25%) Finance
2 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (18.75%) Front Office
5 8 (12.50%) Banking
6 5 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.69%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.69%) Marketing
9 2 (3.13%) Back Office
9 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.56%) Automotive
10 1 (1.56%) Billing
10 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Analyst
2 17 (26.56%) Business Analyst
3 15 (23.44%) Lead
4 12 (18.75%) Consultant
5 8 (12.50%) Lead Consultant
6 7 (10.94%) Lead Business Analyst
7 6 (9.38%) Business Consultant
8 4 (6.25%) Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Business Systems Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Charles River Consultant
8 4 (6.25%) Data Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Business Development Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) Business Development Consultant
9 3 (4.69%) Charles River Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) Charles River Business Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) Development Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) .NET
1 2 (3.13%) ADO
1 2 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (1.56%) Faiss
2 1 (1.56%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.56%) Flutter
2 1 (1.56%) JSON
2 1 (1.56%) Kafka
2 1 (1.56%) LangChain
2 1 (1.56%) Middleware
2 1 (1.56%) Murex MxML
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.56%) Pandas
2 1 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.56%) Derivative
4 1 (1.56%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) Multi-touch
4 1 (1.56%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Unix
1 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Agile
2 19 (29.69%) Data Analysis
3 17 (26.56%) Migration
3 17 (26.56%) Project Delivery
3 17 (26.56%) Requirements Gathering
4 16 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (23.44%) Business Analysis
6 14 (21.88%) Project Management
7 13 (20.31%) Data Migration
7 13 (20.31%) Data Validation
7 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
9 11 (17.19%) Data Cleansing
9 11 (17.19%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (15.63%) Change Management
10 10 (15.63%) Data Governance
10 10 (15.63%) Risk Management
10 10 (15.63%) Scrum
11 9 (14.06%) GAP Analysis
11 9 (14.06%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) SQL
2 8 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (6.25%) Java
4 3 (4.69%) C#
5 2 (3.13%) ABAP
5 2 (3.13%) C++
5 2 (3.13%) VB.NET
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 10 (15.63%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) CBAP
5 2 (3.13%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.13%) PhD
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.19%) QA
2 8 (12.50%) EMIR
2 8 (12.50%) MiFID
3 6 (9.38%) Data Quality
4 4 (6.25%) GDPR
5 2 (3.13%) IFRS
6 1 (1.56%) COBIT
6 1 (1.56%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.56%) GAAP
6 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.56%) IFRS 17
6 1 (1.56%) IFRS 9
6 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.56%) NIST
6 1 (1.56%) PMO
6 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Ansible
1 1 (1.56%) Grafana
1 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.56%) SCCM
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.25%) Charles River
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (4.69%) SAP
5 2 (3.13%) Adobe
5 2 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) UiPath
5 2 (3.13%) Workday
6 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.56%) Informatica
6 1 (1.56%) Marketo
6 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.56%) Murex
6 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.56%) Planview
6 1 (1.56%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.56%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.56%) Talend