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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 62 59
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +55
Contract jobs citing Validation 94 56 73
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.65% 3.10% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% 3.38% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 32 50
10th Percentile £357 £413 £385
25th Percentile £456 £454 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +6.00% +0.69%
75th Percentile £701 £638 £575
90th Percentile £799 £712 £779
Central London median daily rate £510 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -10.92% +4.09% -
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 1,795 1,655 2,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.77% 91.64% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,039 1,497
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 9 March 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 6 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.26%) Apache
3 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.06%) Confluence
5 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Workday HCM
2 2 (2.13%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.06%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.40%) Azure
2 20 (21.28%) AWS
3 11 (11.70%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.32%) GCP
4 5 (5.32%) SaaS
4 5 (5.32%) Serverless
4 5 (5.32%) Snowflake
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.26%) GitHub
6 3 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.13%) Collibra
7 2 (2.13%) dbt
7 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) Firewall
1 1 (1.06%) Internet
1 1 (1.06%) MPLS
1 1 (1.06%) Network Security
1 1 (1.06%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.06%) WAN
1 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) Power BI
2 7 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.38%) Metadata
4 5 (5.32%) Tableau
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.26%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.19%) Big Data
6 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.13%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.13%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.13%) MySQL
7 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.06%) Power Query
8 1 (1.06%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) JIRA
2 5 (5.32%) Git
2 5 (5.32%) Postman
2 5 (5.32%) Selenium
3 3 (3.19%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.13%) GitLab
4 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.13%) MLflow
5 1 (1.06%) JMeter
5 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.06%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.06%) TestRail
5 1 (1.06%) WinAutomation
5 1 (1.06%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (51.06%) Finance
2 35 (37.23%) Social Skills
3 24 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (21.28%) Banking
5 7 (7.45%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.38%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.32%) Front Office
7 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.19%) Publishing
10 2 (2.13%) Back Office
10 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.06%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.06%) Legal
11 1 (1.06%) Police
11 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (25.53%) Analyst
2 10 (10.64%) Data Engineer
3 9 (9.57%) Business Analyst
3 9 (9.57%) Lead
4 8 (8.51%) Consultant
4 8 (8.51%) Data Analyst
4 8 (8.51%) Migration Manager
4 8 (8.51%) Migration Project Manager
4 8 (8.51%) Project Manager
4 8 (8.51%) Senior
5 4 (4.26%) Tester
6 3 (3.19%) Architect
6 3 (3.19%) Automation Tester
6 3 (3.19%) Data Scientist
6 3 (3.19%) Principal Consultant
6 3 (3.19%) Report Analyst
6 3 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (3.19%) Test Engineer
6 3 (3.19%) Workday Analyst
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.45%) PyTorch
2 6 (6.38%) TensorFlow
3 4 (4.26%) .NET
3 4 (4.26%) Pandas
3 4 (4.26%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.19%) JSON
4 3 (3.19%) NumPy
4 3 (3.19%) Playwright
4 3 (3.19%) REST
4 3 (3.19%) XML
5 2 (2.13%) boto
5 2 (2.13%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.13%) HTML
5 2 (2.13%) Kafka
5 2 (2.13%) Middleware
5 2 (2.13%) Next.js
5 2 (2.13%) Node.js
5 2 (2.13%) PySpark
5 2 (2.13%) RESTful
6 1 (1.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.32%) Derivative
4 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.19%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.19%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.19%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.13%) Equities
6 2 (2.13%) Synthetic Data
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) Clustering
7 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.06%) Replication
7 1 (1.06%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.85%) Agile
2 28 (29.79%) Migration
3 22 (23.40%) Analytics
4 20 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (20.21%) ETL
6 18 (19.15%) AI
7 16 (17.02%) Data Analysis
7 16 (17.02%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (17.02%) Data Validation
7 16 (17.02%) Project Delivery
8 14 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (14.89%) Test Automation
8 14 (14.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (13.83%) Data Governance
9 13 (13.83%) Data Modelling
10 12 (12.77%) Actionable Insight
10 12 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (12.77%) Data Engineering
10 12 (12.77%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.11%) SQL
2 25 (26.60%) Python
3 6 (6.38%) C#
3 6 (6.38%) Java
4 3 (3.19%) C++
4 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.13%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.06%) Groovy
6 1 (1.06%) Korn
6 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.06%) R
6 1 (1.06%) Scala
6 1 (1.06%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) Degree
2 9 (9.57%) PMI Certification
2 9 (9.57%) PMP
3 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.32%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.32%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.19%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.19%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.13%) PhD
6 1 (1.06%) CISM
6 1 (1.06%) CISSP
6 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.06%) MBA
6 1 (1.06%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (31.91%) Data Quality
2 23 (24.47%) QA
3 13 (13.83%) GDPR
4 10 (10.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (10.64%) NIST
5 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.19%) SLA
6 2 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.13%) IFRS
6 2 (2.13%) IFRS 17
6 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.06%) Basel III
7 1 (1.06%) EMIR
7 1 (1.06%) GAAP
7 1 (1.06%) GRC
7 1 (1.06%) HL7
7 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (1.06%) MiFID
7 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.06%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) Terraform
2 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.51%) CyberArk
2 8 (8.51%) SAP
3 7 (7.45%) Oracle
4 6 (6.38%) Workday
5 5 (5.32%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.26%) Databricks
6 4 (4.26%) Google
6 4 (4.26%) Informatica
7 3 (3.19%) Murex
8 2 (2.13%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.13%) SmartStream
8 2 (2.13%) Talend
8 2 (2.13%) UiPath
9 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.06%) Ariba
9 1 (1.06%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.06%) Cerner
9 1 (1.06%) IBM