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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 78 91
Rank change year-on-year +19 +13 +52
Contract jobs citing Validation 64 49 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.64% 2.37% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 2.57% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 36
10th Percentile £321 £408 £322
25th Percentile £411 £453 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £691 £638 £622
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
Central London median daily rate £595 £494 £550
% change year-on-year +20.45% -10.18% +11.96%
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 1,657 1,905 2,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.20% 92.07% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,207 1,901
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £706
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Validation 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.13%) Confluence
1 2 (3.13%) SAS
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (14.06%) 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 4 (6.25%) 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 CRM
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 10 (15.63%) Azure
2 7 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
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%) AWS
5 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.56%) GCP
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%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Vertex AI
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%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.56%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
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
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) Postman
2 2 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (1.56%) Appium
3 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.56%) TestRail
General
1 32 (50.00%) Finance
2 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
3 16 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (17.19%) Front Office
5 8 (12.50%) Banking
6 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.69%) Marketing
9 2 (3.13%) Billing
9 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Automotive
10 1 (1.56%) Back Office
10 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (40.63%) Analyst
2 17 (26.56%) Business Analyst
3 15 (23.44%) Lead
4 13 (20.31%) Consultant
5 8 (12.50%) Lead Business Analyst
5 8 (12.50%) Lead Consultant
6 6 (9.38%) Business Consultant
7 4 (6.25%) Charles River Consultant
7 4 (6.25%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Business Development Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Business Development Consultant
8 3 (4.69%) Charles River Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Charles River Business Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Development Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Development Consultant
8 3 (4.69%) Migration Specialist
8 3 (4.69%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) ADO
1 2 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (1.56%) .NET
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%) 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 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
1 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.13%) Credit Risk
2 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.56%) Derivative
3 1 (1.56%) Exotic Derivative
3 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.56%) Multi-touch
3 1 (1.56%) Pricing Data
3 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Unix
1 1 (1.56%) Windows
1 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.13%) Data Analysis
1 18 (28.13%) Project Delivery
1 18 (28.13%) Requirements Gathering
2 17 (26.56%) Agile
3 15 (23.44%) Business Analysis
3 15 (23.44%) Migration
3 15 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (21.88%) Data Validation
4 14 (21.88%) Project Management
5 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
7 11 (17.19%) Data Cleansing
7 11 (17.19%) Data Migration
8 10 (15.63%) Change Management
8 10 (15.63%) Portfolio Management
8 10 (15.63%) Risk Management
8 10 (15.63%) Scrum
8 10 (15.63%) System Testing
8 10 (15.63%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (14.06%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) SQL
2 8 (12.50%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) ABAP
3 3 (4.69%) Java
4 2 (3.13%) C#
4 2 (3.13%) C++
4 2 (3.13%) VBA
5 1 (1.56%) Assembly Language
5 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) R
5 1 (1.56%) REXX
5 1 (1.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Degree
2 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) CBAP
5 2 (3.13%) PhD
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) EMIR
1 8 (12.50%) MiFID
2 7 (10.94%) QA
3 6 (9.38%) Data Quality
4 4 (6.25%) GDPR
5 3 (4.69%) IFRS
6 2 (3.13%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.56%) COBIT
7 1 (1.56%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.56%) GAAP
7 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.56%) IFRS 17
7 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.56%) NIST
7 1 (1.56%) PMO
7 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 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 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Charles River
2 4 (6.25%) SAP
3 3 (4.69%) Adobe
3 3 (4.69%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.56%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.56%) Databricks
5 1 (1.56%) Marketo
5 1 (1.56%) Murex
5 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.56%) Planview
5 1 (1.56%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) SimCorp
5 1 (1.56%) UiPath
5 1 (1.56%) Workday