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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 68 71
Rank change year-on-year +29 +3 +40
Contract jobs citing Validation 110 47 62
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.92% 2.65% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.73% 2.86% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 27 44
10th Percentile £360 £413 £370
25th Percentile £456 £431 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -2.22%
75th Percentile £728 £644 £578
90th Percentile £791 £734 £753
Central London median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -2.22%
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 1,920 1,645 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.79% 92.83% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,049 1,408
10th Percentile £363 £363 £352
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 13
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -42.20%
75th Percentile £51.00 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -13.07% +8.00% -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 22 April 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 8 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.64%) Apache
3 3 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.91%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.91%) Confluence
5 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Workday HCM
2 2 (1.82%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.91%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.45%) Azure
2 24 (21.82%) AWS
3 16 (14.55%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.36%) Snowflake
5 6 (5.45%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.45%) GCP
5 6 (5.45%) Serverless
6 5 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.55%) GitHub
7 4 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.64%) dbt
7 4 (3.64%) SaaS
8 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.73%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.73%) Prefect
8 3 (2.73%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.82%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) Firewall
1 1 (0.91%) Internet
1 1 (0.91%) MPLS
1 1 (0.91%) Network Security
1 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.91%) VLAN
1 1 (0.91%) VPN
1 1 (0.91%) VSAN
1 1 (0.91%) WAN
1 1 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.91%) Power BI
2 10 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.27%) Metadata
4 7 (6.36%) Tableau
5 4 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.64%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.64%) Star Schema
6 3 (2.73%) Big Data
6 3 (2.73%) Power Query
6 3 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.82%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.82%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (5.45%) JIRA
2 4 (3.64%) Git
2 4 (3.64%) Postman
3 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.73%) Selenium
4 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.82%) GitLab
4 2 (1.82%) MLflow
5 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.91%) git-flow
5 1 (0.91%) JMeter
5 1 (0.91%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.91%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.91%) TestRail
5 1 (0.91%) WinAutomation
5 1 (0.91%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (50.00%) Finance
2 35 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 29 (26.36%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (19.09%) Banking
5 10 (9.09%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.64%) Front Office
7 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.64%) Publishing
8 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.82%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.91%) Back Office
10 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Legal
10 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (21.82%) Analyst
2 12 (10.91%) Data Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) Migration Manager
3 11 (10.00%) Migration Project Manager
3 11 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 9 (8.18%) Consultant
4 9 (8.18%) Data Analyst
4 9 (8.18%) Senior
5 8 (7.27%) Lead
6 7 (6.36%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.55%) Architect
7 5 (4.55%) Tester
8 4 (3.64%) Report Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Workday Analyst
9 3 (2.73%) Data Scientist
9 3 (2.73%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.36%) PyTorch
2 6 (5.45%) TensorFlow
3 4 (3.64%) JSON
3 4 (3.64%) Kafka
3 4 (3.64%) Pandas
3 4 (3.64%) REST
3 4 (3.64%) scikit-learn
3 4 (3.64%) XML
4 3 (2.73%) NumPy
4 3 (2.73%) Playwright
5 2 (1.82%) .NET
5 2 (1.82%) boto
5 2 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.82%) HTML
5 2 (1.82%) Next.js
5 2 (1.82%) Node.js
5 2 (1.82%) OAuth
5 2 (1.82%) PySpark
5 2 (1.82%) RESTful
5 2 (1.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) Data Structures
2 7 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.55%) Clustering
3 5 (4.55%) Derivative
4 4 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.73%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.73%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.73%) Replication
6 2 (1.82%) Equities
6 2 (1.82%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.82%) Synthetic Data
6 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.82%) Windows
2 1 (0.91%) Linux
2 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.91%) SUSE
2 1 (0.91%) VMS
2 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.09%) Migration
2 29 (26.36%) Agile
3 28 (25.45%) Analytics
4 25 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (20.91%) ETL
6 22 (20.00%) AI
7 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (18.18%) Data Modelling
8 20 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (18.18%) Project Delivery
9 19 (17.27%) Data Validation
10 18 (16.36%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (14.55%) Data Analysis
11 16 (14.55%) Data Engineering
11 16 (14.55%) Data Governance
12 15 (13.64%) Project Management
12 15 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
13 14 (12.73%) Actionable Insight
13 14 (12.73%) Test Automation
14 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 37 (33.64%) SQL
2 29 (26.36%) Python
3 5 (4.55%) Java
4 4 (3.64%) C#
5 3 (2.73%) C++
5 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.91%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.91%) Bash
7 1 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.91%) Groovy
7 1 (0.91%) Korn
7 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.91%) R
7 1 (0.91%) Scala
7 1 (0.91%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.91%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) PMI Certification
1 12 (10.91%) PMP
2 10 (9.09%) Degree
3 8 (7.27%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.64%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.82%) PhD
6 2 (1.82%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.91%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.91%) MBA
7 1 (0.91%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (31.82%) Data Quality
2 22 (20.00%) QA
3 16 (14.55%) GDPR
4 13 (11.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (10.91%) NIST
6 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.73%) SLA
7 2 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.82%) IFRS
7 2 (1.82%) IFRS 17
7 2 (1.82%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.91%) Basel III
8 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.91%) EMIR
8 1 (0.91%) GAAP
8 1 (0.91%) GRC
8 1 (0.91%) HL7
8 1 (0.91%) MiFID
8 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Firmware
2 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Terraform
2 2 (1.82%) Grafana
2 2 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.91%) Ansible
3 1 (0.91%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.91%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 10 (9.09%) SAP
4 6 (5.45%) Google
4 6 (5.45%) Oracle
4 6 (5.45%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.45%) Workday
5 5 (4.55%) Databricks
5 5 (4.55%) Informatica
6 3 (2.73%) Anaplan
6 3 (2.73%) Murex
7 2 (1.82%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.82%) SmartStream
8 1 (0.91%) Ariba
8 1 (0.91%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.91%) Cerner
8 1 (0.91%) Dell
8 1 (0.91%) IBM
8 1 (0.91%) Remedy
8 1 (0.91%) VMware