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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 60 70
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing Validation 136 63 56
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.27% 3.65% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 3.87% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 44 38
10th Percentile £385 £316 £411
25th Percentile £414 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £636
90th Percentile £779 £725 £725
Central London median daily rate £538 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -14.00% +19.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £34.00 -

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 1,962 1,630 1,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.41% 94.44% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 1,095 1,203
10th Percentile £367 £325 £364
25th Percentile £455 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 20
10th Percentile - £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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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 7 October 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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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 7 October 2026. 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 £475 -24.00%
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 6 (4.41%) Confluence
2 4 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.21%) IIS
4 2 (1.47%) Apache
4 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.74%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.74%) JBoss
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.74%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.68%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Maximo
1 2 (1.47%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) Advent Moxy
2 1 (0.74%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
2 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.74%) iTrent
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (24.26%) Azure
2 12 (8.82%) AWS
3 10 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (4.41%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.68%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.94%) dbt
7 4 (2.94%) SaaS
8 3 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.21%) GCP
8 3 (2.21%) GitHub
8 3 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.47%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.47%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.74%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (0.74%) Collibra
10 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.41%) DNS
2 5 (3.68%) Firewall
3 4 (2.94%) Network Security
3 4 (2.94%) VPN
4 2 (1.47%) BGP
4 2 (1.47%) Internet
4 2 (1.47%) LAN
4 2 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.47%) SSL
4 2 (1.47%) WAN
4 2 (1.47%) Wireless
5 1 (0.74%) DHCP
5 1 (0.74%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.74%) FTP
5 1 (0.74%) SMTP
5 1 (0.74%) VLAN
5 1 (0.74%) VoIP
5 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.74%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.62%) Metadata
1 9 (6.62%) Power BI
2 7 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.47%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.74%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.74%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.74%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (9.56%) JIRA
2 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.41%) JMeter
3 5 (3.68%) Postman
4 4 (2.94%) Git
5 3 (2.21%) GitLab
6 2 (1.47%) Appium
6 2 (1.47%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.47%) Gatling
6 2 (1.47%) JUnit
6 2 (1.47%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.74%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.74%) Newman
7 1 (0.74%) Selendroid
7 1 (0.74%) Selenium
7 1 (0.74%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.74%) TestRail
7 1 (0.74%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (43.38%) Finance
2 45 (33.09%) Social Skills
3 29 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (16.18%) Banking
5 7 (5.15%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Front Office
6 6 (4.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.68%) Back Office
8 4 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.94%) Legal
8 4 (2.94%) Marketing
9 3 (2.21%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.47%) Automotive
10 2 (1.47%) Local Government
10 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (29.41%) Analyst
2 20 (14.71%) Business Analyst
3 19 (13.97%) Data Analyst
4 13 (9.56%) Data Engineer
5 12 (8.82%) Lead
6 10 (7.35%) Senior
7 9 (6.62%) Architect
8 8 (5.88%) Consultant
8 8 (5.88%) Tester
9 7 (5.15%) Migration Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (3.68%) Data Migration Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Test Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Data Architect
11 4 (2.94%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (2.94%) Migration Analyst
11 4 (2.94%) QA Engineer
12 3 (2.21%) Firewall Engineer
12 3 (2.21%) Insurance Business Analyst
12 3 (2.21%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) REST
2 7 (5.15%) JSON
3 5 (3.68%) Terraform
4 4 (2.94%) Playwright
4 4 (2.94%) Swagger
4 4 (2.94%) XML
5 3 (2.21%) Kafka
5 3 (2.21%) Middleware
5 3 (2.21%) OAuth
5 3 (2.21%) OpenID
5 3 (2.21%) PySpark
5 3 (2.21%) SAML
5 3 (2.21%) SOAP
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.47%) YAML
7 1 (0.74%) Android SDK
7 1 (0.74%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.74%) iOS SDK
7 1 (0.74%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Data Structures
2 10 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.15%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.94%) Derivative
6 4 (2.94%) Life Science
6 4 (2.94%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.21%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.47%) FMCG
8 2 (1.47%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.47%) NHS
8 2 (1.47%) PKI
9 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.94%) Windows
2 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.47%) Android
3 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.47%) Linux
3 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.74%) AIX
4 1 (0.74%) CentOS
4 1 (0.74%) Solaris
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.03%) Migration
2 41 (30.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (23.53%) Data Migration
4 29 (21.32%) Data Validation
5 28 (20.59%) Agile
5 28 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
6 27 (19.85%) Analytics
7 26 (19.12%) Data Governance
8 25 (18.38%) Data Modelling
9 24 (17.65%) Data Analysis
10 23 (16.91%) CI/CD
11 22 (16.18%) Test Automation
12 21 (15.44%) DevOps
13 20 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (14.71%) User Stories
14 19 (13.97%) AI
14 19 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (13.24%) Requirements Gathering
16 16 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
16 16 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 42 (30.88%) SQL
2 29 (21.32%) Python
3 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.15%) Java
5 5 (3.68%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.94%) Bash
7 3 (2.21%) Korn
8 2 (1.47%) R
8 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.74%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.74%) Scala
9 1 (0.74%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.94%) Degree
4 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.47%) CAPM
5 2 (1.47%) CCNP
5 2 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.47%) CSPO
5 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.47%) PMP
6 1 (0.74%) CBAP
6 1 (0.74%) CCIE
6 1 (0.74%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.74%) CWNA
6 1 (0.74%) GPEN
6 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.74%) MOS
6 1 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (31.62%) Data Quality
2 20 (14.71%) QA
3 7 (5.15%) GDPR
4 6 (4.41%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.21%) NIST
5 3 (2.21%) PMO
6 2 (1.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.47%) GxP
6 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (1.47%) NCSC
6 2 (1.47%) SLA
7 1 (0.74%) EMIR
7 1 (0.74%) GAAP
7 1 (0.74%) IFRS
7 1 (0.74%) MiFID
7 1 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.21%) Docker
3 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (5.88%) Ansible
2 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.94%) Grafana
3 4 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 29 (21.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.09%) Databricks
3 9 (6.62%) SAP
4 7 (5.15%) Cisco
4 7 (5.15%) Oracle
5 5 (3.68%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.94%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.21%) Informatica
7 3 (2.21%) Workday
8 2 (1.47%) Google
8 2 (1.47%) IBM
8 2 (1.47%) JD Edwards
8 2 (1.47%) Kronos
8 2 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.47%) VMware
9 1 (0.74%) Advent
9 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.74%) Proofpoint