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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 64 73
Rank change year-on-year +27 +9 +17
Contract jobs citing Validation 127 61 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.68% 3.51% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 3.73% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 44 35
10th Percentile £394 £316 £409
25th Percentile £419 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £638
90th Percentile £775 £725 £725
Central London median daily rate £538 £625 £494
% change year-on-year -14.00% +26.52% -10.18%
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 1,994 1,635 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.18% 94.13% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,372 1,085 1,206
10th Percentile £368 £323 £371
25th Percentile £456 £420 £475
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 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 18
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.40
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -14.05% +19.09%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £107.13
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -1 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 5 (3.94%) Confluence
2 4 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.57%) Apache
4 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.79%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.79%) IIS
5 1 (0.79%) JBoss
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Advent Moxy
2 1 (0.79%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
2 1 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.79%) iTrent
2 1 (0.79%) Maximo
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.41%) Azure
2 12 (9.45%) AWS
3 10 (7.87%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (4.72%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.15%) dbt
6 4 (3.15%) GitHub
6 4 (3.15%) SaaS
7 3 (2.36%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.36%) GCP
8 2 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.57%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.79%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.79%) Dagster
9 1 (0.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) Firewall
2 4 (3.15%) DNS
2 4 (3.15%) Network Security
2 4 (3.15%) VPN
3 2 (1.57%) BGP
3 2 (1.57%) Internet
3 2 (1.57%) LAN
3 2 (1.57%) VLAN
3 2 (1.57%) WAN
3 2 (1.57%) Wireless
4 1 (0.79%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.79%) INAP
4 1 (0.79%) Intelligent Network
4 1 (0.79%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.79%) RTP
4 1 (0.79%) TACACS
4 1 (0.79%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.79%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) Metadata
1 9 (7.09%) Power BI
2 5 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.57%) Power Query
5 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.57%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.79%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) JIRA
2 6 (4.72%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.72%) JMeter
3 4 (3.15%) Postman
4 3 (2.36%) GitLab
5 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.57%) Gatling
5 2 (1.57%) Git
5 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.79%) Appium
6 1 (0.79%) JUnit
6 1 (0.79%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.79%) Locust
6 1 (0.79%) Mockito
6 1 (0.79%) MonkeyTalk
6 1 (0.79%) Newman
6 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.79%) Selendroid
6 1 (0.79%) TestCafe
6 1 (0.79%) XCUITest
General
1 60 (47.24%) Finance
2 43 (33.86%) Social Skills
3 31 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (17.32%) Banking
5 7 (5.51%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.72%) Front Office
6 6 (4.72%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.94%) Back Office
7 5 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.94%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.15%) Marketing
8 4 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.36%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.36%) Legal
10 2 (1.57%) Automotive
10 2 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.57%) Retail
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (29.13%) Analyst
2 18 (14.17%) Data Analyst
3 17 (13.39%) Business Analyst
4 12 (9.45%) Data Engineer
5 11 (8.66%) Senior
6 10 (7.87%) Lead
7 8 (6.30%) Architect
7 8 (6.30%) Consultant
7 8 (6.30%) Tester
8 7 (5.51%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (3.15%) Data Migration Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) Financial Analyst
9 4 (3.15%) Migration Analyst
9 4 (3.15%) QA Engineer
10 3 (2.36%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.36%) Developer
10 3 (2.36%) SAP Analyst
10 3 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.36%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) REST
2 5 (3.94%) JSON
3 4 (3.15%) Swagger
3 4 (3.15%) XML
4 3 (2.36%) Kafka
4 3 (2.36%) Middleware
4 3 (2.36%) Playwright
4 3 (2.36%) PySpark
4 3 (2.36%) SOAP
4 3 (2.36%) Terraform
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.79%) .NET
6 1 (0.79%) AssertJ
6 1 (0.79%) iOS SDK
6 1 (0.79%) LDAP
6 1 (0.79%) OpenID
6 1 (0.79%) SAML
6 1 (0.79%) Spring
6 1 (0.79%) Taurus
6 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.45%) Data Structures
2 9 (7.09%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.15%) Derivative
6 4 (3.15%) Life Science
6 4 (3.15%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.36%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.57%) Clustering
8 2 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.57%) FMCG
8 2 (1.57%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.57%) NHS
9 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Windows
2 3 (2.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.57%) Android
3 2 (1.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.79%) AIX
4 1 (0.79%) CentOS
4 1 (0.79%) Solaris
4 1 (0.79%) SUSE
4 1 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) VMS
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (34.65%) Migration
2 39 (30.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (21.26%) Data Migration
3 27 (21.26%) Data Validation
4 26 (20.47%) Agile
4 26 (20.47%) Analytics
4 26 (20.47%) Data Governance
4 26 (20.47%) Data Modelling
5 24 (18.90%) User Acceptance Testing
6 23 (18.11%) Data Analysis
7 22 (17.32%) CI/CD
8 21 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (15.75%) DevOps
9 20 (15.75%) Test Automation
10 18 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (14.17%) User Stories
11 17 (13.39%) AI
12 16 (12.60%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (12.60%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.35%) SQL
2 25 (19.69%) Python
3 6 (4.72%) Java
3 6 (4.72%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.15%) Bash
5 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.57%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.57%) Korn
6 2 (1.57%) R
7 1 (0.79%) Scala
7 1 (0.79%) SOQL
7 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.15%) Degree
3 4 (3.15%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.36%) PMP
5 2 (1.57%) CAPM
5 2 (1.57%) CCNP
5 2 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.57%) CSPO
5 2 (1.57%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) CBAP
6 1 (0.79%) CCIE
6 1 (0.79%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.79%) CWNA
6 1 (0.79%) GPEN
6 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.79%) MOS
6 1 (0.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (31.50%) Data Quality
2 21 (16.54%) QA
3 8 (6.30%) GDPR
4 6 (4.72%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.15%) NIST
6 3 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.36%) PMO
7 2 (1.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.57%) GxP
7 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (1.57%) NCSC
7 2 (1.57%) SLA
8 1 (0.79%) EMIR
8 1 (0.79%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.79%) GAAP
8 1 (0.79%) IFRS
8 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.79%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.36%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.36%) Docker
1 3 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.79%) Firmware
2 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.30%) Ansible
2 5 (3.94%) Grafana
2 5 (3.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.15%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) SAP
3 9 (7.09%) Databricks
4 7 (5.51%) Oracle
5 6 (4.72%) Cisco
6 5 (3.94%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.36%) Anaplan
7 3 (2.36%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.36%) VMware
7 3 (2.36%) Workday
8 2 (1.57%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.57%) Informatica
8 2 (1.57%) JD Edwards
8 2 (1.57%) Kronos
8 2 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.79%) IBM
9 1 (0.79%) Lotus
9 1 (0.79%) Siemens