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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +55
Contract jobs citing Validation 84 50 77
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.40% 2.75% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 3.01% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 28 51
10th Percentile £358 £413 £363
25th Percentile £456 £441 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +3.86% -2.22%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £588
90th Percentile £798 £679 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £559 £550
% change year-on-year -6.04% +1.59% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £18.76 - -
25th Percentile £21.05 - -
Median hourly rate £25.62 - -
75th Percentile £30.93 - -
90th Percentile £33.67 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.62 - -

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 1,702 1,663 2,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.06% 91.47% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 996 1,520
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £428 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.05% -5.17%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £778 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £20.10 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £28.94 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £64.56 £46.75
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%

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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 11 February 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Validation in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Validation in the City of London

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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 11 February 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 £625 -
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 4 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.38%) Apache
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.19%) CMS
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Algo Collateral
1 2 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.38%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.19%) Summit
2 1 (1.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.43%) Azure
2 15 (17.86%) AWS
3 8 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.95%) SaaS
5 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.76%) GCP
5 4 (4.76%) Serverless
5 4 (4.76%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.57%) GitHub
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.38%) Collibra
7 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.38%) Slack
7 2 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (2.38%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (1.19%) Internet
2 1 (1.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) Power BI
2 5 (5.95%) Metadata
2 5 (5.95%) Tableau
3 4 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.38%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.38%) MySQL
5 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.19%) Big Data
6 1 (1.19%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.19%) Informix
6 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.19%) PowerPivot
6 1 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (8.33%) JIRA
2 4 (4.76%) Postman
2 4 (4.76%) Selenium
3 3 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.57%) Git
4 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.38%) MLflow
4 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.19%) JMeter
5 1 (1.19%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.19%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.19%) TestRail
5 1 (1.19%) WinAutomation
5 1 (1.19%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (53.57%) Finance
2 35 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 23 (27.38%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (21.43%) Banking
5 6 (7.14%) Front Office
5 6 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.95%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Back Office
10 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.19%) Legal
10 1 (1.19%) Marketing
10 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Police
10 1 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) Analyst
2 10 (11.90%) Business Analyst
2 10 (11.90%) Lead
3 7 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 7 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 6 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 6 (7.14%) Migration Manager
4 6 (7.14%) Migration Project Manager
4 6 (7.14%) Senior
5 4 (4.76%) Architect
5 4 (4.76%) Consultant
5 4 (4.76%) Tester
6 3 (3.57%) Automation Tester
6 3 (3.57%) Business Systems Analyst
6 3 (3.57%) Migration Specialist
6 3 (3.57%) Principal Consultant
6 3 (3.57%) Test Engineer
7 2 (2.38%) Data Consultant
7 2 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 5 (5.95%) TensorFlow
3 3 (3.57%) .NET
3 3 (3.57%) JSON
3 3 (3.57%) NumPy
3 3 (3.57%) Pandas
3 3 (3.57%) scikit-learn
3 3 (3.57%) XML
4 2 (2.38%) boto
4 2 (2.38%) LangChain
4 2 (2.38%) Middleware
4 2 (2.38%) PySpark
4 2 (2.38%) REST
5 1 (1.19%) Faiss
5 1 (1.19%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.19%) GeoJSON
5 1 (1.19%) Google JAX
5 1 (1.19%) JAX
5 1 (1.19%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (1.19%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 7 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.95%) Derivative
3 4 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.57%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.38%) Equities
5 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.38%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.38%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.19%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.19%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.57%) Agile
2 23 (27.38%) Migration
3 19 (22.62%) Data Validation
3 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (20.24%) Analytics
5 16 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (17.86%) Data Analysis
6 15 (17.86%) ETL
7 14 (16.67%) AI
7 14 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 14 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 14 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (15.48%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (15.48%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
10 11 (13.10%) Data Modelling
10 11 (13.10%) Project Management
10 11 (13.10%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (13.10%) Test Automation
10 11 (13.10%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.90%) SQL
2 23 (27.38%) Python
3 6 (7.14%) Java
4 5 (5.95%) C#
5 3 (3.57%) C++
6 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.38%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.19%) Groovy
7 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.19%) R
7 1 (1.19%) Scala
7 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Degree
2 7 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 7 (8.33%) PMP
3 5 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.95%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.57%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.38%) PhD
6 1 (1.19%) CISM
6 1 (1.19%) CISSP
6 1 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.19%) MBA
6 1 (1.19%) MPhil
6 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 21 (25.00%) QA
3 13 (15.48%) GDPR
4 9 (10.71%) NIST
5 8 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.38%) IFRS
6 2 (2.38%) IFRS 17
6 2 (2.38%) SLA
7 1 (1.19%) EMIR
7 1 (1.19%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.19%) GAAP
7 1 (1.19%) GRC
7 1 (1.19%) HL7
7 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (1.19%) MiFID
7 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.19%) PMO
7 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Terraform
2 1 (1.19%) Grafana
2 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 7 (8.33%) SAP
3 6 (7.14%) CyberArk
3 6 (7.14%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) Databricks
4 4 (4.76%) Google
4 4 (4.76%) Murex
4 4 (4.76%) Workday
5 2 (2.38%) Informatica
5 2 (2.38%) SmartStream
5 2 (2.38%) UiPath
6 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.19%) Ariba
6 1 (1.19%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.19%) Cerner
6 1 (1.19%) Marketo
6 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.19%) Talend