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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 65 72
Rank change year-on-year +31 +7 +39
Contract jobs citing Validation 128 61 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.26% 3.28% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.09% 3.49% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 39 44
10th Percentile £400 £370 £351
25th Percentile £461 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +6.05% +0.89%
75th Percentile £691 £720 £630
90th Percentile £781 £725 £675
Central London median daily rate £545 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -4.39% +8.57% -0.57%

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 2,101 1,748 1,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.39% 93.88% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,127 1,351
10th Percentile £368 £344 £363
25th Percentile £453 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 £475 -
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 7 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.56%) Apache
3 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.78%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.69%) Workday HCM
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) iTrent
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.78%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.22%) Azure
2 18 (14.06%) AWS
3 16 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.81%) Snowflake
5 7 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (4.69%) dbt
6 6 (4.69%) GCP
7 4 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.13%) GitHub
7 4 (3.13%) Serverless
8 3 (2.34%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.34%) OCI
8 3 (2.34%) SaaS
9 2 (1.56%) Collibra
9 2 (1.56%) Fivetran
9 2 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.56%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) Firewall
1 3 (2.34%) WAN
2 2 (1.56%) LAN
2 2 (1.56%) Network Security
2 2 (1.56%) VLAN
2 2 (1.56%) VPN
2 2 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.56%) Wireless
3 1 (0.78%) BGP
3 1 (0.78%) DNS
3 1 (0.78%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.78%) FTP
3 1 (0.78%) Internet
3 1 (0.78%) MPLS
3 1 (0.78%) OSPF
3 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.78%) VSAN
3 1 (0.78%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (8.59%) Power BI
2 6 (4.69%) Metadata
3 5 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.34%) Power Query
5 3 (2.34%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.56%) Big Data
6 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.56%) Tableau
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (4.69%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.91%) JIRA
2 5 (3.91%) JMeter
2 5 (3.91%) Postman
3 3 (2.34%) Git
3 3 (2.34%) GitLab
4 2 (1.56%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.56%) Gatling
4 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.78%) Appium
5 1 (0.78%) git-flow
5 1 (0.78%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.78%) MLflow
5 1 (0.78%) Mockito
5 1 (0.78%) MonkeyTalk
5 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.78%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.78%) Selendroid
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.78%) XCUITest
General
1 62 (48.44%) Finance
2 33 (25.78%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (25.78%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.97%) Banking
4 5 (3.91%) Financial Institution
4 5 (3.91%) General Ledger
5 4 (3.13%) Back Office
5 4 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.13%) Publishing
6 3 (2.34%) Front Office
6 3 (2.34%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.56%) Legal
7 2 (1.56%) Marketing
7 2 (1.56%) Retail
8 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (25.00%) Analyst
2 16 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 15 (11.72%) Data Engineer
4 13 (10.16%) Consultant
5 10 (7.81%) Business Analyst
6 9 (7.03%) Lead
7 8 (6.25%) Senior
8 7 (5.47%) Architect
8 7 (5.47%) Tester
9 6 (4.69%) Migration Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Migration Manager
9 6 (4.69%) Migration Project Manager
9 6 (4.69%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Data Migration Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) QA Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Report Analyst
11 4 (3.13%) Workday Analyst
12 3 (2.34%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.25%) REST
2 6 (4.69%) JSON
2 6 (4.69%) Kafka
2 6 (4.69%) XML
3 5 (3.91%) Playwright
3 5 (3.91%) Swagger
4 4 (3.13%) SOAP
5 2 (1.56%) .NET
5 2 (1.56%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.56%) Middleware
5 2 (1.56%) Next.js
5 2 (1.56%) OAuth
5 2 (1.56%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.56%) PySpark
5 2 (1.56%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.56%) React
5 2 (1.56%) RESTful
5 2 (1.56%) SAML
5 2 (1.56%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.78%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.03%) Cloud Native
1 9 (7.03%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.91%) Clustering
5 4 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.13%) Derivative
5 4 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.34%) Replication
7 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.56%) Equities
7 2 (1.56%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.56%) Life Science
7 2 (1.56%) NHS
7 2 (1.56%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.56%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.13%) Windows
2 2 (1.56%) Android
2 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.78%) SUSE
3 1 (0.78%) VMS
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.25%) Migration
2 32 (25.00%) Analytics
3 29 (22.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (20.31%) Data Modelling
5 24 (18.75%) Agile
6 23 (17.97%) CI/CD
7 22 (17.19%) AI
7 22 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (15.63%) Data Governance
9 19 (14.84%) Data Migration
9 19 (14.84%) Test Automation
9 19 (14.84%) User Acceptance Testing
10 18 (14.06%) Data Engineering
10 18 (14.06%) DevOps
11 17 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (13.28%) Data Analysis
11 17 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (11.72%) ETL
13 15 (11.72%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.13%) SQL
2 25 (19.53%) Python
3 6 (4.69%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.91%) Java
5 4 (3.13%) Bash
5 4 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.56%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.56%) Korn
6 2 (1.56%) Scala
6 2 (1.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.78%) C#
7 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.78%) Groovy
7 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 7 (5.47%) Degree
4 7 (5.47%) PMP
5 2 (1.56%) CCNP
5 2 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.56%) CSPO
5 2 (1.56%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.56%) PhD
5 2 (1.56%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.78%) CBAP
6 1 (0.78%) CCIE
6 1 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) CWNA
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (29.69%) Data Quality
2 24 (18.75%) QA
3 16 (12.50%) GDPR
4 10 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (7.03%) NIST
6 6 (4.69%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.34%) SLA
8 2 (1.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.56%) GAAP
8 2 (1.56%) GxP
8 2 (1.56%) IFRS
8 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (1.56%) NCSC
8 2 (1.56%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.78%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.91%) Ansible
2 5 (3.91%) Grafana
3 4 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.56%) Terraform
5 1 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.47%) Databricks
2 7 (5.47%) Oracle
2 7 (5.47%) SAP
2 7 (5.47%) Workday
3 6 (4.69%) CyberArk
3 6 (4.69%) Informatica
4 5 (3.91%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.13%) Google
6 3 (2.34%) Anaplan
6 3 (2.34%) Cisco
6 3 (2.34%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.56%) Kronos
8 1 (0.78%) Arista
8 1 (0.78%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.78%) Lotus
8 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.78%) Planon
8 1 (0.78%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.78%) Siemens