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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 59 70
Rank change year-on-year +26 +11 +38
Contract jobs citing Validation 125 62 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.10% 3.52% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 3.75% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 39 39
10th Percentile £400 £384 £378
25th Percentile £458 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.17%
75th Percentile £683 £720 £630
90th Percentile £795 £725 £688
Central London median daily rate £539 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.21% +9.09% +4.46%
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 2,101 1,653 1,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.79% 93.76% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 1,058 1,337
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.74 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -16.87% +11.47% -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 1 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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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 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.60%) Apache
3 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.80%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.80%) CMS
4 1 (0.80%) IIS
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.80%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Workday HCM
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.80%) iTrent
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.80%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.80%) Azure
2 20 (16.00%) AWS
3 16 (12.80%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.00%) Snowflake
5 7 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.00%) dbt
6 5 (4.00%) GCP
7 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.20%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.20%) GitHub
7 4 (3.20%) SaaS
7 4 (3.20%) Serverless
8 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.40%) OCI
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.60%) Boomi
9 2 (1.60%) Prefect
9 2 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) Firewall
1 3 (2.40%) WAN
2 2 (1.60%) LAN
2 2 (1.60%) Network Security
2 2 (1.60%) VLAN
2 2 (1.60%) VPN
2 2 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.60%) Wireless
3 1 (0.80%) BGP
3 1 (0.80%) DNS
3 1 (0.80%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.80%) FTP
3 1 (0.80%) Internet
3 1 (0.80%) MPLS
3 1 (0.80%) OSPF
3 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.80%) VSAN
3 1 (0.80%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (8.80%) Power BI
2 6 (4.80%) Metadata
3 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.20%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (3.20%) Tableau
5 3 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.40%) Power Query
5 3 (2.40%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.60%) Big Data
6 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.80%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
1 6 (4.80%) JIRA
2 5 (4.00%) JMeter
2 5 (4.00%) Postman
3 3 (2.40%) Git
3 3 (2.40%) GitLab
4 2 (1.60%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.60%) Gatling
4 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.80%) Appium
5 1 (0.80%) git-flow
5 1 (0.80%) JUnit
5 1 (0.80%) MLflow
5 1 (0.80%) Mockito
5 1 (0.80%) MonkeyTalk
5 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.80%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.80%) Selenium
5 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.80%) WinAutomation
General
1 62 (49.60%) Finance
2 34 (27.20%) Social Skills
3 31 (24.80%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (18.40%) Banking
5 6 (4.80%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.00%) General Ledger
7 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.20%) Publishing
8 3 (2.40%) Back Office
8 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.40%) Front Office
8 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.60%) Legal
9 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Local Government
10 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (24.80%) Analyst
2 15 (12.00%) Data Analyst
3 14 (11.20%) Data Engineer
4 13 (10.40%) Consultant
5 8 (6.40%) Migration Manager
5 8 (6.40%) Migration Project Manager
5 8 (6.40%) Project Manager
5 8 (6.40%) Senior
6 7 (5.60%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.60%) Tester
7 6 (4.80%) Architect
7 6 (4.80%) Lead
7 6 (4.80%) Migration Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Data Migration Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Report Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Workday Analyst
10 3 (2.40%) Designer
10 3 (2.40%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) REST
2 6 (4.80%) Kafka
3 5 (4.00%) JSON
3 5 (4.00%) Playwright
3 5 (4.00%) Swagger
3 5 (4.00%) XML
4 4 (3.20%) SOAP
5 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.40%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.60%) Middleware
6 2 (1.60%) Next.js
6 2 (1.60%) OAuth
6 2 (1.60%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.60%) PySpark
6 2 (1.60%) React
6 2 (1.60%) RESTful
6 2 (1.60%) SAML
6 2 (1.60%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.40%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.80%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.80%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.00%) Clustering
3 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.20%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.20%) Derivative
4 4 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.40%) Replication
6 2 (1.60%) Equities
6 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.60%) Life Science
6 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.60%) NHS
6 2 (1.60%) Synthetic Data
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Windows
2 2 (1.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.80%) Android
3 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.80%) SUSE
3 1 (0.80%) VMS
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.00%) Migration
2 32 (25.60%) Analytics
3 29 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (20.00%) Agile
5 24 (19.20%) Data Modelling
6 22 (17.60%) AI
7 21 (16.80%) CI/CD
8 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.40%) Data Engineering
9 18 (14.40%) Data Governance
9 18 (14.40%) User Acceptance Testing
10 17 (13.60%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (13.60%) Data Analysis
10 17 (13.60%) Data Migration
10 17 (13.60%) DevOps
10 17 (13.60%) Test Automation
11 16 (12.80%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (12.00%) ETL
13 14 (11.20%) Data Validation
13 14 (11.20%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.40%) SQL
2 25 (20.00%) Python
3 6 (4.80%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.20%) Bash
4 4 (3.20%) Java
5 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.60%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.60%) Korn
6 2 (1.60%) Scala
6 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.80%) C#
7 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (9.60%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.00%) PMI Certification
3 9 (7.20%) PMP
3 9 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.40%) Degree
5 2 (1.60%) CCNP
5 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.60%) CSPO
5 2 (1.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.60%) PhD
5 2 (1.60%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.80%) CBAP
6 1 (0.80%) CCIE
6 1 (0.80%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) CWNA
6 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.80%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (28.00%) Data Quality
2 22 (17.60%) QA
3 17 (13.60%) GDPR
4 11 (8.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (8.00%) NIST
6 5 (4.00%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.40%) SLA
8 2 (1.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.60%) GAAP
8 2 (1.60%) GxP
8 2 (1.60%) IFRS
8 2 (1.60%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.80%) EMIR
9 1 (0.80%) HL7
9 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.80%) Firmware
3 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.00%) Ansible
2 5 (4.00%) Grafana
3 4 (3.20%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.60%) Terraform
5 1 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.80%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.40%) CyberArk
3 7 (5.60%) Oracle
4 6 (4.80%) Databricks
4 6 (4.80%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.80%) SAP
4 6 (4.80%) Workday
5 5 (4.00%) Informatica
6 4 (3.20%) Google
7 3 (2.40%) Anaplan
7 3 (2.40%) Cisco
7 3 (2.40%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.60%) Kronos
8 2 (1.60%) Murex
9 1 (0.80%) Adobe
9 1 (0.80%) Dell
9 1 (0.80%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.80%) PTC
9 1 (0.80%) Siemens
9 1 (0.80%) VMware