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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 69 64
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +58
Contract jobs citing Validation 73 51 70
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.05% 2.67% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 2.90% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 33 45
10th Percentile £329 £413 £425
25th Percentile £390 £414 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% +4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £588
90th Percentile £791 £725 £700
Central London median daily rate £494 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -13.00% +3.18% -4.35%
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 1,612 1,759 2,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.51% 92.00% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 1,071 1,563
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

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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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +3 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 3 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.37%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Algo Collateral
1 2 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.37%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.37%) Summit
2 1 (1.37%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.66%) Azure
2 12 (16.44%) AWS
3 8 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.96%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.85%) SaaS
5 4 (5.48%) GCP
5 4 (5.48%) GitHub
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.11%) Serverless
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.74%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.74%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.74%) Slack
7 2 (2.74%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (2.74%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) Power BI
2 5 (6.85%) Metadata
2 5 (6.85%) Tableau
3 3 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.11%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.74%) CockroachDB
4 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.74%) MySQL
4 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) Big Data
5 1 (1.37%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.37%) Informix
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) Selenium
3 4 (5.48%) Postman
4 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.74%) Git
5 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.37%) JMeter
6 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.37%) MLflow
6 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.37%) TestRail
6 1 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (47.95%) Finance
2 32 (43.84%) Social Skills
3 18 (24.66%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (20.55%) Banking
5 7 (9.59%) Investment Banking
5 7 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.22%) Front Office
6 6 (8.22%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.85%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.74%) Back Office
10 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.74%) Marketing
11 1 (1.37%) Legal
11 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) Analyst
2 11 (15.07%) Business Analyst
3 8 (10.96%) Lead
4 6 (8.22%) Senior
5 5 (6.85%) Data Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Migration Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Migration Project Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Tester
7 3 (4.11%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Consultant
7 3 (4.11%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Data Migration Lead
7 3 (4.11%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (4.11%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Senior User Researcher
8 2 (2.74%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.11%) .NET
2 3 (4.11%) JSON
2 3 (4.11%) NumPy
2 3 (4.11%) Pandas
2 3 (4.11%) TensorFlow
2 3 (4.11%) XML
3 2 (2.74%) boto
3 2 (2.74%) LangChain
3 2 (2.74%) PySpark
3 2 (2.74%) REST
3 2 (2.74%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.37%) ADO
4 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.37%) Faiss
4 1 (1.37%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.37%) Middleware
4 1 (1.37%) Murex MxML
4 1 (1.37%) Node.js
4 1 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.48%) Derivative
2 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.74%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.74%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.37%) Blog
5 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.37%) DTCC
5 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.37%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) Agile
2 20 (27.40%) Data Validation
3 19 (26.03%) Migration
4 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (23.29%) ETL
6 14 (19.18%) Data Analysis
6 14 (19.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (17.81%) Data Governance
7 13 (17.81%) Project Delivery
8 12 (16.44%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (16.44%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (13.70%) Data Mapping
9 10 (13.70%) DevOps
9 10 (13.70%) Test Automation
10 9 (12.33%) Analytics
10 9 (12.33%) Business Analysis
10 9 (12.33%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (12.33%) Data Migration
10 9 (12.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.62%) SQL
2 17 (23.29%) Python
3 6 (8.22%) C#
3 6 (8.22%) Java
4 4 (5.48%) C++
5 2 (2.74%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.37%) R
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.37%) VBA
6 1 (1.37%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) Degree
2 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) PMI Certification
3 4 (5.48%) PMP
4 3 (4.11%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.11%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.37%) CISM
6 1 (1.37%) CISSP
6 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.37%) MBA
6 1 (1.37%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (24.66%) QA
2 16 (21.92%) Data Quality
3 9 (12.33%) GDPR
4 6 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (8.22%) NIST
5 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.74%) IFRS
5 2 (2.74%) IFRS 17
6 1 (1.37%) Basel III
6 1 (1.37%) EMIR
6 1 (1.37%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.37%) GAAP
6 1 (1.37%) GRC
6 1 (1.37%) MiFID
6 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.37%) PMO
6 1 (1.37%) SLA
6 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.74%) Terraform
2 1 (1.37%) Grafana
2 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.59%) Salesforce
3 6 (8.22%) SAP
4 5 (6.85%) Oracle
5 4 (5.48%) CyberArk
5 4 (5.48%) Google
5 4 (5.48%) Murex
6 2 (2.74%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.74%) SmartStream
6 2 (2.74%) UiPath
6 2 (2.74%) Workday
7 1 (1.37%) Adobe
7 1 (1.37%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.37%) Ariba
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) Informatica
7 1 (1.37%) Marketo
7 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.37%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.37%) Talend