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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 78 104
Rank change year-on-year +14 +26 +33
Contract jobs citing Validation 63 49 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.50% 2.35% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 2.56% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 34
10th Percentile £321 £408 £318
25th Percentile £411 £453 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £694 £638 £641
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
Central London median daily rate £514 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +0.29% -6.82% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

All Process and 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 1,697 1,911 2,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.28% 91.70% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 1,244 1,962
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -35.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +7.67% -13.60% -25.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Validation 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 September 2025.

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 1 September 2025. 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 £625 -
Validation
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.17%) Confluence
1 2 (3.17%) SAS
1 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Aladdin
2 4 (6.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (3.17%) SAP MDG
3 2 (3.17%) SAP PLM
3 2 (3.17%) SAP VC
4 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.59%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.59%) SAP CRM
4 1 (1.59%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.59%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.59%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (1.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.46%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.76%) GitHub
4 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.59%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Run
6 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.59%) GCP
6 1 (1.59%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.59%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.59%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
1 1 (1.59%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Power BI
2 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.17%) Tableau
3 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.59%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.59%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.59%) Power Query
3 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Postman
2 3 (4.76%) Selenium
3 2 (3.17%) Git
4 1 (1.59%) Appium
4 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.59%) TestRail
General
1 32 (50.79%) Finance
2 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
3 14 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.87%) Front Office
5 8 (12.70%) Banking
6 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (6.35%) Marketing
9 2 (3.17%) Billing
9 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (3.17%) Retail
10 1 (1.59%) Automotive
10 1 (1.59%) Back Office
10 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (39.68%) Analyst
2 16 (25.40%) Business Analyst
3 15 (23.81%) Lead
4 13 (20.63%) Consultant
5 8 (12.70%) Lead Business Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Lead Consultant
6 6 (9.52%) Business Consultant
7 5 (7.94%) Senior
8 4 (6.35%) Charles River Consultant
8 4 (6.35%) Data Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Business Development Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Business Development Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) Charles River Business Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Development Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Development Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) REST
2 2 (3.17%) ADO
2 2 (3.17%) Pandas
2 2 (3.17%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.59%) .NET
3 1 (1.59%) Faiss
3 1 (1.59%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.59%) Flutter
3 1 (1.59%) JSON
3 1 (1.59%) Kafka
3 1 (1.59%) LangChain
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.59%) PySpark
3 1 (1.59%) pytest
3 1 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) Data Structures
1 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.17%) Credit Risk
2 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.59%) Derivative
3 1 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (1.59%) Exotic Derivative
3 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.59%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.59%) Multi-touch
3 1 (1.59%) Pricing Data
3 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
1 1 (1.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) Data Analysis
1 18 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 17 (26.98%) Agile
3 15 (23.81%) Data Validation
3 15 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
3 15 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (22.22%) Business Analysis
4 14 (22.22%) Project Management
5 13 (20.63%) Migration
6 12 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
7 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (17.46%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (15.87%) Change Management
8 10 (15.87%) Data Cleansing
8 10 (15.87%) Data Migration
8 10 (15.87%) Portfolio Management
8 10 (15.87%) Risk Management
8 10 (15.87%) Scrum
8 10 (15.87%) System Testing
9 9 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.92%) SQL
2 8 (12.70%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) ABAP
3 3 (4.76%) C#
3 3 (4.76%) Java
4 2 (3.17%) Apex Code
4 2 (3.17%) C++
4 2 (3.17%) VBA
5 1 (1.59%) Assembly Language
5 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.59%) R
5 1 (1.59%) REXX
5 1 (1.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Degree
1 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) CBAP
4 2 (3.17%) PhD
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) CISSP
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.59%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) EMIR
1 8 (12.70%) MiFID
2 7 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (4.76%) IFRS
4 2 (3.17%) GDPR
4 2 (3.17%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.59%) COBIT
5 1 (1.59%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.59%) GAAP
5 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.59%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.59%) NIST
5 1 (1.59%) PMO
5 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Ansible
1 1 (1.59%) Grafana
1 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.59%) SCCM
1 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) SAP
3 4 (6.35%) Charles River
3 4 (6.35%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.76%) Adobe
5 2 (3.17%) Databricks
5 2 (3.17%) Google
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle
6 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.59%) Informatica
6 1 (1.59%) Marketo
6 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.59%) Planview
6 1 (1.59%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.59%) UiPath
6 1 (1.59%) Workday