Validation Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Validation
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Validation 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 3.61% 1.01% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 1.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £500 - -
25th Percentile £501 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - -
75th Percentile £514 - -
90th Percentile £517 - -
South London median daily rate £500 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +0.76% -9.77% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74 89 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.16% 89.90% 84.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 54 92
10th Percentile £412 £380 £231
25th Percentile £483 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £527
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.18% -5.65%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £595
90th Percentile £638 £624 £674
South London median daily rate £508 £501 £523
% change year-on-year +1.40% -4.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £49.88
% change year-on-year -7.79% -60.91% +13.08%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Validation job vacancy trend in Croydon

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Research
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) VMware