Data Validation Contracts in the East Midlands

Data Validation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Validation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 64 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.75% 0.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £379 £401 -
25th Percentile £396 £403 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £405 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £475 £408 -
90th Percentile - £409 -
England median daily rate £463 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -2.63% -13.64% +11.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Data 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the East Midlands

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the East Midlands

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the East Midlands

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northamptonshire 0 3 £450 +11.11% 2
Derbyshire - 1 - - 2
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Web Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Nintex