Data Validation Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Validation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 59 64
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.34% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.17% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £428 £308 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £315 £468
Median % change year-on-year +37.70% -32.62% -
75th Percentile £438 £323 £476
90th Percentile £438 - -
England median daily rate £475 £419 £468
% change year-on-year +13.43% -10.43% -10.95%

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 772 598 664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.26% 84.46% 83.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 358 482
10th Percentile £205 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £355 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £523 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £626 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 53
10th Percentile £16.15 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.11 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Validation

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 18 November 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
Nottinghamshire - 2 £438 -
Northamptonshire -14 1 £430 +36.51% 1
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 Spark
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Ab Initio Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ETRM Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) QA Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Reconciliation
3 1 (33.33%) ETRM
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) EMIR
2 1 (33.33%) MiFID
2 1 (33.33%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Ab Initio
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Trayport