Data Validation Contracts in England

Data Validation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 482 574
Rank change year-on-year +130 +92 +76
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 131 71 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 38 50
10th Percentile £350 £351 £324
25th Percentile £385 £389 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £631
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -20.79% +26.25%
75th Percentile £580 £568 £1,055
90th Percentile £663 £638 £1,100
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £612
% change year-on-year -5.00% -18.33% +22.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £53.75 £10.42 £27.05
25th Percentile £55.63 £15.32 £30.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -20.00% +44.23%
75th Percentile £63.13 £33.75 £43.88
90th Percentile £64.25 £48.25 £47.55
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +100.00% -20.00% +44.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,825 31,956 42,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.34% 85.23% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,747 20,674 29,622
10th Percentile £300 £303 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 2,390 1,546
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in England over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
London +85 65 £500 -10.31% 183
North of England +17 19 £510 +6.25% 23
South East +57 18 £463 +23.33% 50
North West +10 15 £528 +31.88% 16
Midlands +15 11 £450 +11.11% 24
East of England +28 6 £500 - 11
West Midlands +16 6 £350 - 13
East Midlands +9 4 £450 +11.11% 10
Yorkshire 0 4 £400 -20.79% 7
South West +40 3 £613 +38.81% 17
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (12.21%) Confluence
2 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) CICS
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.76%) Smallworld
Applications
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.05%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.29%) SAP MDG
3 3 (2.29%) Workday HCM
4 2 (1.53%) Magento
4 2 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.53%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (1.53%) SAP CX
4 2 (1.53%) Shopify
5 1 (0.76%) Actimize
5 1 (0.76%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.76%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.76%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.76%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.74%) Power Platform
2 14 (10.69%) Azure
3 11 (8.40%) AWS
4 8 (6.11%) GCP
5 7 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (5.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.82%) Serverless
8 4 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (3.05%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.05%) dbt
8 4 (3.05%) Miro
8 4 (3.05%) OCI
8 4 (3.05%) SaaS
8 4 (3.05%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Internet
1 1 (0.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.74%) Power BI
2 17 (12.98%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.87%) Tableau
4 8 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.58%) Metadata
7 5 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.82%) Oracle Database
7 5 (3.82%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (3.82%) SAP Data Services
8 4 (3.05%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.29%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.53%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.53%) Looker
10 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 20 (15.27%) JIRA
2 12 (9.16%) Selenium
3 9 (6.87%) JMeter
3 9 (6.87%) Postman
4 6 (4.58%) Git
5 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.05%) DBeaver
6 4 (3.05%) GitLab
6 4 (3.05%) LoadRunner
6 4 (3.05%) SoapUI
6 4 (3.05%) Zephyr
7 3 (2.29%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.29%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.53%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.53%) TestRail
9 1 (0.76%) Appium
9 1 (0.76%) Locust
9 1 (0.76%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.76%) Terragrunt
General
1 55 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 44 (33.59%) Finance
3 42 (32.06%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.40%) Banking
5 7 (5.34%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.58%) Front Office
6 6 (4.58%) Retail
7 5 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.53%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.53%) Legal
10 2 (1.53%) Marketing
10 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Back Office
11 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 45 (34.35%) Analyst
2 21 (16.03%) Data Analyst
3 18 (13.74%) Lead
4 16 (12.21%) Data Engineer
5 15 (11.45%) Business Analyst
6 12 (9.16%) Senior
7 8 (6.11%) Consultant
8 7 (5.34%) Tester
9 6 (4.58%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Administrator
10 5 (3.82%) Architect
10 5 (3.82%) QA Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.82%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 4 (3.05%) Data Consultant
11 4 (3.05%) Data Migration Consultant
11 4 (3.05%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (3.05%) Migration Consultant
11 4 (3.05%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.11%) Kafka
2 6 (4.58%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (3.05%) REST
3 4 (3.05%) Web Services
4 3 (2.29%) Pandas
4 3 (2.29%) pytest
4 3 (2.29%) SOAP
5 2 (1.53%) EDI
5 2 (1.53%) Middleware
5 2 (1.53%) Playwright
5 2 (1.53%) PySpark
5 2 (1.53%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.53%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.76%) FHIR
6 1 (0.76%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.76%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.76%) IDoc
6 1 (0.76%) NumPy
6 1 (0.76%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (7.63%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.87%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.82%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.05%) Equities
5 4 (3.05%) Pricing Data
6 3 (2.29%) NHS
6 3 (2.29%) Replication
7 2 (1.53%) Derivative
7 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.53%) IoT
7 2 (1.53%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.53%) PMI
7 2 (1.53%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.05%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (100.00%) Validation
2 54 (41.22%) Migration
3 41 (31.30%) Data Migration
4 36 (27.48%) ETL
5 34 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (22.90%) Agile
6 30 (22.90%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (19.85%) Data Analysis
7 26 (19.85%) User Acceptance Testing
8 25 (19.08%) Analytics
8 25 (19.08%) CI/CD
8 25 (19.08%) Data Governance
9 23 (17.56%) Data Cleansing
10 22 (16.79%) Test Automation
11 21 (16.03%) Data Modelling
11 21 (16.03%) DevOps
12 19 (14.50%) Test Strategy
13 17 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (12.21%) Data Management
14 16 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 63 (48.09%) SQL
2 23 (17.56%) Python
3 8 (6.11%) Java
4 4 (3.05%) Scala
5 3 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.53%) Go
6 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.76%) Bash
7 1 (0.76%) C#
7 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.76%) JCL
7 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (11.45%) Degree
2 9 (6.87%) CBAP
3 6 (4.58%) ISTQB
3 6 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.76%) ACCA
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.76%) CIMA
7 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (25.95%) Data Quality
2 23 (17.56%) QA
3 7 (5.34%) MiFID
4 4 (3.05%) COBIT
5 3 (2.29%) GDPR
5 3 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.53%) Basel III
6 2 (1.53%) IFRS
6 2 (1.53%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.76%) EMIR
7 1 (0.76%) GRC
7 1 (0.76%) HL7
7 1 (0.76%) NIST
7 1 (0.76%) PMO
7 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.29%) Terraform
3 2 (1.53%) Grafana
3 2 (1.53%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.76%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (16.79%) Oracle
2 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.69%) SAP
4 8 (6.11%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.11%) Workday
5 7 (5.34%) Google
6 6 (4.58%) Databricks
6 6 (4.58%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.05%) Informatica
8 3 (2.29%) Adobe
8 3 (2.29%) DocuSign
9 2 (1.53%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.53%) Autodesk
9 2 (1.53%) Concur
9 2 (1.53%) Dell
9 2 (1.53%) HP
9 2 (1.53%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.53%) NCR
9 2 (1.53%) Nintex
9 2 (1.53%) VeriFone