Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Essex

Data Validation
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 17 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 3.49% 1.32% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 1.43% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £425 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% -
75th Percentile £388 £475 £275
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £250
% change year-on-year +11.11% +80.00% -33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 123 70 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 71.51% 92.11% 80.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 41 99
10th Percentile £280 £231 £194
25th Percentile £325 £315 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £481 £500 £569
90th Percentile £577 £600 £608
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 47
10th Percentile £12.73 £21.15 £10.42
25th Percentile £13.88 £25.63 £14.96
Median hourly rate £19.75 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.57% -36.36% +27.91%
75th Percentile £56.25 £125.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £71.11 £200.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £55.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.85% +44.28% +50.91%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Essex

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. 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
Maldon - 6 £375 -
Data Validation
East of England

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (100.00%) Power BI
1 6 (100.00%) Power Query
1 6 (100.00%) ZAP BI
2 2 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Power BI Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Report Developer
1 6 (100.00%) SQL BI Developer
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Sage Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Crystal Reports Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Tableau Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 6 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
1 6 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 6 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 6 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Sage