Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Validation
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 72 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.40% 0.42% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £529 - -
25th Percentile £536 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £455 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £598 - -
90th Percentile £603 - -
Scotland median daily rate £594 £465 £400
% change year-on-year +27.69% +16.25% -23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 659 637 776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.98% 89.22% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 419 523
10th Percentile £300 £280 £350
25th Percentile £381 £357 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.06% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 16
10th Percentile £15.01 £16.92 £11.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £19.59 £13.83
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% +41.65% -63.05%
75th Percentile £26.21 £29.34 £17.72
90th Percentile £58.00 £42.50 £40.72
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.75
% change year-on-year -12.57% +15.82% +5.33%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (33.33%) Data Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Sequence Diagram
3 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) R
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks