Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Data Validation
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.61% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £850 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £533 £500 -
% change year-on-year +6.50% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 647 329 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 79.48% 92.16% 87.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 166 259
10th Percentile £200 £247 £225
25th Percentile £406 £428 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +33.33% -19.35%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £666 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £439
% change year-on-year - +14.03% -11.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 81 320
10th Percentile £15.99 £16.95 £37.88
25th Percentile £20.09 £29.51 £39.89
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.53
East of England median hourly rate £32.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.14% -20.90% +90.48%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in Hertfordshire

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
Stevenage - 3 £450 -
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £850 - 1
Data Validation
East of England

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) Redis
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Newman
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Celery
1 2 (40.00%) Django
1 2 (40.00%) JWT
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) Pandas
1 2 (40.00%) pytest
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Vue
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XML Schema
1 2 (40.00%) XSD
2 1 (20.00%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) AI
4 2 (40.00%) API Design
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Application Security
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (40.00%) QA
3 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle