Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Data Validation
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 57 66
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.39% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.24% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £538 - £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 - £415
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.13%
75th Percentile £703 - £423
90th Percentile £749 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £623 - £415
% change year-on-year - - -48.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 673 425 791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.44% 89.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 263 505
10th Percentile £308 £263 £281
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 12
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £27.56 £11.75
Median hourly rate £15.25 £39.25 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -61.15% +213.25% -78.49%
75th Percentile £40.06 £82.86 £15.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £21.30
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £27.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -31.38% +83.33% -70.00%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Leeds

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in Leeds over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in Leeds

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Insight Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Pricing Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Teradata