Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Data Validation
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire 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 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 4.79% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £301 - -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £650 £450 £405
% change year-on-year +44.44% +11.11% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 119 93 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 81.51% 81.58% 75.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 52 86
10th Percentile £131 £134 £198
25th Percentile £313 £250 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £386 £449
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -13.98% +8.52%
75th Percentile £539 £488 £556
90th Percentile £638 £580 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £410 £444
% change year-on-year +15.85% -7.66% -6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £16.31 £18.85 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.70 £20.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -9.89% +11.96%
75th Percentile £30.94 £21.03 £25.56
90th Percentile £33.75 £21.19 £27.48
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £17.00
% change year-on-year -4.61% +11.00% -35.80%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in Leicestershire

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire 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
Leicester - 5 £650 -
Data Validation
East Midlands

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Power Platform
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Power BI
2 4 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) ETL Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Validation
2 6 (85.71%) Data Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) AI
3 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 5 (71.43%) ETL
4 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
4 4 (57.14%) Data Management
4 4 (57.14%) Wealth Management
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) Change Management
6 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
6 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (14.29%) ERP
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Databricks