Data Validation Contracts in London

Data Validation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Validation over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 369 453
Rank change year-on-year +86 +84 +83
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 58 28 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 14 31
10th Percentile £318 £408 £375
25th Percentile £368 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £658
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -20.97% +25.33%
75th Percentile £595 £625 £1,055
90th Percentile £635 £638 £1,100
England median daily rate £463 £490 £574
% change year-on-year -5.61% -14.60% +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £53.75 - -
25th Percentile £55.63 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £63.13 - -
90th Percentile £64.25 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £10.42 £37.50
% change year-on-year +475.82% -72.21% +16.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,187 15,413 23,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.53% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,539 11,060 16,862
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 306 269
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.40
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £27.83 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.65% -28.65% +7.11%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £66.88 £82.60
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in London

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in London

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in London

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in London

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. 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
Central London +9 9 £500 +5.26% 4
West London +14 1 - - 11
South London - 1 - - 1
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Actimize
1 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (5.17%) SAP MDG
1 3 (5.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.45%) Magento
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (3.45%) SAP CX
2 2 (3.45%) Shopify
3 1 (1.72%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (1.72%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) Azure
2 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (6.90%) AWS
4 4 (6.90%) GCP
5 3 (5.17%) dbt
5 3 (5.17%) GitHub
5 3 (5.17%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.45%) Boomi
6 2 (3.45%) Fivetran
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.45%) Oracle CX
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Internet
1 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (12.07%) Power BI
3 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.62%) Tableau
4 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.17%) Delta Lake
5 3 (5.17%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.45%) DataStage
6 2 (3.45%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (3.45%) Metadata
6 2 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.72%) Data Mart
7 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) Selenium
3 3 (5.17%) Postman
4 2 (3.45%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.72%) Appium
5 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.72%) DBeaver
5 1 (1.72%) GitLab
5 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.72%) JMeter
5 1 (1.72%) Locust
5 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.72%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.72%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (43.10%) Finance
2 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 16 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Retail
5 5 (8.62%) Banking
6 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.17%) Front Office
8 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.45%) Legal
8 2 (3.45%) Marketing
8 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.72%) Back Office
9 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Local Government
9 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (37.93%) Analyst
2 10 (17.24%) Data Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) Data Analyst
4 7 (12.07%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.34%) QA Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Lead
6 5 (8.62%) Senior
7 4 (6.90%) Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) Tester
8 3 (5.17%) SAP Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Senior QA Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Finance Systems Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) HR Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) HR Business Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) Risk Business Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) SAP Master Data Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) Web Services
2 4 (6.90%) Kafka
3 3 (5.17%) pytest
3 3 (5.17%) REST
4 2 (3.45%) EDI
4 2 (3.45%) Middleware
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (3.45%) Pandas
4 2 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (3.45%) SAP PI
4 2 (3.45%) SOAP
5 1 (1.72%) .NET
5 1 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.72%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.72%) ODBC
5 1 (1.72%) Polars
5 1 (1.72%) PySpark
5 1 (1.72%) RESTful
5 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (6.90%) Equities
2 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.45%) Derivative
4 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.45%) IoT
4 2 (3.45%) Market Risk
4 2 (3.45%) NHS
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Pricing Data
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.72%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.72%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (1.72%) PDA
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
5 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
1 2 (3.45%) Unix
1 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Validation
2 21 (36.21%) Migration
3 17 (29.31%) ETL
4 14 (24.14%) Data Analysis
5 13 (22.41%) CI/CD
5 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (20.69%) Agile
6 12 (20.69%) Analytics
6 12 (20.69%) Data Migration
7 11 (18.97%) Data Engineering
7 11 (18.97%) Data Governance
7 11 (18.97%) Test Automation
8 10 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (17.24%) Data Cleansing
8 10 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (15.52%) Data Management
9 9 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (15.52%) Test Scripting
10 8 (13.79%) Data Transformation
10 8 (13.79%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) SQL
2 15 (25.86%) Python
3 3 (5.17%) Java
4 2 (3.45%) C#
4 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.72%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.72%) Bash
5 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) CBAP
4 1 (1.72%) ACCA
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) CIMA
4 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (36.21%) Data Quality
2 15 (25.86%) QA
3 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.45%) GDPR
5 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.72%) GRC
5 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.72%) MiFID
5 1 (1.72%) PMO
5 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Kibana
2 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
1 11 (18.97%) Oracle
1 11 (18.97%) SAP
2 6 (10.34%) Salesforce
2 6 (10.34%) Workday
3 5 (8.62%) Informatica
4 4 (6.90%) Databricks
5 3 (5.17%) DocuSign
5 3 (5.17%) Google
6 2 (3.45%) Adobe
6 2 (3.45%) Dell
6 2 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.45%) NCR
6 2 (3.45%) VeriFone
7 1 (1.72%) InterSystems
7 1 (1.72%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.72%) Murex
7 1 (1.72%) Orchard
7 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.72%) Talend