Data Validation Contracts in Manchester

Data Validation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 95 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 0.066% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.076% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £480 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
North West median daily rate £320 £398 -
% change year-on-year -19.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in Manchester

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in Manchester

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in Manchester

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) CICS
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Slack
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JMeter
1 4 (66.67%) LoadRunner
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Performance Testing
2 5 (83.33%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
2 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Integration Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Process Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 4 (66.67%) System Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) SAP