Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Validation
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 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 48 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.48% - 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £363 - £275
% change year-on-year - - -38.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 335 194 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 80.14% 92.38% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 146 323
10th Percentile £269 £248 £279
25th Percentile £363 £388 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £735
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 29
10th Percentile - £13.10 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.24 £18.70 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% -19.45% +22.18%
75th Percentile £29.61 £19.60 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £20.14 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £23.48
% change year-on-year -3.58% -19.09% +42.32%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Web Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow