Data Validation Contracts in the North of England

Data Validation
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Data Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Validation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 211 224
Rank change year-on-year +43 +13 -42
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 10 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.12% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.13% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 14
10th Percentile £358 £660 £336
25th Percentile £393 £713 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £800 £475
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.42% +58.33%
75th Percentile £500 - £547
90th Percentile - - £620
England median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £10.42 £37.50 £32.08
% change year-on-year -72.21% +16.90% +60.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,106 5,321 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.76% 90.96% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,532 3,702 4,670
10th Percentile £294 £300 £236
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.79%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £688 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 218 264
10th Percentile £11.00 £10.63 £10.64
25th Percentile £12.43 £15.86 £12.97
Median hourly rate £17.61 £27.60 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.20% +49.19% -1.04%
75th Percentile £44.57 £45.05 £32.97
90th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £51.66
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the North of England

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the North of England

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the North of England

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the North of England

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
North West - 6 £398 - 2
North East +20 3 £500 -23.08% 1
Yorkshire +21 1 - -
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (30.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (10.00%) dbt
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Essbase
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) PMO Lead
4 1 (10.00%) PMO Manager
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Migration Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Validation
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
6 1 (10.00%) Conceptual Models
6 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
6 1 (10.00%) Data Management
6 1 (10.00%) Data Mapping
6 1 (10.00%) High Availability
6 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
6 1 (10.00%) SAP Implementation
6 1 (10.00%) Trend Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) PMO
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Hyperion
2 1 (10.00%) SAP