Data Validation Contracts in the North of England

Data Validation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 159 197
Rank change year-on-year +2 +38 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 17 19 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.40% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.48% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 8
10th Percentile £364 £331 £298
25th Percentile £400 £396 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £446 £613
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -27.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £706
90th Percentile £551 £506 £800
England median daily rate £475 £490 £620
% change year-on-year -3.06% -20.90% +23.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -40.00% +92.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,378 3,946 4,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.71% 83.90% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,180 2,361 3,342
10th Percentile £268 £298 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £495 £502
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% -1.44% +0.35%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 360 217
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.28 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.63 £12.55 £16.70
Median hourly rate £25.08 £22.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +13.98% -2.35% +12.65%
75th Percentile £47.94 £45.96 £43.39
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.61 £53.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%

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 14 July 2025.

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 14 July 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
North West +9 13 £528 +29.85% 5
Yorkshire -2 4 £400 -20.79% 4
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 5 (29.41%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) CICS
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) Miro
2 1 (5.88%) OCI
2 1 (5.88%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) InfluxDB
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) JMeter
2 3 (17.65%) Selenium
3 2 (11.76%) Postman
4 1 (5.88%) DBeaver
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Administrator
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (5.88%) DBA
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Software Tester
3 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Validation
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
4 4 (23.53%) CRM
4 4 (23.53%) Data Cleansing
4 4 (23.53%) Data Entry
5 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 3 (17.65%) Data Mapping
5 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Functional Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Conflict Resolution
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) JCL
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CBAP
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) COBIT
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) ServiceNow
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) SAP