Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Data Validation
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.44% 0.77% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £308 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £315 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.51% - -
75th Percentile £435 £323 -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £430 £315 -
% change year-on-year +36.51% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 215 123 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 95.13% 94.62% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 101 72
10th Percentile £309 £340 £213
25th Percentile £353 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £481
Median % change year-on-year - -16.75% +11.74%
75th Percentile £453 £525 £526
90th Percentile £525 £619 £564
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £403 £485
% change year-on-year -0.12% -17.01% +8.99%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Northampton

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Complex ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio