Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Data Validation
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.35% - 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% - 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £410
75th Percentile £435 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £430 - £410

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 259 133 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 90.88% 91.10% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 105 122
10th Percentile £313 £317 £213
25th Percentile £360 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £414 £452
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -8.31% +12.88%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £529
90th Percentile £575 £617 £586
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £430 £445
% change year-on-year -1.16% -3.37% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 25
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile - - £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £23.34 £17.61
% change year-on-year -23.44% +32.58% +4.60%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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
Northampton - 1 £430 - 1
Data Validation
East Midlands

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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