Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Data Validation
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £455 £468
% change year-on-year +4.40% -2.67% -9.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 231 152 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.94% 78.35% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 67 78
10th Percentile £263 £147 £204
25th Percentile £325 £169 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +15.15% -15.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £529
90th Percentile £633 £650 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 18 9
10th Percentile £12.94 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +31.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 £39.28 £16.00
90th Percentile - £42.88 £18.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
County Antrim - 4 £400 - 5
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (75.00%) Parquet
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Test Data Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Avro
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared