Validation Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Validation
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Validation 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 6.67% - 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% - 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £550
West London median daily rate £375 £400 £473
% change year-on-year -6.25% -15.34% +0.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14 20 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 93.33% 100.00% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 64
10th Percentile - £266 £363
25th Percentile £204 £414 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -63.91% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £547 £617 £602
90th Percentile £603 £641 £683
West London median daily rate £424 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.79% -13.64% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.44%
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% -58.27% +265.79%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames.

Validation job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks