Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Validation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 104 114 141
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 10 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.64% 0.29% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.33% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £404 £456 £333
25th Percentile £465 £457 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £465 £363
Median % change year-on-year +26.34% +28.28% -
75th Percentile £650 £479 £381
90th Percentile £675 £484 £393
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,386 1,521 2,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.22% 88.43% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 901 1,374
10th Percentile £238 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 46 57
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.77 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £52.25 £31.44 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in Scotland

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Glasgow 0 6 £478 +4.95%
Edinburgh - 4 £650 -
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Collibra
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (30.00%) Data Vault
1 3 (30.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Data Modeller
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Information Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Information Governance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) NumPy
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) BBC
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Validation
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft