Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Validation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 46 51
Rank change year-on-year -51 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 8 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.75% 0.85% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.90% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £383 £380 £494
25th Percentile £460 £388 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £506
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -20.95% -
75th Percentile £566 £470 £515
90th Percentile £674 £497 £516
South Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £400 £506
% change year-on-year +28.13% -20.95% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 952 333 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 89.64% 94.33% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 215 206
10th Percentile £366 £265 £377
25th Percentile £425 £383 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -17.45%
75th Percentile £558 £559 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £14.02 £18.10 -
25th Percentile £14.51 £18.20 £10.90
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.69 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +7.57% -15.24%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.87 £22.44
90th Percentile £19.07 - £23.75
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.69 £12.83
% change year-on-year -10.81% +45.67% +20.70%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in Sheffield over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in Sheffield

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (12.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Neo4j
2 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Parquet
4 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Gatling
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
1 4 (50.00%) JMeter
1 4 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 4 (50.00%) NeoLoad
1 4 (50.00%) Postman
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Test Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) LDAP
1 4 (50.00%) OpenID
1 4 (50.00%) Playwright
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
3 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Validation
2 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (50.00%) GitOps
4 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) RBAC
4 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Volume Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
5 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Cypher
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Scala
2 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) Databricks
4 1 (12.50%) Teradata