Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Data Validation
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 534 126 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 84.49% 95.45% 64.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 80 60
10th Percentile £350 £312 £200
25th Percentile £408 £405 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £359
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +32.31% -33.27%
75th Percentile £506 £537 £497
90th Percentile £553 £542 £519
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 8
10th Percentile £25.15 - -
25th Percentile £44.73 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +331.03% +16.89% -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £60.62 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.38 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +90.97% -20.00% +18.42%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Telford - 2 £300 - 1
Data Validation
West Midlands

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA