Data Validation Contracts in the South East

Data Validation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Data Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Validation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 199 206
Rank change year-on-year +53 +7 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 13 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.13% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 14
10th Percentile £225 £195 £252
25th Percentile £344 £218 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £263 £450
Median % change year-on-year +80.95% -41.67% -2.96%
75th Percentile £498 £328 £872
90th Percentile £509 £364 £1,100
England median daily rate £463 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -2.63% -13.64% +11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £60.50 £24.50
Median hourly rate - £61.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +144.00% -
75th Percentile - £61.50 £25.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.06 £10.42 £37.50
% change year-on-year +294.07% -72.21% +16.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the South East

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the South East

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the South East

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the South East

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +46 8 £505 +92.38% 13
Berkshire +34 7 £508 +93.33% 8
West Sussex - 3 £475 - 1
Hampshire - 2 £250 - 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £475 - 2
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe Captivate
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
1 2 (15.38%) Miro
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Metadata
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
1 2 (15.38%) DBeaver
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) Postman
1 2 (15.38%) SoapUI
1 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Electronics
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
1 2 (15.38%) Marketing
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) DBA
2 2 (15.38%) Document Controller
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Automation Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Test Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
1 2 (15.38%) Playwright
1 2 (15.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) EPoS
3 1 (7.69%) Learning Management System
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Validation
2 6 (46.15%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Data Migration
4 4 (30.77%) ETL
4 4 (30.77%) System Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
5 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (15.38%) Conceptual Models
6 2 (15.38%) Data Mapping
6 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (15.38%) Document Management
6 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
6 2 (15.38%) OO
6 2 (15.38%) OOP
6 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
1 3 (23.08%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Autodesk
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe