Data Validation Contracts in South London

Data Validation
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Validation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
London median daily rate £475 £575 £719
% change year-on-year -17.39% -20.00% +30.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 156 176 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.64% 93.62% 83.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 118 206
10th Percentile £213 £300 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £567 £609
90th Percentile £705 £747 £706
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 17
10th Percentile - - £14.88
25th Percentile - £17.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.06
London median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% -12.50% +8.84%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in South London

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Validation

Data Validation
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon - 1 - - 3
Data Validation
London

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Great Expectations
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Explainable AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana