Data Validation Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Data Validation
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £284 - -
25th Percentile £288 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £313 - -
90th Percentile £316 - -
Wales median daily rate £300 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 313 212 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 73.82% 90.60% 78.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 154 165
10th Percentile £284 £188 £143
25th Percentile £363 £285 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £403 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% -19.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £495 £570
90th Percentile £748 £643 £672
Wales median daily rate £450 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 17 23
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.88 £11.27
25th Percentile £14.68 £16.00 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +11.19% +11.55%
75th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £50.88
90th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £87.44
Wales median hourly rate £21.75 £25.15 £19.70
% change year-on-year -13.52% +27.65% +8.61%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in South Wales

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 25 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
Cardiff - 1 £313 - 1
Newport - 1 £288 - 1
Data Validation
Wales

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP