Data Validation Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Validation
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 101 51 59
Rank change year-on-year -50 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 8 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.69% 0.74% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.78% 1.21%
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
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £400 £505
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.79% -36.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,040 384 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.50% 94.35% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 245 243
10th Percentile £363 £261 £360
25th Percentile £424 £385 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £557 £573 £584
90th Percentile £669 £640 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 17
10th Percentile £13.55 £18.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.20 £12.55
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.69 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +45.67% +20.70%
75th Percentile £20.60 £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.29 - £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in South Yorkshire

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Sheffield -51 8 £513 +28.13% 2
Data Validation
Yorkshire

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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