Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Data Validation
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stevenage requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 0.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £473 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 281 125 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 73.95% 94.70% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 39 46
10th Percentile £244 £450 £80
25th Percentile £425 £513 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 £388
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +41.94% -3.13%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £575
90th Percentile £708 £625 £650
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -4.55% +29.41% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 58 296
10th Percentile £22.68 £40.00 £38.12
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +40.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.27 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £85.00 £77.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £40.00 £62.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.48% +24.00% -20.63%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Newman
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 2 (100.00%) XSD
2 1 (50.00%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks