Validation Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Validation
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Validation 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 4.23% 5.17% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 5.66% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £400 £379 £486
25th Percentile £418 £423 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £495 £630
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -21.43% -33.68%
75th Percentile £450 £498 £773
90th Percentile £450 £499 £858
East London median daily rate £449 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -9.29% +10.00% -52.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69 53 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 97.18% 91.38% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 49 105
10th Percentile £388 £489 £450
25th Percentile £445 £495 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £585
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% - +1.30%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £650
90th Percentile £719 £645 £770
East London median daily rate £495 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.85% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - +111.30% -
East London median hourly rate £24.43 £28.60 £23.32
% change year-on-year -14.60% +22.64% +3.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

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Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Validation

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Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Validation

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Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Canary Wharf -4 2 £450 -9.65% 1
Validation
East London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Base SAS
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mart
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Pricing Data
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) SAS Macro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle