Data Validation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 376 421
Rank change year-on-year +80 +45 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 40 23 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 26
10th Percentile £301 £226 £252
25th Percentile £375 £320 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £398 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% -2.96%
75th Percentile £488 £495 £628
90th Percentile £511 £500 £1,052
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £27.05
25th Percentile £25.26 - £30.88
Median hourly rate £27.13 £10.42 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +160.32% -72.21% +44.23%
75th Percentile £28.99 £35.96 £43.88
90th Percentile - £51.28 £47.55
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £10.42 £37.50
% change year-on-year +294.07% -72.21% +16.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +53 13 £475 +80.95% 45
North of England +21 12 £400 -16.67% 27
North West +19 8 £320 -19.50% 12
East of England +35 6 £400 - 19
Midlands +25 6 £450 +12.50% 24
East Midlands +12 4 £450 +11.11% 8
Yorkshire +11 4 £400 - 12
South West +44 2 £800 +81.30% 15
West Midlands +15 2 - - 13
Scotland - 1 £463 - 6
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.50%) CICS
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) GCP
2 3 (7.50%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Miro
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (5.00%) BrowserStack
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.50%) Serverless
4 1 (2.50%) Slack
4 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.00%) Metadata
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.00%) InfluxDB
4 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.00%) Power BI
4 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) JMeter
1 8 (20.00%) Selenium
2 6 (15.00%) Postman
3 5 (12.50%) JIRA
4 4 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 4 (10.00%) SoapUI
5 3 (7.50%) DBeaver
5 3 (7.50%) Git
5 3 (7.50%) GitLab
6 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.00%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Aviation
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Electronics
6 2 (5.00%) Front Office
6 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.00%) Marketing
6 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.50%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Data Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Tester
3 5 (12.50%) Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Lead
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Software Tester
5 3 (7.50%) DBA
5 3 (7.50%) Test Leader
5 3 (7.50%) Workday Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Data Migration Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Migration Manager
6 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (5.00%) Report Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) PySpark
2 2 (5.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (5.00%) Playwright
3 1 (2.50%) Great Expectations
3 1 (2.50%) ISPF
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.50%) EPoS
3 1 (2.50%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Validation
2 17 (42.50%) Migration
3 14 (35.00%) Data Migration
4 13 (32.50%) Test Automation
5 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (27.50%) DevOps
6 11 (27.50%) Test Strategy
7 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 9 (22.50%) Analytics
8 9 (22.50%) End-to-End Testing
8 9 (22.50%) ETL
8 9 (22.50%) System Testing
9 8 (20.00%) Agile
10 7 (17.50%) Integration Testing
10 7 (17.50%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
11 6 (15.00%) Data Integration
11 6 (15.00%) Manual Testing
11 6 (15.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) Go
2 2 (5.00%) Java
2 2 (5.00%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.50%) JCL
3 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) QA
2 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.50%) CA Endevor
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Workday
4 3 (7.50%) Google
4 3 (7.50%) SAP
5 2 (5.00%) Autodesk
5 2 (5.00%) Databricks
5 2 (5.00%) Nintex
5 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.50%) Adobe
6 1 (2.50%) IBM