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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 368 409
Rank change year-on-year +81 +41 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 52 26 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 22
10th Percentile £347 £287 £252
25th Percentile £375 £353 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £509 £500 £769
90th Percentile £604 £512 £1,090
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £27.05
25th Percentile - - £30.88
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - -72.21% +44.23%
75th Percentile - £35.96 £43.88
90th Percentile - £51.28 £47.55
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £10.42 £37.50
% change year-on-year +475.82% -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 11,714 17,075 20,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 84.25% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,208 14,243
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 2,062 1,260
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

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 21 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 21 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 +51 16 £475 +49.02% 39
North of England +22 14 £413 -17.50% 17
East of England +36 10 £450 - 10
North West +13 10 £425 +6.92% 6
Midlands +23 9 £450 +11.11% 11
Yorkshire +14 4 £400 -20.95% 7
East Midlands +13 4 £450 +11.11% 3
West Midlands - 4 £350 - 6
South West +36 2 £613 +38.81% 7
Scotland - 1 £463 - 12
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 6 (11.54%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) CICS
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.92%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.92%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Workday HCM
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Azure
2 4 (7.69%) AWS
2 4 (7.69%) GCP
3 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (5.77%) Miro
3 3 (5.77%) OCI
3 3 (5.77%) SaaS
4 2 (3.85%) BrowserStack
4 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.92%) IaaS
5 1 (1.92%) PaaS
5 1 (1.92%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.69%) Metadata
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.85%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.85%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.85%) MySQL
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (3.85%) Power BI
4 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.85%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.92%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) JMeter
1 8 (15.38%) Selenium
2 7 (13.46%) JIRA
3 6 (11.54%) Postman
4 4 (7.69%) LoadRunner
4 4 (7.69%) SoapUI
5 3 (5.77%) DBeaver
5 3 (5.77%) Git
5 3 (5.77%) GitLab
6 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.85%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Aviation
5 3 (5.77%) Banking
5 3 (5.77%) Front Office
5 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.85%) Electronics
6 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing
6 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Lead
2 8 (15.38%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Consultant
3 7 (13.46%) Data Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Data Analyst
4 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) Tester
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Software Tester
6 3 (5.77%) Administrator
6 3 (5.77%) Data Migration Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) DBA
6 3 (5.77%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Report Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Test Leader
6 3 (5.77%) Workday Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Migration Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (3.85%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) PySpark
2 2 (3.85%) Gherkin
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.85%) Playwright
3 1 (1.92%) Great Expectations
3 1 (1.92%) ISPF
3 1 (1.92%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) Pandas
3 1 (1.92%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.85%) Replication
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.92%) EPoS
3 1 (1.92%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.92%) NHS
3 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
1 1 (1.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Validation
2 25 (48.08%) Migration
3 22 (42.31%) Data Migration
4 14 (26.92%) ETL
4 14 (26.92%) Test Automation
5 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (21.15%) DevOps
6 11 (21.15%) Test Strategy
7 10 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 9 (17.31%) Agile
8 9 (17.31%) Analytics
8 9 (17.31%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (17.31%) Data Cleansing
8 9 (17.31%) End-to-End Testing
8 9 (17.31%) System Testing
9 8 (15.38%) Data Governance
9 8 (15.38%) Integration Testing
10 7 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (13.46%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (11.54%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (42.31%) SQL
2 3 (5.77%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) Go
3 2 (3.85%) Java
3 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.92%) JCL
4 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) ISTQB
1 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.85%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) Data Quality
1 11 (21.15%) QA
2 3 (5.77%) MiFID
3 1 (1.92%) COBIT
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) CA Endevor
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Oracle
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) SAP
3 4 (7.69%) Workday
4 3 (5.77%) Databricks
4 3 (5.77%) Google
5 2 (3.85%) Autodesk
5 2 (3.85%) Nintex
5 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.92%) Adobe
6 1 (1.92%) ESRI
6 1 (1.92%) IBM
6 1 (1.92%) Informatica