Data Validation Contracts

Data Validation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Validation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 610 680
Rank change year-on-year +82 +70 -69
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 63 95 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 68 114
10th Percentile £322 £359 £300
25th Percentile £396 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £553 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +10.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £800 £588
90th Percentile £638 £1,100 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -12.22% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - £27.05 £18.63
25th Percentile - £30.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £10.42 £37.50 £32.08
Median % change year-on-year -72.21% +16.90% +57.24%
75th Percentile £35.96 £43.88 £62.29
90th Percentile £51.28 £47.55 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £10.42 £37.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -72.21% +44.23% +47.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
England +87 49 £480 -16.16% 49
Work from Home +115 29 £545 -15.34% 21
London +71 25 £540 -17.93% 24
UK excluding London +36 23 £395 -12.22% 26
North of England +31 9 £480 -40.00% 9
South East +19 7 £319 -29.17% 9
North West - 6 £398 - 3
South West +14 4 £441 -7.11% 2
Midlands +31 3 £400 -5.88% 4
North East +15 3 £500 -23.08% 1
East Midlands - 2 £405 - 1
West Midlands +16 1 £225 -47.06% 3
East of England +8 1 - - 2

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (15.87%) SAS
2 5 (7.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.17%) Apache
3 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.35%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.17%) Sketch
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.76%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.59%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.63%) Power Platform
2 10 (15.87%) Azure
3 7 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.35%) AWS
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (4.76%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.76%) Veeva
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Storage
7 2 (3.17%) dbt
7 2 (3.17%) Figma
7 2 (3.17%) GCP
7 2 (3.17%) GitHub
7 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.17%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.17%) SaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.59%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) 2G
1 1 (1.59%) 3G
1 1 (1.59%) 4G
1 1 (1.59%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.16%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (20.63%) Power BI
3 12 (19.05%) SQL Server
4 7 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 5 (7.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (6.35%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.76%) Hadoop
7 3 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.17%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.17%) Big Data
8 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.17%) KDB
8 2 (3.17%) Metadata
8 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.59%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (1.59%) Power Query
9 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.59%) Deequ
3 1 (1.59%) Git
3 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (31.75%) Finance
2 19 (30.16%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Banking
4 5 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Retail
6 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.17%) Billing
7 2 (3.17%) Front Office
7 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.59%) French Language
8 1 (1.59%) Legal
8 1 (1.59%) Local Government
8 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.59%) Publishing
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Analyst
1 14 (22.22%) Developer
2 11 (17.46%) Data Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Data Analyst
4 7 (11.11%) Consultant
5 5 (7.94%) Data Consultant
6 4 (6.35%) Data Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Senior
7 3 (4.76%) Clinical Data Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Data Migration Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Lead
7 3 (4.76%) Migration Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) React Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (4.76%) VBA Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Validation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) HTML
1 5 (7.94%) PySpark
2 4 (6.35%) CSS
2 4 (6.35%) React
3 2 (3.17%) BAPI
3 2 (3.17%) JSON
3 2 (3.17%) Node.js
3 2 (3.17%) pytest
3 2 (3.17%) RESTful
3 2 (3.17%) SAP ALE
3 2 (3.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.59%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.59%) JSON Schema
4 1 (1.59%) Kafka
4 1 (1.59%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.76%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.17%) Blog
4 2 (3.17%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) NHS
4 2 (3.17%) Replication
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.59%) Life Science
5 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Validation
2 23 (36.51%) Data Modelling
2 23 (36.51%) ETL
3 17 (26.98%) Migration
4 16 (25.40%) Agile
5 14 (22.22%) Analytics
5 14 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 14 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (19.05%) Data Integration
7 11 (17.46%) Data Engineering
7 11 (17.46%) Data Governance
8 10 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (15.87%) Data Analysis
8 10 (15.87%) Data Cleansing
8 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 9 (14.29%) Data Management
9 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (14.29%) Visualisation
10 7 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (52.38%) SQL
2 15 (23.81%) Python
3 7 (11.11%) C#
4 6 (9.52%) Java
4 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.35%) C++
5 4 (6.35%) VBA
6 3 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.76%) R
6 3 (4.76%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.76%) VB
7 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.59%) ABAP
8 1 (1.59%) Groovy
8 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (23.81%) Degree
2 5 (7.94%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.35%) PhD
4 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) MBA
6 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.59%) MBCS
6 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (4.76%) CDISC
3 3 (4.76%) Good Clinical Practice
3 3 (4.76%) GxP
3 3 (4.76%) PMO
4 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Databricks
2 5 (7.94%) SAP
3 2 (3.17%) CA
3 2 (3.17%) Cloudera
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle
4 1 (1.59%) Ariba
4 1 (1.59%) Ericsson
4 1 (1.59%) Google
4 1 (1.59%) Hyperion
4 1 (1.59%) Informatica
4 1 (1.59%) Mavenir
4 1 (1.59%) Remedy
4 1 (1.59%) Yardi