Data Validation Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Validation
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 58 81
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.32% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £538 - £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 - £415
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.13%
75th Percentile £703 - £423
90th Percentile £749 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £503 £488 £415
% change year-on-year +3.08% +17.47% -48.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 803 497 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.53% 89.55% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 300 629
10th Percentile £291 £263 £281
25th Percentile £413 £358 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £600
90th Percentile £658 £638 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +4.13% -0.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 26
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.08 £11.43
25th Percentile £14.25 £21.92 £12.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £27.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.38% +83.33% -70.00%
75th Percentile £23.71 £41.50 £22.55
90th Percentile £74.00 £99.32 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.27 £22.32 £15.12
% change year-on-year -0.25% +47.67% +42.19%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Data Validation job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in West Yorkshire

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Leeds -18 3 £623 - 1
Data Validation
Yorkshire

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Insight Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Pricing Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Teradata