Data Validation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Validation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 424 516
Rank change year-on-year +117 +92 -71
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 30 43 109
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 34 80
10th Percentile £322 £390 £288
25th Percentile £400 £478 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £644 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +35.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £1,000 £578
90th Percentile £675 £1,100 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £43.72
25th Percentile £60.50 £24.50 £53.58
Median hourly rate £61.00 £25.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +144.00% -64.29% +269.15%
75th Percentile £61.50 £25.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £10.42 £37.50 £32.08
% change year-on-year -72.21% +16.90% +54.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Validation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Validation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Validation.

Data Validation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Data Validation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Validation.

Data Validation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.00%) SAS
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (10.00%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (16.67%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) Veeva
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Storage
5 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
5 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Power BI
2 8 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.33%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.33%) GIS
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Billing
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) French Language
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Local Government
5 1 (3.33%) Publishing
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Consultant
2 6 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Data Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Data Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Clinical Data Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 3 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Data Validation Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) SAP Data Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) SAP MDG Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Validation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) BAPI
2 2 (6.67%) CSS
2 2 (6.67%) Node.js
2 2 (6.67%) React
2 2 (6.67%) RESTful
2 2 (6.67%) SAP ALE
2 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) Pandas
3 1 (3.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Life Science
3 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Validation
2 10 (33.33%) Migration
3 9 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 9 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (30.00%) ETL
4 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
5 6 (20.00%) Agile
5 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 6 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
5 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (16.67%) Analytics
6 5 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 5 (16.67%) Data Management
6 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.33%) Process Improvement
7 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
7 4 (13.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) C#
3 4 (13.33%) Java
3 4 (13.33%) Python
4 3 (10.00%) C++
4 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.00%) R
4 3 (10.00%) VB
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.33%) ABAP
6 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (10.00%) PhD
4 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) MBA
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) CDISC
1 3 (10.00%) Good Clinical Practice
1 3 (10.00%) GxP
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Ariba
4 1 (3.33%) CA