Data Validation Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Validation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 269 315 434
Rank change year-on-year +46 +119 +87
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 35 30 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 34
10th Percentile £390 £321 £380
25th Percentile £409 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £619
Median % change year-on-year - -19.19% +33.78%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £950
90th Percentile £605 £690 £1,100
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £60.50 £24.50
Median hourly rate - £61.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +144.00% -64.29%
75th Percentile - £61.50 £25.50
90th Percentile - - -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Validation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Validation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Actimize
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.71%) Fivetran
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (5.71%) WhatsApp
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.86%) Miro
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Power BI
2 6 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
3 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (14.29%) Tableau
4 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.71%) Data Mining
4 2 (5.71%) DataStage
4 2 (5.71%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (5.71%) Metadata
4 2 (5.71%) Power Query
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.86%) MySQL
5 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.86%) QlikView
5 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) REST Assured
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) Postman
2 2 (5.71%) Selenium
3 1 (2.86%) Appium
3 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.86%) DBeaver
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) JMeter
3 1 (2.86%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Local Government
5 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Consultant
3 7 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) Data Consultant
4 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Data Migration Consultant
5 4 (11.43%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Migration Consultant
6 3 (8.57%) QA Tester
6 3 (8.57%) Tester
7 2 (5.71%) Automation Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Implementation Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) QA Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 2 (5.71%) Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Gherkin
1 3 (8.57%) Web Services
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.86%) ODBC
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
1 4 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) IoT
2 2 (5.71%) NHS
2 2 (5.71%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) EPoS
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Validation
2 20 (57.14%) Migration
3 16 (45.71%) Data Migration
4 12 (34.29%) ETL
5 10 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (25.71%) Data Analysis
6 9 (25.71%) Test Automation
7 8 (22.86%) Visualisation
8 7 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
8 7 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 7 (20.00%) Data Management
9 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 5 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (11.43%) Agile
10 4 (11.43%) Data Extraction
10 4 (11.43%) Data Integration
10 4 (11.43%) Data Mapping
10 4 (11.43%) Data Modelling
10 4 (11.43%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) Java
4 3 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (8.57%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) Go
5 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) R
5 1 (2.86%) Scala
5 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (25.71%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Grafana
1 1 (2.86%) Kibana
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) Informatica
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.86%) Ariba
5 1 (2.86%) InterSystems
5 1 (2.86%) JD Edwards