Data Validation Job Trends in the City of London

Data Validation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 163 165
Rank change year-on-year +39 +2 +80
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 10 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.43% 0.075% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.079% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile - £54,250 £41,875
25th Percentile £71,250 £60,625 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +33.33% -29.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £88,125 £69,688
90th Percentile £81,375 £93,750 £73,625
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -9.38% +42.22% -29.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Validation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,992 2,540 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.35% 95.67% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,457 1,620 2,368
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Validation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Validation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Validation
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Validation in the City of London

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Dagster
2 2 (20.00%) Prefect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Report Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Data Structures
1 6 (60.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Validation
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Batch Processing
3 6 (60.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (60.00%) ITIL
3 6 (60.00%) ITSM
3 6 (60.00%) Release Management
3 6 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (60.00%) Service Management
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (30.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) API Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Data Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Fintech
5 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle