Validation Contracts in Central London

Validation
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 118 146
Rank change year-on-year +40 +28 -28
Contract jobs citing Validation 60 56 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.51% 1.51% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 1.65% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 25 32
10th Percentile £351 £336 £340
25th Percentile £463 £451 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +18.56% -7.62%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £575
90th Percentile £675 £740 £638
London median daily rate £536 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -17.50% +18.18% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Validation in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
City of London +45 55 £550 -4.35% 16
West End of London - 1 - -
Camden - 1 £625 -
Lambeth - 1 £245 -
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London

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 13 (21.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) SAS
3 1 (1.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.33%) Azure
2 4 (6.67%) dbt
3 3 (5.00%) GCP
3 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.33%) AWS
4 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.67%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (1.67%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.67%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.67%) Firebase
5 1 (1.67%) Miro
5 1 (1.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.00%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.67%) Big Data
4 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.67%) GIS
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) Parquet
4 1 (1.67%) Power Query
4 1 (1.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
1 3 (5.00%) JMeter
2 2 (3.33%) Selenium
3 1 (1.67%) Appium
3 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.67%) Deequ
3 1 (1.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) Postman
3 1 (1.67%) RStudio
3 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (53.33%) Finance
2 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.33%) Banking
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Back Office
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Billing
7 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.67%) French Language
7 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Local Government
7 1 (1.67%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (50.00%) Analyst
2 23 (38.33%) Business Analyst
3 11 (18.33%) Data Migration Analyst
3 11 (18.33%) Migration Analyst
4 9 (15.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 9 (15.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Finance Business Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) SharePoint Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) SharePoint Business Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Financial Business Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Lead
6 5 (8.33%) Senior
6 5 (8.33%) Service Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) ADO
1 2 (3.33%) PySpark
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Avro
2 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.67%) Dojo
2 1 (1.67%) EDI
2 1 (1.67%) Great Expectations
2 1 (1.67%) JSON
2 1 (1.67%) JSON Schema
2 1 (1.67%) Middleware
2 1 (1.67%) SAP ALE
2 1 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.67%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.67%) Spring
2 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.67%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.67%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (1.67%) Blog
3 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.67%) DataPower
3 1 (1.67%) IoT
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Solaris
1 2 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Migration
2 17 (28.33%) Data Migration
2 17 (28.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 17 (28.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 14 (23.33%) Data Management
3 14 (23.33%) User Stories
4 13 (21.67%) GAP Analysis
4 13 (21.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 12 (20.00%) Agile
6 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (13.33%) ETL
7 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.00%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.00%) Due Diligence
8 6 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (10.00%) Performance Management
8 6 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
8 6 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 5 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) SQL
2 5 (8.33%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) C++
3 3 (5.00%) Java
3 3 (5.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.33%) C#
4 2 (3.33%) Go
5 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) PhD
4 1 (1.67%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (30.00%) QA
2 16 (26.67%) Data Quality
3 9 (15.00%) NIST
4 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.67%) GRC
5 1 (1.67%) GxP
5 1 (1.67%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) KVM
1 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) SAP
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Google
3 3 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.33%) Databricks
4 2 (3.33%) Guidewire
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) VMware
5 1 (1.67%) CyberSource