Data Validation Contracts in London

Data Validation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with 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 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 365 449 545
Rank change year-on-year +84 +96 -106
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 28 38 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 56
10th Percentile £408 £375 £300
25th Percentile £450 £509 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £648 £520
Median % change year-on-year -19.72% +24.57% +4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £1,055 £588
90th Percentile £638 £1,100 £685
England median daily rate £480 £573 £499
% change year-on-year -16.16% +14.79% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £22.71 £37.50 £32.08
% change year-on-year -39.44% +16.90% +60.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in London

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in London

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in London

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in London

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 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
Central London +39 5 £475 -32.14% 2
West London +21 1 - - 1
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (10.71%) SAS
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
1 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Storage
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.57%) dbt
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (21.43%) Power BI
2 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 4 (14.29%) KDB
3 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) Data Mart
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Parquet
4 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Power Query
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
1 2 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.57%) Deequ
2 1 (3.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Front Office
5 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) KDB Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Data Migration Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Migration Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Quality Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Tester
4 3 (10.71%) VBA Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 2 (7.14%) ETL Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Quantitative Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Avro
1 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.57%) Great Expectations
1 1 (3.57%) JSON
1 1 (3.57%) JSON Schema
1 1 (3.57%) PySpark
1 1 (3.57%) pytest
1 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 2 (7.14%) NHS
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Validation
2 19 (67.86%) ETL
3 14 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 11 (39.29%) Data Analysis
5 10 (35.71%) Data Integration
6 9 (32.14%) Analytics
6 9 (32.14%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (25.00%) Migration
7 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.86%) Data Analytics
8 5 (17.86%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (17.86%) Data Governance
8 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
9 4 (14.29%) Agile
9 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
9 4 (14.29%) Data Management
9 4 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) SQL
2 7 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) C#
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) C++
4 3 (10.71%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
4 3 (10.71%) VBA
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Master's Degree
2 3 (10.71%) PhD
3 2 (7.14%) MBA
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) CA
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Yardi