Data Validation Contracts in the Midlands

Data Validation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 142 205
Rank change year-on-year +13 +63 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 6 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.22% 0.10% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.12% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £176 £290 £526
25th Percentile £198 £313 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £239 £350 £588
Median % change year-on-year -31.79% -40.43% +11.90%
75th Percentile £283 £413 £622
90th Percentile £307 £451 £639
England median daily rate £413 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,242 2,527 4,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.46% 85.55% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 1,734 3,152
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £379 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +13.14%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £575
90th Percentile £701 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 99 115
10th Percentile £12.83 £13.13 £10.68
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.74 £14.29
Median hourly rate £21.59 £27.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +52.78% +23.20%
75th Percentile £43.06 £51.50 £28.38
90th Percentile £55.00 £67.75 £35.22
England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.90 £29.00
% change year-on-year -2.05% +51.38% +37.77%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
West Midlands +14 5 £163 -50.00% 2
East Midlands +3 1 £315 -32.62% 3
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Matillion
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 2 (33.33%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Hardware Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Hardware Verification Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Verification Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) FMEA
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stress Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Design
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) MATLAB
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) DO-160
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) SAP