Data Validation Contracts in the North of England

Data Validation
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 201 229
Rank change year-on-year +34 +28 -43
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 15 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 8
10th Percentile £324 £485 £283
25th Percentile £389 £575 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £725 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% +61.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £500 £800 £500
90th Percentile £508 - £545
England median daily rate £480 £573 £499
% change year-on-year -16.16% +14.79% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
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
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,005 4,989 6,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.74% 90.18% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,423 4,604
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 202 255
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.53 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.60 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% +45.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £33.83
90th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the North of England

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the North of England

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the North of England

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
North West - 7 £398 - 3
Yorkshire +15 5 £505 -36.88% 3
North East +13 3 £500 -23.08%
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (20.00%) SAS
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) ArcGIS
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (6.67%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.67%) MicroStation
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.67%) dbt
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DWDM
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Essbase
3 1 (6.67%) GIS
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) Metadata
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (6.67%) ETL Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Fibre Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) PMO Lead
4 1 (6.67%) PMO Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) GraphQL
1 4 (26.67%) gRPC
1 4 (26.67%) JWT
1 4 (26.67%) OAuth
1 4 (26.67%) OpenAPI
1 4 (26.67%) RESTful
1 4 (26.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Validation
2 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
3 5 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) API Development
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Data Privacy
4 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
4 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Data Management
7 1 (6.67%) Mathematics
7 1 (6.67%) Network Design
7 1 (6.67%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
1 4 (26.67%) HIPAA
2 3 (20.00%) PMO
3 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Autodesk
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Hyperion
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft