Data Validation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 402 465
Rank change year-on-year +36 +63 -54
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 35 28 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 27
10th Percentile £323 £328 £300
25th Percentile £363 £380 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £800 £503
90th Percentile £524 £1,100 £550
UK median daily rate £500 £603 £500
% change year-on-year -17.01% +20.50% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile - £27.05 £15.88
25th Percentile £10.42 £30.88 £22.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +44.23% +79.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £43.88 £29.66
90th Percentile £50.90 £47.55 £35.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £32.08
% change year-on-year -20.00% +16.90% +121.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +27 17 £490 -32.41% 11
South East +17 8 £375 -65.91% 8
Yorkshire +15 7 £505 -36.88% 3
South West +5 7 £441 -7.11% 4
North West - 7 £398 - 8
Midlands +16 3 £405 +11.72% 7
North East +11 3 £500 -23.08%
East Midlands - 2 £405 - 3
West Midlands +15 1 - - 4
East of England +5 1 - - 1
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (8.57%) Apache Spark
1 3 (8.57%) SAS
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.86%) Smallworld
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.43%) Sketch
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.86%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.86%) MicroStation
3 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) AWS
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) GCP
3 4 (11.43%) Figma
3 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.86%) dbt
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) Matillion
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DWDM
1 1 (2.86%) Internet
1 1 (2.86%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (11.43%) Power BI
1 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
1 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Hive
3 2 (5.71%) Big Data
3 2 (5.71%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.71%) Metadata
3 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.86%) Essbase
4 1 (2.86%) GIS
4 1 (2.86%) Impala
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.86%) Sqoop
4 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (45.71%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (11.43%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Billing
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Legal
7 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Analyst
2 6 (17.14%) Developer
3 4 (11.43%) React Developer
3 4 (11.43%) UX Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Administrator
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Data Administrator
5 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Data Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) Data Migration Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 1 (2.86%) PMO Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) PMO Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) QA Tester
6 1 (2.86%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) GraphQL
1 6 (17.14%) gRPC
1 6 (17.14%) JWT
1 6 (17.14%) OAuth
1 6 (17.14%) OpenAPI
1 6 (17.14%) PySpark
1 6 (17.14%) RESTful
1 6 (17.14%) Swagger
2 5 (14.29%) HTML
3 4 (11.43%) CSS
3 4 (11.43%) React
4 2 (5.71%) .NET
4 2 (5.71%) Redux
5 1 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.86%) JSON
5 1 (2.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Data Structures
2 5 (14.29%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (5.71%) Blog
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Life Science
4 1 (2.86%) NHS
4 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Validation
2 17 (48.57%) Data Modelling
3 10 (28.57%) Agile
3 10 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (25.71%) Data Engineering
5 8 (22.86%) Analytics
5 8 (22.86%) Visualisation
6 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (17.14%) API Development
7 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (17.14%) Data Governance
7 6 (17.14%) Data Privacy
7 6 (17.14%) ETL
7 6 (17.14%) Event-Driven
7 6 (17.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (17.14%) Migration
8 5 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) SQL
3 8 (22.86%) Java
4 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.86%) Groovy
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.86%) Scala
6 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) GDPR
1 6 (17.14%) HIPAA
2 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
3 3 (8.57%) PMO
4 2 (5.71%) QA
5 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) Cloudera
2 2 (5.71%) Databricks
2 2 (5.71%) Informatica
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) Autodesk
3 1 (2.86%) Hyperion