Data Validation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Validation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 318 415 523
Rank change year-on-year +97 +108 -71
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 30 46 105
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 79
10th Percentile £400 £418 £293
25th Percentile £450 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £638 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% +27.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £1,052 £606
90th Percentile £694 £1,100 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £37.55 - £43.72
25th Percentile £41.38 £24.50 £53.58
Median hourly rate £48.00 £25.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.00% -64.29% +382.76%
75th Percentile £54.88 £25.50 -
90th Percentile £58.85 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.71 £37.50 £32.08
% change year-on-year -39.44% +16.90% +60.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Data Validation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Validation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Validation.

Data Validation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Data Validation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Validation.

Data Validation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Data Validation hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (23.33%) SAS
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) MicroStation
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (10.00%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Power Platform
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (13.33%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) Veeva
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Storage
5 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
5 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DWDM
1 1 (3.33%) Internet
1 1 (3.33%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Power BI
2 8 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.33%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.33%) GIS
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Billing
5 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) French Language
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Publishing
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Data Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Data Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Clinical Data Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Data Migration Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Migration Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 3 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Data Validation Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) SAP Data Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) SAP MDG Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Validation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) RESTful
2 3 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (6.67%) BAPI
3 2 (6.67%) CSS
3 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 2 (6.67%) gRPC
3 2 (6.67%) JWT
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
3 2 (6.67%) OAuth
3 2 (6.67%) OpenAPI
3 2 (6.67%) React
3 2 (6.67%) SAP ALE
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.67%) Swagger
4 1 (3.33%) JSON
4 1 (3.33%) Pandas
4 1 (3.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Life Science
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Validation
2 11 (36.67%) Migration
3 10 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 10 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 9 (30.00%) ETL
5 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.00%) Agile
7 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 6 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 6 (20.00%) Data Management
8 5 (16.67%) Analytics
8 5 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 5 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
9 4 (13.33%) API Development
9 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (13.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.00%) R
4 3 (10.00%) VB
5 2 (6.67%) C++
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.33%) ABAP
6 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.67%) PhD
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) BC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) CDISC
1 3 (10.00%) Good Clinical Practice
1 3 (10.00%) GxP
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) SAP
3 3 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Databricks
5 1 (3.33%) Ariba
5 1 (3.33%) Autodesk
5 1 (3.33%) CA