Data Validation Contracts

Data Validation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 598 672
Rank change year-on-year +105 +74 -38
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 93 84 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 60 113
10th Percentile £351 £350 £300
25th Percentile £400 £444 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £603 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.01% +20.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £1,055 £600
90th Percentile £638 £1,100 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £538 £442
% change year-on-year -23.72% +21.56% +4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £10.42 £29.60 £12.19
25th Percentile £20.21 £37.25 £18.99
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +92.31% +79.31%
75th Percentile £48.25 - £54.58
90th Percentile £71.90 - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +92.31% +79.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 49,780 79,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 89.56% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,553 34,315 55,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,551 1,689 1,867
10th Percentile £12.74 £11.87 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.06 £16.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +38.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £51.59
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +2.44%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +103 75 £500 -19.65% 41
UK excluding London +49 39 £410 -23.72% 26
Work from Home +106 37 £550 -14.56% 24
London +92 34 £575 -12.61% 16
North of England +35 19 £446 -27.14% 7
North West +19 9 £406 -35.00% 4
South East +9 8 £375 -65.91% 8
South West +9 8 £441 -7.11% 4
Yorkshire +12 7 £505 -1.46% 2
Midlands +10 4 £400 +14.29% 5
North East +12 3 £500 -23.08% 1
West Midlands +10 2 £163 -53.57% 3
East Midlands - 2 £405 - 2
East of England +2 1 - - 4

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (10.75%) SAS
2 7 (7.53%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.30%) Confluence
4 3 (3.23%) Apache
5 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.08%) ArcGIS
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.08%) Smallworld
Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.30%) Sketch
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.08%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.08%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.15%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.08%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.35%) Azure
2 17 (18.28%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.90%) AWS
4 9 (9.68%) GCP
5 7 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.30%) Figma
7 4 (4.30%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.23%) Veeva
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.15%) dbt
9 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.15%) GitHub
9 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.15%) SaaS
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.08%) Matillion
10 1 (1.08%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) DWDM
1 1 (1.08%) Internet
1 1 (1.08%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (18.28%) Power BI
3 16 (17.20%) SQL Server
4 10 (10.75%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (5.38%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.38%) KDB
7 4 (4.30%) Hadoop
7 4 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.23%) Big Data
8 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.15%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.15%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.15%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.15%) Metadata
9 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.15%) Tableau
10 1 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (11.83%) JIRA
2 9 (9.68%) Git
3 3 (3.23%) Selenium
4 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.08%) Deequ
5 1 (1.08%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.08%) GitLab
5 1 (1.08%) JUnit
5 1 (1.08%) NUnit
5 1 (1.08%) Postman
5 1 (1.08%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.08%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.08%) TestNG
5 1 (1.08%) TestRail
5 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.08%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (34.41%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.11%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (27.96%) Finance
4 9 (9.68%) Banking
5 6 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.23%) Front Office
7 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.23%) Retail
8 2 (2.15%) Billing
8 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Back Office
9 1 (1.08%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.08%) French Language
9 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Legal
9 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.08%) Publishing
9 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (22.58%) Developer
2 20 (21.51%) Analyst
3 13 (13.98%) Data Analyst
4 12 (12.90%) Data Engineer
5 6 (6.45%) Consultant
5 6 (6.45%) Senior
6 5 (5.38%) Data Manager
6 5 (5.38%) Data Migration Analyst
6 5 (5.38%) KDB Developer
6 5 (5.38%) Migration Analyst
6 5 (5.38%) React Developer
7 4 (4.30%) Data Consultant
7 4 (4.30%) DBA
7 4 (4.30%) Lead
7 4 (4.30%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.30%) Tester
7 4 (4.30%) UX Developer
8 3 (3.23%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (3.23%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) RESTful
2 7 (7.53%) HTML
2 7 (7.53%) PySpark
3 6 (6.45%) CSS
3 6 (6.45%) GraphQL
3 6 (6.45%) gRPC
3 6 (6.45%) JWT
3 6 (6.45%) OAuth
3 6 (6.45%) OpenAPI
3 6 (6.45%) React
3 6 (6.45%) Swagger
4 5 (5.38%) .NET
5 2 (2.15%) JSON
5 2 (2.15%) Node.js
5 2 (2.15%) pytest
5 2 (2.15%) Redux
5 2 (2.15%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.08%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) Data Structures
1 11 (11.83%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.38%) Biopharmaceutical
3 3 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.23%) NHS
4 2 (2.15%) Blog
4 2 (2.15%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.08%) Life Science
5 1 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.08%) Replication
5 1 (1.08%) Robotics
5 1 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) Validation
2 42 (45.16%) Data Modelling
3 35 (37.63%) ETL
4 32 (34.41%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (25.81%) Analytics
5 24 (25.81%) Data Integration
6 23 (24.73%) Data Cleansing
7 21 (22.58%) Data Management
7 21 (22.58%) Migration
8 20 (21.51%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (20.43%) Agile
10 17 (18.28%) Data Analysis
10 17 (18.28%) Data Governance
11 16 (17.20%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (17.20%) Data Engineering
11 16 (17.20%) Data Migration
12 13 (13.98%) Visualisation
13 11 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (10.75%) CI/CD
15 9 (9.68%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 46 (49.46%) SQL
2 25 (26.88%) Python
3 13 (13.98%) Java
4 12 (12.90%) C#
5 8 (8.60%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.38%) PL/SQL
6 5 (5.38%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.38%) T-SQL
7 4 (4.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (4.30%) VBA
8 3 (3.23%) R
8 3 (3.23%) VB
9 2 (2.15%) Bash
9 2 (2.15%) C++
9 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.08%) Groovy
10 1 (1.08%) Scala
10 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.90%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.30%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.15%) MBA
5 2 (2.15%) PhD
6 1 (1.08%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.81%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.75%) QA
3 6 (6.45%) GDPR
3 6 (6.45%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.23%) CDISC
4 3 (3.23%) Good Clinical Practice
4 3 (3.23%) GxP
4 3 (3.23%) PMO
5 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.60%) Google
3 7 (7.53%) Oracle
4 6 (6.45%) Databricks
4 6 (6.45%) SAP
5 2 (2.15%) CA
5 2 (2.15%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.15%) Informatica
6 1 (1.08%) Ariba
6 1 (1.08%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.08%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce