Data Validation Contracts in the South West

Data Validation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 150 155 159
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 7 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.21% 0.12% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.13% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £344 £397 £245
25th Percentile £373 £421 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £475 £300
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +58.33% -20.53%
75th Percentile £505 £488 £370
90th Percentile £531 - £447
England median daily rate £500 £654 £498
% change year-on-year -23.55% +31.46% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.29
25th Percentile - - £18.10
Median hourly rate £10.42 £50.00 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year -79.16% +97.41% -
75th Percentile £20.21 - £32.68
90th Percentile £26.08 - £36.57
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £32.08
% change year-on-year -20.00% +16.90% +121.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,709 3,015 3,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.12% 88.99% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,175 2,323
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 312 206
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.78 £23.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.73
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the South West

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the South West

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the South West

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the South West

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Validation in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Validation in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +4 2 - - 1
Devon - 2 - - 3
Somerset -2 1 £350 -
Wiltshire -5 1 £533 +26.79%
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Billing
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) Data Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Blog
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (28.57%) Data Entry
2 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks