Validation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 176 188
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 +25
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,823 2,062 3,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.78% 2.12% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 2.22% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 771 658 1,069
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,336 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,293 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +9.29% +6.54%
75th Percentile £72,250 £77,715 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,043 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +15.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the UK

Validation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation.

Salary trend for Validation in the UK

Validation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Validation in the UK

Validation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +9 1,561 £55,000 -12.00% 960
UK excluding London +11 1,488 £52,500 -4.62% 769
Work from Home -15 472 £55,000 -8.33% 285
South East +4 361 £52,500 -4.55% 218
South West +33 299 £50,000 -28.00% 99
London -37 277 £75,000 +7.14% 198
North of England +44 251 £50,500 -8.25% 130
Midlands -36 244 £50,000 -6.98% 153
North West +47 160 £50,000 -7.01% 87
West Midlands -63 137 £54,000 -1.82% 99
Scotland -8 126 £51,797 -9.01% 41
East of England -34 124 £55,000 -8.33% 144
East Midlands +40 107 £42,500 -10.53% 54
Yorkshire +35 81 £51,528 -6.39% 34
Wales +27 47 £45,000 +4.49% 16
Northern Ireland +45 39 - - 3
North East -3 10 £52,500 -32.26% 10

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 21 (1.15%) SAS
2 14 (0.77%) IIS
2 14 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.71%) Documentum
4 12 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.55%) Confluence
6 8 (0.44%) Apache
6 8 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.27%) Kinematics
8 3 (0.16%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.055%) WordPress
Applications
1 96 (5.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.47%) Simulink
4 43 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.26%) Stateflow
7 14 (0.77%) OrCAD
8 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
8 12 (0.66%) Sketch
9 5 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
11 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.11%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.11%) Windchill
12 1 (0.055%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
2 16 (0.88%) TrackWise
3 14 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.38%) SAP QM
7 5 (0.27%) SAP CRM
7 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.22%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.22%) SAP WM
9 3 (0.16%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
9 3 (0.16%) SAP PM
10 1 (0.055%) Lorenzo
10 1 (0.055%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.055%) SAP MDG-BP
10 1 (0.055%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 167 (9.16%) Azure
2 129 (7.08%) AWS
3 78 (4.28%) Power Platform
4 43 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.43%) SaaS
7 24 (1.32%) GCP
8 23 (1.26%) GitHub
8 23 (1.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 22 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (0.71%) Figma
12 13 (0.71%) OCI
12 13 (0.71%) PowerApps
13 12 (0.66%) OneDrive
14 11 (0.60%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.60%) ShareGate
15 10 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (0.49%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 392 (21.50%) VSAT
2 58 (3.18%) Firewall
3 44 (2.41%) WAN
4 32 (1.76%) 5G
5 30 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.43%) Network Security
7 23 (1.26%) Ethernet
8 21 (1.15%) LAN
8 21 (1.15%) Wireless
9 20 (1.10%) Internet
10 18 (0.99%) DNS
10 18 (0.99%) Wireshark
11 17 (0.93%) VPN
12 16 (0.88%) DHCP
13 14 (0.77%) Bluetooth
13 14 (0.77%) RS-232
14 11 (0.60%) SD-WAN
15 7 (0.38%) 4G
15 7 (0.38%) Broadband
15 7 (0.38%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (3.84%) SQL Server
2 68 (3.73%) Power BI
3 41 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.54%) Tableau
5 24 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (1.15%) GIS
7 17 (0.93%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.88%) Metadata
9 15 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (0.77%) Big Data
10 14 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.71%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
12 8 (0.44%) Data Mining
12 8 (0.44%) Power Query
13 7 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
13 7 (0.38%) NoSQL
14 6 (0.33%) Qlik Sense
14 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 147 (8.06%) JIRA
2 37 (2.03%) Git
3 33 (1.81%) Rational DOORS
4 29 (1.59%) Visual Studio
5 28 (1.54%) Jenkins
6 17 (0.93%) Selenium
7 15 (0.82%) Rational Rhapsody
8 14 (0.77%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.66%) Maven
10 11 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.60%) GitLab
10 11 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.55%) JMeter
11 10 (0.55%) Trac
12 9 (0.49%) Gradle
12 9 (0.49%) LabVIEW
13 7 (0.38%) Postman
14 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
14 4 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 421 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 291 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
3 290 (15.91%) Finance
4 148 (8.12%) Manufacturing
5 146 (8.01%) Pharmaceutical
6 129 (7.08%) Aerospace
7 128 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 124 (6.80%) Electronics
9 80 (4.39%) Law
10 78 (4.28%) Automotive
10 78 (4.28%) Marketing
11 65 (3.57%) Banking
12 60 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (2.91%) Retail
14 46 (2.52%) Legal
14 46 (2.52%) Telecoms
15 43 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (1.70%) Military
17 24 (1.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 463 (25.40%) Architect
2 392 (21.50%) Software Architect
3 214 (11.74%) Senior
4 212 (11.63%) Lead
5 167 (9.16%) Systems Engineer
6 153 (8.39%) Analyst
7 122 (6.69%) Software Engineer
8 57 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 52 (2.85%) Technical Leader
10 48 (2.63%) Developer
11 46 (2.52%) IT Manager
12 41 (2.25%) Hardware Engineer
12 41 (2.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 38 (2.08%) QA Manager
13 38 (2.08%) Senior Software Engineer
14 37 (2.03%) Business Analyst
15 35 (1.92%) Consultant
16 34 (1.87%) Validation Engineer
17 30 (1.65%) Data Engineer
17 30 (1.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.36%) HTML
2 34 (1.87%) XML
3 33 (1.81%) CSS
4 31 (1.70%) .NET
5 26 (1.43%) React
6 21 (1.15%) JSON
7 19 (1.04%) Pandas
8 18 (0.99%) REST
9 15 (0.82%) PyTorch
10 14 (0.77%) TensorFlow
10 14 (0.77%) WebRTC
11 13 (0.71%) EDI
11 13 (0.71%) Spring
11 13 (0.71%) Spring Boot
12 12 (0.66%) .NET Core
12 12 (0.66%) Web Services
13 11 (0.60%) AngularJS
13 11 (0.60%) Middleware
13 11 (0.60%) WPF
13 11 (0.60%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 136 (7.46%) Management Information System
2 72 (3.95%) Algorithms
3 67 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (2.52%) Life Science
5 34 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 29 (1.59%) Robotics
7 24 (1.32%) FPGA
7 24 (1.32%) IoT
8 22 (1.21%) Analogue Electronics
8 22 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
9 21 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.10%) Cloud Native
11 18 (0.99%) Biopharmaceutical
11 18 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
12 17 (0.93%) GNSS
13 16 (0.88%) NHS
13 16 (0.88%) PDA
14 15 (0.82%) Credit Risk
14 15 (0.82%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 136 (7.46%) Linux
2 49 (2.69%) Windows
3 17 (0.93%) Android
4 16 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.44%) Debian
7 8 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.16%) Unix
9 1 (0.055%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (25.01%) Actionable Insight
2 455 (24.96%) Model Validation
2 455 (24.96%) Requirements Management
3 406 (22.27%) TOGAF
4 401 (22.00%) Network Architecture
5 394 (21.61%) Technical Architecture
6 393 (21.56%) Network Management
7 352 (19.31%) Agile
8 310 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
9 282 (15.47%) Verification and Validation
10 186 (10.20%) Project Management
11 178 (9.76%) Software Engineering
12 172 (9.43%) Systems Engineering
13 163 (8.94%) DevOps
14 147 (8.06%) Mentoring
15 146 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
16 141 (7.73%) Computer Science
17 135 (7.41%) SDLC
18 134 (7.35%) Collaborative Working
19 129 (7.08%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 215 (11.79%) Python
2 203 (11.14%) SQL
3 100 (5.49%) C
4 86 (4.72%) C#
5 77 (4.22%) MATLAB
6 68 (3.73%) C++
7 52 (2.85%) JavaScript
8 45 (2.47%) Java
8 45 (2.47%) PowerShell
9 32 (1.76%) R
10 22 (1.21%) Bash
11 18 (0.99%) T-SQL
12 17 (0.93%) Perl
13 12 (0.66%) Ada
14 10 (0.55%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.55%) XAML
15 8 (0.44%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.33%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.33%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 500 (27.43%) Degree
2 312 (17.11%) Security Cleared
3 125 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 89 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 70 (3.84%) DV Cleared
6 59 (3.24%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.03%) CISSP
9 31 (1.70%) DBS Check
10 29 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.21%) HNC
12 20 (1.10%) CCSP
12 20 (1.10%) HND
12 20 (1.10%) PhD
13 19 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 18 (0.99%) CISM
15 17 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.88%) SANS
17 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
18 14 (0.77%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (8.67%) QA
2 66 (3.62%) GMP
3 54 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (2.74%) Data Quality
5 47 (2.58%) NIST
6 38 (2.08%) PMO
7 29 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.54%) GLP
9 23 (1.26%) Good Clinical Practice
10 22 (1.21%) GxP
11 20 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 19 (1.04%) Def Stans
13 17 (0.93%) GDPR
14 15 (0.82%) Accessibility
15 14 (0.77%) Automotive SPICE
15 14 (0.77%) ISO 26262
16 11 (0.60%) ISO 9001
17 10 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
17 10 (0.55%) IFRS
17 10 (0.55%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 72 (3.95%) Docker
2 50 (2.74%) Firmware
3 32 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.88%) pfSense
6 14 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
7 10 (0.55%) NFS
8 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.22%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (3.78%) Ansible
2 66 (3.62%) Terraform
3 62 (3.40%) Kubernetes
4 30 (1.65%) Functional Safety
5 17 (0.93%) Grafana
6 16 (0.88%) ZABBIX
7 15 (0.82%) Nmap
8 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 10 (0.55%) SCDPM
10 5 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.11%) Kibana
12 1 (0.055%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.055%) OpenNMS
12 1 (0.055%) Packer
12 1 (0.055%) Podman
12 1 (0.055%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.055%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.055%) Puppet
12 1 (0.055%) Salt
Vendors
1 175 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 51 (2.80%) Salesforce
3 48 (2.63%) SAP
4 41 (2.25%) VMware
5 35 (1.92%) Google
6 33 (1.81%) Oracle
7 29 (1.59%) Databricks
8 26 (1.43%) EMC
9 19 (1.04%) IBM
10 16 (0.88%) Fortinet
10 16 (0.88%) Juniper
11 15 (0.82%) Cisco
11 15 (0.82%) ServiceNow
11 15 (0.82%) Splunk
12 14 (0.77%) Qualys
12 14 (0.77%) Rapid7
12 14 (0.77%) Thycotic
12 14 (0.77%) Veeam
13 11 (0.60%) CheckPoint
13 11 (0.60%) Nintex