Validation Jobs in the North of England

Validation
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 222 264
Rank change year-on-year +64 +42 -45
Permanent jobs citing Validation 257 234 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.47% 1.36% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.40% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 114 60 92
10th Percentile £33,950 £35,321 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,875 £40,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,264 £53,750 £45,645
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +17.76% +1.43%
75th Percentile £57,500 £77,715 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,915 £86,250 £74,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,568 16,681 16,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.41% 96.88% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,194 7,946 10,620
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation in the North of England.

Salary trend for Validation in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Validation in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West +55 163 £49,500 -7.91% 69
Yorkshire +60 86 £51,528 -18.21% 32
North East -4 8 £53,750 -30.65% 10
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (5.06%) SAS
2 9 (3.50%) Apache
2 9 (3.50%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.78%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.39%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.39%) EViews
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) SPSS
5 1 (0.39%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (13.23%) Azure
2 19 (7.39%) AWS
3 12 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (4.28%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 3 (1.17%) Collibra
7 3 (1.17%) OCI
8 2 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.78%) GCP
8 2 (0.78%) GitHub
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.39%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.39%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.39%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 99 (38.52%) VSAT
2 10 (3.89%) Firewall
2 10 (3.89%) LAN
2 10 (3.89%) Network Security
2 10 (3.89%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.89%) WAN
3 6 (2.33%) Wireshark
4 4 (1.56%) Internet
4 4 (1.56%) Multicast
4 4 (1.56%) OSPF
5 2 (0.78%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.78%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.28%) Power BI
2 8 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (2.72%) Power Query
4 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.17%) Metadata
7 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.39%) Looker
8 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (11.67%) JIRA
2 8 (3.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.56%) Katalon Studio
3 4 (1.56%) Postman
3 4 (1.56%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.17%) Selenium
5 2 (0.78%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.39%) GitLab
6 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
General
1 51 (19.84%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.34%) Finance
3 29 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.39%) Aerospace
4 19 (7.39%) Banking
5 15 (5.84%) Retail
6 14 (5.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (5.06%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.72%) Marketing
10 7 (2.72%) Retail Finance
11 6 (2.33%) Electronics
12 5 (1.95%) Games
12 5 (1.95%) Law
13 4 (1.56%) Automotive
13 4 (1.56%) Legal
13 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (40.08%) Architect
2 99 (38.52%) Software Architect
3 27 (10.51%) Analyst
3 27 (10.51%) Senior
4 17 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (6.61%) Project Manager
5 11 (4.28%) Developer
5 11 (4.28%) Senior Analyst
6 10 (3.89%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (3.50%) Lead
8 8 (3.11%) Team Leader
9 7 (2.72%) IT Manager
9 7 (2.72%) IT Project Manager
10 6 (2.33%) Analyst Developer
10 6 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 6 (2.33%) Developer Analyst
10 6 (2.33%) Electronics Engineer
10 6 (2.33%) Report Analyst
10 6 (2.33%) Report Developer
10 6 (2.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.72%) Lightning Web Components
2 5 (1.95%) HTML
2 5 (1.95%) Web Services
2 5 (1.95%) WPF
2 5 (1.95%) XML
3 4 (1.56%) .NET
3 4 (1.56%) Akka
3 4 (1.56%) Gherkin
3 4 (1.56%) XSLT
4 3 (1.17%) Pandas
4 3 (1.17%) XGBoost
5 1 (0.39%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.39%) CSS
5 1 (0.39%) React
5 1 (0.39%) Spring
5 1 (0.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.06%) Credit Risk
2 10 (3.89%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.33%) Biopharmaceutical
3 6 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (1.56%) NHS
4 4 (1.56%) Operational Technology
4 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.56%) SCADA
5 3 (1.17%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.78%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.39%) Acoustics
7 1 (0.39%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.39%) Linked Data
7 1 (0.39%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.17%) Linux
2 12 (4.67%) Windows
3 6 (2.33%) Android
3 6 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (42.02%) Actionable Insight
2 103 (40.08%) Model Validation
2 103 (40.08%) Network Architecture
2 103 (40.08%) Requirements Management
3 99 (38.52%) Network Management
3 99 (38.52%) Technical Architecture
3 99 (38.52%) TOGAF
4 56 (21.79%) Agile
5 29 (11.28%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (11.28%) DevOps
5 29 (11.28%) SDLC
6 28 (10.89%) Verification and Validation
7 22 (8.56%) Collaborative Working
8 21 (8.17%) CI/CD
8 21 (8.17%) Project Management
9 20 (7.78%) Mathematics
10 19 (7.39%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (7.39%) Scrum
11 18 (7.00%) Computer Science
11 18 (7.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.01%) Python
2 31 (12.06%) SQL
3 13 (5.06%) C#
3 13 (5.06%) R
4 12 (4.67%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.72%) C
5 7 (2.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.95%) Embedded C
7 5 (1.95%) XAML
8 4 (1.56%) Groovy
9 3 (1.17%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.78%) C++
10 2 (0.78%) Java
11 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (17.90%) Degree
2 25 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.61%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.67%) CISSP
5 10 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.72%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (2.33%) CCSP
7 6 (2.33%) CEH
7 6 (2.33%) CISA
7 6 (2.33%) CISM
7 6 (2.33%) HND
7 6 (2.33%) PCI QSA
7 6 (2.33%) SANS
7 6 (2.33%) SSCP
8 5 (1.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (1.56%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.56%) CIPD
9 4 (1.56%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.56%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (4.67%) NIST
1 12 (4.67%) PCI DSS
2 11 (4.28%) IFRS
2 11 (4.28%) IFRS 9
2 11 (4.28%) QA
3 10 (3.89%) CRD IV
4 8 (3.11%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.72%) GxP
5 7 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 6 (2.33%) GLP
6 6 (2.33%) Good Clinical Practice
6 6 (2.33%) IEC 62304
7 3 (1.17%) GMP
7 3 (1.17%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) GAMP
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (6.61%) Docker
2 6 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (6.61%) Ansible
1 17 (6.61%) Kubernetes
1 17 (6.61%) Terraform
2 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 23 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.50%) Salesforce
3 6 (2.33%) Civica
3 6 (2.33%) Google
3 6 (2.33%) Qualys
3 6 (2.33%) Rapid7
3 6 (2.33%) Splunk
3 6 (2.33%) Thycotic
4 5 (1.95%) Databricks
4 5 (1.95%) EMC
4 5 (1.95%) SAP
5 4 (1.56%) Cisco
5 4 (1.56%) Thales
5 4 (1.56%) VMware
6 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.17%) Oracle
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe
7 1 (0.39%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.39%) NEC