Verification and Validation Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Verification and Validation
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Verification and Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 76 54
Rank change year-on-year +26 -22 +41
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 6 1 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.86% 0.12% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.14% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £61,375 - £47,500
25th Percentile £76,563 - £51,095
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £61,584
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.17%
75th Percentile - - £70,875
90th Percentile - - £72,263
South East median annual salary £62,825 £60,000 £52,293
% change year-on-year +4.71% +14.74% -4.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Verification and Validation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 505 699 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 72.77% 86.51% 91.79%
Number of salaries quoted 354 342 502
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,550 £35,100
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,250 £79,875 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% -3.64%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Verification and Validation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Verification and Validation job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Verification and Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Verification and Validation

Verification and Validation
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Verification and Validation in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Verification and Validation in Oxfordshire

Verification and Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SpaceWire
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Validation Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Verification Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Validation Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Verification Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Management
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) UML
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ECSS