Validation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Validation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 105 160
Rank change year-on-year +8 +55 -36
Permanent jobs citing Validation 169 172 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.50% 2.79% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.95% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 86 63 108
10th Percentile £34,750 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,123 £32,938 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +14.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,753 5,824 6,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.25% 94.56% 92.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,042 3,165 3,914
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,725 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +9.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Berkshire +70 99 £52,500 -32.26% 31
Oxfordshire +6 44 £54,500 +45.30% 28
Buckinghamshire -59 26 £40,000 -20.00% 13
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.18%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
Applications
1 13 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (5.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (5.33%) MS Visio
5 7 (4.14%) OrCAD
6 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (1.18%) Simulink
7 2 (1.18%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.59%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (4.14%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.78%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.06%) Power Platform
2 9 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (5.33%) OneDrive
2 9 (5.33%) Power Automate
2 9 (5.33%) PowerApps
2 9 (5.33%) SaaS
2 9 (5.33%) ShareGate
3 6 (3.55%) Mavenlink
4 2 (1.18%) Azure
4 2 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (0.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 33 (19.53%) VSAT
2 7 (4.14%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.18%) Internet
3 2 (1.18%) RFID
4 1 (0.59%) 5G
4 1 (0.59%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.59%) DNS
4 1 (0.59%) GSM
4 1 (0.59%) ISDN
4 1 (0.59%) LTE
4 1 (0.59%) PSTN
4 1 (0.59%) SAN
4 1 (0.59%) UMTS
4 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.06%) Power BI
2 6 (3.55%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.37%) GIS
4 3 (1.78%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.18%) Big Data
5 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.59%) DTS
6 1 (0.59%) Metadata
6 1 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.55%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.59%) LabVIEW
General
1 56 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 39 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 13 (7.69%) Electronics
4 12 (7.10%) Pharmaceutical
5 11 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.73%) Finance
7 7 (4.14%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.14%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.55%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.96%) Automotive
10 4 (2.37%) Banking
10 4 (2.37%) Games
10 4 (2.37%) Law
10 4 (2.37%) Marketing
11 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Billing
12 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (21.30%) Senior
2 34 (20.12%) Architect
3 33 (19.53%) Software Architect
4 30 (17.75%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (8.88%) Lead
6 13 (7.69%) Analyst
7 12 (7.10%) Hardware Engineer
7 12 (7.10%) Senior Hardware Engineer
8 10 (5.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.33%) Associate Director
10 7 (4.14%) Systems Manager
11 6 (3.55%) Consultant
11 6 (3.55%) Electronics Engineer
11 6 (3.55%) Salesforce Analyst
11 6 (3.55%) Senior Electronics Engineer
11 6 (3.55%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.96%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
12 5 (2.96%) IT Manager
12 5 (2.96%) Principal Technical Consultant
12 5 (2.96%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.33%) CSS
1 9 (5.33%) HTML
1 9 (5.33%) JSON
1 9 (5.33%) XML
2 3 (1.78%) Middleware
3 2 (1.18%) OpenCV
3 2 (1.18%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.18%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.18%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.18%) WPF
4 1 (0.59%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.59%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.59%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.59%) Blazor
4 1 (0.59%) NumPy
4 1 (0.59%) Pandas
4 1 (0.59%) pyodbc
4 1 (0.59%) PyQt
4 1 (0.59%) Tkinter
4 1 (0.59%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.92%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.73%) Algorithms
2 8 (4.73%) FPGA
2 8 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.14%) PCIe
4 4 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.37%) PDA
5 3 (1.78%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (1.78%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.78%) Life Science
6 2 (1.18%) ASIC
6 2 (1.18%) ASIC Verification
6 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.18%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.18%) GNSS
6 2 (1.18%) IoT
6 2 (1.18%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (1.18%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.18%) Windows
2 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.26%) Verification and Validation
2 40 (23.67%) Actionable Insight
3 38 (22.49%) Requirements Management
4 37 (21.89%) Model Validation
5 33 (19.53%) Network Architecture
5 33 (19.53%) Network Management
5 33 (19.53%) Technical Architecture
5 33 (19.53%) TOGAF
6 28 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (14.79%) Decision-Making
7 25 (14.79%) Project Management
8 22 (13.02%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (13.02%) Systems Engineering
9 21 (12.43%) Agile
10 20 (11.83%) Biotechnology
10 20 (11.83%) Mentoring
11 16 (9.47%) Requirements Gathering
12 15 (8.88%) Software Engineering
13 14 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
13 14 (8.28%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.06%) SQL
2 13 (7.69%) Python
3 9 (5.33%) C
4 8 (4.73%) C++
4 8 (4.73%) MATLAB
5 6 (3.55%) Fortran
6 3 (1.78%) C#
7 2 (1.18%) Perl
7 2 (1.18%) SystemVerilog
7 2 (1.18%) Tcl
7 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.18%) XAML
8 1 (0.59%) Bash
Qualifications
1 63 (37.28%) Degree
2 26 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.33%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (4.14%) HND
6 6 (3.55%) PhD
7 5 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.96%) HNC
7 5 (2.96%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.37%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.37%) PMP
9 2 (1.18%) NVQ Level 4
10 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.47%) QA
2 3 (1.78%) GDPR
2 3 (1.78%) GMP
2 3 (1.78%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (0.59%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.73%) Firmware
3 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.59%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 22 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.47%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.33%) Nintex
4 7 (4.14%) EMC
5 2 (1.18%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (0.59%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.59%) Dell
6 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.59%) OpenText
6 1 (0.59%) Vertica
6 1 (0.59%) VMware