Validation Job Trends in Belfast

Validation
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 37 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +47
Permanent jobs citing Validation 3 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.91% 3.14% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 3.57% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
County Antrim median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 253 252 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 76.44% 87.80% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 148 85 182
10th Percentile £27,175 £40,400 £29,994
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £78,431 £87,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
County Antrim median annual salary £50,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% -

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Belfast

Validation
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Locust
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Report Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Avro
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform