Validation Jobs in Berkshire

Validation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Validation over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 69 145
Rank change year-on-year -14 +76 -12
Permanent jobs citing Validation 42 109 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.63% 3.45% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 4.07% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 13 45 10
10th Percentile £46,000 £39,000 £48,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,840 £52,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +33.03% -20.75% +20.45%
75th Percentile £81,250 £65,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £106,750 £70,250 £85,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,479 2,680 2,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.50% 84.86% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 527 1,797 1,588
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,263 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.65% -11.23% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Berkshire

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Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Validation in Berkshire

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Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in Berkshire

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Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Reading +2 12 £65,000 +23.81% 27
Slough -23 11 £25,000 -64.29% 10
Maidenhead -24 8 - - 2
Windsor - 8 - - 3
Wokingham - 2 £105,000 - 1
Validation
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (69.05%) Azure
2 24 (57.14%) AWS
2 24 (57.14%) GCP
2 24 (57.14%) Snowflake
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
4 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (57.14%) Data Lake
1 24 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
1 24 (57.14%) Metadata
2 3 (7.14%) Power BI
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
1 1 (2.38%) SoapUI
General
1 24 (57.14%) Law
2 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Games
4 3 (7.14%) Health Technology
4 3 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.76%) Digital Health
5 2 (4.76%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.38%) Automotive
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (66.67%) Lead
2 25 (59.52%) Senior
3 4 (9.52%) Administrator
3 4 (9.52%) Salesforce Administrator
4 2 (4.76%) Architect
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Architect
4 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.38%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (2.38%) Data Manager
5 1 (2.38%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) IT Support
5 1 (2.38%) Master Data Manager
5 1 (2.38%) QA Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.38%) NHS
2 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) Data Management
2 30 (71.43%) Data Validation
3 29 (69.05%) Data Governance
4 26 (61.90%) Data Strategy
4 26 (61.90%) Master Data Management
5 24 (57.14%) Analytics
5 24 (57.14%) Anomaly Detection
5 24 (57.14%) Asset Management
5 24 (57.14%) Data Architecture
5 24 (57.14%) Data Engineering
5 24 (57.14%) Data Modelling
5 24 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
5 24 (57.14%) Data Stewardship
5 24 (57.14%) Data Transformation
5 24 (57.14%) ETL
5 24 (57.14%) Matrix Organization
5 24 (57.14%) Metadata Management
5 24 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (57.14%) Use Case
6 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Python
1 24 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (2.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (59.52%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (69.05%) Data Quality
2 27 (64.29%) Accessibility
2 27 (64.29%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) GxP
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
1 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.38%) SAP