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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 64 144
Rank change year-on-year -22 +80 -19
Permanent jobs citing Validation 34 104 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.10% 3.38% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 3.93% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9 45 11
10th Percentile £41,300 £39,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -32.26% +40.91%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £112,500 £70,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 1,500 2,649 2,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.71% 86.09% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 544 1,815 1,615
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,350
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,130 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £80,313 £70,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,750 £85,000 £93,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 11 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 11 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
Slough -19 10 £25,000 -64.29% 15
Reading -12 8 £61,250 +16.67% 31
Maidenhead -22 7 - - 3
Windsor - 7 - -
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 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) Azure
2 21 (61.76%) AWS
2 21 (61.76%) GCP
2 21 (61.76%) Snowflake
3 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
3 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (61.76%) Data Lake
1 21 (61.76%) Data Warehouse
1 21 (61.76%) Metadata
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
1 1 (2.94%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (61.76%) Law
2 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Health Technology
3 3 (8.82%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.88%) Digital Health
4 2 (5.88%) Marketing
4 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (67.65%) Senior
2 21 (61.76%) Lead
3 2 (5.88%) Administrator
3 2 (5.88%) Architect
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Architect
3 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Administrator
3 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (2.94%) Analyst
4 1 (2.94%) Business Analyst
4 1 (2.94%) Data Manager
4 1 (2.94%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) IT Support
4 1 (2.94%) Master Data Manager
4 1 (2.94%) QA Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (2.94%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (2.94%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.94%) NHS
2 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Data Validation
2 23 (67.65%) Data Governance
2 23 (67.65%) Data Management
2 23 (67.65%) Data Strategy
2 23 (67.65%) Master Data Management
3 22 (64.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (64.71%) Use Case
4 21 (61.76%) Analytics
4 21 (61.76%) Anomaly Detection
4 21 (61.76%) Asset Management
4 21 (61.76%) Data Architecture
4 21 (61.76%) Data Engineering
4 21 (61.76%) Data Modelling
4 21 (61.76%) Data Pipeline
4 21 (61.76%) Data Stewardship
4 21 (61.76%) Data Transformation
4 21 (61.76%) ETL
4 21 (61.76%) Matrix Organization
4 21 (61.76%) Metadata Management
5 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) SQL
2 21 (61.76%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (61.76%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.88%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (70.59%) QA
2 23 (67.65%) Data Quality
3 21 (61.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.94%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.94%) SAP