Validation Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Validation
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 100 53
Rank change year-on-year +85 -47 +83
Permanent jobs citing Validation 174 25 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 16.67% 1.28% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.38% 1.48% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 20
10th Percentile £53,750 £25,000 £45,025
25th Percentile £55,000 £29,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £65,938
90th Percentile - £50,125 £72,500
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
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,001 1,693 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 95.88% 86.78% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 357 1,014 692
10th Percentile £24,750 £28,575 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £45,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% -12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,250 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Buckinghamshire

Validation
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Validation in Buckinghamshire

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Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Milton Keynes +34 6 £60,000 +50.00% 14
Olney - 5 - -
Bletchley - 5 - - 2
Newport Pagnell - 4 - -
Aylesbury - 4 - -
Buckingham - 4 - - 3
Marlow - 4 £60,000 - 1
Validation
South East

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.57%) Azure
1 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 166 (95.40%) 5G
1 166 (95.40%) Bluetooth
1 166 (95.40%) GSM
1 166 (95.40%) LTE
1 166 (95.40%) UMTS
1 166 (95.40%) Wi-Fi
1 166 (95.40%) Wireless
2 1 (0.57%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.57%) MySQL
1 1 (0.57%) Power BI
1 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Git
2 4 (2.30%) JIRA
2 4 (2.30%) Subversion
General
1 171 (98.28%) Electronics
2 5 (2.87%) Aerospace
3 4 (2.30%) Aviation
3 4 (2.30%) Manufacturing
3 4 (2.30%) Social Skills
4 1 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.57%) Automotive
4 1 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 170 (97.70%) Electronics Engineer
2 168 (96.55%) Test Engineer
3 166 (95.40%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 5 (2.87%) Senior
5 4 (2.30%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) Communications Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) Data Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) Developer
6 1 (0.57%) Power BI Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) Senior Software Test Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.57%) .NET
1 1 (0.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 166 (95.40%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.30%) CPLD
2 4 (2.30%) FPGA
3 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Linux
1 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (98.28%) Verification and Validation
2 170 (97.70%) Customer Requirements
3 166 (95.40%) Coaching
3 166 (95.40%) Mentoring
3 166 (95.40%) Test Strategy
4 5 (2.87%) Prototyping
4 5 (2.87%) Test Automation
5 4 (2.30%) Issue Tracking
5 4 (2.30%) OO
5 4 (2.30%) OOD
5 4 (2.30%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (2.30%) Project Delivery
5 4 (2.30%) Schematic Capture
5 4 (2.30%) SDLC
5 4 (2.30%) Software Architecture
5 4 (2.30%) Systems Thinking
6 2 (1.15%) Data Analysis
6 2 (1.15%) Physics
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.57%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.87%) C
2 4 (2.30%) C#
2 4 (2.30%) C++
3 2 (1.15%) MATLAB
3 2 (1.15%) Python
4 1 (0.57%) Embedded C
4 1 (0.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 170 (97.70%) Degree
2 166 (95.40%) HND
3 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.57%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (2.30%) Agilent
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft