Validation Job Trends in Cardiff

Validation
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 47 42
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +27
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.28% 0.56% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.70% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £42,741 £48,211
25th Percentile £66,091 £46,451 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £54,658 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% +6.07% +6.79%
75th Percentile £74,066 £60,841 £52,884
90th Percentile - £63,336 £68,942
South Wales median annual salary £65,000 £54,658 £51,528
% change year-on-year +18.92% +6.07% +6.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 252 286 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 71.79% 80.56% 90.45%
Number of salaries quoted 173 177 306
10th Percentile £30,050 £29,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,389
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,122 £67,226
90th Percentile £78,694 £79,600 £73,750
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,375 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +0.22%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Validation
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform