Validation Jobs in Central London

Validation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 125 189
Rank change year-on-year +11 +64 -13
Permanent jobs citing Validation 47 62 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.87% 1.65% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.79% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 25 23 39
10th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £42,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £68,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -14.71% -2.86%
75th Percentile £106,250 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £113,200 £94,250
London median annual salary £71,250 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.14% -9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,420 3,472 4,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.45% 92.19% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,645 2,683 4,075
10th Percentile £41,850 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,001 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Central London

Validation
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Validation in Central London

Validation
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in Central London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in Central London

Validation
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 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
City of London +7 28 £88,750 +22.41% 24
Camden -5 5 - -
Southwark - 5 - -
Validation
London

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.26%) Kinematics
2 1 (2.13%) MTS
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.26%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (4.26%) CATIA
2 2 (4.26%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) AWS
2 12 (25.53%) Azure
3 11 (23.40%) GCP
4 7 (14.89%) GitHub
5 5 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (10.64%) Pulumi
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.13%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (2.13%) Akamai
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.13%) Dagster
7 1 (2.13%) dbt
7 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DKIM
1 1 (2.13%) DMARC
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) MongoDB
1 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
2 5 (10.64%) MySQL
2 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.26%) Tableau
4 1 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) Power BI
4 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.13%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git
1 5 (10.64%) Gradle
1 5 (10.64%) Maven
2 4 (8.51%) Postman
2 4 (8.51%) SoapUI
3 2 (4.26%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) JMeter
General
1 15 (31.91%) Finance
2 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
4 9 (19.15%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (10.64%) Advertising
5 5 (10.64%) Games
6 4 (8.51%) Banking
7 3 (6.38%) Front Office
8 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.13%) Billing
9 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.13%) Law
9 1 (2.13%) Marketing
9 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Senior
2 10 (21.28%) Analyst
3 9 (19.15%) Developer
4 7 (14.89%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Data Manager
5 6 (12.77%) Senior Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Senior Software Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Software Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Test Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Qualitative Analyst
7 4 (8.51%) Quantitative Analyst
7 4 (8.51%) Quantitative Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Data Analyst
8 3 (6.38%) Head of Data Management
8 3 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Analyst Developer
9 2 (4.26%) C++ Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Robotics Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) Kafka
2 5 (10.64%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (10.64%) Loki
2 5 (10.64%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (10.64%) React
2 5 (10.64%) RESTful
2 5 (10.64%) Spring
3 2 (4.26%) YAML
4 1 (2.13%) PySpark
4 1 (2.13%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Mobile Games
2 2 (4.26%) 3D Printing
2 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.26%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.26%) Robotics
3 1 (2.13%) CMDB
3 1 (2.13%) Derivative
3 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.13%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (2.13%) IoT
3 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.13%) Swaptions
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (29.79%) Mentoring
3 12 (25.53%) CI/CD
3 12 (25.53%) Data Management
4 11 (23.40%) Project Management
4 11 (23.40%) Test Automation
5 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
5 10 (21.28%) Data Validation
6 9 (19.15%) Agile
6 9 (19.15%) Biotechnology
6 9 (19.15%) Clinical Data Management
6 9 (19.15%) Data Collection
7 8 (17.02%) Computer Science
7 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (14.89%) API Development
8 7 (14.89%) DevOps
8 7 (14.89%) Migration
8 7 (14.89%) Presales
8 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
8 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) Python
2 10 (21.28%) SQL
3 6 (12.77%) C++
3 6 (12.77%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) Bash
4 5 (10.64%) Go
5 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.26%) Ruby
5 2 (4.26%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
6 1 (2.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (42.55%) Degree
2 7 (14.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.26%) PhD
5 1 (2.13%) ACSA
5 1 (2.13%) ACSP
5 1 (2.13%) CCSK
5 1 (2.13%) CCSP
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.13%) ISSAP
5 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (34.04%) QA
2 12 (25.53%) Data Quality
3 9 (19.15%) Good Clinical Practice
4 4 (8.51%) PMO
5 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.13%) COBIT
5 1 (2.13%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (2.13%) MiFID
5 1 (2.13%) NCSC
5 1 (2.13%) NIST
5 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.89%) Grafana
3 6 (12.77%) Terraform
4 5 (10.64%) Argo
4 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.26%) Ansible
5 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Google
1 5 (10.64%) Hitachi
1 5 (10.64%) New Relic
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Autodesk
3 2 (4.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe
4 1 (2.13%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.13%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.13%) FactSet
4 1 (2.13%) Murex
4 1 (2.13%) Netskope
4 1 (2.13%) Okta
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.13%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.13%) Zscaler