Validation Job Trends in Cheltenham

Validation
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 51 54
Rank change year-on-year +27 +3 +18
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1 1 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.83% 0.36% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.40% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £35,532 £53,800 £64,500
% change year-on-year -33.96% -16.59% +118.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 93 253 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 77.50% 91.67% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 66 145 170
10th Percentile £39,375 £31,600 £32,459
25th Percentile £51,563 £45,000 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £85,938 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,000 £80,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Validation
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Edge Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree