Validation Jobs in the City of London

Validation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 125 180
Rank change year-on-year +13 +55 -1
Permanent jobs citing Validation 28 57 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.43% 1.69% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.85% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16 23 35
10th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £52,188 £68,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £74,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -12.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £104,375 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £159,375 £115,450 -
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £74,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.49% -12.94% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,887 3,078 4,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.37% 91.36% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 2,356 3,488
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,320 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation in the City of London.

Salary trend for Validation in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in the City of London

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Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the City of London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London Bridge - 8 - -
Validation
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.14%) Kinematics
2 1 (3.57%) MTS
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.14%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (7.14%) CATIA
2 2 (7.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 9 (32.14%) GCP
4 8 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (28.57%) Pulumi
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.57%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) Akamai
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.57%) Dagster
6 1 (3.57%) dbt
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Broadband
1 1 (3.57%) DKIM
1 1 (3.57%) DMARC
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
1 2 (7.14%) Tableau
2 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Advertising
4 2 (7.14%) Front Office
4 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Games
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Design Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Junior Financial Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Robotics Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Loki
2 2 (7.14%) YAML
3 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) 3D Printing
1 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 2 (7.14%) Fixed Income
1 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 2 (7.14%) Robotics
2 1 (3.57%) CMDB
2 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.57%) Derivative
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 1 (3.57%) IoT
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.57%) Swaptions
2 1 (3.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (32.14%) Presales
5 8 (28.57%) Analytics
5 8 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 8 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
5 8 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (28.57%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 8 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (28.57%) Digital Engineering
5 8 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 8 (28.57%) Observability
5 8 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (28.57%) Value Proposition
6 5 (17.86%) Agile
6 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) Bash
2 8 (28.57%) Go
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) C++
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.14%) Ruby
4 2 (7.14%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (3.57%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) R
5 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) ACSA
3 1 (3.57%) ACSP
3 1 (3.57%) CCSK
3 1 (3.57%) CCSP
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.57%) ISSAP
3 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (3.57%) PhD
3 1 (3.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) COBIT
2 1 (3.57%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (3.57%) MiFID
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Grafana
2 9 (32.14%) Terraform
3 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.14%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Hitachi
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Autodesk
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Adobe
4 1 (3.57%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.57%) FactSet
4 1 (3.57%) Murex
4 1 (3.57%) Netskope
4 1 (3.57%) Okta
4 1 (3.57%) Refinitiv
4 1 (3.57%) Zscaler