Validation Job Trends in the City of London

Validation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 113 141
Rank change year-on-year +14 +28 +41
Permanent jobs citing Validation 34 56 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.62% 2.06% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.16% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 32 38 28
10th Percentile £51,250 - £39,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £50,000 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -10.34% -19.44%
75th Percentile £88,125 £102,188 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £116,500 £102,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £66,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +20.75% -8.62% -19.44%

All Process & 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 1,833 2,593 2,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.54% 95.47% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,694 2,415
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,350
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Validation job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Validation

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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 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) Kinematics
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.94%) Magento
2 1 (2.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) GCP
3 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.88%) Figma
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub
4 2 (5.88%) Miro
4 2 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) Dagster
5 1 (2.94%) Prefect
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) IP Telephony
1 3 (8.82%) PBX
1 3 (8.82%) PSTN
1 3 (8.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.94%) Looker
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Postman
General
1 18 (52.94%) Finance
2 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 13 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (26.47%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (26.47%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (17.65%) Banking
6 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.88%) Marketing
7 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.88%) Retail
8 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Analyst
2 10 (29.41%) Business Analyst
2 10 (29.41%) Data Analyst
3 9 (26.47%) Data Business Analyst
3 9 (26.47%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 7 (20.59%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Tester
6 1 (2.94%) Credit Risk Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Java Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Solutions Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) REST
1 3 (8.82%) SOAP
1 3 (8.82%) Web Services
1 3 (8.82%) YAML
2 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.94%) Open3D
2 1 (2.94%) Pandas
2 1 (2.94%) Playwright
2 1 (2.94%) PySpark
2 1 (2.94%) pytest
2 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) IVR
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.94%) Derivative
3 1 (2.94%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.94%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.94%) GNSS
3 1 (2.94%) Lidar
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (29.41%) Data Management
2 10 (29.41%) Migration
3 9 (26.47%) Business Analysis
3 9 (26.47%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (26.47%) DataOps
3 9 (26.47%) Process Improvement
4 7 (20.59%) DevOps
4 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
5 6 (17.65%) Agile
5 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 5 (14.71%) CRM
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (14.71%) ITIL
7 4 (11.76%) Analytics
7 4 (11.76%) Data Validation
7 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 4 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.88%) Bash
4 2 (5.88%) C++
4 2 (5.88%) Ruby
4 2 (5.88%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Ansible
2 3 (8.82%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Grafana
3 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.82%) Avaya
2 3 (8.82%) Cisco
2 3 (8.82%) Genesys
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.94%) SAP