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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 109 138
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +40
Permanent jobs citing Validation 36 56 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.56% 2.11% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.20% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 33 37 29
10th Percentile £54,000 - £39,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -10.34% -19.44%
75th Percentile £81,250 £103,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £117,000 £100,250
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £66,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +16.98% -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 1,992 2,540 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.35% 95.67% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,457 1,620 2,368
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
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 £113,750 £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 14 January 2026.

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 4 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Kinematics
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.78%) Magento
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) GCP
3 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.56%) Dagster
4 2 (5.56%) Prefect
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.78%) Figma
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) Miro
5 1 (2.78%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) IP Telephony
1 3 (8.33%) PBX
1 3 (8.33%) PSTN
1 3 (8.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.78%) Looker
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.78%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 12 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Banking
6 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.56%) Marketing
7 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.78%) Law
8 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Analyst
2 9 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 9 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Data Business Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Lead
4 6 (16.67%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Tester
7 1 (2.78%) C++ Software Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Consultant
7 1 (2.78%) Credit Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Risk Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) REST
1 3 (8.33%) SOAP
1 3 (8.33%) Web Services
2 2 (5.56%) YAML
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.78%) Open3D
3 1 (2.78%) Pandas
3 1 (2.78%) Playwright
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
3 1 (2.78%) pytest
3 1 (2.78%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.78%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 6 (16.67%) Reinsurance
2 3 (8.33%) IVR
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.56%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.78%) Derivative
4 1 (2.78%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.78%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.78%) GNSS
4 1 (2.78%) Lidar
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (30.56%) DevOps
3 10 (27.78%) Data Validation
3 10 (27.78%) Migration
4 9 (25.00%) Data Management
4 9 (25.00%) ITIL
5 8 (22.22%) Business Analysis
5 8 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (22.22%) DataOps
5 8 (22.22%) Process Improvement
6 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
6 7 (19.44%) ITSM
6 7 (19.44%) Service Management
7 6 (16.67%) Batch Processing
7 6 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 6 (16.67%) Release Management
7 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 6 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (13.89%) Analytics
8 5 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) SQL
2 9 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.56%) Bash
4 2 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Ruby
5 1 (2.78%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (30.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Ansible
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.33%) Avaya
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco
3 3 (8.33%) Genesys
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk