Validation Job Trends in Darlington

Validation
Durham > Darlington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Darlington requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Permanent jobs citing Validation 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 5.71% 1.75% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% 1.96% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £37,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% - -
75th Percentile £74,066 £38,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
Durham median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 -
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24 51 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Darlington 68.57% 89.47% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11 29 42
10th Percentile £25,087 £36,000 £29,225
25th Percentile £30,044 £46,713 £31,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £65,000 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% +34.72% -3.50%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,000 £62,424
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £69,800
Durham median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% +25.00%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Darlington

Validation
Salary Trend in Darlington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Locust
1 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft