Validation Job Trends in the East of England

Validation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 85 115
Rank change year-on-year -10 +30 -39
Permanent jobs citing Validation 94 64 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.59% 2.49% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.69% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55 56 74
10th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £36,948
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,225 2,377 4,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 71.36% 92.49% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,482 1,393 3,617
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,400 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,901 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Validation job vacancy trend in the East of England

Validation
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Validation

Validation
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Validation in the East of England

Validation
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +12 61 £60,000 +4.35% 19
Bedfordshire +13 10 £37,250 -46.79% 11
Cambridgeshire -36 8 £55,000 +4.76% 31
Suffolk - 7 £43,500 - 9
Essex -24 4 £58,750 +161.11% 15
Norfolk - 4 £62,500 - 9
Validation
England

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (3.19%) Apache
1 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (6.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.13%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.51%) AWS
1 8 (8.51%) Power Platform
2 3 (3.19%) Amazon S3
2 3 (3.19%) Azure
2 3 (3.19%) OpenShift
3 2 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (1.06%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.06%) SaaS
4 1 (1.06%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.06%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.06%) Broadband
1 1 (1.06%) LTE
1 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) Power BI
2 4 (4.26%) Tableau
3 3 (3.19%) Apache Hive
3 3 (3.19%) Impala
3 3 (3.19%) Metadata
3 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.19%) Parquet
3 3 (3.19%) Spark SQL
4 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Git
1 6 (6.38%) JIRA
2 3 (3.19%) GitLab
2 3 (3.19%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.06%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.06%) Toad
3 1 (1.06%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.02%) Finance
3 10 (10.64%) Manufacturing
4 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.51%) Electronics
5 4 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.26%) Games
5 4 (4.26%) Marketing
5 4 (4.26%) Swedish Language
5 4 (4.26%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.19%) Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
8 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Police
8 1 (1.06%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (29.79%) Validation Engineer
2 26 (27.66%) Integration Engineer
3 18 (19.15%) Systems Integration Engineer
4 16 (17.02%) Systems Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Software Validation Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) Embedded Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) Senior
6 10 (10.64%) Verification Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Lead
7 9 (9.57%) Software Verification Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Test Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Analyst
9 7 (7.45%) Incident Responder
10 4 (4.26%) Configuration Specialist
10 4 (4.26%) Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.19%) Business Analyst
11 3 (3.19%) Consultant
11 3 (3.19%) Data Business Analyst
11 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) JSON
1 5 (5.32%) Pandas
2 3 (3.19%) OpenGL
2 3 (3.19%) PySpark
2 3 (3.19%) Vulkan
3 2 (2.13%) XML
4 1 (1.06%) .NET
4 1 (1.06%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.06%) JSON-LD
4 1 (1.06%) Middleware
4 1 (1.06%) REST
4 1 (1.06%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.32%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.26%) Robotics
2 4 (4.26%) Verilog
2 4 (4.26%) VHDL
3 3 (3.19%) 3D Graphics
3 3 (3.19%) CUDA
3 3 (3.19%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.19%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.19%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (3.19%) Semantic Web
4 2 (2.13%) IoT
4 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.13%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.06%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.06%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.06%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.06%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (1.06%) ThreadX
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.40%) Verification and Validation
2 17 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (13.83%) Data Analysis
3 13 (13.83%) ERP
4 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
4 11 (11.70%) Software Testing
4 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (10.64%) Agile
5 10 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (10.64%) Incident Response
6 9 (9.57%) AI
6 9 (9.57%) Data Validation
6 9 (9.57%) Digital Forensics
7 8 (8.51%) ETL
7 8 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (7.45%) Data Governance
8 7 (7.45%) Data Transformation
8 7 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (7.45%) Red Team
8 7 (7.45%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.47%) Python
2 16 (17.02%) SQL
3 8 (8.51%) C
4 5 (5.32%) Embedded C
5 3 (3.19%) C++
5 3 (3.19%) GLSL
6 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.06%) Go
7 1 (1.06%) Java
7 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.06%) SHACL
7 1 (1.06%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.06%) VB
7 1 (1.06%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.06%) VB6
Qualifications
1 46 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.06%) CISA
4 1 (1.06%) CISM
4 1 (1.06%) CISSP
4 1 (1.06%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.06%) CRISC
4 1 (1.06%) Degree
4 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.06%) PhD
4 1 (1.06%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.32%) QA
3 4 (4.26%) DO-254
4 2 (2.13%) GDPR
4 2 (2.13%) SLA
5 1 (1.06%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (1.06%) GRC
5 1 (1.06%) GxP
5 1 (1.06%) ISO 31000
5 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.06%) MISRA
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.06%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (6.38%) Firmware
2 1 (1.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (9.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (1.06%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) SAP
2 8 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.32%) Oracle
4 3 (3.19%) IBM
4 3 (3.19%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.06%) Databricks
6 1 (1.06%) Google
6 1 (1.06%) Netezza
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) SolarWinds