Validation Jobs in Edinburgh

Validation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 63 110
Rank change year-on-year -10 +47 +35
Permanent jobs citing Validation 20 44 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.22% 2.93% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 3.27% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 14
10th Percentile - - £35,733
25th Percentile - £50,172 £38,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,576 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% +1.62% +12.46%
75th Percentile - £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile - £85,159 £96,052
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £51,797 £58,816
% change year-on-year +12.04% -11.93% +26.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 878 1,347 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.45% 89.74% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 401 949 1,154
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £98,474 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £54,471 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Validation in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Adobe Analytics
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Contentsquare
1 2 (10.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.00%) npm
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (75.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Legal
3 8 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (40.00%) Front Office
4 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Risk Officer
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Risk Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (5.00%) J2EE
1 1 (5.00%) Jest
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) Node.js
1 1 (5.00%) React
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Credit Risk
1 2 (10.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 10 (50.00%) Model Validation
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (50.00%) Quantitative Analysis
1 10 (50.00%) Quantitative Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Project Management
2 8 (40.00%) Statistics
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (25.00%) Customer Experience
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (20.00%) Information Security
6 4 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
6 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
6 4 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Analytics
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 8 (40.00%) PhD
3 2 (10.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Adobe
1 2 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft