Data Validation Jobs in England

Data Validation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Validation over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 713 830
Rank change year-on-year +125 +117 +102
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 82 124 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 42 90 42
10th Percentile £41,325 £39,725 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £102,410 £96,250 £89,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,071 73,314 88,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.80% 85.78% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 24,007 54,025 52,111
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2025. 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
South East +100 28 £60,000 -7.69% 29
London +77 25 £46,500 -32.36% 58
South West +122 9 £98,420 +39.45% 7
West Midlands +40 9 £56,250 +14.80% 5
Midlands +37 9 £56,250 +14.80% 9
North of England +52 8 £40,750 -4.12% 15
North West +11 7 £39,000 +11.43% 5
East of England - 2 - - 8
Yorkshire +64 1 £42,500 - 6
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 38 (46.34%) AWS
1 38 (46.34%) Azure
2 30 (36.59%) GCP
3 22 (26.83%) Snowflake
4 17 (20.73%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (4.88%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.88%) Vertex AI
8 3 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.66%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (3.66%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (3.66%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
8 3 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.66%) Serverless
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (41.46%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (32.93%) Data Lake
3 21 (25.61%) Metadata
4 17 (20.73%) Power BI
5 8 (9.76%) Big Data
6 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
6 7 (8.54%) Tableau
7 5 (6.10%) BigQuery
7 5 (6.10%) Data Hub
7 5 (6.10%) Looker
8 4 (4.88%) MySQL
9 3 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.66%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.66%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.22%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.22%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) JMeter
2 5 (6.10%) Postman
3 3 (3.66%) Git
3 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.66%) JIRA
3 3 (3.66%) Locust
3 3 (3.66%) Robot Framework
3 3 (3.66%) Selenium
4 2 (2.44%) Gatling
4 2 (2.44%) GitLab
4 2 (2.44%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.44%) SoapUI
4 2 (2.44%) TestRail
General
1 23 (28.05%) Finance
1 23 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.83%) Law
3 16 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Banking
5 7 (8.54%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Billing
8 2 (2.44%) Front Office
8 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.22%) Advertising
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (40.24%) Senior
2 26 (31.71%) Lead
3 16 (19.51%) Data Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Analyst
5 8 (9.76%) Data Manager
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Manager
7 6 (7.32%) Test Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Provisioning Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Data Scientist
9 4 (4.88%) Insight Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) IT Manager
9 4 (4.88%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (3.66%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Business Systems Analyst
10 3 (3.66%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.66%) Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Systems Analyst
10 3 (3.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.88%) Pandas
1 4 (4.88%) XGBoost
2 3 (3.66%) Kafka
2 3 (3.66%) pytest
2 3 (3.66%) REST
2 3 (3.66%) YAML
3 2 (2.44%) JSON
3 2 (2.44%) JWT
3 2 (2.44%) OAuth
3 2 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.44%) SAML
4 1 (1.22%) .NET
4 1 (1.22%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.22%) Flask
4 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.22%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.22%) JSON-LD
4 1 (1.22%) PySpark
4 1 (1.22%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.88%) CMDB
3 3 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.22%) Equities
5 1 (1.22%) IoT
5 1 (1.22%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) PMI
5 1 (1.22%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.22%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) Validation
2 38 (46.34%) Analytics
3 37 (45.12%) Data Management
4 36 (43.90%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (41.46%) ETL
6 32 (39.02%) Data Engineering
6 32 (39.02%) Data Modelling
7 31 (37.80%) Data Governance
8 26 (31.71%) Data Transformation
8 26 (31.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (30.49%) Asset Management
10 24 (29.27%) Data Strategy
11 23 (28.05%) Master Data Management
12 22 (26.83%) Data Architecture
12 22 (26.83%) Mentoring
12 22 (26.83%) Use Case
13 21 (25.61%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (25.61%) Data Stewardship
13 21 (25.61%) Matrix Organization
13 21 (25.61%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (60.98%) SQL
2 35 (42.68%) Python
3 2 (2.44%) SHACL
3 2 (2.44%) SPARQL
4 1 (1.22%) Bash
4 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.22%) Groovy
4 1 (1.22%) Java
4 1 (1.22%) Scala
4 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (34.15%) Degree
2 8 (9.76%) SC Cleared
2 8 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.88%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (59.76%) Data Quality
2 37 (45.12%) QA
3 23 (28.05%) Accessibility
4 7 (8.54%) Good Clinical Practice
5 3 (3.66%) GDPR
6 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (13.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.32%) Databricks
2 6 (7.32%) Google
3 5 (6.10%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.22%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.22%) Talend
6 1 (1.22%) Yardi