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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 609 722 820
Rank change year-on-year +113 +98 +110
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 82 121 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 42 87 41
10th Percentile £41,325 £39,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,886 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £102,410 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.36% +15.24% -12.50%

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 46,314 73,328 84,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.13% 85.41% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,693 53,833 50,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £76,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 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 16 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 +106 32 £60,000 -7.69% 41
London +84 24 £46,500 -32.36% 83
South West +111 9 £98,420 +39.45% 7
North of England +44 9 £42,500 - 21
North West +6 7 £39,000 +11.43% 10
West Midlands +52 4 £57,500 +17.35% 10
Midlands +43 4 £57,500 +17.35% 15
East of England - 3 - - 10
Yorkshire +63 1 £42,500 - 6
North East +43 1 £47,500 -13.64% 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 4 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.22%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 42 (51.22%) Azure
2 38 (46.34%) AWS
3 34 (41.46%) GCP
4 25 (30.49%) Snowflake
5 20 (24.39%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.88%) Vertex AI
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.44%) GitHub
9 2 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.22%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (45.12%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (34.15%) Data Lake
3 25 (30.49%) Metadata
4 20 (24.39%) Power BI
5 9 (10.98%) Big Data
5 9 (10.98%) Tableau
6 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.32%) BigQuery
8 5 (6.10%) Data Hub
8 5 (6.10%) Looker
9 3 (3.66%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.66%) MySQL
10 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (1.22%) QlikView
11 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.22%) SQLite
11 1 (1.22%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) JMeter
2 5 (6.10%) Postman
3 4 (4.88%) Git
4 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.66%) JIRA
4 3 (3.66%) Locust
4 3 (3.66%) Robot Framework
4 3 (3.66%) Selenium
5 2 (2.44%) Gatling
5 2 (2.44%) GitLab
5 2 (2.44%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.44%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.44%) TestRail
General
1 25 (30.49%) Law
2 24 (29.27%) Finance
3 23 (28.05%) Social Skills
4 17 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.98%) Banking
6 4 (4.88%) Billing
6 4 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.44%) Front Office
9 1 (1.22%) Advertising
9 1 (1.22%) Games
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (40.24%) Senior
2 30 (36.59%) Lead
3 13 (15.85%) Data Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Analyst
5 6 (7.32%) Test Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Data Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Provisioning Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.88%) Insight Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) IT Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (4.88%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Tester
9 2 (2.44%) Junior
9 2 (2.44%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.88%) Kafka
1 4 (4.88%) Pandas
1 4 (4.88%) XGBoost
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%) PySpark
3 2 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.44%) SAML
4 1 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.22%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.22%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.22%) Plotly
4 1 (1.22%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.22%) RESTful
4 1 (1.22%) Shiny
4 1 (1.22%) SQLAlchemy
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
4 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
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%) Podcast
5 1 (1.22%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.22%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) Validation
2 40 (48.78%) Analytics
3 39 (47.56%) Data Management
4 38 (46.34%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (45.12%) Data Engineering
6 35 (42.68%) Data Modelling
6 35 (42.68%) ETL
7 33 (40.24%) Data Governance
8 30 (36.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (34.15%) Asset Management
10 27 (32.93%) Data Strategy
11 26 (31.71%) Data Transformation
11 26 (31.71%) Master Data Management
12 25 (30.49%) Data Architecture
12 25 (30.49%) Use Case
13 24 (29.27%) Anomaly Detection
13 24 (29.27%) Data Stewardship
13 24 (29.27%) Matrix Organization
13 24 (29.27%) Metadata Management
14 23 (28.05%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 54 (65.85%) SQL
2 39 (47.56%) Python
3 2 (2.44%) Bash
3 2 (2.44%) Java
3 2 (2.44%) R
3 2 (2.44%) SHACL
3 2 (2.44%) SPARQL
4 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.22%) Groovy
4 1 (1.22%) PROC SQL
4 1 (1.22%) Scala
4 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (39.02%) 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%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.22%) Azure 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 38 (46.34%) QA
3 28 (34.15%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.88%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (1.22%) GDPR
5 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (13.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (13.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.66%) Terraform
3 1 (1.22%) Kibana
3 1 (1.22%) logstash
3 1 (1.22%) Oozie
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 1 (1.22%) Informatica
5 1 (1.22%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.22%) SAP
5 1 (1.22%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.22%) Talend
5 1 (1.22%) Yardi