Validation Job Trends in England

Validation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 77 192
Rank change year-on-year -13 +115 -5
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,802 1,604 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.92% 3.67% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 4.11% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 492 491
10th Percentile £34,600 £38,775 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -5.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69,225 39,040 59,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.69% 89.39% 81.41%
Number of salaries quoted 48,876 22,555 38,883
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Validation job vacancy trend in England

Validation
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Validation

Validation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Validation in England

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 Validation within the England region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
London +77 497 £73,000 -4.26% 1,423
South East -29 408 £56,233 +4.62% 442
North of England +98 378 £53,625 +12.89% 305
North West +87 220 £55,000 +15.35% 178
Midlands -44 199 £44,000 -20.00% 242
South West -13 158 £53,000 +0.76% 274
East of England -74 131 £61,250 +7.46% 261
West Midlands +17 109 £44,360 -22.85% 151
East Midlands -63 89 £42,500 - 91
Yorkshire +16 79 £43,000 +1.18% 74
North East +7 79 £55,000 +57.14% 59
Validation
UK

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 59 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
1 59 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 56 (3.11%) Apache
3 30 (1.66%) Confluence
3 30 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.00%) Jupyter
5 12 (0.67%) SAS
6 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) WinCC
8 4 (0.22%) Kinematics
9 3 (0.17%) Artix
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.055%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.055%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.055%) WebSphere
Applications
1 113 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.66%) Simulink
5 26 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 14 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.44%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.28%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Sketch
12 3 (0.17%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.17%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.17%) OrCAD
12 3 (0.17%) Productboard
12 3 (0.17%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.11%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.11%) Revit
13 2 (0.11%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 42 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.61%) SAP MDG
4 10 (0.55%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
7 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.28%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.28%) iTrent
8 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-BP
8 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.22%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.11%) FastStats
11 2 (0.11%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 247 (13.71%) Azure
2 234 (12.99%) AWS
3 154 (8.55%) Power Platform
4 84 (4.66%) GCP
5 65 (3.61%) SaaS
6 58 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
8 50 (2.77%) GitHub
9 45 (2.50%) Amazon S3
10 44 (2.44%) Serverless
11 33 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
12 29 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
13 28 (1.55%) Entra ID
14 25 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
16 21 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (1.17%) Snowflake
17 20 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
19 17 (0.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.66%) Broadband
2 52 (2.89%) Firewall
3 50 (2.77%) DNS
4 30 (1.66%) Network Security
5 27 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.50%) Wireless
6 26 (1.44%) VPN
7 25 (1.39%) WAN
8 21 (1.17%) Ethernet
9 18 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (0.89%) LAN
11 16 (0.89%) MQTT
12 13 (0.72%) BGP
12 13 (0.72%) HTTP
12 13 (0.72%) Internet
13 11 (0.61%) NGN
13 11 (0.61%) OSPF
13 11 (0.61%) RS-232
13 11 (0.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (7.99%) Power BI
2 56 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (2.94%) Tableau
4 49 (2.72%) SQL Server
5 42 (2.33%) Metadata
6 40 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 33 (1.83%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.66%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.39%) BigQuery
10 23 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (1.22%) DynamoDB
11 22 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
12 21 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (1.11%) MySQL
13 20 (1.11%) Spark SQL
14 17 (0.94%) Oracle Database
15 16 (0.89%) Big Data
15 16 (0.89%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 113 (6.27%) JIRA
2 104 (5.77%) Git
3 47 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.33%) GitLab
5 34 (1.89%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.22%) Snyk
7 18 (1.00%) Selenium
8 17 (0.94%) LabVIEW
9 15 (0.83%) Postman
10 14 (0.78%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
12 12 (0.67%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.61%) JMeter
14 10 (0.55%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.44%) MLflow
15 8 (0.44%) Rational Rhapsody
16 7 (0.39%) Burp Suite
16 7 (0.39%) Hudson
16 7 (0.39%) REST Assured
17 6 (0.33%) GDB
General
1 589 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 496 (27.52%) Finance
3 453 (25.14%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (9.49%) Aerospace
5 164 (9.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 161 (8.93%) Manufacturing
7 153 (8.49%) Electronics
8 101 (5.60%) Banking
9 98 (5.44%) Law
10 72 (4.00%) Retail
11 68 (3.77%) Public Sector
12 65 (3.61%) Pharmaceutical
13 64 (3.55%) Marketing
14 61 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
15 52 (2.89%) Legal
16 47 (2.61%) Automotive
17 46 (2.55%) Games
18 37 (2.05%) Telecoms
19 31 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
20 30 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 333 (18.48%) Senior
2 252 (13.98%) Analyst
3 147 (8.16%) Lead
4 145 (8.05%) Systems Engineer
5 113 (6.27%) Test Engineer
6 104 (5.77%) Architect
7 96 (5.33%) Data Engineer
8 84 (4.66%) Business Analyst
9 79 (4.38%) Developer
10 69 (3.83%) Consultant
11 66 (3.66%) Software Engineer
11 66 (3.66%) Validation Engineer
12 63 (3.50%) Principal Engineer
13 59 (3.27%) Data Analyst
14 46 (2.55%) Data Scientist
14 46 (2.55%) Support Engineer
15 43 (2.39%) Embedded Engineer
16 39 (2.16%) IT Manager
17 38 (2.11%) Project Manager
18 37 (2.05%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.50%) RESTful
2 44 (2.44%) Kafka
3 37 (2.05%) PySpark
4 35 (1.94%) Node.js
5 33 (1.83%) REST
6 29 (1.61%) XML
7 27 (1.50%) .NET
8 26 (1.44%) JSON
9 24 (1.33%) LDAP
9 24 (1.33%) Middleware
10 23 (1.28%) Pandas
11 21 (1.17%) CSS
12 20 (1.11%) HTML
12 20 (1.11%) Playwright
13 19 (1.05%) Regular Expression
13 19 (1.05%) XMPP
14 18 (1.00%) ModSecurity
15 17 (0.94%) FastAPI
15 17 (0.94%) React
16 15 (0.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 131 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 130 (7.21%) Onboarding
3 100 (5.55%) Management Information System
4 67 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 66 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 54 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 53 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (2.77%) Driving Licence
8 50 (2.77%) Embedded Systems
9 49 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
10 45 (2.50%) Algorithms
10 45 (2.50%) Low-Code
11 37 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 36 (2.00%) Life Science
13 34 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
13 34 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
14 32 (1.78%) Robotics
15 31 (1.72%) AI Agents
16 29 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
17 26 (1.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 117 (6.49%) Linux
2 86 (4.77%) Windows
3 34 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.11%) Unix
5 19 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.33%) Android
7 6 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.22%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) AIX
10 2 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.11%) ThreadX
10 2 (0.11%) VMS
10 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
2 418 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 369 (20.48%) Agile
4 335 (18.59%) AI
5 291 (16.15%) CI/CD
6 239 (13.26%) Analytics
7 230 (12.76%) Migration
8 224 (12.43%) Test Automation
9 221 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 218 (12.10%) Verification and Validation
11 209 (11.60%) Mentoring
12 201 (11.15%) Decision-Making
13 192 (10.65%) Software Engineering
14 177 (9.82%) DevOps
15 173 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
16 170 (9.43%) Machine Learning
17 167 (9.27%) Data Analysis
18 165 (9.16%) Roadmaps
18 165 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 161 (8.93%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 424 (23.53%) Python
2 356 (19.76%) SQL
3 83 (4.61%) C++
4 79 (4.38%) Java
5 74 (4.11%) C
6 56 (3.11%) Go
7 55 (3.05%) JavaScript
8 44 (2.44%) C#
9 43 (2.39%) MATLAB
10 27 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 26 (1.44%) Bash
12 23 (1.28%) Embedded C
13 22 (1.22%) Scala
14 18 (1.00%) Embedded C++
15 17 (0.94%) TypeScript
16 16 (0.89%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 11 (0.61%) R
19 8 (0.44%) ABAP
19 8 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 381 (21.14%) Degree
2 283 (15.70%) Security Cleared
3 165 (9.16%) SC Cleared
4 123 (6.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 95 (5.27%) DV Cleared
6 82 (4.55%) Master's Degree
7 41 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (1.94%) CISSP
9 31 (1.72%) Chartered Engineer
10 29 (1.61%) PMI Certification
11 28 (1.55%) CISM
11 28 (1.55%) PhD
12 27 (1.50%) HNC
13 23 (1.28%) ACCA
13 23 (1.28%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.28%) CIMA
14 21 (1.17%) HND
15 20 (1.11%) Azure Certification
15 20 (1.11%) SANS
16 18 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (16.48%) Data Quality
2 236 (13.10%) QA
3 61 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 56 (3.11%) GDPR
5 38 (2.11%) GRC
6 25 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.28%) IEC 61508
8 21 (1.17%) NIST
9 18 (1.00%) GxP
9 18 (1.00%) PMO
10 16 (0.89%) SLA
11 15 (0.83%) GAAP
11 15 (0.83%) IFRS
11 15 (0.83%) ISO 26262
12 12 (0.67%) ISO 9001
13 11 (0.61%) GMP
13 11 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 11 (0.61%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.61%) WCAG
14 10 (0.55%) COBIT
System Software
1 74 (4.11%) Docker
2 68 (3.77%) Firmware
3 44 (2.44%) Active Directory
4 30 (1.66%) Embedded Firmware
5 28 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.17%) vSphere
7 13 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.17%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.055%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.055%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 75 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 71 (3.94%) Terraform
3 35 (1.94%) Grafana
4 26 (1.44%) Functional Safety
5 20 (1.11%) Ansible
6 15 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.55%) Cilium
9 8 (0.44%) SCCM
10 7 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 7 (0.39%) Kibana
11 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.33%) Puppet
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.22%) Nessus
12 4 (0.22%) Nmap
12 4 (0.22%) WMI
13 3 (0.17%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 258 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.27%) SAP
3 104 (5.77%) Oracle
4 54 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 49 (2.72%) Databricks
6 44 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.05%) Cisco
8 36 (2.00%) Google
8 36 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 32 (1.78%) VMware
10 29 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
11 25 (1.39%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.22%) EMC
12 22 (1.22%) Tenable
13 15 (0.83%) Foundry
13 15 (0.83%) McAfee
14 14 (0.78%) Adobe
14 14 (0.78%) IBM
14 14 (0.78%) Workday
15 13 (0.72%) Splunk