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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 157 191
Rank change year-on-year +3 +34 -52
Permanent jobs citing Validation 845 869 929
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.54% 1.82% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.99% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 469 317 555
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £35,884
25th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -15.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,250 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -15.38%

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 44,101 43,645 50,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.53% 91.21% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 26,618 21,284 39,538
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,299 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +29 280 £75,000 +13.21% 195
South East +24 193 £49,500 -13.91% 369
North of England -16 124 £55,117 +19.27% 217
Midlands +7 85 £38,750 -25.48% 192
North West -5 80 £54,500 +14.30% 83
East of England +10 77 £59,500 +8.18% 203
South West +21 74 £55,000 +4.56% 191
West Midlands 0 54 £37,500 -28.57% 88
Yorkshire -13 35 £61,250 +51.33% 105
East Midlands +3 31 £41,750 -16.50% 101
North East -10 9 £41,000 -1.20% 30
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 19 (2.25%) Confluence
2 18 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.18%) Appian
5 9 (1.07%) CMS
6 8 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.83%) Apache
8 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.59%) SugarCRM
10 4 (0.47%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.36%) SAS
12 2 (0.24%) Kinematics
12 2 (0.24%) WordPress
13 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.12%) FileNet
Applications
1 59 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (6.75%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.18%) Simulink
5 8 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.47%) Fusion 360
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.24%) Elementor
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.24%) Weka
9 1 (0.12%) CATIA
9 1 (0.12%) Doxygen
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.12%) Revit
9 1 (0.12%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 19 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.36%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.24%) Primavera
5 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 128 (15.15%) Azure
2 66 (7.81%) Power Platform
3 57 (6.75%) AWS
4 40 (4.73%) SaaS
5 36 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (3.31%) GCP
7 18 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (2.01%) Power Automate
8 17 (2.01%) Snowflake
9 16 (1.89%) GitHub
10 13 (1.54%) dbt
10 13 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (1.30%) Entra ID
11 11 (1.30%) Figma
12 10 (1.18%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
12 10 (1.18%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.07%) Datadog
14 8 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.01%) CHAP
2 13 (1.54%) WAN
3 12 (1.42%) Firewall
3 12 (1.42%) LAN
4 11 (1.30%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.18%) 5G
6 9 (1.07%) DNS
7 8 (0.95%) HTTP
7 8 (0.95%) MQTT
8 7 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.71%) Modbus
10 5 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.59%) VoIP
10 5 (0.59%) WAAS
10 5 (0.59%) Wireless
11 4 (0.47%) BGP
11 4 (0.47%) OSPF
11 4 (0.47%) SMTP
12 3 (0.36%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (7.57%) Power BI
2 30 (3.55%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (2.72%) Metadata
5 20 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.89%) Tableau
7 14 (1.66%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (1.30%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.18%) Pinecone
9 10 (1.18%) Spotfire
10 8 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.95%) Big Data
11 7 (0.83%) Looker
11 7 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.71%) GIS
12 6 (0.71%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.59%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (7.10%) JIRA
2 40 (4.73%) Git
3 39 (4.62%) Rational DOORS
4 23 (2.72%) Postman
5 17 (2.01%) Jenkins
6 13 (1.54%) Selenium
7 12 (1.42%) MLflow
8 11 (1.30%) GitLab
8 11 (1.30%) LabVIEW
9 10 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.18%) TestRail
10 9 (1.07%) Eclipse
10 9 (1.07%) JMeter
10 9 (1.07%) SoapUI
11 7 (0.83%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.71%) Zephyr
13 5 (0.59%) Fiddler
13 5 (0.59%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.59%) Subversion
13 5 (0.59%) TestNG
General
1 307 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 230 (27.22%) Finance
3 182 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.34%) Banking
5 53 (6.27%) Electronics
6 43 (5.09%) Marketing
7 42 (4.97%) Financial Institution
8 41 (4.85%) Manufacturing
9 39 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (3.79%) Law
11 30 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (3.55%) Telecoms
12 29 (3.43%) Aerospace
12 29 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (2.96%) Public Sector
13 25 (2.96%) Retail
14 23 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (2.60%) Legal
16 20 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (2.01%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 129 (15.27%) Analyst
2 125 (14.79%) Senior
3 98 (11.60%) Systems Engineer
4 65 (7.69%) Lead
5 51 (6.04%) Architect
6 50 (5.92%) Test Engineer
7 42 (4.97%) Business Analyst
8 40 (4.73%) Validation Engineer
9 36 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
10 32 (3.79%) Data Engineer
11 31 (3.67%) Data Analyst
11 31 (3.67%) Principal Engineer
12 30 (3.55%) Developer
13 29 (3.43%) Junior
14 28 (3.31%) Applications Engineer
14 28 (3.31%) Applications Support
15 27 (3.20%) Systems Integration Engineer
16 26 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (2.72%) Principal Systems Engineer
17 23 (2.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.68%) REST
2 30 (3.55%) Middleware
3 25 (2.96%) Pandas
4 24 (2.84%) JSON
4 24 (2.84%) pytest
5 20 (2.37%) scikit-learn
6 19 (2.25%) XML
7 18 (2.13%) PyTorch
7 18 (2.13%) TensorFlow
8 16 (1.89%) NumPy
9 15 (1.78%) OAuth
10 14 (1.66%) CSS
10 14 (1.66%) FastAPI
10 14 (1.66%) JWT
10 14 (1.66%) Swagger
10 14 (1.66%) Web Services
11 13 (1.54%) Flask
11 13 (1.54%) HTML
11 13 (1.54%) React
12 11 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 35 (4.14%) Onboarding
3 25 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.25%) Life Science
7 19 (2.25%) Low-Code
8 17 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 10 (1.18%) Blockchain
12 10 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.18%) Self-Driving Car
13 9 (1.07%) IoT
13 9 (1.07%) SCADA
13 9 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.95%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.85%) Windows
2 35 (4.14%) Linux
3 12 (1.42%) Unix
4 10 (1.18%) Android
5 9 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.24%) AIX
8 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.24%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.24%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (24.02%) Agile
2 192 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
3 143 (16.92%) Verification and Validation
4 117 (13.85%) Analytics
5 114 (13.49%) Data Validation
6 108 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 103 (12.19%) Test Automation
8 101 (11.95%) Migration
9 94 (11.12%) DevOps
10 89 (10.53%) Systems Engineering
11 86 (10.18%) CI/CD
11 86 (10.18%) ETL
12 84 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
13 83 (9.82%) Mentoring
14 79 (9.35%) Data Analysis
14 79 (9.35%) Software Engineering
15 78 (9.23%) Decision-Making
16 76 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 75 (8.88%) Roadmaps
18 73 (8.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 187 (22.13%) SQL
2 157 (18.58%) Python
3 29 (3.43%) C
3 29 (3.43%) Java
4 26 (3.08%) C++
5 25 (2.96%) MATLAB
6 23 (2.72%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.25%) PowerShell
8 15 (1.78%) Bash
9 12 (1.42%) TypeScript
10 11 (1.30%) C#
11 8 (0.95%) R
12 7 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.71%) Bicep
13 6 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.59%) PHP
15 4 (0.47%) Go
15 4 (0.47%) VB
16 3 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 236 (27.93%) Degree
2 106 (12.54%) Security Cleared
3 100 (11.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 47 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 44 (5.21%) SC Cleared
6 36 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.25%) CISA
7 19 (2.25%) CISSP
8 18 (2.13%) CGEIT
8 18 (2.13%) CISM
8 18 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.13%) FFIEC
8 18 (2.13%) SANS
9 16 (1.89%) HNC
9 16 (1.89%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.66%) Chartered Engineer
12 12 (1.42%) HND
13 11 (1.30%) CCNP
13 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (12.78%) QA
2 101 (11.95%) Data Quality
3 37 (4.38%) GDPR
4 36 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 34 (4.02%) SLA
6 30 (3.55%) Accessibility
7 19 (2.25%) NIST
8 18 (2.13%) COBIT
9 11 (1.30%) ISO 20022
9 11 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (1.30%) SEPA
10 10 (1.18%) Good Clinical Practice
10 10 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 9 (1.07%) WCAG
12 8 (0.95%) GRC
12 8 (0.95%) GxP
13 7 (0.83%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 7 (0.83%) IFRS
13 7 (0.83%) TARGET2
14 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (5.09%) Docker
2 16 (1.89%) Firmware
3 8 (0.95%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) Ceph
5 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.24%) Lustre
5 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.24%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) iptables
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.12%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.12%) pfSense
6 1 (0.12%) vCloud
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.37%) Terraform
3 13 (1.54%) Ansible
4 10 (1.18%) Grafana
5 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 7 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.71%) SCCM
8 4 (0.47%) Argo
8 4 (0.47%) Rancher
8 4 (0.47%) yum
9 2 (0.24%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.24%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.24%) Nessus
9 2 (0.24%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) Control-M
10 1 (0.12%) Kibana
10 1 (0.12%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 110 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.27%) SAP
3 31 (3.67%) Oracle
4 26 (3.08%) Cisco
5 23 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.78%) Foundry
7 14 (1.66%) IBM
7 14 (1.66%) Software AG
8 12 (1.42%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.30%) Adobe
9 11 (1.30%) F5
9 11 (1.30%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.18%) Automation Anywhere
10 10 (1.18%) CheckPoint
10 10 (1.18%) UiPath
11 8 (0.95%) Databricks
11 8 (0.95%) Intapp
12 7 (0.83%) Google
12 7 (0.83%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft