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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 175 204
Rank change year-on-year +10 +29 -69
Permanent jobs citing Validation 783 975 771
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.67% 1.62% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.90% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 436 377 464
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,438
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -9.09% +0.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Process and 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 39,801 51,328 42,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.92% 85.31% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 24,898 26,791 32,650
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 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
London +23 247 £80,000 +18.52% 224
South East +15 199 £52,500 -8.70% 332
North of England -9 115 £52,500 +15.38% 112
Midlands +51 83 £42,500 -15.00% 122
South West +25 72 £50,000 -16.67% 121
North West +5 70 £52,750 +14.15% 61
East of England -7 57 £57,500 +4.55% 154
West Midlands +57 53 £42,500 -15.00% 75
Yorkshire -7 33 £60,000 +50.00% 37
East Midlands +37 30 £42,500 -10.53% 45
North East +10 12 £35,000 -26.70% 15
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 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
1 19 (2.43%) Confluence
2 17 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.28%) Apache
3 10 (1.28%) SugarCRM
4 8 (1.02%) CMS
5 7 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.64%) SAS
7 4 (0.51%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Appian
8 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 51 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.30%) Simulink
4 17 (2.17%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (1.02%) Mathcad
7 3 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) Elementor
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.26%) Revit
8 2 (0.26%) Weka
9 1 (0.13%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.13%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.13%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 27 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.51%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.38%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.26%) Endur
5 2 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.26%) Primavera
5 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (13.79%) Azure
2 74 (9.45%) Power Platform
3 72 (9.20%) AWS
4 37 (4.73%) SaaS
5 24 (3.07%) GCP
6 23 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (2.04%) Amazon S3
7 16 (2.04%) GitHub
8 15 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (1.92%) Serverless
9 14 (1.79%) Snowflake
10 13 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (1.40%) dbt
11 11 (1.40%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.28%) Amazon SageMaker
12 10 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (1.28%) Datadog
13 9 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.02%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.17%) LAN
2 13 (1.66%) Firewall
3 11 (1.40%) Ethernet
4 9 (1.15%) DNS
4 9 (1.15%) Modbus
5 7 (0.89%) Internet
5 7 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.77%) CHAP
6 6 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (0.77%) Profibus
7 5 (0.64%) BGP
7 5 (0.64%) DHCP
7 5 (0.64%) Network Security
7 5 (0.64%) NX-OS
7 5 (0.64%) OSPF
7 5 (0.64%) WAN
8 4 (0.51%) 3GPP
8 4 (0.51%) HTTP
8 4 (0.51%) SMTP
8 4 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (8.68%) Power BI
2 36 (4.60%) Tableau
3 29 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (3.07%) SQL Server
5 21 (2.68%) Metadata
6 20 (2.55%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.66%) Big Data
9 11 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.40%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.89%) Looker
13 6 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (0.77%) GIS
13 6 (0.77%) MySQL
13 6 (0.77%) SAP HANA
14 5 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 64 (8.17%) JIRA
2 39 (4.98%) Git
3 31 (3.96%) Rational DOORS
4 24 (3.07%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.30%) Postman
6 14 (1.79%) Selenium
7 12 (1.53%) GitLab
8 10 (1.28%) SoapUI
9 9 (1.15%) JMeter
10 8 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.02%) MLflow
11 7 (0.89%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.77%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.77%) TestRail
13 5 (0.64%) TestNG
13 5 (0.64%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.51%) Locust
14 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.51%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 309 (39.46%) Social Skills
2 233 (29.76%) Finance
3 157 (20.05%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.28%) Law
5 51 (6.51%) Manufacturing
6 50 (6.39%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (6.13%) Marketing
8 44 (5.62%) Electronics
9 42 (5.36%) Banking
10 36 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (4.09%) Retail
13 31 (3.96%) Financial Institution
14 28 (3.58%) Telecoms
15 27 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 26 (3.32%) Aerospace
16 26 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
17 24 (3.07%) Public Sector
18 22 (2.81%) Billing
19 19 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 117 (14.94%) Senior
2 113 (14.43%) Analyst
3 92 (11.75%) Lead
4 59 (7.54%) Systems Engineer
5 42 (5.36%) Data Analyst
6 34 (4.34%) Business Analyst
7 33 (4.21%) Architect
7 33 (4.21%) Data Engineer
8 29 (3.70%) Support Engineer
9 28 (3.58%) Applications Engineer
9 28 (3.58%) Test Engineer
10 26 (3.32%) Applications Support
10 26 (3.32%) Developer
11 25 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
12 23 (2.94%) Administrator
12 23 (2.94%) Data Quality Analyst
12 23 (2.94%) Quality Analyst
12 23 (2.94%) Team Leader
13 22 (2.81%) Applications Support Engineer
14 18 (2.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.70%) REST
2 23 (2.94%) Middleware
3 20 (2.55%) JSON
3 20 (2.55%) XML
4 18 (2.30%) scikit-learn
5 17 (2.17%) Pandas
6 16 (2.04%) TensorFlow
7 15 (1.92%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.66%) Kafka
9 12 (1.53%) HTML
9 12 (1.53%) React
10 9 (1.15%) CSS
10 9 (1.15%) Web Services
11 8 (1.02%) NumPy
11 8 (1.02%) Playwright
11 8 (1.02%) PySpark
11 8 (1.02%) pytest
12 7 (0.89%) FastAPI
12 7 (0.89%) Hugging Face
12 7 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.68%) Management Information System
2 39 (4.98%) Life Science
3 37 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 27 (3.45%) Operational Technology
7 23 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (2.04%) SCADA
9 12 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.53%) Credit Risk
10 11 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 10 (1.28%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.15%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.02%) IoT
13 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.89%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.34%) Linux
2 32 (4.09%) Windows
3 12 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.64%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.38%) Unix
7 2 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (25.67%) Agile
2 190 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
3 117 (14.94%) Verification and Validation
4 116 (14.81%) Data Validation
5 109 (13.92%) Migration
6 102 (13.03%) Analytics
7 96 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (11.24%) Decision-Making
9 82 (10.47%) Mentoring
9 82 (10.47%) Software Engineering
10 81 (10.34%) Test Automation
11 79 (10.09%) Data Analysis
12 77 (9.83%) Business Intelligence
12 77 (9.83%) ETL
12 77 (9.83%) Systems Engineering
13 75 (9.58%) DevOps
14 74 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 72 (9.20%) CI/CD
15 72 (9.20%) Data Management
16 69 (8.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 165 (21.07%) Python
2 163 (20.82%) SQL
3 32 (4.09%) Java
4 26 (3.32%) C
5 25 (3.19%) MATLAB
6 23 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.81%) C++
8 16 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.53%) R
9 12 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 11 (1.40%) Bash
10 11 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.77%) C#
11 6 (0.77%) Ladder Logic
12 3 (0.38%) Bicep
12 3 (0.38%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.38%) Go
12 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.38%) Scala
12 3 (0.38%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 250 (31.93%) Degree
2 79 (10.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 74 (9.45%) Security Cleared
4 54 (6.90%) Master's Degree
5 44 (5.62%) SC Cleared
6 35 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (2.55%) HNC
9 15 (1.92%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.79%) CCNA
10 14 (1.79%) CCNP
11 12 (1.53%) ACCA
11 12 (1.53%) CCIE
11 12 (1.53%) Numerate Degree
12 11 (1.40%) ISTQB
13 10 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
14 9 (1.15%) CISA
14 9 (1.15%) PhD
15 8 (1.02%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (14.30%) Data Quality
2 97 (12.39%) QA
3 40 (5.11%) GxP
4 30 (3.83%) SLA
5 26 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 24 (3.07%) Accessibility
6 24 (3.07%) GDPR
7 11 (1.40%) ISO 20022
7 11 (1.40%) NIST
7 11 (1.40%) SEPA
8 9 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (1.02%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 8 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 7 (0.89%) COBIT
10 7 (0.89%) TARGET2
11 5 (0.64%) ARP4761
11 5 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.51%) NCSC
12 4 (0.51%) WCAG
13 3 (0.38%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 39 (4.98%) Docker
2 30 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.30%) Firmware
4 13 (1.66%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.77%) vSphere
6 4 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.51%) vCloud
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Flume
7 2 (0.26%) Ceph
7 2 (0.26%) HDFS
7 2 (0.26%) Lustre
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.13%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.13%) iptables
8 1 (0.13%) pfSense
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (3.58%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.30%) Terraform
3 17 (2.17%) Grafana
4 16 (2.04%) Ansible
5 10 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.64%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.64%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.51%) Rundeck
8 3 (0.38%) Kibana
9 2 (0.26%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.26%) logstash
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.26%) Nessus
9 2 (0.26%) Oozie
9 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.13%) Argo
10 1 (0.13%) Control-M
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 86 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.41%) SAP
3 36 (4.60%) VMware
4 27 (3.45%) Cisco
5 22 (2.81%) Oracle
6 18 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.79%) Foundry
8 13 (1.66%) CheckPoint
8 13 (1.66%) F5
9 12 (1.53%) IBM
10 9 (1.15%) Databricks
10 9 (1.15%) Siemens
10 9 (1.15%) Software AG
11 8 (1.02%) Intapp
11 8 (1.02%) MathWorks
12 7 (0.89%) Allen-Bradley
12 7 (0.89%) EMC
12 7 (0.89%) Splunk
12 7 (0.89%) Workday
13 6 (0.77%) Arista