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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 172 208
Rank change year-on-year +8 +36 -76
Permanent jobs citing Validation 764 963 754
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.62% 1.66% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.93% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 427 368 456
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,563
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,625 £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 39,540 49,886 42,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.04% 85.85% 93.62%
Number of salaries quoted 24,685 25,971 32,760
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £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% - -4.00%
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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +20 238 £80,000 +18.52% 184
South East +16 193 £50,750 -15.42% 278
North of England -25 116 £52,500 +15.38% 62
Midlands +51 79 £42,500 -15.00% 76
South West +23 71 £50,000 -16.67% 98
North West -6 71 £52,750 +14.15% 29
East of England -11 57 £58,250 +5.91% 131
West Midlands +46 50 £42,500 -15.00% 52
Yorkshire -6 33 £60,000 +50.00% 24
East Midlands +33 29 £42,500 -10.53% 21
North East +6 12 £35,000 -26.70% 10
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 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.36%) Confluence
3 17 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.31%) Apache
4 10 (1.31%) SugarCRM
5 8 (1.05%) CMS
6 7 (0.92%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.65%) SAS
8 4 (0.52%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.39%) Appian
9 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 49 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.09%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.96%) Simulink
5 8 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.65%) Mathcad
7 3 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.39%) 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 26 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.52%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.39%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.39%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.26%) Endur
5 2 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.26%) Primavera
5 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 107 (14.01%) Azure
2 73 (9.55%) Power Platform
3 68 (8.90%) AWS
4 37 (4.84%) SaaS
5 24 (3.14%) GCP
6 23 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (1.96%) GitHub
8 13 (1.70%) Amazon S3
8 13 (1.70%) Serverless
8 13 (1.70%) Snowflake
9 11 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (1.44%) dbt
9 11 (1.44%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (1.18%) Datadog
11 8 (1.05%) Amazon SageMaker
11 8 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.23%) LAN
2 12 (1.57%) Firewall
3 10 (1.31%) Ethernet
4 9 (1.18%) DNS
4 9 (1.18%) Modbus
5 7 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.79%) CHAP
6 6 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (0.79%) Profibus
7 5 (0.65%) BGP
7 5 (0.65%) DHCP
7 5 (0.65%) Network Security
7 5 (0.65%) NX-OS
7 5 (0.65%) OSPF
7 5 (0.65%) WAN
8 4 (0.52%) 3GPP
8 4 (0.52%) HTTP
8 4 (0.52%) SMTP
8 4 (0.52%) VLAN
9 3 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (8.77%) Power BI
2 35 (4.58%) Tableau
3 29 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.01%) SQL Server
5 21 (2.75%) Metadata
6 20 (2.62%) BigQuery
7 16 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.70%) Big Data
9 11 (1.44%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.92%) Looker
13 6 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (0.79%) GIS
13 6 (0.79%) MySQL
13 6 (0.79%) SAP HANA
14 5 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 64 (8.38%) JIRA
2 38 (4.97%) Git
3 32 (4.19%) Rational DOORS
4 21 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.36%) Postman
6 15 (1.96%) Selenium
7 12 (1.57%) GitLab
8 10 (1.31%) SoapUI
9 9 (1.18%) JMeter
10 8 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.05%) MLflow
11 7 (0.92%) LoadRunner
11 7 (0.92%) TestRail
12 5 (0.65%) TestNG
12 5 (0.65%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.52%) Locust
13 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.52%) WebDriver
General
1 295 (38.61%) Social Skills
2 218 (28.53%) Finance
3 156 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (6.94%) Law
5 48 (6.28%) Documentation Skills
5 48 (6.28%) Manufacturing
6 47 (6.15%) Marketing
7 42 (5.50%) Banking
7 42 (5.50%) Electronics
8 35 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (4.06%) Financial Institution
11 30 (3.93%) Retail
12 27 (3.53%) Aerospace
12 27 (3.53%) Telecoms
13 25 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (3.01%) Public Sector
16 20 (2.62%) Billing
17 19 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 110 (14.40%) Analyst
1 110 (14.40%) Senior
2 90 (11.78%) Lead
3 59 (7.72%) Systems Engineer
4 42 (5.50%) Data Analyst
5 36 (4.71%) Architect
6 32 (4.19%) Business Analyst
7 31 (4.06%) Data Engineer
8 29 (3.80%) Test Engineer
9 28 (3.66%) Applications Engineer
9 28 (3.66%) Support Engineer
10 26 (3.40%) Applications Support
11 25 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (3.14%) Developer
13 23 (3.01%) Administrator
13 23 (3.01%) Team Leader
14 22 (2.88%) Applications Support Engineer
14 22 (2.88%) Data Quality Analyst
14 22 (2.88%) Quality Analyst
15 19 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.66%) REST
2 23 (3.01%) Middleware
3 19 (2.49%) JSON
3 19 (2.49%) XML
4 18 (2.36%) scikit-learn
5 17 (2.23%) Pandas
6 16 (2.09%) TensorFlow
7 15 (1.96%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.70%) Kafka
9 12 (1.57%) React
10 10 (1.31%) HTML
11 8 (1.05%) NumPy
11 8 (1.05%) PySpark
11 8 (1.05%) pytest
12 7 (0.92%) CSS
12 7 (0.92%) FastAPI
12 7 (0.92%) Hugging Face
12 7 (0.92%) Playwright
12 7 (0.92%) Web Services
12 7 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.77%) Management Information System
2 37 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 36 (4.71%) Life Science
4 28 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.40%) Operational Technology
7 23 (3.01%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (2.09%) SCADA
9 12 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.44%) Credit Risk
10 11 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 10 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.18%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.92%) e-Learning
14 7 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.45%) Linux
2 31 (4.06%) Windows
3 12 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.39%) 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%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (25.39%) Agile
2 178 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
3 113 (14.79%) Data Validation
4 111 (14.53%) Verification and Validation
5 107 (14.01%) Migration
6 100 (13.09%) Analytics
7 92 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (10.99%) Decision-Making
9 81 (10.60%) Software Engineering
10 78 (10.21%) Data Analysis
11 77 (10.08%) Mentoring
11 77 (10.08%) Test Automation
12 76 (9.95%) ETL
13 75 (9.82%) Business Intelligence
14 72 (9.42%) Systems Engineering
15 71 (9.29%) DevOps
16 70 (9.16%) Roadmaps
16 70 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
17 69 (9.03%) Data Management
18 68 (8.90%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 158 (20.68%) SQL
2 154 (20.16%) Python
3 32 (4.19%) Java
4 27 (3.53%) C
5 23 (3.01%) C++
6 22 (2.88%) MATLAB
7 19 (2.49%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.96%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.57%) R
10 11 (1.44%) Bash
11 10 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.31%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.79%) C#
12 6 (0.79%) Ladder Logic
13 3 (0.39%) Bicep
13 3 (0.39%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.39%) Scala
13 3 (0.39%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 242 (31.68%) Degree
2 78 (10.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 76 (9.95%) Security Cleared
4 51 (6.68%) Master's Degree
5 41 (5.37%) SC Cleared
6 35 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (2.62%) HNC
9 16 (2.09%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.83%) CCNA
11 14 (1.83%) CCNP
12 12 (1.57%) CCIE
12 12 (1.57%) Numerate Degree
13 11 (1.44%) ACCA
13 11 (1.44%) ISTQB
14 10 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
15 9 (1.18%) CISA
16 8 (1.05%) CCSE
16 8 (1.05%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (14.40%) Data Quality
2 97 (12.70%) QA
3 38 (4.97%) GxP
4 30 (3.93%) SLA
5 24 (3.14%) GDPR
6 23 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 22 (2.88%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.44%) ISO 20022
8 11 (1.44%) NIST
8 11 (1.44%) SEPA
9 9 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 9 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.92%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 7 (0.92%) COBIT
10 7 (0.92%) TARGET2
11 5 (0.65%) ARP4761
12 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.52%) NCSC
12 4 (0.52%) WCAG
13 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 36 (4.71%) Docker
2 31 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.09%) Firmware
4 12 (1.57%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.92%) vSphere
6 6 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.52%) vCloud
8 3 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.26%) Ceph
9 2 (0.26%) HDFS
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.13%) iptables
10 1 (0.13%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 27 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.96%) Ansible
2 15 (1.96%) Terraform
3 14 (1.83%) Grafana
4 8 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.65%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.65%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (0.52%) Rundeck
7 3 (0.39%) Kibana
8 2 (0.26%) Argo
8 2 (0.26%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.26%) logstash
8 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.26%) Nessus
8 2 (0.26%) Oozie
8 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.26%) Rancher
8 2 (0.26%) yum
9 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 83 (10.86%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.33%) SAP
3 37 (4.84%) VMware
4 27 (3.53%) Cisco
5 19 (2.49%) Oracle
5 19 (2.49%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.96%) Foundry
7 13 (1.70%) CheckPoint
7 13 (1.70%) F5
7 13 (1.70%) IBM
8 9 (1.18%) Databricks
8 9 (1.18%) Siemens
8 9 (1.18%) Software AG
9 8 (1.05%) Intapp
10 7 (0.92%) Allen-Bradley
11 6 (0.79%) Arista
11 6 (0.79%) EMC
11 6 (0.79%) Informatica
11 6 (0.79%) Rockwell
11 6 (0.79%) Splunk