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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 84 197
Rank change year-on-year -30 +113 -11
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,480 1,543 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.71% 3.58% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 3.95% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 922 445 694
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,563 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.23% +2.28% -12.00%

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 64,229 39,036 74,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.05% 90.64% 82.57%
Number of salaries quoted 45,346 22,191 53,359
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,679 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +83 428 £77,500 - 454
South East -38 330 £55,000 - 237
North of England +92 302 £55,000 +15.35% 148
North West +79 189 £55,000 +15.35% 79
Midlands -69 175 £41,875 -23.86% 122
South West -39 112 £52,750 +0.29% 177
East of England -81 105 £61,250 +7.46% 80
West Midlands -3 103 £43,250 -30.80% 61
East Midlands -77 70 £30,000 -36.84% 61
Yorkshire +3 62 £44,000 +5.39% 49
North East -2 51 £55,000 +22.22% 20
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 51 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 46 (3.11%) Apache
4 23 (1.55%) Confluence
4 23 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.81%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.74%) SAS
8 5 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.27%) Appian
9 4 (0.27%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.20%) Artix
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
12 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.068%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 86 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.22%) Simulink
6 16 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.54%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.34%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.27%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.27%) Sketch
11 3 (0.20%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.20%) Productboard
11 3 (0.20%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.14%) Solid Edge
13 1 (0.068%) CATIA
13 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.068%) Revit
13 1 (0.068%) Trello
13 1 (0.068%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 39 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.74%) SAP MDG
4 10 (0.68%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
7 5 (0.34%) iTrent
7 5 (0.34%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG-BP
8 4 (0.27%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.14%) FastStats
10 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.14%) SAP EWM
10 2 (0.14%) SAP WM
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 191 (12.91%) Azure
2 175 (11.82%) AWS
3 148 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 73 (4.93%) GCP
5 69 (4.66%) SaaS
6 59 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
7 43 (2.91%) Serverless
8 38 (2.57%) Amazon S3
9 35 (2.36%) GitHub
10 25 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (1.49%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.28%) Entra ID
13 19 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (1.28%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (1.15%) Amazon EMR
14 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.53%) Broadband
2 47 (3.18%) Firewall
3 34 (2.30%) DNS
4 22 (1.49%) WAN
5 18 (1.22%) Network Security
5 18 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.22%) Wireless
6 17 (1.15%) CHAP
7 16 (1.08%) SD-WAN
7 16 (1.08%) VPN
8 13 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.81%) Ethernet
9 12 (0.81%) MQTT
10 11 (0.74%) HTTP
11 10 (0.68%) 5G
11 10 (0.68%) LAN
12 9 (0.61%) NAS
13 7 (0.47%) BGP
13 7 (0.47%) NGN
13 7 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (9.59%) Power BI
2 57 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (3.85%) Tableau
3 53 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.36%) Metadata
6 33 (2.23%) MongoDB
7 30 (2.03%) Relational Database
8 29 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 26 (1.76%) BigQuery
10 23 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
12 19 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
12 19 (1.28%) DynamoDB
12 19 (1.28%) Spark SQL
13 18 (1.22%) MySQL
14 17 (1.15%) Oracle Database
15 16 (1.08%) Parquet
16 14 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 89 (6.01%) JIRA
2 75 (5.07%) Git
3 48 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 39 (2.64%) GitLab
5 29 (1.96%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.49%) Snyk
7 16 (1.08%) LabVIEW
8 15 (1.01%) Selenium
9 13 (0.88%) IBM UrbanCode
9 13 (0.88%) Postman
10 11 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.68%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.68%) JMeter
11 10 (0.68%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.54%) MLflow
13 7 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
14 6 (0.41%) Burp Suite
14 6 (0.41%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.34%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 452 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 392 (26.49%) Finance
3 348 (23.51%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.57%) Aerospace
5 110 (7.43%) Electronics
6 101 (6.82%) Manufacturing
7 95 (6.42%) Banking
8 91 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 63 (4.26%) Retail
10 51 (3.45%) Law
11 50 (3.38%) Public Sector
12 46 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (3.04%) Legal
14 44 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
15 43 (2.91%) Marketing
16 42 (2.84%) Games
17 35 (2.36%) Automotive
18 33 (2.23%) Financial Institution
19 26 (1.76%) Advertising
20 25 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 260 (17.57%) Senior
2 236 (15.95%) Analyst
3 120 (8.11%) Systems Engineer
4 114 (7.70%) Lead
5 101 (6.82%) Test Engineer
6 93 (6.28%) Architect
7 82 (5.54%) Data Engineer
8 78 (5.27%) Validation Engineer
9 76 (5.14%) Business Analyst
10 69 (4.66%) Data Analyst
11 67 (4.53%) Developer
12 46 (3.11%) Consultant
13 43 (2.91%) Support Engineer
14 41 (2.77%) IT Manager
14 41 (2.77%) Principal Engineer
15 40 (2.70%) Embedded Engineer
16 37 (2.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 37 (2.50%) Software Engineer
17 36 (2.43%) Project Manager
18 35 (2.36%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.91%) RESTful
2 33 (2.23%) PySpark
3 32 (2.16%) Node.js
4 30 (2.03%) JSON
4 30 (2.03%) Kafka
4 30 (2.03%) XML
5 29 (1.96%) REST
6 27 (1.82%) Pandas
7 23 (1.55%) .NET
8 21 (1.42%) Middleware
9 19 (1.28%) Playwright
9 19 (1.28%) pytest
9 19 (1.28%) Regular Expression
9 19 (1.28%) XMPP
10 17 (1.15%) CSS
11 16 (1.08%) HTML
12 15 (1.01%) LDAP
13 14 (0.95%) FastAPI
13 14 (0.95%) React
13 14 (0.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 95 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 88 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 67 (4.53%) Management Information System
4 65 (4.39%) Data Structures
5 47 (3.18%) Low-Code
6 46 (3.11%) Product Ownership
7 45 (3.04%) Embedded Systems
8 44 (2.97%) Driving Licence
9 43 (2.91%) Data Centre
10 42 (2.84%) Algorithms
11 40 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
12 38 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
13 36 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
14 34 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
15 31 (2.09%) Video\Live Streaming
16 30 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
17 28 (1.89%) Life Science
18 23 (1.55%) Robotics
19 21 (1.42%) IoT
20 20 (1.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.89%) Linux
2 76 (5.14%) Windows
3 29 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.49%) Unix
5 19 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.54%) Android
7 6 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.27%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.20%) AIX
9 3 (0.20%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.14%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.068%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
2 303 (20.47%) Agile
3 294 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 262 (17.70%) AI
5 249 (16.82%) CI/CD
6 208 (14.05%) Test Automation
7 202 (13.65%) Analytics
8 185 (12.50%) Migration
9 171 (11.55%) Verification and Validation
10 168 (11.35%) Business Intelligence
11 164 (11.08%) Data Validation
12 160 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 154 (10.41%) DevOps
14 152 (10.27%) Data Modelling
14 152 (10.27%) Decision-Making
15 147 (9.93%) Mentoring
15 147 (9.93%) Software Engineering
16 138 (9.32%) Data Governance
17 127 (8.58%) Data Migration
17 127 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 363 (24.53%) Python
2 326 (22.03%) SQL
3 72 (4.86%) C++
4 69 (4.66%) C
5 56 (3.78%) Java
6 50 (3.38%) Go
7 40 (2.70%) C#
8 34 (2.30%) JavaScript
9 32 (2.16%) MATLAB
10 27 (1.82%) Bash
11 25 (1.69%) PowerShell
12 24 (1.62%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.22%) Embedded C
13 18 (1.22%) Embedded C++
14 16 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.95%) Scala
16 13 (0.88%) TypeScript
17 9 (0.61%) VBA
18 8 (0.54%) ABAP
18 8 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 286 (19.32%) Degree
2 165 (11.15%) Security Cleared
3 102 (6.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 75 (5.07%) SC Cleared
5 73 (4.93%) Master's Degree
6 50 (3.38%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.16%) Chartered Engineer
9 27 (1.82%) CISA
9 27 (1.82%) CISSP
9 27 (1.82%) SANS
10 25 (1.69%) HNC
11 24 (1.62%) CISM
12 17 (1.15%) ACCA
12 17 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.15%) CGEIT
12 17 (1.15%) CIMA
12 17 (1.15%) FFIEC
12 17 (1.15%) HND
13 15 (1.01%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 176 (11.89%) QA
3 56 (3.78%) GDPR
4 38 (2.57%) Accessibility
5 36 (2.43%) GRC
6 25 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.49%) NIST
8 19 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 18 (1.22%) IEC 61508
9 18 (1.22%) IFRS
10 17 (1.15%) COBIT
11 16 (1.08%) ISO 9001
11 16 (1.08%) PMO
12 13 (0.88%) GAAP
12 13 (0.88%) ISO 26262
13 12 (0.81%) SLA
14 11 (0.74%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.68%) GxP
16 9 (0.61%) GMP
16 9 (0.61%) MISRA
System Software
1 61 (4.12%) Docker
2 50 (3.38%) Firmware
3 38 (2.57%) Active Directory
4 25 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (1.35%) vSphere
7 8 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (4.66%) Terraform
2 61 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.16%) Grafana
4 23 (1.55%) Functional Safety
5 17 (1.15%) Ansible
6 16 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.68%) Cilium
8 7 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.47%) Kibana
9 6 (0.41%) Puppet
9 6 (0.41%) SCCM
10 3 (0.20%) Argo
10 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.20%) Nessus
10 3 (0.20%) Nmap
10 3 (0.20%) Rancher
10 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.20%) yum
11 2 (0.14%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 203 (13.72%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.35%) SAP
3 90 (6.08%) Oracle
4 45 (3.04%) Salesforce
5 40 (2.70%) Databricks
6 33 (2.23%) Red Hat
7 32 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 29 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
9 27 (1.82%) VMware
10 26 (1.76%) Cisco
11 22 (1.49%) Palo Alto
11 22 (1.49%) Tenable
12 20 (1.35%) Google
13 18 (1.22%) Adobe
14 15 (1.01%) McAfee
15 14 (0.95%) Citrix
15 14 (0.95%) IBM
16 13 (0.88%) Foundry
17 9 (0.61%) EMC
17 9 (0.61%) Splunk