Validation Jobs in England

Validation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Validation over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 173 175
Rank change year-on-year +123 +2 +17
Permanent jobs citing Validation 2,498 1,520 1,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.89% 1.61% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 1.96% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 665 702 586
10th Percentile £40,749 £35,775 £37,108
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £47,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,433 £78,688
90th Percentile £82,800 £85,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%

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 46,845 77,718 75,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 91.63% 82.55% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 24,324 55,094 47,411
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,228
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in England

Validation
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation in England.

Salary trend for Validation in England

Validation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in England over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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
Midlands +140 698 £55,000 +12.24% 337
South East +99 585 £60,000 +14.29% 670
East of England +94 396 £57,000 +3.64% 352
East Midlands +109 367 £47,500 +11.76% 104
North of England +62 336 £47,683 -1.18% 487
West Midlands +143 331 £62,500 +19.05% 232
North West +67 288 £47,683 -4.63% 314
London +78 249 £75,000 - 1,844
South West +45 193 £52,600 -4.36% 336
Yorkshire +19 41 £41,750 -12.11% 145
North East +41 7 £47,500 -7.32% 30
Validation
UK

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (0.48%) Apache Spark
2 8 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (0.32%) Confluence
3 6 (0.24%) CMS
3 6 (0.24%) SAS
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.080%) Apache
5 2 (0.080%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.080%) TPMS
6 1 (0.040%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.040%) MTS
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.040%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 457 (18.29%) Simulink
2 94 (3.76%) Mathcad
3 41 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.080%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.080%) Revit
9 1 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.040%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.040%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.040%) CATIA
9 1 (0.040%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.040%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.040%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.040%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.040%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.040%) Stata
Business Applications
1 22 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Infor M3
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.080%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.080%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.080%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.080%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.040%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.040%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.040%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 102 (4.08%) AWS
2 91 (3.64%) Azure
3 65 (2.60%) Power Platform
4 57 (2.28%) GCP
5 37 (1.48%) Snowflake
6 18 (0.72%) Amazon S3
6 18 (0.72%) GitHub
7 14 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (0.52%) Serverless
9 12 (0.48%) Amazon SageMaker
9 12 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (0.36%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (0.32%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (0.32%) Pulumi
13 7 (0.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (0.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 747 (29.90%) 5G
2 739 (29.58%) Wi-Fi
3 735 (29.42%) Wireless
4 732 (29.30%) LTE
5 731 (29.26%) GSM
5 731 (29.26%) UMTS
6 730 (29.22%) Bluetooth
7 81 (3.24%) Broadband
8 20 (0.80%) Modbus
9 18 (0.72%) WAN
10 17 (0.68%) Ethernet
11 13 (0.52%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.48%) Profibus
13 10 (0.40%) LAN
14 8 (0.32%) Firewall
15 7 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
16 6 (0.24%) Network Security
17 5 (0.20%) 4G
17 5 (0.20%) DNS
17 5 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (2.28%) Power BI
3 41 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 34 (1.36%) Metadata
5 33 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 32 (1.28%) Tableau
7 24 (0.96%) Oracle ODI
8 22 (0.88%) Big Data
9 15 (0.60%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.56%) MySQL
11 12 (0.48%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.44%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.40%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.28%) Looker
14 7 (0.28%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (0.24%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 212 (8.49%) Rational DOORS
2 67 (2.68%) JIRA
3 62 (2.48%) Git
4 25 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 24 (0.96%) Selenium
6 9 (0.36%) JMeter
7 8 (0.32%) Postman
7 8 (0.32%) Subversion
8 7 (0.28%) GitLab
9 6 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
10 5 (0.20%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.20%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.16%) CppUnit
11 4 (0.16%) Locust
11 4 (0.16%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.16%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.16%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.16%) webpack
12 3 (0.12%) eCATT
General
1 817 (32.71%) Electronics
2 326 (13.05%) Social Skills
3 215 (8.61%) Aerospace
4 186 (7.45%) Automotive
4 186 (7.45%) Finance
5 133 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (3.44%) Games
7 81 (3.24%) Manufacturing
8 59 (2.36%) Law
9 47 (1.88%) Marketing
10 43 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 40 (1.60%) Banking
13 28 (1.12%) Retail
14 26 (1.04%) Public Sector
15 24 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (0.88%) Military
16 22 (0.88%) Telecoms
17 21 (0.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 791 (31.67%) Electronics Engineer
2 786 (31.47%) Test Engineer
3 730 (29.22%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 483 (19.34%) Systems Engineer
5 382 (15.29%) Senior
6 337 (13.49%) Principal Engineer
7 330 (13.21%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 215 (8.61%) Engineering Manager
9 142 (5.68%) Software Engineer
10 114 (4.56%) Requirements Manager
11 106 (4.24%) Requirements Engineer
12 102 (4.08%) Development Engineer
13 99 (3.96%) Software Development Engineer
14 95 (3.80%) Lead
15 85 (3.40%) Analyst
16 81 (3.24%) Senior Manager
17 79 (3.16%) ServiceNow Manager
18 78 (3.12%) Senior Service Manager
19 75 (3.00%) Mathematical Modeller
20 68 (2.72%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (0.96%) Kafka
3 14 (0.56%) React
4 13 (0.52%) CSS
4 13 (0.52%) HTML
4 13 (0.52%) Qt
4 13 (0.52%) REST
5 9 (0.36%) JSON
5 9 (0.36%) SOAP
6 8 (0.32%) Loki
6 8 (0.32%) Pandas
6 8 (0.32%) Spring
6 8 (0.32%) XML
6 8 (0.32%) YAML
7 7 (0.28%) GraphQL
7 7 (0.28%) Jest
7 7 (0.28%) PySpark
7 7 (0.28%) Web Services
8 6 (0.24%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (0.24%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 738 (29.54%) Driving Licence
2 100 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 97 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 79 (3.16%) Video\Live Streaming
5 38 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (1.48%) SCADA
7 33 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 33 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 22 (0.88%) Operational Technology
10 19 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
11 14 (0.56%) Onboarding
12 12 (0.48%) Life Science
12 12 (0.48%) Self-Driving Car
13 10 (0.40%) FPGA
13 10 (0.40%) IoT
14 9 (0.36%) Biopharmaceutical
15 8 (0.32%) Credit Risk
15 8 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (0.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.40%) Linux
2 26 (1.04%) Windows
3 8 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.16%) Android
5 4 (0.16%) Unix
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) VMS
7 2 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,468 (58.77%) Verification and Validation
2 982 (39.31%) Systems Engineering
3 843 (33.75%) Mentoring
4 766 (30.66%) Coaching
5 760 (30.42%) Customer Requirements
6 747 (29.90%) Test Strategy
7 455 (18.21%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 429 (17.17%) Software Engineering
9 393 (15.73%) Agile
10 341 (13.65%) Mathematics
11 289 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
12 273 (10.93%) SysML
13 259 (10.37%) Software Testing
14 243 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 220 (8.81%) Requirements Management
16 199 (7.97%) Computer Science
17 177 (7.09%) Digital Twin
18 151 (6.04%) Test Automation
19 124 (4.96%) Roadmaps
20 123 (4.92%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 473 (18.94%) MATLAB
2 267 (10.69%) Python
3 161 (6.45%) SQL
4 61 (2.44%) C
5 51 (2.04%) C++
6 30 (1.20%) PL/SQL
7 25 (1.00%) Java
8 23 (0.92%) R
9 22 (0.88%) Ada
10 20 (0.80%) C#
11 18 (0.72%) JavaScript
12 16 (0.64%) PowerShell
13 15 (0.60%) Bash
13 15 (0.60%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.48%) Ladder Logic
16 11 (0.44%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.32%) Go
18 7 (0.28%) Korn
18 7 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1,433 (57.37%) Degree
2 962 (38.51%) HND
3 772 (30.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 235 (9.41%) HNC
5 112 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (4.24%) Chartered Engineer
7 80 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 69 (2.76%) ISTQB
9 63 (2.52%) Security Cleared
10 49 (1.96%) SC Cleared
11 31 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
12 30 (1.20%) PhD
13 16 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.36%) CCNP
14 9 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.32%) DV Cleared
16 7 (0.28%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.28%) CCNA
17 6 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 88 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 77 (3.08%) QA
4 49 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.56%) GxP
6 35 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 16 (0.64%) ARP4754
7 16 (0.64%) DO-254
7 16 (0.64%) GDPR
7 16 (0.64%) IEC 61508
8 12 (0.48%) PMO
9 11 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 9 (0.36%) GMP
11 7 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.28%) IFRS
11 7 (0.28%) IFRS 9
11 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.20%) Automotive SPICE
12 5 (0.20%) NCSC
12 5 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (1.48%) Docker
2 23 (0.92%) Firmware
3 11 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.16%) vSphere
7 3 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.12%) HDFS
8 2 (0.080%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.080%) vCloud
8 2 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.040%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 41 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 24 (0.96%) Terraform
3 19 (0.76%) Grafana
4 14 (0.56%) Ansible
5 12 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.24%) Argo
6 6 (0.24%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.16%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.12%) Kibana
8 3 (0.12%) logstash
8 3 (0.12%) Oozie
9 2 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.080%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.080%) Podman
9 2 (0.080%) Puppet
9 2 (0.080%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.080%) SCOM
10 1 (0.040%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 95 (3.80%) MathWorks
2 93 (3.72%) ServiceNow
3 62 (2.48%) Microsoft
4 47 (1.88%) Oracle
5 33 (1.32%) Salesforce
5 33 (1.32%) SAP
6 30 (1.20%) IBM
7 17 (0.68%) Cisco
8 15 (0.60%) Siemens
9 14 (0.56%) Databricks
10 13 (0.52%) Allen-Bradley
10 13 (0.52%) Rockwell
11 12 (0.48%) Informatica
12 10 (0.40%) Google
12 10 (0.40%) IFS
13 9 (0.36%) CheckPoint
13 9 (0.36%) F5
13 9 (0.36%) Red Hat
13 9 (0.36%) Splunk
13 9 (0.36%) Talend