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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 79 196
Rank change year-on-year -13 +117 -7
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,794 1,603 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.91% 3.67% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 4.11% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,073 494 492
10th Percentile £34,550 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,050 £92,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -5.51%

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 69,342 39,040 59,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.71% 89.41% 81.41%
Number of salaries quoted 48,920 22,578 38,902
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +78 494 £73,000 -5.81% 762
South East -33 404 £56,000 +8.21% 328
North of England +101 377 £53,625 +12.89% 209
North West +88 219 £55,000 +15.35% 124
Midlands -55 203 £44,000 -20.00% 185
South West -18 155 £53,000 +0.76% 194
East of England -74 130 £61,250 +7.46% 155
West Midlands +5 111 £44,720 -22.23% 114
East Midlands -68 91 £42,500 - 71
Yorkshire +12 79 £43,000 +1.18% 43
North East +3 79 £55,000 +57.14% 45
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 59 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
1 59 (3.29%) Apache Spark
2 56 (3.12%) Apache
3 30 (1.67%) Confluence
3 30 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.00%) Jupyter
5 12 (0.67%) SAS
6 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) WinCC
8 4 (0.22%) Kinematics
9 3 (0.17%) Artix
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.056%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 115 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.67%) Simulink
5 26 (1.45%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 14 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.45%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.28%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Sketch
12 3 (0.17%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.17%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.17%) OrCAD
12 3 (0.17%) Productboard
12 3 (0.17%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.11%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.11%) Revit
13 2 (0.11%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 41 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.61%) SAP MDG
4 10 (0.56%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
7 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.28%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.28%) iTrent
8 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-BP
8 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.22%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 247 (13.77%) Azure
2 234 (13.04%) AWS
3 156 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 84 (4.68%) GCP
5 66 (3.68%) SaaS
6 58 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
8 50 (2.79%) GitHub
9 45 (2.51%) Amazon S3
10 44 (2.45%) Serverless
11 33 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
12 29 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
13 28 (1.56%) Entra ID
14 25 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.23%) Amazon EMR
16 21 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (1.17%) Snowflake
17 20 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
19 17 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.68%) Broadband
2 52 (2.90%) Firewall
3 50 (2.79%) DNS
4 30 (1.67%) Network Security
5 27 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.51%) Wireless
6 26 (1.45%) VPN
7 25 (1.39%) WAN
8 21 (1.17%) Ethernet
9 18 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (0.89%) LAN
11 16 (0.89%) MQTT
12 13 (0.72%) BGP
12 13 (0.72%) HTTP
12 13 (0.72%) Internet
13 11 (0.61%) NGN
13 11 (0.61%) OSPF
13 11 (0.61%) RS-232
13 11 (0.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (8.14%) Power BI
2 56 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (2.95%) Tableau
4 49 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.45%) Metadata
6 40 (2.23%) Data Lake
7 33 (1.84%) MongoDB
8 29 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.39%) BigQuery
10 23 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (1.23%) DynamoDB
11 22 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
12 21 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (1.11%) MySQL
13 20 (1.11%) Spark SQL
14 17 (0.95%) Oracle Database
15 16 (0.89%) Parquet
15 16 (0.89%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 113 (6.30%) JIRA
2 103 (5.74%) Git
3 47 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.34%) GitLab
5 34 (1.90%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.23%) Snyk
7 18 (1.00%) Selenium
8 17 (0.95%) LabVIEW
9 15 (0.84%) Postman
10 14 (0.78%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
12 12 (0.67%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.61%) JMeter
14 10 (0.56%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.45%) MLflow
15 8 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
16 7 (0.39%) Burp Suite
16 7 (0.39%) REST Assured
17 6 (0.33%) GDB
17 6 (0.33%) Hudson
General
1 586 (32.66%) Social Skills
2 492 (27.42%) Finance
3 451 (25.14%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (9.48%) Aerospace
5 163 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 159 (8.86%) Manufacturing
7 153 (8.53%) Electronics
8 101 (5.63%) Banking
9 97 (5.41%) Law
10 72 (4.01%) Retail
11 68 (3.79%) Public Sector
12 64 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 63 (3.51%) Marketing
14 61 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
15 52 (2.90%) Legal
16 47 (2.62%) Automotive
17 46 (2.56%) Games
18 37 (2.06%) Telecoms
19 31 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
20 30 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 328 (18.28%) Senior
2 250 (13.94%) Analyst
3 148 (8.25%) Lead
4 141 (7.86%) Systems Engineer
5 113 (6.30%) Test Engineer
6 105 (5.85%) Architect
7 96 (5.35%) Data Engineer
8 82 (4.57%) Business Analyst
9 80 (4.46%) Developer
10 68 (3.79%) Consultant
11 66 (3.68%) Validation Engineer
12 65 (3.62%) Software Engineer
13 63 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
14 59 (3.29%) Data Analyst
15 46 (2.56%) Support Engineer
16 45 (2.51%) Data Scientist
17 43 (2.40%) Embedded Engineer
18 39 (2.17%) IT Manager
19 38 (2.12%) Project Manager
20 37 (2.06%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.51%) RESTful
2 43 (2.40%) Kafka
3 37 (2.06%) PySpark
4 35 (1.95%) Node.js
5 33 (1.84%) REST
6 29 (1.62%) XML
7 27 (1.51%) .NET
8 26 (1.45%) JSON
9 25 (1.39%) Pandas
10 24 (1.34%) LDAP
10 24 (1.34%) Middleware
11 21 (1.17%) CSS
12 20 (1.11%) HTML
12 20 (1.11%) Playwright
13 19 (1.06%) Regular Expression
13 19 (1.06%) XMPP
14 17 (0.95%) FastAPI
14 17 (0.95%) ModSecurity
14 17 (0.95%) React
15 15 (0.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 131 (7.30%) Cloud Native
2 129 (7.19%) Onboarding
3 99 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 67 (3.73%) Data Centre
5 66 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 54 (3.01%) Data Structures
7 53 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (2.79%) Driving Licence
8 50 (2.79%) Embedded Systems
9 49 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
10 45 (2.51%) Algorithms
10 45 (2.51%) Low-Code
11 37 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 36 (2.01%) Life Science
13 34 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
14 33 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
15 32 (1.78%) Robotics
16 31 (1.73%) AI Agents
17 29 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
18 26 (1.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 117 (6.52%) Linux
2 86 (4.79%) Windows
3 34 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.11%) Unix
5 19 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.33%) Android
7 6 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.22%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) AIX
10 2 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.11%) ThreadX
10 2 (0.11%) VMS
10 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (26.31%) Problem-Solving
2 416 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 368 (20.51%) Agile
4 333 (18.56%) AI
5 290 (16.16%) CI/CD
6 236 (13.15%) Analytics
7 231 (12.88%) Migration
8 224 (12.49%) Test Automation
9 221 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 214 (11.93%) Verification and Validation
11 209 (11.65%) Mentoring
12 202 (11.26%) Decision-Making
13 191 (10.65%) Software Engineering
14 177 (9.87%) DevOps
15 174 (9.70%) Business Intelligence
16 167 (9.31%) Data Analysis
16 167 (9.31%) Machine Learning
17 164 (9.14%) Roadmaps
17 164 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 160 (8.92%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 423 (23.58%) Python
2 359 (20.01%) SQL
3 82 (4.57%) C++
4 78 (4.35%) Java
5 74 (4.12%) C
6 56 (3.12%) Go
7 55 (3.07%) JavaScript
8 44 (2.45%) C#
9 43 (2.40%) MATLAB
10 27 (1.51%) PowerShell
11 26 (1.45%) Bash
12 23 (1.28%) Embedded C
13 22 (1.23%) Scala
14 18 (1.00%) Embedded C++
15 17 (0.95%) T-SQL
15 17 (0.95%) TypeScript
16 13 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.50%) R
18 8 (0.45%) ABAP
18 8 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 379 (21.13%) Degree
2 277 (15.44%) Security Cleared
3 159 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 123 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 94 (5.24%) DV Cleared
6 80 (4.46%) Master's Degree
7 41 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (1.90%) CISSP
9 31 (1.73%) Chartered Engineer
10 28 (1.56%) PMI Certification
11 27 (1.51%) CISM
11 27 (1.51%) HNC
11 27 (1.51%) PhD
12 23 (1.28%) ACCA
12 23 (1.28%) AWS Certification
12 23 (1.28%) CIMA
13 21 (1.17%) HND
14 20 (1.11%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.11%) SANS
15 18 (1.00%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (16.56%) Data Quality
2 235 (13.10%) QA
3 61 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 56 (3.12%) GDPR
5 38 (2.12%) GRC
6 24 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.28%) IEC 61508
8 20 (1.11%) NIST
9 18 (1.00%) PMO
10 17 (0.95%) GxP
11 16 (0.89%) SLA
12 15 (0.84%) GAAP
12 15 (0.84%) IFRS
12 15 (0.84%) ISO 26262
13 12 (0.67%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.61%) GMP
14 11 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 11 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.61%) WCAG
15 10 (0.56%) COBIT
System Software
1 74 (4.12%) Docker
2 68 (3.79%) Firmware
3 44 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 30 (1.67%) Embedded Firmware
5 28 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.23%) vSphere
7 14 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.17%) KVM
9 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.056%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.056%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 75 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 71 (3.96%) Terraform
3 35 (1.95%) Grafana
4 26 (1.45%) Functional Safety
5 21 (1.17%) Ansible
6 15 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.56%) Cilium
9 8 (0.45%) SCCM
10 7 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 7 (0.39%) Kibana
11 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.33%) Puppet
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.22%) Nessus
12 4 (0.22%) Nmap
12 4 (0.22%) WMI
13 3 (0.17%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 259 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.35%) SAP
3 104 (5.80%) Oracle
4 54 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 49 (2.73%) Databricks
6 44 (2.45%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.06%) Cisco
8 36 (2.01%) Google
8 36 (2.01%) Red Hat
9 33 (1.84%) VMware
10 29 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
11 25 (1.39%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.23%) EMC
12 22 (1.23%) Tenable
13 15 (0.84%) McAfee
14 14 (0.78%) Adobe
14 14 (0.78%) Foundry
14 14 (0.78%) IBM
14 14 (0.78%) Workday
15 13 (0.72%) Splunk