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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 78 206
Rank change year-on-year -19 +128 -15
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,672 1,579 989
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.82% 3.61% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 4.03% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 474 489
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,225 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%

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 67,880 39,178 58,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.83% 89.60% 81.29%
Number of salaries quoted 47,922 22,754 39,478
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 3 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 3 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 +74 472 £75,000 -3.23% 662
South East -35 371 £55,000 - 311
North of England +112 357 £54,875 +15.53% 194
North West +92 209 £55,000 +15.35% 113
Midlands -51 192 £43,587 -20.75% 157
South West -31 133 £51,750 -1.62% 156
East of England -78 114 £62,500 +9.65% 135
West Midlands +4 104 £44,000 -23.48% 98
East Midlands -65 87 £42,500 - 59
North East +5 74 £55,000 +57.14% 39
Yorkshire +5 74 £43,000 +1.18% 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 60 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 56 (3.35%) Apache
4 30 (1.79%) Confluence
4 30 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.08%) Jupyter
6 12 (0.72%) SAS
7 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.30%) CMS
9 4 (0.24%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.18%) Artix
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.12%) IIS
11 2 (0.12%) WinCC
12 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.060%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.060%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.060%) WebSphere
Applications
1 105 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.38%) Simulink
6 14 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.60%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.30%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.24%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.24%) Mathcad
10 4 (0.24%) Sketch
11 3 (0.18%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.18%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.18%) Productboard
11 3 (0.18%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.12%) OrCAD
12 2 (0.12%) Solid Edge
13 1 (0.060%) EPLAN
13 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 42 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.66%) SAP MDG
4 10 (0.60%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
7 5 (0.30%) iTrent
7 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG-BP
8 4 (0.24%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.12%) SAP WM
10 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 233 (13.94%) Azure
2 224 (13.40%) AWS
3 158 (9.45%) Power Platform
4 82 (4.90%) GCP
5 67 (4.01%) SaaS
6 60 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 44 (2.63%) Serverless
9 43 (2.57%) GitHub
10 33 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
12 24 (1.44%) Entra ID
13 22 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (1.32%) Snowflake
14 21 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
15 19 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.01%) Broadband
2 49 (2.93%) Firewall
3 44 (2.63%) DNS
4 25 (1.50%) Network Security
5 24 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.44%) Wireless
6 22 (1.32%) VPN
7 21 (1.26%) WAN
8 17 (1.02%) Ethernet
9 16 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.90%) MQTT
10 15 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.72%) HTTP
11 12 (0.72%) Internet
11 12 (0.72%) LAN
12 11 (0.66%) CHAP
12 11 (0.66%) NGN
13 10 (0.60%) 5G
13 10 (0.60%) NAS
13 10 (0.60%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (8.85%) Power BI
2 57 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (3.23%) Tableau
5 48 (2.87%) SQL Server
6 43 (2.57%) Metadata
7 36 (2.15%) Data Lake
8 33 (1.97%) MongoDB
9 28 (1.67%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.50%) BigQuery
11 23 (1.38%) DynamoDB
11 23 (1.38%) Semantic Layer
12 22 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
13 21 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 21 (1.26%) MySQL
14 20 (1.20%) Spark SQL
14 20 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (1.14%) Power Query
16 17 (1.02%) Oracle Database
17 16 (0.96%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 108 (6.46%) JIRA
2 97 (5.80%) Git
3 47 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.51%) GitLab
5 31 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.32%) Snyk
7 18 (1.08%) Selenium
8 15 (0.90%) LabVIEW
8 15 (0.90%) Postman
9 14 (0.84%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.78%) IBM UrbanCode
11 12 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.66%) JMeter
13 10 (0.60%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.48%) Rational Rhapsody
15 7 (0.42%) Burp Suite
15 7 (0.42%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.36%) GDB
16 6 (0.36%) Hudson
17 5 (0.30%) LoadRunner
General
1 544 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 461 (27.57%) Finance
3 428 (25.60%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (8.73%) Aerospace
5 140 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 136 (8.13%) Manufacturing
7 128 (7.66%) Electronics
8 96 (5.74%) Banking
9 86 (5.14%) Law
10 68 (4.07%) Retail
11 65 (3.89%) Public Sector
12 60 (3.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 56 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (3.17%) Marketing
15 50 (2.99%) Legal
16 46 (2.75%) Games
17 39 (2.33%) Automotive
18 30 (1.79%) Telecoms
19 28 (1.67%) Advertising
19 28 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 311 (18.60%) Senior
2 244 (14.59%) Analyst
3 137 (8.19%) Lead
4 116 (6.94%) Systems Engineer
5 107 (6.40%) Test Engineer
6 103 (6.16%) Architect
7 96 (5.74%) Data Engineer
8 80 (4.78%) Business Analyst
9 79 (4.72%) Developer
10 67 (4.01%) Validation Engineer
11 66 (3.95%) Consultant
12 63 (3.77%) Data Analyst
13 56 (3.35%) Software Engineer
14 53 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
15 45 (2.69%) Support Engineer
16 43 (2.57%) Embedded Engineer
17 41 (2.45%) Data Scientist
18 38 (2.27%) IT Manager
19 37 (2.21%) Project Manager
20 36 (2.15%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.69%) RESTful
2 42 (2.51%) Kafka
3 37 (2.21%) PySpark
4 35 (2.09%) Node.js
5 31 (1.85%) REST
6 30 (1.79%) XML
7 29 (1.73%) JSON
8 25 (1.50%) Pandas
9 24 (1.44%) .NET
9 24 (1.44%) Middleware
10 21 (1.26%) CSS
10 21 (1.26%) LDAP
11 20 (1.20%) HTML
11 20 (1.20%) Playwright
12 19 (1.14%) Regular Expression
12 19 (1.14%) XMPP
13 16 (0.96%) FastAPI
13 16 (0.96%) React
14 14 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.30%) Cloud Native
2 120 (7.18%) Onboarding
3 84 (5.02%) Management Information System
4 61 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 59 (3.53%) Data Structures
6 58 (3.47%) Data Centre
7 49 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
8 46 (2.75%) Driving Licence
9 45 (2.69%) Embedded Systems
9 45 (2.69%) Low-Code
10 44 (2.63%) Algorithms
11 37 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 33 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
13 32 (1.91%) Life Science
14 30 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
15 28 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.61%) AI Agents
17 26 (1.56%) Robotics
18 24 (1.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 113 (6.76%) Linux
2 84 (5.02%) Windows
3 32 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.14%) Unix
5 6 (0.36%) Android
5 6 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.24%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.24%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
8 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.12%) ThreadX
8 2 (0.12%) VMS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.060%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
2 395 (23.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 359 (21.47%) Agile
4 314 (18.78%) AI
5 285 (17.05%) CI/CD
6 224 (13.40%) Analytics
7 220 (13.16%) Migration
8 215 (12.86%) Test Automation
9 205 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 198 (11.84%) Mentoring
11 189 (11.30%) Decision-Making
12 175 (10.47%) DevOps
13 174 (10.41%) Business Intelligence
13 174 (10.41%) Software Engineering
13 174 (10.41%) Verification and Validation
14 159 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 158 (9.45%) Data Modelling
16 154 (9.21%) Data Analysis
16 154 (9.21%) ERP
17 151 (9.03%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 409 (24.46%) Python
2 354 (21.17%) SQL
3 80 (4.78%) C++
4 72 (4.31%) C
4 72 (4.31%) Java
5 55 (3.29%) Go
6 51 (3.05%) JavaScript
7 42 (2.51%) C#
8 36 (2.15%) MATLAB
9 28 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.61%) Bash
11 20 (1.20%) Embedded C
11 20 (1.20%) Scala
11 20 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 18 (1.08%) Embedded C++
13 16 (0.96%) TypeScript
14 15 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.48%) ABAP
15 8 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 335 (20.04%) Degree
2 225 (13.46%) Security Cleared
3 119 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 114 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 76 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 75 (4.49%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (1.79%) Chartered Engineer
8 30 (1.79%) CISSP
9 26 (1.56%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.44%) CISM
10 24 (1.44%) HNC
11 23 (1.38%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.32%) ACCA
12 22 (1.32%) CIMA
12 22 (1.32%) PhD
13 21 (1.26%) CISA
13 21 (1.26%) SANS
14 18 (1.08%) PMP
15 17 (1.02%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (17.70%) Data Quality
2 220 (13.16%) QA
3 57 (3.41%) GDPR
4 52 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 38 (2.27%) GRC
6 22 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.20%) IEC 61508
8 18 (1.08%) NIST
9 17 (1.02%) PMO
10 16 (0.96%) GxP
11 15 (0.90%) IFRS
11 15 (0.90%) ISO 26262
11 15 (0.90%) SLA
12 14 (0.84%) GAAP
13 13 (0.78%) ISO 9001
14 12 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 11 (0.66%) COBIT
15 11 (0.66%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.66%) WCAG
16 10 (0.60%) GMP
System Software
1 71 (4.25%) Docker
2 58 (3.47%) Firmware
3 42 (2.51%) Active Directory
4 28 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (1.61%) Embedded Firmware
6 22 (1.32%) vSphere
7 13 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.18%) KVM
10 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.060%) iptables
11 1 (0.060%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.060%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 73 (4.37%) Kubernetes
1 73 (4.37%) Terraform
2 36 (2.15%) Grafana
3 25 (1.50%) Functional Safety
4 20 (1.20%) Ansible
5 16 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.60%) Cilium
7 9 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.48%) SCCM
9 7 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 7 (0.42%) Kibana
10 6 (0.36%) Puppet
11 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.24%) Nessus
12 4 (0.24%) Nmap
12 4 (0.24%) WMI
13 3 (0.18%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.18%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.18%) Rancher
13 3 (0.18%) yum
Vendors
1 246 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.40%) SAP
3 96 (5.74%) Oracle
4 56 (3.35%) Salesforce
5 46 (2.75%) Databricks
6 40 (2.39%) ServiceNow
7 35 (2.09%) Red Hat
8 32 (1.91%) VMware
9 31 (1.85%) Cisco
9 31 (1.85%) Google
10 29 (1.73%) CrowdStrike
11 23 (1.38%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.32%) Tenable
13 15 (0.90%) McAfee
14 14 (0.84%) Adobe
14 14 (0.84%) IBM
15 13 (0.78%) Workday
16 12 (0.72%) EMC
16 12 (0.72%) Remedy
16 12 (0.72%) Splunk