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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 179 188
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -52
Permanent jobs citing Validation 741 939 836
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.71% 1.55% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 1.86% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 418 357 504
10th Percentile £38,291 £36,250 £37,263
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £47,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,325 £95,000 £91,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £56,509 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% -5.82% -

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 37,738 50,364 44,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.88% 82.99% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 23,454 26,461 33,955
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +24 238 £77,500 +10.71% 651
South East +1 184 £49,000 -24.62% 596
North of England -33 118 £49,000 +7.69% 149
Midlands +58 76 £55,000 +10.00% 127
North West -10 73 £52,500 +10.10% 98
South West +26 70 £50,000 -16.67% 163
West Midlands +51 50 £55,000 +10.00% 67
East of England -21 45 £59,500 +8.18% 174
Yorkshire -1 31 £54,117 +35.29% 33
East Midlands +33 26 £42,500 -10.53% 56
North East -2 14 £35,000 -26.70% 18
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 (2.56%) Confluence
2 16 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.35%) SugarCRM
4 9 (1.21%) Apache
5 7 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.81%) CMS
7 5 (0.67%) SAS
8 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 47 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.64%) Simulink
4 18 (2.43%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.48%) Mathcad
6 10 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) Elementor
8 2 (0.27%) Revit
8 2 (0.27%) Weka
9 1 (0.13%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.13%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.13%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.13%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 26 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.54%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.27%) Endur
6 2 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.27%) Primavera
6 2 (0.27%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (13.50%) Azure
2 78 (10.53%) AWS
3 74 (9.99%) Power Platform
4 33 (4.45%) SaaS
5 26 (3.51%) GCP
6 21 (2.83%) Amazon S3
7 18 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.43%) GitHub
7 18 (2.43%) Serverless
7 18 (2.43%) Snowflake
8 16 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (1.62%) Amazon SageMaker
9 12 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.48%) Datadog
10 11 (1.48%) dbt
11 10 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (0.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.16%) LAN
2 14 (1.89%) Ethernet
3 13 (1.75%) Firewall
4 10 (1.35%) Modbus
5 9 (1.21%) Profibus
6 7 (0.94%) Internet
7 6 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (0.67%) BGP
8 5 (0.67%) Broadband
8 5 (0.67%) DNS
8 5 (0.67%) Network Security
8 5 (0.67%) NX-OS
8 5 (0.67%) OSPF
8 5 (0.67%) WAN
9 4 (0.54%) 3GPP
9 4 (0.54%) DHCP
9 4 (0.54%) MPLS
9 4 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.54%) VLAN
10 3 (0.40%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (9.31%) Power BI
2 40 (5.40%) Tableau
3 36 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 18 (2.43%) Metadata
7 16 (2.16%) Big Data
8 14 (1.89%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.62%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (1.48%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
13 7 (0.94%) MySQL
14 6 (0.81%) GIS
14 6 (0.81%) Looker
15 5 (0.67%) MongoDB
15 5 (0.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 55 (7.42%) JIRA
2 35 (4.72%) Git
3 25 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.37%) Rational DOORS
4 14 (1.89%) Postman
5 11 (1.48%) Selenium
6 10 (1.35%) GitLab
7 8 (1.08%) SoapUI
8 7 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.94%) JMeter
9 6 (0.81%) MLflow
10 5 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.67%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.67%) TestNG
10 5 (0.67%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.54%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.54%) TestRail
11 4 (0.54%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 287 (38.73%) Social Skills
2 216 (29.15%) Finance
3 146 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.50%) Law
5 48 (6.48%) Manufacturing
6 47 (6.34%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (6.07%) Marketing
8 44 (5.94%) Electronics
9 38 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (4.59%) Banking
10 34 (4.59%) Retail
11 33 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (3.37%) Billing
13 25 (3.37%) Telecoms
14 23 (3.10%) Financial Institution
14 23 (3.10%) Public Sector
15 20 (2.70%) Legal
16 19 (2.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 112 (15.11%) Analyst
2 101 (13.63%) Senior
3 93 (12.55%) Lead
4 59 (7.96%) Systems Engineer
5 43 (5.80%) Data Analyst
6 36 (4.86%) Data Engineer
7 33 (4.45%) Architect
8 32 (4.32%) Business Analyst
9 31 (4.18%) Support Engineer
10 28 (3.78%) Applications Engineer
11 26 (3.51%) Applications Support
12 24 (3.24%) Data Quality Analyst
12 24 (3.24%) Quality Analyst
13 23 (3.10%) Team Leader
14 22 (2.97%) Administrator
14 22 (2.97%) Applications Support Engineer
14 22 (2.97%) Developer
14 22 (2.97%) Principal Engineer
14 22 (2.97%) Test Engineer
15 17 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.83%) REST
2 19 (2.56%) Middleware
3 16 (2.16%) JSON
3 16 (2.16%) Kafka
3 16 (2.16%) XML
4 14 (1.89%) scikit-learn
5 12 (1.62%) Pandas
5 12 (1.62%) TensorFlow
6 11 (1.48%) PyTorch
7 10 (1.35%) HTML
8 9 (1.21%) PySpark
9 8 (1.08%) React
10 7 (0.94%) CSS
10 7 (0.94%) Playwright
11 6 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (0.81%) NumPy
11 6 (0.81%) SOAP
11 6 (0.81%) Web Services
11 6 (0.81%) YAML
12 5 (0.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.64%) Management Information System
2 33 (4.45%) Onboarding
3 31 (4.18%) Life Science
3 31 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (3.64%) Operational Technology
6 24 (3.24%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.29%) SCADA
8 16 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.62%) Credit Risk
10 11 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 10 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.21%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.08%) Cloud Native
13 8 (1.08%) Driving Licence
14 7 (0.94%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.81%) e-Learning
15 6 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
15 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.91%) Windows
2 28 (3.78%) Linux
3 13 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.54%) Unix
7 2 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.27%) VMS
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
1 190 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (24.29%) Agile
3 116 (15.65%) Data Validation
4 104 (14.04%) Migration
5 103 (13.90%) Verification and Validation
6 94 (12.69%) Analytics
7 86 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (11.61%) Data Analysis
8 82 (11.07%) Decision-Making
8 82 (11.07%) Software Engineering
9 79 (10.66%) Business Intelligence
9 79 (10.66%) Data Management
10 78 (10.53%) ETL
10 78 (10.53%) Mentoring
11 76 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 75 (10.12%) Systems Engineering
13 71 (9.58%) DevOps
14 69 (9.31%) Roadmaps
15 67 (9.04%) Test Automation
16 66 (8.91%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 163 (22.00%) Python
2 149 (20.11%) SQL
3 35 (4.72%) Java
4 33 (4.45%) MATLAB
5 23 (3.10%) C
6 19 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.02%) C++
7 15 (2.02%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.75%) R
9 11 (1.48%) Bash
9 11 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.21%) Ladder Logic
11 8 (1.08%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.81%) C#
13 5 (0.67%) Go
13 5 (0.67%) Scala
14 3 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.40%) PROC SQL
14 3 (0.40%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 252 (34.01%) Degree
2 64 (8.64%) BPSS Clearance
2 64 (8.64%) Security Cleared
3 57 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 41 (5.53%) SC Cleared
5 36 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.78%) HNC
7 25 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.89%) CCNA
10 13 (1.75%) ACCA
10 13 (1.75%) CCNP
10 13 (1.75%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.75%) HND
10 13 (1.75%) PhD
11 11 (1.48%) CCIE
12 10 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
13 9 (1.21%) CIMA
14 8 (1.08%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (14.98%) Data Quality
2 94 (12.69%) QA
3 40 (5.40%) GxP
4 33 (4.45%) Accessibility
5 30 (4.05%) SLA
6 23 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 16 (2.16%) GDPR
8 11 (1.48%) ISO 20022
8 11 (1.48%) SEPA
9 9 (1.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 9 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.94%) TARGET2
11 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 5 (0.67%) ARP4761
12 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.67%) NIST
13 4 (0.54%) NCSC
13 4 (0.54%) WCAG
14 3 (0.40%) ISO 26262
14 3 (0.40%) JTAG
System Software
1 35 (4.72%) Docker
2 30 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.43%) Firmware
4 15 (2.02%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.81%) vSphere
6 5 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.54%) vCloud
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Flume
8 3 (0.40%) HDFS
9 2 (0.27%) Ceph
9 2 (0.27%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.27%) Lustre
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.13%) Postfix
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.56%) Terraform
3 18 (2.43%) Grafana
4 15 (2.02%) Ansible
5 10 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.67%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.67%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.54%) Kibana
7 4 (0.54%) Rundeck
8 3 (0.40%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.40%) logstash
8 3 (0.40%) Oozie
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.13%) Argo
10 1 (0.13%) Control-M
10 1 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.13%) Rancher
10 1 (0.13%) yum
Vendors
1 82 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.56%) SAP
3 35 (4.72%) VMware
4 26 (3.51%) Cisco
5 22 (2.97%) Oracle
6 21 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.62%) CheckPoint
7 12 (1.62%) F5
8 11 (1.48%) MathWorks
8 11 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.35%) Allen-Bradley
9 10 (1.35%) Siemens
10 9 (1.21%) IBM
10 9 (1.21%) Rockwell
11 8 (1.08%) Databricks
11 8 (1.08%) Foundry
11 8 (1.08%) Informatica
11 8 (1.08%) Intapp
11 8 (1.08%) Software AG
11 8 (1.08%) Splunk