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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 83 194
Rank change year-on-year -30 +111 -2
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,456 1,530 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.68% 3.61% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 3.97% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 909 440 694
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,900 £36,075
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £56,504 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.66% +2.73% -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 63,989 38,586 74,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 90.92% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 45,232 21,845 54,026
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,898 £29,629
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 £73,346
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 7 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 7 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 +79 418 £77,500 - 432
South East -39 327 £55,000 - 236
North of England +82 297 £55,000 +15.35% 152
North West +73 187 £55,000 +15.35% 82
Midlands -69 170 £41,875 -23.86% 132
South West -39 113 £52,750 -1.03% 99
East of England -84 105 £61,250 +7.46% 79
West Midlands -1 100 £44,000 -29.60% 62
East Midlands -81 68 £30,000 -36.84% 70
Yorkshire +11 62 £44,000 +5.39% 50
North East -7 48 £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 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 46 (3.16%) Apache
4 23 (1.58%) Confluence
5 21 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.82%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.69%) SAS
9 5 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.27%) Appian
10 4 (0.27%) CMS
10 4 (0.27%) Kinematics
11 3 (0.21%) Artix
12 2 (0.14%) IIS
13 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.069%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 84 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.17%) Simulink
6 15 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.55%) SOLIDWORKS
7 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.34%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.27%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.27%) Sketch
10 3 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
10 3 (0.21%) Productboard
10 3 (0.21%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.14%) Solid Edge
12 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.069%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.069%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 38 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 38 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.76%) SAP MDG
3 10 (0.69%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.34%) iTrent
5 5 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG-BP
6 4 (0.27%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.14%) FastStats
8 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.14%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.14%) SAP WM
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 187 (12.84%) Azure
2 167 (11.47%) AWS
3 144 (9.89%) Power Platform
4 73 (5.01%) GCP
5 69 (4.74%) SaaS
6 59 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (2.82%) Serverless
9 38 (2.61%) Amazon S3
10 36 (2.47%) GitHub
11 26 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (1.51%) Snowflake
14 19 (1.30%) Entra ID
14 19 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (1.24%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (1.10%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (1.10%) dbt
17 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.60%) Broadband
2 46 (3.16%) Firewall
3 34 (2.34%) DNS
4 23 (1.58%) WAN
5 17 (1.17%) CHAP
5 17 (1.17%) Network Security
5 17 (1.17%) SD-WAN
5 17 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.17%) Wireless
6 16 (1.10%) VPN
7 12 (0.82%) Ethernet
7 12 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.76%) 5G
8 11 (0.76%) HTTP
8 11 (0.76%) MQTT
9 10 (0.69%) LAN
10 9 (0.62%) NAS
11 7 (0.48%) BGP
11 7 (0.48%) WebEx
11 7 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (9.62%) Power BI
2 57 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (3.91%) Tableau
3 52 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 51 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (2.40%) Metadata
6 33 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 30 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.79%) BigQuery
8 26 (1.79%) Data Lake
9 23 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
11 19 (1.30%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.30%) Spark SQL
12 18 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.24%) MySQL
13 17 (1.17%) Oracle Database
14 16 (1.10%) Parquet
15 14 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 84 (5.77%) JIRA
2 74 (5.08%) Git
3 46 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 37 (2.54%) GitLab
5 28 (1.92%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.51%) Snyk
7 16 (1.10%) LabVIEW
8 15 (1.03%) Selenium
9 13 (0.89%) IBM UrbanCode
9 13 (0.89%) Postman
10 11 (0.76%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.69%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.62%) JMeter
13 8 (0.55%) Eclipse
13 8 (0.55%) MLflow
14 7 (0.48%) Rational Rhapsody
15 6 (0.41%) Burp Suite
16 5 (0.34%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 444 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 386 (26.51%) Finance
3 341 (23.42%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (7.42%) Aerospace
5 106 (7.28%) Electronics
6 100 (6.87%) Manufacturing
7 95 (6.52%) Banking
8 88 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 60 (4.12%) Retail
10 51 (3.50%) Law
11 49 (3.37%) Public Sector
12 44 (3.02%) Legal
12 44 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (2.95%) Marketing
13 43 (2.95%) Pharmaceutical
14 42 (2.88%) Games
15 35 (2.40%) Automotive
16 33 (2.27%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.72%) Advertising
17 25 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 251 (17.24%) Senior
2 234 (16.07%) Analyst
3 119 (8.17%) Systems Engineer
4 113 (7.76%) Lead
5 100 (6.87%) Test Engineer
6 92 (6.32%) Architect
7 80 (5.49%) Data Engineer
8 78 (5.36%) Validation Engineer
9 76 (5.22%) Business Analyst
10 68 (4.67%) Data Analyst
11 66 (4.53%) Developer
12 43 (2.95%) Consultant
13 42 (2.88%) Support Engineer
14 41 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
15 40 (2.75%) IT Manager
16 39 (2.68%) Embedded Engineer
17 35 (2.40%) Project Manager
17 35 (2.40%) Security Architect
17 35 (2.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 35 (2.40%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.95%) RESTful
2 33 (2.27%) PySpark
3 31 (2.13%) JSON
3 31 (2.13%) Node.js
4 30 (2.06%) Kafka
4 30 (2.06%) REST
5 29 (1.99%) XML
6 26 (1.79%) Pandas
7 23 (1.58%) .NET
8 22 (1.51%) Middleware
9 20 (1.37%) pytest
10 19 (1.30%) Playwright
10 19 (1.30%) Regular Expression
10 19 (1.30%) XMPP
11 17 (1.17%) CSS
12 16 (1.10%) HTML
13 15 (1.03%) LDAP
13 15 (1.03%) Swagger
14 14 (0.96%) FastAPI
14 14 (0.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 94 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 83 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 65 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 64 (4.40%) Management Information System
5 48 (3.30%) Low-Code
6 44 (3.02%) Product Ownership
7 43 (2.95%) Driving Licence
8 42 (2.88%) Algorithms
8 42 (2.88%) Embedded Systems
9 39 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
10 38 (2.61%) Data Centre
11 36 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
12 35 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 35 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
13 31 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
14 29 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
15 28 (1.92%) Life Science
16 23 (1.58%) Robotics
17 20 (1.37%) PKI
18 18 (1.24%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 100 (6.87%) Linux
2 74 (5.08%) Windows
3 29 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.58%) Unix
5 19 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.48%) Android
7 5 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.27%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.21%) AIX
9 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.14%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.069%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
2 298 (20.47%) Agile
3 289 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 258 (17.72%) AI
5 244 (16.76%) CI/CD
6 204 (14.01%) Test Automation
7 198 (13.60%) Analytics
8 178 (12.23%) Migration
9 172 (11.81%) Verification and Validation
10 166 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
11 161 (11.06%) Data Validation
12 157 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 152 (10.44%) DevOps
14 150 (10.30%) Decision-Making
15 149 (10.23%) Data Modelling
16 145 (9.96%) Software Engineering
17 141 (9.68%) Mentoring
18 136 (9.34%) Data Governance
19 126 (8.65%) Data Analysis
19 126 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 356 (24.45%) Python
2 322 (22.12%) SQL
3 69 (4.74%) C++
4 67 (4.60%) C
5 56 (3.85%) Java
6 50 (3.43%) Go
7 39 (2.68%) C#
8 33 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 31 (2.13%) MATLAB
10 26 (1.79%) Bash
11 24 (1.65%) T-SQL
12 23 (1.58%) PowerShell
13 18 (1.24%) Embedded C
13 18 (1.24%) Embedded C++
14 16 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.96%) Scala
16 13 (0.89%) TypeScript
17 9 (0.62%) VBA
18 8 (0.55%) ABAP
18 8 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 277 (19.02%) Degree
2 163 (11.20%) Security Cleared
3 99 (6.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 74 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 73 (5.01%) Master's Degree
6 50 (3.43%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.20%) Chartered Engineer
9 27 (1.85%) CISA
9 27 (1.85%) CISSP
9 27 (1.85%) SANS
10 25 (1.72%) HNC
11 24 (1.65%) CISM
12 18 (1.24%) HND
13 17 (1.17%) ACCA
13 17 (1.17%) CGEIT
13 17 (1.17%) CIMA
13 17 (1.17%) FFIEC
14 14 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (17.51%) Data Quality
2 170 (11.68%) QA
3 54 (3.71%) GDPR
4 38 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 36 (2.47%) GRC
6 25 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.51%) NIST
8 19 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 18 (1.24%) IEC 61508
9 18 (1.24%) IFRS
10 17 (1.17%) COBIT
11 16 (1.10%) PMO
12 15 (1.03%) ISO 9001
13 13 (0.89%) GAAP
13 13 (0.89%) ISO 26262
14 12 (0.82%) SLA
15 11 (0.76%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.69%) GxP
17 9 (0.62%) GMP
17 9 (0.62%) MISRA
System Software
1 62 (4.26%) Docker
2 47 (3.23%) Firmware
3 38 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 24 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.51%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (1.37%) vSphere
7 8 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (4.67%) Terraform
2 62 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.06%) Grafana
4 23 (1.58%) Functional Safety
5 16 (1.10%) Ansible
5 16 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.69%) Cilium
7 7 (0.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 7 (0.48%) Kibana
8 6 (0.41%) Puppet
8 6 (0.41%) SCCM
9 3 (0.21%) Argo
9 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.21%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.21%) Nessus
9 3 (0.21%) Nmap
9 3 (0.21%) Rancher
9 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.21%) yum
10 2 (0.14%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 192 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.32%) SAP
3 84 (5.77%) Oracle
4 44 (3.02%) Salesforce
5 39 (2.68%) Databricks
6 33 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 32 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 29 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
9 27 (1.85%) VMware
10 24 (1.65%) Cisco
11 22 (1.51%) Palo Alto
11 22 (1.51%) Tenable
12 20 (1.37%) Google
13 19 (1.30%) Adobe
14 15 (1.03%) McAfee
15 14 (0.96%) Citrix
16 13 (0.89%) Foundry
17 12 (0.82%) IBM
18 9 (0.62%) EMC
18 9 (0.62%) Splunk