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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 77 180
Rank change year-on-year -10 +103 +7
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,892 1,598 1,072
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.99% 3.65% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 4.10% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,136 480 473
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -6.25%

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 69,973 39,019 58,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.54% 89.23% 81.12%
Number of salaries quoted 49,427 22,481 38,080
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -11.26%
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% - -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 20 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 20 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 +70 514 £71,000 -9.84% 549
South East -27 426 £58,000 +7.91% 325
North of England +106 396 £55,000 +15.79% 183
North West +90 231 £55,000 +15.35% 101
Midlands -46 209 £44,720 -18.69% 161
South West -4 174 £55,000 +4.56% 163
East of England -65 140 £60,000 +10.60% 161
West Midlands +14 113 £44,720 -18.69% 103
East Midlands -61 95 £45,675 +7.47% 58
North East +6 84 £55,000 +57.14% 38
Yorkshire +12 81 £43,000 +1.18% 46
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 57 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 54 (2.85%) Apache
4 31 (1.64%) Confluence
4 31 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 13 (0.69%) SAS
7 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.26%) WinCC
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.16%) Artix
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.053%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 118 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (1.74%) Simulink
5 26 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.69%) SOLIDWORKS
8 9 (0.48%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.26%) Mathcad
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.21%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.21%) Sketch
11 3 (0.16%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.16%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.16%) Productboard
11 3 (0.16%) Revit
11 3 (0.16%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.11%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.11%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 38 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.48%) SAP ERP
3 9 (0.48%) SAP MDG
4 8 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
5 7 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.32%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.26%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.26%) iTrent
7 5 (0.26%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG-BP
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.21%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.16%) SystmOne
9 3 (0.16%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.11%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 256 (13.53%) Azure
2 241 (12.74%) AWS
3 157 (8.30%) Power Platform
4 86 (4.55%) GCP
5 67 (3.54%) SaaS
6 62 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
7 58 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (2.70%) GitHub
9 49 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 46 (2.43%) Serverless
11 32 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (1.64%) Entra ID
13 29 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
14 26 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (1.16%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (1.00%) PowerApps
17 19 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (3.33%) Broadband
2 54 (2.85%) DNS
2 54 (2.85%) Firewall
3 33 (1.74%) Network Security
4 29 (1.53%) WAN
4 29 (1.53%) Wireless
5 28 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.48%) VPN
6 22 (1.16%) Ethernet
7 20 (1.06%) LAN
7 20 (1.06%) SD-WAN
8 18 (0.95%) MQTT
9 17 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.79%) BGP
11 14 (0.74%) OSPF
12 13 (0.69%) HTTP
12 13 (0.69%) Internet
12 13 (0.69%) Modbus
12 13 (0.69%) VLAN
12 13 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (7.77%) Power BI
2 55 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (2.64%) Tableau
5 47 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 44 (2.33%) Metadata
7 40 (2.11%) Data Lake
8 33 (1.74%) MongoDB
9 29 (1.53%) Relational Database
10 28 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
11 26 (1.37%) DynamoDB
12 24 (1.27%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
14 21 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (1.00%) MySQL
16 19 (1.00%) Spark SQL
17 17 (0.90%) Big Data
18 16 (0.85%) Oracle Database
19 15 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 116 (6.13%) JIRA
2 106 (5.60%) Git
3 49 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.27%) GitLab
5 32 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.16%) Selenium
6 22 (1.16%) Snyk
7 18 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 18 (0.95%) Postman
8 17 (0.90%) LabVIEW
9 14 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.69%) JMeter
11 12 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
12 10 (0.53%) Gatling
12 10 (0.53%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.48%) Burp Suite
14 8 (0.42%) Rational Rhapsody
14 8 (0.42%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.37%) Hudson
15 7 (0.37%) LoadRunner
General
1 620 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 505 (26.69%) Finance
3 475 (25.11%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (9.36%) Aerospace
5 169 (8.93%) Manufacturing
6 168 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 162 (8.56%) Electronics
8 108 (5.71%) Banking
9 102 (5.39%) Law
10 78 (4.12%) Retail
11 77 (4.07%) Public Sector
12 69 (3.65%) Marketing
13 67 (3.54%) Pharmaceutical
14 63 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
15 52 (2.75%) Automotive
16 51 (2.70%) Legal
17 46 (2.43%) Games
18 40 (2.11%) Telecoms
19 37 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
20 32 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 349 (18.45%) Senior
2 257 (13.58%) Analyst
3 172 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 153 (8.09%) Lead
5 118 (6.24%) Test Engineer
6 106 (5.60%) Architect
7 97 (5.13%) Data Engineer
8 85 (4.49%) Business Analyst
9 84 (4.44%) Developer
10 69 (3.65%) Consultant
11 68 (3.59%) Software Engineer
12 65 (3.44%) Validation Engineer
13 63 (3.33%) Data Analyst
14 62 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
15 48 (2.54%) Embedded Engineer
15 48 (2.54%) Support Engineer
16 47 (2.48%) Data Scientist
17 41 (2.17%) IT Manager
18 40 (2.11%) Project Manager
19 39 (2.06%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (3.70%) Terraform
2 47 (2.48%) RESTful
3 43 (2.27%) Kafka
4 38 (2.01%) REST
5 37 (1.96%) PySpark
6 36 (1.90%) Node.js
7 29 (1.53%) JSON
8 27 (1.43%) .NET
8 27 (1.43%) LDAP
8 27 (1.43%) XML
9 25 (1.32%) Playwright
10 24 (1.27%) Middleware
11 22 (1.16%) CSS
12 21 (1.11%) HTML
12 21 (1.11%) ModSecurity
12 21 (1.11%) Pandas
13 19 (1.00%) FastAPI
13 19 (1.00%) OAuth
13 19 (1.00%) Regular Expression
13 19 (1.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 138 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 125 (6.61%) Onboarding
3 105 (5.55%) Management Information System
4 72 (3.81%) Data Centre
5 67 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 55 (2.91%) Data Structures
6 55 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
7 53 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 52 (2.75%) Driving Licence
8 52 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
9 47 (2.48%) Low-Code
10 45 (2.38%) Algorithms
11 39 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 38 (2.01%) Life Science
13 35 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
14 34 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
15 32 (1.69%) AI Agents
15 32 (1.69%) Robotics
16 27 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
17 26 (1.37%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 120 (6.34%) Linux
2 88 (4.65%) Windows
3 34 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.00%) Unix
5 9 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.42%) Android
7 6 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.26%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
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 (0.053%) AIX
11 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.053%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
2 433 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 384 (20.30%) Agile
4 348 (18.39%) AI
5 293 (15.49%) CI/CD
6 253 (13.37%) Verification and Validation
7 245 (12.95%) Analytics
7 245 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 242 (12.79%) Test Automation
9 235 (12.42%) Migration
10 216 (11.42%) Mentoring
11 206 (10.89%) Decision-Making
12 201 (10.62%) Software Engineering
13 181 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
14 179 (9.46%) DevOps
15 176 (9.30%) Data Analysis
16 170 (8.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 169 (8.93%) Machine Learning
18 164 (8.67%) Roadmaps
19 157 (8.30%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 429 (22.67%) Python
2 370 (19.56%) SQL
3 84 (4.44%) C++
4 79 (4.18%) Java
5 75 (3.96%) C
6 58 (3.07%) JavaScript
7 55 (2.91%) Go
8 46 (2.43%) MATLAB
9 44 (2.33%) C#
10 28 (1.48%) Bash
11 27 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 24 (1.27%) Embedded C
13 22 (1.16%) Scala
14 18 (0.95%) Embedded C++
15 17 (0.90%) TypeScript
16 14 (0.74%) R
16 14 (0.74%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.42%) ABAP
18 8 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 397 (20.98%) Degree
2 336 (17.76%) Security Cleared
3 210 (11.10%) SC Cleared
4 117 (6.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 98 (5.18%) DV Cleared
6 83 (4.39%) Master's Degree
7 41 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.01%) CISSP
9 30 (1.59%) CISM
9 30 (1.59%) PhD
10 29 (1.53%) Chartered Engineer
10 29 (1.53%) PMI Certification
11 27 (1.43%) HNC
12 24 (1.27%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.22%) ACCA
13 23 (1.22%) Azure Certification
13 23 (1.22%) CIMA
13 23 (1.22%) HND
14 19 (1.00%) SANS
15 18 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (16.07%) Data Quality
2 258 (13.64%) QA
3 64 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 54 (2.85%) GDPR
5 37 (1.96%) GRC
6 25 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.22%) IEC 61508
8 21 (1.11%) NIST
9 19 (1.00%) GxP
10 18 (0.95%) PMO
11 17 (0.90%) SLA
12 15 (0.79%) ISO 26262
13 14 (0.74%) GAAP
13 14 (0.74%) IFRS
14 13 (0.69%) WCAG
15 12 (0.63%) ISO 9001
16 11 (0.58%) GMP
16 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
17 9 (0.48%) COBIT
18 8 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 75 (3.96%) Docker
2 70 (3.70%) Firmware
3 46 (2.43%) Active Directory
4 31 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
5 28 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.11%) vSphere
7 11 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.053%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.053%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 75 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.06%) Grafana
3 26 (1.37%) Functional Safety
4 21 (1.11%) Ansible
5 15 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.53%) Cilium
8 7 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.37%) Kibana
8 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.32%) Puppet
9 6 (0.32%) SCCM
10 5 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.26%) Nessus
10 5 (0.26%) Nmap
10 5 (0.26%) WMI
11 4 (0.21%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.21%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.11%) Argo
12 2 (0.11%) kaniko
Vendors
1 261 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 109 (5.76%) SAP
3 104 (5.50%) Oracle
4 54 (2.85%) Salesforce
5 52 (2.75%) Databricks
6 47 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.27%) Cisco
8 38 (2.01%) Google
9 35 (1.85%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.59%) VMware
11 29 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
12 26 (1.37%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.32%) EMC
14 22 (1.16%) Tenable
15 15 (0.79%) McAfee
15 15 (0.79%) Workday
16 14 (0.74%) Splunk
17 12 (0.63%) Foundry
17 12 (0.63%) IBM
17 12 (0.63%) Remedy