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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 80 201
Rank change year-on-year -20 +121 -12
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,592 1,582 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 3.64% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 4.06% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 976 475 538
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £71,979
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year - -2.67% -9.59%

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 66,548 38,995 62,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 89.82% 81.69%
Number of salaries quoted 46,995 22,507 43,155
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -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% - -8.66%

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 28 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 28 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 +76 452 £75,000 -6.25% 398
South East -33 349 £55,000 - 222
North of England +97 339 £55,000 +15.79% 156
North West +90 203 £55,000 +15.35% 86
Midlands -56 186 £42,500 -22.73% 117
South West -27 124 £50,000 -4.94% 98
East of England -75 111 £62,500 +9.65% 94
West Midlands +12 101 £44,000 -26.67% 69
East Midlands -69 84 £42,500 - 48
Yorkshire +1 70 £43,000 +1.18% 37
North East +5 66 £55,000 +41.94% 34
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 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 53 (3.33%) Apache
4 30 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 26 (1.63%) Confluence
6 17 (1.07%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.75%) SAS
8 5 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.31%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.19%) Artix
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
12 1 (0.063%) Appian
12 1 (0.063%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.063%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.063%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.063%) WinCC
Applications
1 95 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.32%) Simulink
6 13 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 12 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.50%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.31%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.25%) Sketch
11 3 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.19%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.19%) Productboard
11 3 (0.19%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.13%) Mathcad
12 2 (0.13%) Solid Edge
13 1 (0.063%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.063%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.69%) SAP MDG
4 10 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
7 5 (0.31%) iTrent
7 5 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-BP
8 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.13%) FastStats
10 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.13%) SAP WM
10 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 212 (13.32%) Azure
2 208 (13.07%) AWS
3 152 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 79 (4.96%) GCP
5 69 (4.33%) SaaS
6 57 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.76%) Serverless
9 42 (2.64%) Amazon S3
10 41 (2.58%) GitHub
11 29 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
13 22 (1.38%) Snowflake
14 21 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.32%) Entra ID
14 21 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
15 20 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.21%) Broadband
2 47 (2.95%) Firewall
3 41 (2.58%) DNS
4 24 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.44%) Wireless
6 22 (1.38%) Network Security
7 20 (1.26%) VPN
7 20 (1.26%) WAN
8 17 (1.07%) Ethernet
9 15 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (0.88%) MQTT
10 14 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.75%) CHAP
11 12 (0.75%) HTTP
11 12 (0.75%) Internet
11 12 (0.75%) LAN
12 10 (0.63%) NGN
12 10 (0.63%) RS-232
13 9 (0.57%) 5G
13 9 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (8.92%) Power BI
2 58 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (3.45%) Tableau
4 54 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (3.02%) SQL Server
6 40 (2.51%) Metadata
7 34 (2.14%) Data Lake
8 33 (2.07%) MongoDB
9 29 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.57%) BigQuery
11 23 (1.44%) Semantic Layer
12 22 (1.38%) DynamoDB
13 21 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
13 21 (1.32%) MySQL
14 20 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (1.26%) Spark SQL
15 19 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (1.07%) Oracle Database
16 17 (1.07%) Power Query
17 16 (1.01%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 98 (6.16%) JIRA
2 89 (5.59%) Git
3 48 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.70%) GitLab
5 31 (1.95%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.38%) Snyk
7 16 (1.01%) Selenium
8 15 (0.94%) LabVIEW
9 13 (0.82%) IBM UrbanCode
9 13 (0.82%) Postman
10 12 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.69%) JMeter
12 10 (0.63%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.44%) Burp Suite
13 7 (0.44%) Rational Rhapsody
14 6 (0.38%) GDB
14 6 (0.38%) Hudson
14 6 (0.38%) MLflow
14 6 (0.38%) REST Assured
General
1 503 (31.60%) Social Skills
2 435 (27.32%) Finance
3 394 (24.75%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.04%) Aerospace
5 125 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 124 (7.79%) Manufacturing
7 119 (7.47%) Electronics
8 97 (6.09%) Banking
9 72 (4.52%) Law
10 66 (4.15%) Retail
11 61 (3.83%) Public Sector
12 55 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
13 50 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
14 48 (3.02%) Marketing
15 46 (2.89%) Legal
16 45 (2.83%) Games
17 37 (2.32%) Automotive
18 28 (1.76%) Telecoms
19 27 (1.70%) Advertising
19 27 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 291 (18.28%) Senior
2 244 (15.33%) Analyst
3 129 (8.10%) Lead
4 117 (7.35%) Systems Engineer
5 103 (6.47%) Test Engineer
6 98 (6.16%) Architect
7 90 (5.65%) Data Engineer
8 79 (4.96%) Business Analyst
9 74 (4.65%) Developer
10 72 (4.52%) Validation Engineer
11 69 (4.33%) Data Analyst
12 60 (3.77%) Consultant
13 50 (3.14%) Software Engineer
14 48 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
15 43 (2.70%) Support Engineer
16 42 (2.64%) Embedded Engineer
17 39 (2.45%) Data Scientist
17 39 (2.45%) IT Manager
18 36 (2.26%) Project Manager
18 36 (2.26%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.83%) RESTful
2 38 (2.39%) Kafka
3 36 (2.26%) PySpark
4 34 (2.14%) Node.js
5 31 (1.95%) XML
6 27 (1.70%) JSON
7 26 (1.63%) Pandas
8 25 (1.57%) REST
9 22 (1.38%) .NET
10 21 (1.32%) Middleware
11 20 (1.26%) CSS
12 19 (1.19%) HTML
12 19 (1.19%) Regular Expression
12 19 (1.19%) XMPP
13 18 (1.13%) LDAP
14 17 (1.07%) Playwright
15 16 (1.01%) FastAPI
16 15 (0.94%) React
17 14 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
18 13 (0.82%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 112 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 110 (6.91%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 61 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 55 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.33%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (2.89%) Driving Licence
7 46 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.76%) Embedded Systems
8 44 (2.76%) Low-Code
9 43 (2.70%) Algorithms
10 38 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (2.01%) Video\Live Streaming
12 31 (1.95%) Life Science
13 28 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
15 25 (1.57%) AI Agents
16 23 (1.44%) IoT
16 23 (1.44%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.91%) Linux
2 82 (5.15%) Windows
3 31 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.19%) Unix
5 6 (0.38%) Android
5 6 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.25%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.13%) ThreadX
9 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.063%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
2 354 (22.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 338 (21.23%) Agile
4 298 (18.72%) AI
5 269 (16.90%) CI/CD
6 214 (13.44%) Analytics
7 209 (13.13%) Test Automation
8 205 (12.88%) Migration
9 186 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 178 (11.18%) Mentoring
11 172 (10.80%) Verification and Validation
12 171 (10.74%) Decision-Making
13 165 (10.36%) Business Intelligence
14 162 (10.18%) DevOps
14 162 (10.18%) Software Engineering
15 154 (9.67%) Data Modelling
16 152 (9.55%) Data Validation
17 147 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 144 (9.05%) Data Analysis
19 139 (8.73%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 394 (24.75%) Python
2 347 (21.80%) SQL
3 75 (4.71%) C++
4 68 (4.27%) C
5 66 (4.15%) Java
6 53 (3.33%) Go
7 47 (2.95%) JavaScript
8 42 (2.64%) C#
9 34 (2.14%) MATLAB
10 29 (1.82%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.70%) Bash
12 22 (1.38%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.13%) Embedded C
13 18 (1.13%) Embedded C++
13 18 (1.13%) Scala
14 15 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 15 (0.94%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.50%) ABAP
15 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 311 (19.54%) Degree
2 199 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 106 (6.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 103 (6.47%) SC Cleared
5 74 (4.65%) Master's Degree
6 63 (3.96%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (1.82%) Chartered Engineer
9 28 (1.76%) CISSP
10 26 (1.63%) HNC
11 23 (1.44%) CISA
12 22 (1.38%) CISM
12 22 (1.38%) SANS
13 21 (1.32%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.26%) PhD
14 20 (1.26%) PMI Certification
15 18 (1.13%) ACCA
15 18 (1.13%) CIMA
16 16 (1.01%) HND
17 15 (0.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (17.84%) Data Quality
2 201 (12.63%) QA
3 55 (3.45%) GDPR
4 46 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 38 (2.39%) GRC
6 24 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.26%) IEC 61508
8 19 (1.19%) NIST
9 17 (1.07%) PMO
10 15 (0.94%) IFRS
11 14 (0.88%) GxP
11 14 (0.88%) ISO 9001
12 13 (0.82%) GAAP
12 13 (0.82%) ISO 26262
12 13 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 13 (0.82%) SLA
13 12 (0.75%) COBIT
14 11 (0.69%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.57%) MISRA
15 9 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (4.21%) Docker
2 56 (3.52%) Firmware
3 41 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 27 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
6 21 (1.32%) vSphere
7 10 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.063%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.063%) KVM
10 1 (0.063%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.063%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 72 (4.52%) Terraform
2 68 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.20%) Grafana
4 24 (1.51%) Functional Safety
5 20 (1.26%) Ansible
6 16 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.63%) Cilium
8 7 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.44%) Kibana
8 7 (0.44%) SCCM
9 6 (0.38%) Puppet
9 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.25%) Nessus
10 4 (0.25%) Nmap
11 3 (0.19%) Argo
11 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.19%) Rancher
11 3 (0.19%) WMI
11 3 (0.19%) yum
Vendors
1 231 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.09%) SAP
3 91 (5.72%) Oracle
4 52 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 45 (2.83%) Databricks
6 36 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.14%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.88%) Cisco
9 29 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
9 29 (1.82%) VMware
10 27 (1.70%) Google
11 23 (1.44%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.38%) Tenable
13 15 (0.94%) IBM
13 15 (0.94%) McAfee
14 14 (0.88%) Adobe
15 12 (0.75%) Citrix
15 12 (0.75%) Splunk
16 11 (0.69%) Foundry
16 11 (0.69%) Informatica