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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 80 206
Rank change year-on-year -19 +126 -15
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,599 1,575 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 3.63% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 4.04% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 976 470 530
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,188 £72,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -8.00%

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 66,599 38,984 61,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 89.76% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 47,002 22,502 42,192
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -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 29 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 29 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 +78 454 £75,000 -6.25% 471
South East -41 350 £56,000 +1.82% 253
North of England +101 340 £55,000 +15.79% 165
North West +78 203 £55,000 +15.35% 91
Midlands -59 186 £42,500 -22.73% 123
South West -24 127 £51,250 -2.57% 113
East of England -77 111 £62,500 +9.65% 101
West Midlands +2 100 £44,000 -23.48% 71
East Midlands -73 85 £42,500 - 52
Yorkshire +12 71 £43,000 +1.18% 41
North East +2 66 £55,000 +41.94% 35
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 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 53 (3.31%) Apache
4 30 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 28 (1.75%) Confluence
6 17 (1.06%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.75%) SAS
9 5 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.31%) CMS
10 4 (0.25%) Kinematics
11 3 (0.19%) Artix
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
12 2 (0.13%) WinCC
13 1 (0.063%) Appian
13 1 (0.063%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.063%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.063%) WebSphere
Applications
1 95 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.50%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.38%) Simulink
6 13 (0.81%) 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%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.063%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 42 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.69%) SAP MDG
4 10 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
7 5 (0.31%) iTrent
7 5 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-BP
8 4 (0.25%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.13%) FastStats
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
10 2 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 216 (13.51%) Azure
2 209 (13.07%) AWS
3 154 (9.63%) Power Platform
4 79 (4.94%) GCP
5 69 (4.32%) SaaS
6 58 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.75%) Serverless
9 43 (2.69%) Amazon S3
10 40 (2.50%) GitHub
11 30 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
13 22 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (1.38%) Entra ID
13 22 (1.38%) Snowflake
14 21 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
16 19 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.19%) Broadband
2 47 (2.94%) Firewall
3 41 (2.56%) DNS
4 24 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.44%) Wireless
6 22 (1.38%) Network Security
7 20 (1.25%) VPN
7 20 (1.25%) WAN
8 17 (1.06%) Ethernet
9 15 (0.94%) MQTT
9 15 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.75%) HTTP
11 12 (0.75%) Internet
11 12 (0.75%) LAN
12 11 (0.69%) CHAP
13 10 (0.63%) NGN
13 10 (0.63%) RS-232
14 9 (0.56%) 5G
14 9 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (9.01%) Power BI
2 58 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (3.44%) Tableau
4 49 (3.06%) SQL Server
5 40 (2.50%) Metadata
6 34 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 33 (2.06%) MongoDB
8 29 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.56%) BigQuery
10 23 (1.44%) Semantic Layer
11 22 (1.38%) DynamoDB
12 21 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
12 21 (1.31%) MySQL
13 20 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (1.25%) Spark SQL
14 18 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (1.06%) Oracle Database
15 17 (1.06%) Power Query
16 16 (1.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 99 (6.19%) JIRA
2 88 (5.50%) Git
3 47 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.56%) GitLab
5 30 (1.88%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.38%) Snyk
7 16 (1.00%) Selenium
8 14 (0.88%) LabVIEW
9 13 (0.81%) IBM UrbanCode
9 13 (0.81%) 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
1 509 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 438 (27.39%) Finance
3 400 (25.02%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (8.19%) Aerospace
5 127 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 125 (7.82%) Manufacturing
7 121 (7.57%) Electronics
8 95 (5.94%) Banking
9 78 (4.88%) Law
10 67 (4.19%) Retail
11 61 (3.81%) Public Sector
12 55 (3.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 53 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (3.06%) Marketing
15 48 (3.00%) Legal
16 45 (2.81%) Games
17 38 (2.38%) Automotive
18 30 (1.88%) Telecoms
19 27 (1.69%) Advertising
19 27 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (18.32%) Senior
2 244 (15.26%) Analyst
3 128 (8.01%) Lead
4 116 (7.25%) Systems Engineer
5 105 (6.57%) Test Engineer
6 99 (6.19%) Architect
7 90 (5.63%) Data Engineer
8 78 (4.88%) Business Analyst
9 76 (4.75%) Developer
10 68 (4.25%) Validation Engineer
11 66 (4.13%) Data Analyst
12 60 (3.75%) Consultant
13 52 (3.25%) Software Engineer
14 49 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
15 43 (2.69%) Support Engineer
16 42 (2.63%) Embedded Engineer
17 39 (2.44%) Data Scientist
17 39 (2.44%) IT Manager
18 37 (2.31%) Project Manager
19 36 (2.25%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.88%) RESTful
2 39 (2.44%) Kafka
3 36 (2.25%) PySpark
4 34 (2.13%) Node.js
5 31 (1.94%) XML
6 29 (1.81%) JSON
7 28 (1.75%) REST
8 26 (1.63%) Pandas
9 22 (1.38%) .NET
9 22 (1.38%) Middleware
10 20 (1.25%) CSS
11 19 (1.19%) HTML
11 19 (1.19%) LDAP
11 19 (1.19%) Regular Expression
11 19 (1.19%) XMPP
12 17 (1.06%) FastAPI
12 17 (1.06%) Playwright
13 15 (0.94%) React
14 14 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 116 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 110 (6.88%) Onboarding
3 75 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 60 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 58 (3.63%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.31%) Data Centre
7 47 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 47 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 46 (2.88%) Driving Licence
8 46 (2.88%) Low-Code
9 44 (2.75%) Algorithms
9 44 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
10 38 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 33 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
12 31 (1.94%) Life Science
13 28 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
15 25 (1.56%) AI Agents
16 24 (1.50%) Robotics
17 23 (1.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 109 (6.82%) Linux
2 82 (5.13%) Windows
3 31 (1.94%) 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
1 402 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
2 360 (22.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 338 (21.14%) Agile
4 297 (18.57%) AI
5 269 (16.82%) CI/CD
6 213 (13.32%) Analytics
7 210 (13.13%) Test Automation
8 209 (13.07%) Migration
9 194 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 180 (11.26%) Mentoring
11 176 (11.01%) Decision-Making
12 171 (10.69%) Verification and Validation
13 169 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
14 164 (10.26%) Software Engineering
15 163 (10.19%) DevOps
16 153 (9.57%) Data Modelling
16 153 (9.57%) Data Validation
17 149 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 144 (9.01%) Data Analysis
19 143 (8.94%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 396 (24.77%) Python
2 350 (21.89%) SQL
3 75 (4.69%) C++
4 68 (4.25%) C
5 67 (4.19%) Java
6 52 (3.25%) Go
7 47 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 42 (2.63%) C#
9 35 (2.19%) MATLAB
10 29 (1.81%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.69%) 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
1 313 (19.57%) Degree
2 202 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 104 (6.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 103 (6.44%) SC Cleared
5 74 (4.63%) Master's Degree
6 66 (4.13%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (1.81%) Chartered Engineer
9 27 (1.69%) CISSP
10 24 (1.50%) HNC
11 22 (1.38%) CISM
12 21 (1.31%) ACCA
12 21 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 21 (1.31%) CIMA
12 21 (1.31%) CISA
12 21 (1.31%) PMI Certification
12 21 (1.31%) SANS
13 20 (1.25%) PhD
14 16 (1.00%) HND
14 16 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (17.89%) Data Quality
2 203 (12.70%) QA
3 56 (3.50%) GDPR
4 47 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 38 (2.38%) GRC
6 24 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.25%) IEC 61508
8 18 (1.13%) NIST
9 17 (1.06%) PMO
10 15 (0.94%) IFRS
11 14 (0.88%) GAAP
12 13 (0.81%) GxP
12 13 (0.81%) ISO 26262
12 13 (0.81%) ISO 9001
12 13 (0.81%) SLA
13 12 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 11 (0.69%) COBIT
14 11 (0.69%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.56%) GMP
15 9 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (4.32%) Docker
2 56 (3.50%) Firmware
3 41 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 27 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
6 21 (1.31%) vSphere
7 10 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.25%) 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 71 (4.44%) Terraform
2 70 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.19%) Grafana
4 24 (1.50%) Functional Safety
5 19 (1.19%) Ansible
6 16 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.63%) Cilium
8 7 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.44%) Kibana
8 7 (0.44%) SCCM
8 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.38%) Puppet
10 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.25%) Nessus
10 4 (0.25%) Nmap
11 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.19%) Rancher
11 3 (0.19%) WMI
11 3 (0.19%) yum
Vendors
1 233 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 100 (6.25%) SAP
3 93 (5.82%) Oracle
4 52 (3.25%) Salesforce
5 45 (2.81%) Databricks
6 35 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.13%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.88%) Cisco
9 29 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
9 29 (1.81%) VMware
10 28 (1.75%) Google
11 23 (1.44%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.38%) Tenable
13 15 (0.94%) McAfee
14 14 (0.88%) Adobe
14 14 (0.88%) IBM
15 12 (0.75%) Splunk
15 12 (0.75%) Workday
16 11 (0.69%) Citrix
16 11 (0.69%) Informatica