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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 161 204
Rank change year-on-year +1 +43 -68
Permanent jobs citing Validation 798 934 723
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.55% 1.81% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.03% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 444 355 452
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £47,519
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,000 £93,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%

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 42,973 46,002 40,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.43% 89.38% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 25,566 23,576 31,202
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 +32 248 £77,500 +20.62% 163
South East +19 197 £49,000 -18.33% 264
North of England -30 122 £53,750 +16.85% 140
Midlands +19 82 £42,500 -15.00% 100
North West -17 75 £52,500 +10.10% 72
South West +21 73 £50,000 -9.09% 128
East of England -2 64 £60,000 +9.09% 146
West Midlands +12 51 £42,215 -15.57% 63
Yorkshire -10 36 £60,000 +57.38% 53
East Midlands +12 31 £42,500 -15.00% 35
North East -5 11 £31,000 -31.87% 15
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 20 (2.51%) Confluence
2 17 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.38%) CMS
5 10 (1.25%) SugarCRM
6 9 (1.13%) Apache
6 9 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.63%) Appian
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.50%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.38%) SAS
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 53 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.88%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.88%) Simulink
4 7 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.38%) Fusion 360
5 3 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.25%) Elementor
6 2 (0.25%) Mathcad
6 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.25%) Weka
7 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.13%) CATIA
7 1 (0.13%) Doxygen
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.50%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.38%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.25%) Endur
5 2 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) Primavera
5 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 107 (13.41%) Azure
2 65 (8.15%) Power Platform
3 62 (7.77%) AWS
4 37 (4.64%) SaaS
5 24 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (2.63%) GCP
7 16 (2.01%) GitHub
8 14 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (1.75%) Snowflake
9 13 (1.63%) Power Automate
10 12 (1.50%) Amazon S3
10 12 (1.50%) dbt
10 12 (1.50%) Serverless
11 11 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (1.00%) Datadog
13 8 (1.00%) Entra ID
14 6 (0.75%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.01%) LAN
2 12 (1.50%) Firewall
3 11 (1.38%) DNS
4 9 (1.13%) CHAP
4 9 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.00%) HTTP
6 7 (0.88%) Modbus
6 7 (0.88%) WAN
7 6 (0.75%) MQTT
8 5 (0.63%) 5G
8 5 (0.63%) DHCP
8 5 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (0.63%) Network Security
8 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.63%) SMTP
9 4 (0.50%) BGP
9 4 (0.50%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.50%) OSPF
9 4 (0.50%) VLAN
9 4 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (7.64%) Power BI
2 30 (3.76%) Tableau
3 25 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 20 (2.51%) Metadata
6 19 (2.38%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (1.38%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.25%) Big Data
11 8 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.00%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.88%) Looker
12 7 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.75%) GIS
13 6 (0.75%) Spotfire
14 5 (0.63%) Data Vault
14 5 (0.63%) Pinecone
14 5 (0.63%) SAP HANA
15 4 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 66 (8.27%) JIRA
2 41 (5.14%) Git
3 33 (4.14%) Rational DOORS
4 20 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.51%) Postman
5 14 (1.75%) Selenium
6 13 (1.63%) GitLab
7 10 (1.25%) SoapUI
7 10 (1.25%) TestRail
8 9 (1.13%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.13%) JMeter
8 9 (1.13%) MLflow
9 7 (0.88%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.63%) Charles Proxy
10 5 (0.63%) Fiddler
10 5 (0.63%) TestNG
10 5 (0.63%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.50%) Locust
11 4 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 295 (36.97%) Social Skills
2 214 (26.82%) Finance
3 171 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.14%) Law
5 48 (6.02%) Electronics
6 47 (5.89%) Manufacturing
6 47 (5.89%) Marketing
7 46 (5.76%) Banking
7 46 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (4.14%) Financial Institution
11 30 (3.76%) Retail
12 27 (3.38%) Telecoms
13 26 (3.26%) Aerospace
13 26 (3.26%) Public Sector
14 24 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (2.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 126 (15.79%) Analyst
2 119 (14.91%) Senior
3 88 (11.03%) Lead
4 66 (8.27%) Systems Engineer
5 43 (5.39%) Data Analyst
6 40 (5.01%) Architect
7 36 (4.51%) Business Analyst
8 33 (4.14%) Test Engineer
9 30 (3.76%) Developer
10 28 (3.51%) Applications Engineer
11 27 (3.38%) Applications Support
11 27 (3.38%) Data Engineer
11 27 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
12 26 (3.26%) Support Engineer
13 23 (2.88%) Junior
13 23 (2.88%) Team Leader
13 23 (2.88%) Validation Engineer
14 22 (2.76%) Applications Support Engineer
15 21 (2.63%) Data Quality Analyst
15 21 (2.63%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.64%) REST
2 24 (3.01%) Middleware
3 20 (2.51%) JSON
3 20 (2.51%) Pandas
4 19 (2.38%) scikit-learn
4 19 (2.38%) XML
5 16 (2.01%) TensorFlow
6 15 (1.88%) PyTorch
7 13 (1.63%) pytest
8 12 (1.50%) React
9 11 (1.38%) NumPy
10 10 (1.25%) CSS
10 10 (1.25%) FastAPI
10 10 (1.25%) HTML
10 10 (1.25%) Web Services
11 8 (1.00%) Flask
11 8 (1.00%) Hugging Face
11 8 (1.00%) SOAP
12 7 (0.88%) RESTful
12 7 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.77%) Management Information System
2 39 (4.89%) Life Science
3 35 (4.39%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.63%) Operational Technology
5 26 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (2.51%) Algorithms
7 15 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.75%) SCADA
9 13 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.38%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 10 (1.25%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.13%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.00%) e-Learning
14 8 (1.00%) LIMS
14 8 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.89%) Windows
2 36 (4.51%) Linux
3 14 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) Android
5 5 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.50%) Unix
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (24.81%) Agile
2 180 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (14.54%) Data Validation
4 115 (14.41%) Verification and Validation
5 108 (13.53%) Migration
6 106 (13.28%) Analytics
7 101 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (10.78%) Test Automation
9 85 (10.65%) Decision-Making
10 80 (10.03%) Mentoring
11 79 (9.90%) Data Analysis
12 76 (9.52%) ETL
12 76 (9.52%) Systems Engineering
13 75 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
14 74 (9.27%) Software Engineering
15 73 (9.15%) CI/CD
15 73 (9.15%) Roadmaps
16 72 (9.02%) DevOps
17 71 (8.90%) Data Management
18 67 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 171 (21.43%) SQL
2 154 (19.30%) Python
3 27 (3.38%) C
3 27 (3.38%) Java
4 25 (3.13%) MATLAB
5 24 (3.01%) C++
6 21 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.26%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.63%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.38%) Bash
10 10 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.13%) R
12 7 (0.88%) C#
13 5 (0.63%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.50%) Bicep
15 3 (0.38%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.38%) GLSL
15 3 (0.38%) Ladder Logic
15 3 (0.38%) Tcl
15 3 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 252 (31.58%) Degree
2 86 (10.78%) Security Cleared
3 83 (10.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 43 (5.39%) SC Cleared
5 41 (5.14%) Master's Degree
6 36 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (2.51%) HNC
9 16 (2.01%) DV Cleared
9 16 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.75%) ISTQB
11 13 (1.63%) CCNP
12 12 (1.50%) CCNA
13 11 (1.38%) ACCA
13 11 (1.38%) CCIE
13 11 (1.38%) CISA
13 11 (1.38%) CISSP
13 11 (1.38%) Numerate Degree
14 10 (1.25%) FFIEC
14 10 (1.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (13.53%) Data Quality
2 103 (12.91%) QA
3 35 (4.39%) GxP
4 32 (4.01%) SLA
5 27 (3.38%) GDPR
6 25 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 21 (2.63%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.75%) NIST
9 11 (1.38%) ISO 20022
9 11 (1.38%) SEPA
10 10 (1.25%) COBIT
10 10 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 9 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (1.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 8 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 7 (0.88%) TARGET2
14 6 (0.75%) Good Clinical Practice
14 6 (0.75%) GRC
15 5 (0.63%) ARP4761
15 5 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (4.64%) Docker
2 29 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.38%) Firmware
4 12 (1.50%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.63%) vSphere
6 4 (0.50%) vCloud
6 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.25%) Ceph
8 2 (0.25%) Lustre
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) pfSense
9 1 (0.13%) Postfix
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.88%) Ansible
3 14 (1.75%) Terraform
4 11 (1.38%) Grafana
5 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (0.50%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.50%) Rundeck
7 3 (0.38%) Argo
7 3 (0.38%) Rancher
7 3 (0.38%) SCCM
7 3 (0.38%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.38%) yum
8 2 (0.25%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.25%) Nessus
8 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) Control-M
9 1 (0.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 91 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.77%) SAP
3 35 (4.39%) VMware
4 28 (3.51%) Cisco
5 26 (3.26%) Oracle
6 18 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.88%) Foundry
8 13 (1.63%) IBM
9 12 (1.50%) CheckPoint
9 12 (1.50%) F5
10 9 (1.13%) Software AG
11 8 (1.00%) Databricks
11 8 (1.00%) Intapp
12 6 (0.75%) Adobe
12 6 (0.75%) Arista
12 6 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.75%) Workday
13 5 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
13 5 (0.63%) Siemens
13 5 (0.63%) Splunk