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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 165 193
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 -57
Permanent jobs citing Validation 813 916 740
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.57% 1.81% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.02% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 448 338 459
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £48,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £92,750
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 42,980 45,430 40,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.92% 89.92% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,622 23,015 31,123
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,955 £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 £75,900 £80,163 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.84%

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 21 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 21 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 +26 251 £77,500 +19.23% 146
South East +22 200 £42,500 -26.09% 223
North of England -22 126 £53,750 +16.85% 89
Midlands +11 83 £42,500 -15.00% 42
North West -13 78 £52,500 +10.10% 49
South West +27 71 £50,000 -9.09% 90
East of England -6 69 £60,000 +9.09% 90
West Midlands +17 51 £40,000 -20.00% 29
Yorkshire -2 37 £60,000 +60.00% 27
East Midlands +2 32 £42,500 -5.56% 13
North East -4 11 £31,000 -31.87% 13
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 (2.46%) Confluence
2 17 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.35%) CMS
5 10 (1.23%) SugarCRM
6 9 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.98%) Apache
8 6 (0.74%) Appian
9 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.49%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.37%) SAS
12 2 (0.25%) Kinematics
12 2 (0.25%) WordPress
13 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.12%) FileNet
13 1 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 56 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.72%) Simulink
5 7 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.49%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.25%) Elementor
7 2 (0.25%) Mathcad
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.25%) Weka
8 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.12%) Doxygen
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.49%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.37%) SAP CX
3 3 (0.37%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.25%) Endur
4 2 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.25%) Primavera
4 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 108 (13.28%) Azure
2 67 (8.24%) Power Platform
3 61 (7.50%) AWS
4 38 (4.67%) SaaS
5 24 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.46%) GCP
7 16 (1.97%) GitHub
8 15 (1.85%) Snowflake
9 14 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (1.72%) Power Automate
10 13 (1.60%) Amazon S3
10 13 (1.60%) Serverless
11 12 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (1.48%) dbt
11 12 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.11%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.98%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (0.98%) Datadog
15 7 (0.86%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.85%) LAN
2 11 (1.35%) Firewall
3 10 (1.23%) CHAP
3 10 (1.23%) DNS
4 8 (0.98%) HTTP
4 8 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.74%) Modbus
5 6 (0.74%) MQTT
5 6 (0.74%) WAN
6 5 (0.62%) 5G
6 5 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (0.62%) SMTP
7 4 (0.49%) BGP
7 4 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (0.49%) DHCP
7 4 (0.49%) Network Security
7 4 (0.49%) OSPF
7 4 (0.49%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.49%) VoIP
7 4 (0.49%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.75%) Power BI
2 31 (3.81%) Tableau
3 27 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (2.71%) SQL Server
5 20 (2.46%) BigQuery
5 20 (2.46%) Metadata
6 18 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.23%) Big Data
8 10 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.98%) Spotfire
10 7 (0.86%) Looker
10 7 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (0.74%) GIS
11 6 (0.74%) Pinecone
12 5 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.62%) Data Vault
12 5 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 63 (7.75%) JIRA
2 37 (4.55%) Git
3 35 (4.31%) Rational DOORS
4 20 (2.46%) Postman
5 17 (2.09%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.72%) Selenium
7 10 (1.23%) GitLab
7 10 (1.23%) SoapUI
7 10 (1.23%) TestRail
8 9 (1.11%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.11%) JMeter
8 9 (1.11%) MLflow
9 7 (0.86%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.62%) Charles Proxy
10 5 (0.62%) Fiddler
10 5 (0.62%) TestNG
10 5 (0.62%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.49%) Locust
11 4 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 294 (36.16%) Social Skills
2 213 (26.20%) Finance
3 170 (20.91%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.40%) Law
5 49 (6.03%) Electronics
6 48 (5.90%) Banking
7 46 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (5.41%) Marketing
9 43 (5.29%) Manufacturing
10 36 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (4.18%) Financial Institution
13 30 (3.69%) Retail
14 28 (3.44%) Telecoms
15 27 (3.32%) Aerospace
15 27 (3.32%) Public Sector
16 25 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (2.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 127 (15.62%) Analyst
2 122 (15.01%) Senior
3 87 (10.70%) Lead
4 72 (8.86%) Systems Engineer
5 44 (5.41%) Data Analyst
6 41 (5.04%) Architect
7 36 (4.43%) Business Analyst
7 36 (4.43%) Test Engineer
8 30 (3.69%) Developer
9 29 (3.57%) Data Engineer
9 29 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
10 28 (3.44%) Applications Engineer
11 27 (3.32%) Applications Support
12 26 (3.20%) Support Engineer
12 26 (3.20%) Validation Engineer
13 25 (3.08%) Junior
14 23 (2.83%) Team Leader
15 22 (2.71%) Applications Support Engineer
15 22 (2.71%) Integration Engineer
16 21 (2.58%) Data Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.67%) REST
2 25 (3.08%) Middleware
3 21 (2.58%) JSON
3 21 (2.58%) Pandas
4 20 (2.46%) XML
5 19 (2.34%) scikit-learn
6 16 (1.97%) TensorFlow
7 15 (1.85%) PyTorch
8 14 (1.72%) pytest
9 12 (1.48%) NumPy
9 12 (1.48%) React
10 11 (1.35%) CSS
10 11 (1.35%) FastAPI
10 11 (1.35%) HTML
11 10 (1.23%) Web Services
12 9 (1.11%) Flask
13 8 (0.98%) Hugging Face
13 8 (0.98%) RESTful
14 7 (0.86%) JWT
14 7 (0.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.09%) Management Information System
2 39 (4.80%) Life Science
3 36 (4.43%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.57%) Operational Technology
5 26 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.34%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.60%) SCADA
10 12 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.48%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 10 (1.23%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.11%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.98%) e-Learning
14 8 (0.98%) LIMS
14 8 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.67%) Windows
2 34 (4.18%) Linux
3 14 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.98%) Android
5 5 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.49%) Unix
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.12%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (23.62%) Agile
2 178 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
3 122 (15.01%) Verification and Validation
4 116 (14.27%) Data Validation
5 109 (13.41%) Analytics
6 108 (13.28%) Migration
7 100 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (10.33%) Decision-Making
9 83 (10.21%) Test Automation
10 80 (9.84%) ETL
10 80 (9.84%) Mentoring
11 79 (9.72%) Data Analysis
11 79 (9.72%) Systems Engineering
12 76 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
12 76 (9.35%) Software Engineering
13 72 (8.86%) CI/CD
13 72 (8.86%) Data Management
13 72 (8.86%) Roadmaps
14 71 (8.73%) DevOps
15 66 (8.12%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 176 (21.65%) SQL
2 155 (19.07%) Python
3 27 (3.32%) Java
4 26 (3.20%) C
5 24 (2.95%) C++
5 24 (2.95%) MATLAB
6 21 (2.58%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.60%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.35%) Bash
10 10 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.11%) R
12 7 (0.86%) C#
13 5 (0.62%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.49%) Bicep
15 3 (0.37%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.37%) GLSL
15 3 (0.37%) Scala
15 3 (0.37%) Tcl
15 3 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 257 (31.61%) Degree
2 90 (11.07%) Security Cleared
3 88 (10.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 44 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 41 (5.04%) Master's Degree
6 37 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (2.46%) HNC
9 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.85%) DV Cleared
11 14 (1.72%) ISTQB
12 13 (1.60%) CCNP
13 12 (1.48%) CCNA
13 12 (1.48%) CISA
13 12 (1.48%) CISSP
14 11 (1.35%) ACCA
14 11 (1.35%) CCIE
14 11 (1.35%) CGEIT
14 11 (1.35%) CISM
14 11 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (13.53%) Data Quality
2 103 (12.67%) QA
3 35 (4.31%) GxP
4 33 (4.06%) SLA
5 29 (3.57%) GDPR
6 27 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 23 (2.83%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.85%) NIST
9 11 (1.35%) COBIT
9 11 (1.35%) ISO 20022
9 11 (1.35%) SEPA
10 10 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 9 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.98%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 8 (0.98%) Good Clinical Practice
13 7 (0.86%) GRC
13 7 (0.86%) TARGET2
14 6 (0.74%) WCAG
15 5 (0.62%) ARP4761
System Software
1 35 (4.31%) Docker
2 29 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.34%) Firmware
4 12 (1.48%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.62%) vSphere
6 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.37%) 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%) vCloud
8 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) pfSense
9 1 (0.12%) Postfix
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.72%) Terraform
3 13 (1.60%) Ansible
4 11 (1.35%) Grafana
5 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.49%) SCCM
9 3 (0.37%) Argo
9 3 (0.37%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.37%) Rancher
9 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.37%) yum
10 2 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.25%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.25%) Nessus
10 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.25%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.12%) Control-M
11 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 96 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.27%) SAP
3 33 (4.06%) VMware
4 28 (3.44%) Cisco
5 24 (2.95%) Oracle
6 16 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.85%) Foundry
8 12 (1.48%) CheckPoint
8 12 (1.48%) F5
8 12 (1.48%) IBM
9 10 (1.23%) Software AG
10 8 (0.98%) Databricks
10 8 (0.98%) Intapp
11 7 (0.86%) Adobe
11 7 (0.86%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.74%) Arista
12 6 (0.74%) Automation Anywhere
12 6 (0.74%) UiPath
12 6 (0.74%) Workday
13 5 (0.62%) Splunk