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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 81 202
Rank change year-on-year -31 +121 -12
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,516 1,569 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.71% 3.62% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 4.01% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 949 461 624
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,031 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.06% +0.06% -12.00%

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 65,293 39,112 69,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 90.12% 82.22%
Number of salaries quoted 46,254 22,446 49,410
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.72%

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 19 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 19 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 +67 432 £77,500 -1.59% 268
South East -41 335 £55,500 +0.91% 181
North of England +97 313 £55,000 +15.57% 121
North West +73 191 £55,000 +15.35% 64
Midlands -58 179 £42,500 -22.73% 96
South West -38 116 £51,380 -2.32% 65
East of England -80 109 £62,500 +9.65% 71
West Midlands +9 102 £43,250 -30.80% 48
East Midlands -70 75 £34,500 -18.82% 48
Yorkshire +7 65 £43,500 +3.26% 33
North East 0 57 £55,000 +29.41% 24
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 53 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 49 (3.23%) Apache
4 28 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 23 (1.52%) Confluence
6 16 (1.06%) Jupyter
7 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.79%) SAS
9 5 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.33%) CMS
10 4 (0.26%) Kinematics
11 3 (0.20%) Artix
12 2 (0.13%) Appian
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.066%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 88 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.25%) Simulink
6 16 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.53%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.33%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.26%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.26%) Sketch
11 3 (0.20%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.20%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.20%) Productboard
11 3 (0.20%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.13%) Solid Edge
13 1 (0.066%) CATIA
13 1 (0.066%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.066%) Trello
13 1 (0.066%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 39 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 39 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.73%) SAP MDG
3 10 (0.66%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (0.33%) iTrent
6 5 (0.33%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG-BP
7 4 (0.26%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.13%) FastStats
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.13%) SAP WM
10 1 (0.066%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 201 (13.26%) Azure
2 186 (12.27%) AWS
3 152 (10.03%) Power Platform
4 74 (4.88%) GCP
5 70 (4.62%) SaaS
6 57 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.90%) Serverless
9 41 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 34 (2.24%) GitHub
11 26 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (1.45%) Entra ID
12 22 (1.45%) Snowflake
13 20 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (1.19%) Amazon EMR
15 18 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.35%) Broadband
2 46 (3.03%) Firewall
3 37 (2.44%) DNS
4 20 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.25%) Network Security
5 19 (1.25%) Wireless
6 18 (1.19%) VPN
6 18 (1.19%) WAN
7 16 (1.06%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.99%) CHAP
9 14 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.86%) MQTT
11 12 (0.79%) Internet
11 12 (0.79%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.73%) HTTP
13 10 (0.66%) LAN
14 9 (0.59%) 5G
14 9 (0.59%) NAS
14 9 (0.59%) RS-232
15 8 (0.53%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (9.50%) Power BI
2 61 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (3.83%) Tableau
4 52 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (3.43%) SQL Server
5 37 (2.44%) Metadata
6 33 (2.18%) MongoDB
7 31 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.91%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.65%) BigQuery
10 22 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (1.45%) MySQL
10 22 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
11 21 (1.39%) DynamoDB
12 20 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
13 19 (1.25%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.12%) Oracle Database
15 16 (1.06%) Parquet
16 15 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 14 (0.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 91 (6.00%) JIRA
2 80 (5.28%) Git
3 47 (3.10%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.70%) GitLab
5 28 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.45%) Snyk
7 16 (1.06%) LabVIEW
8 15 (0.99%) Selenium
9 13 (0.86%) IBM UrbanCode
9 13 (0.86%) Postman
10 10 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.66%) JMeter
10 10 (0.66%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.46%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
12 6 (0.40%) GDB
12 6 (0.40%) MLflow
13 5 (0.33%) Hudson
13 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 476 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 400 (26.39%) Finance
3 370 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (7.59%) Electronics
4 115 (7.59%) Manufacturing
5 112 (7.39%) Aerospace
6 97 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 91 (6.00%) Banking
8 66 (4.35%) Retail
9 55 (3.63%) Law
10 54 (3.56%) Public Sector
11 50 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 49 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (3.03%) Legal
13 46 (3.03%) Marketing
14 43 (2.84%) Games
15 35 (2.31%) Automotive
16 30 (1.98%) Financial Institution
17 26 (1.72%) Advertising
18 25 (1.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 272 (17.94%) Senior
2 236 (15.57%) Analyst
3 115 (7.59%) Lead
4 113 (7.45%) Systems Engineer
5 101 (6.66%) Test Engineer
6 93 (6.13%) Architect
7 84 (5.54%) Data Engineer
8 76 (5.01%) Business Analyst
9 75 (4.95%) Validation Engineer
10 70 (4.62%) Developer
11 68 (4.49%) Data Analyst
12 54 (3.56%) Consultant
13 44 (2.90%) Support Engineer
14 41 (2.70%) Embedded Engineer
15 40 (2.64%) IT Manager
15 40 (2.64%) Principal Engineer
16 38 (2.51%) Software Engineer
17 37 (2.44%) Project Manager
18 35 (2.31%) Security Architect
19 34 (2.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.90%) RESTful
2 34 (2.24%) PySpark
3 33 (2.18%) Node.js
4 32 (2.11%) Kafka
5 31 (2.04%) XML
6 30 (1.98%) JSON
7 26 (1.72%) Pandas
8 24 (1.58%) REST
9 22 (1.45%) Middleware
10 19 (1.25%) .NET
10 19 (1.25%) Regular Expression
10 19 (1.25%) XMPP
11 18 (1.19%) CSS
12 17 (1.12%) HTML
13 16 (1.06%) FastAPI
13 16 (1.06%) Playwright
13 16 (1.06%) pytest
14 15 (0.99%) LDAP
15 14 (0.92%) React
16 13 (0.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 100 (6.60%) Cloud Native
2 99 (6.53%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 64 (4.22%) Data Structures
5 50 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 46 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 46 (3.03%) Low-Code
7 45 (2.97%) Driving Licence
7 45 (2.97%) Embedded Systems
8 44 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (2.77%) Algorithms
10 41 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 34 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
13 31 (2.04%) Life Science
13 31 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
14 26 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.52%) IoT
16 22 (1.45%) Robotics
17 21 (1.39%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.93%) Linux
2 82 (5.41%) Windows
3 31 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.39%) Unix
5 19 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.40%) Android
6 6 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.26%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.26%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.20%) AIX
9 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.13%) ThreadX
10 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.066%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.066%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
2 313 (20.65%) Agile
3 312 (20.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 278 (18.34%) AI
5 253 (16.69%) CI/CD
6 205 (13.52%) Analytics
6 205 (13.52%) Test Automation
7 194 (12.80%) Migration
8 166 (10.95%) Business Intelligence
8 166 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 161 (10.62%) Verification and Validation
10 160 (10.55%) Data Validation
11 159 (10.49%) Decision-Making
12 158 (10.42%) DevOps
12 158 (10.42%) Mentoring
13 150 (9.89%) Data Modelling
14 146 (9.63%) Software Engineering
15 138 (9.10%) Data Governance
16 132 (8.71%) Data Migration
16 132 (8.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 378 (24.93%) Python
2 332 (21.90%) SQL
3 72 (4.75%) C++
4 68 (4.49%) C
5 57 (3.76%) Java
6 50 (3.30%) Go
7 39 (2.57%) C#
8 38 (2.51%) JavaScript
9 33 (2.18%) MATLAB
10 30 (1.98%) PowerShell
11 26 (1.72%) Bash
12 24 (1.58%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.19%) Embedded C
13 18 (1.19%) Embedded C++
14 15 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 15 (0.99%) Scala
15 13 (0.86%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.59%) VBA
17 8 (0.53%) ABAP
17 8 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 297 (19.59%) Degree
2 173 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 94 (6.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 84 (5.54%) SC Cleared
5 74 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 50 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (1.91%) Chartered Engineer
9 26 (1.72%) HNC
10 25 (1.65%) CISA
10 25 (1.65%) CISSP
10 25 (1.65%) SANS
11 22 (1.45%) CISM
12 19 (1.25%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.25%) PhD
13 17 (1.12%) ACCA
13 17 (1.12%) CIMA
13 17 (1.12%) HND
14 16 (1.06%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.99%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (17.88%) Data Quality
2 182 (12.01%) QA
3 58 (3.83%) GDPR
4 38 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 36 (2.37%) GRC
6 25 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.32%) NIST
8 18 (1.19%) IEC 61508
9 17 (1.12%) IFRS
10 16 (1.06%) PMO
11 15 (0.99%) COBIT
11 15 (0.99%) ISO 9001
12 13 (0.86%) GAAP
12 13 (0.86%) GxP
12 13 (0.86%) ISO 26262
12 13 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 12 (0.79%) SLA
14 11 (0.73%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.59%) GMP
15 9 (0.59%) MISRA
System Software
1 60 (3.96%) Docker
2 52 (3.43%) Firmware
3 41 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 26 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.58%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (1.32%) vSphere
7 8 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.13%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (4.62%) Terraform
2 59 (3.89%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.24%) Grafana
4 23 (1.52%) Functional Safety
5 16 (1.06%) Ansible
6 15 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.66%) Cilium
8 7 (0.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.46%) Kibana
8 7 (0.46%) SCCM
9 6 (0.40%) Puppet
10 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.26%) Nessus
10 4 (0.26%) Nmap
11 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.20%) Rancher
11 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.20%) WMI
11 3 (0.20%) yum
Vendors
1 213 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.27%) SAP
3 93 (6.13%) Oracle
4 50 (3.30%) Salesforce
5 42 (2.77%) Databricks
6 34 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.18%) Red Hat
8 29 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
9 27 (1.78%) VMware
10 24 (1.58%) Cisco
11 22 (1.45%) Google
11 22 (1.45%) Palo Alto
11 22 (1.45%) Tenable
12 17 (1.12%) Adobe
13 16 (1.06%) IBM
14 15 (0.99%) Citrix
14 15 (0.99%) McAfee
15 13 (0.86%) Foundry
16 11 (0.73%) Informatica
16 11 (0.73%) Splunk