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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 80 196
Rank change year-on-year -30 +116 -5
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,521 1,567 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.71% 3.62% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 4.02% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 955 461 603
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 - - -13.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £72,375
90th Percentile £90,450 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 65,539 39,008 67,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.79% 90.04% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 46,429 22,397 46,860
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 £74,280
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%

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 22 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 22 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 +74 431 £75,000 -6.25% 463
South East -42 335 £56,000 +1.82% 233
North of England +96 317 £55,000 +15.79% 148
North West +80 192 £55,000 +15.35% 88
Midlands -55 184 £42,500 -22.73% 113
South West -41 113 £50,000 -4.94% 85
East of England -74 109 £62,500 +9.17% 89
West Midlands +15 102 £44,000 -29.60% 62
East Midlands -73 80 £41,000 -3.53% 51
Yorkshire +1 66 £44,000 +3.53% 37
North East -3 59 £55,000 +29.41% 23
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 55 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 50 (3.29%) Apache
4 28 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 24 (1.58%) Confluence
6 16 (1.05%) 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 90 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.25%) Simulink
6 16 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.72%) 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%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.066%) Trello
13 1 (0.066%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 39 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.72%) SAP MDG
4 10 (0.66%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
7 5 (0.33%) iTrent
7 5 (0.33%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG-BP
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.26%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.13%) FastStats
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
10 2 (0.13%) SAP WM
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 202 (13.28%) Azure
2 187 (12.29%) AWS
3 155 (10.19%) Power Platform
4 74 (4.87%) GCP
5 70 (4.60%) SaaS
6 56 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.89%) Serverless
9 41 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 33 (2.17%) GitHub
11 29 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (1.45%) Entra ID
12 22 (1.45%) Snowflake
13 21 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (1.18%) Amazon EMR
16 18 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.40%) Broadband
2 46 (3.02%) Firewall
3 37 (2.43%) DNS
4 20 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.31%) Wireless
5 18 (1.18%) Network Security
5 18 (1.18%) VPN
5 18 (1.18%) WAN
6 16 (1.05%) Ethernet
7 14 (0.92%) MQTT
7 14 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.79%) CHAP
8 12 (0.79%) Internet
8 12 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.72%) HTTP
9 11 (0.72%) LAN
10 9 (0.59%) NAS
10 9 (0.59%) NGN
10 9 (0.59%) RS-232
11 8 (0.53%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (9.66%) Power BI
2 61 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (3.88%) Tableau
4 53 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (3.48%) SQL Server
5 36 (2.37%) Metadata
6 33 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 31 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.91%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.64%) BigQuery
10 23 (1.51%) Semantic Layer
11 22 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (1.45%) MySQL
12 21 (1.38%) DynamoDB
13 20 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
13 20 (1.31%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.12%) Oracle Database
15 16 (1.05%) Parquet
15 16 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (0.99%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 92 (6.05%) JIRA
2 81 (5.33%) Git
3 47 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.70%) GitLab
5 28 (1.84%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.45%) Snyk
7 15 (0.99%) Selenium
8 14 (0.92%) LabVIEW
9 13 (0.85%) IBM UrbanCode
10 12 (0.79%) Postman
11 10 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.66%) JMeter
11 10 (0.66%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.46%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.46%) MLflow
12 7 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
13 6 (0.39%) GDB
14 5 (0.33%) Hudson
14 5 (0.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 479 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 399 (26.23%) Finance
3 371 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (7.76%) Manufacturing
5 114 (7.50%) Electronics
6 112 (7.36%) Aerospace
7 98 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 86 (5.65%) Banking
9 65 (4.27%) Retail
10 58 (3.81%) Law
11 56 (3.68%) Public Sector
12 52 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 49 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (3.09%) Marketing
15 45 (2.96%) Legal
16 43 (2.83%) Games
17 35 (2.30%) Automotive
18 27 (1.78%) Financial Institution
19 26 (1.71%) Advertising
20 25 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 276 (18.15%) Senior
2 239 (15.71%) Analyst
3 115 (7.56%) Lead
4 114 (7.50%) Systems Engineer
5 99 (6.51%) Test Engineer
6 93 (6.11%) Architect
7 87 (5.72%) Data Engineer
8 77 (5.06%) Business Analyst
9 72 (4.73%) Validation Engineer
10 71 (4.67%) Developer
11 70 (4.60%) Data Analyst
12 57 (3.75%) Consultant
13 44 (2.89%) Support Engineer
14 41 (2.70%) Embedded Engineer
14 41 (2.70%) Principal Engineer
15 39 (2.56%) IT Manager
16 38 (2.50%) Software Engineer
17 36 (2.37%) Project Manager
18 35 (2.30%) Security Architect
19 34 (2.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.96%) RESTful
2 35 (2.30%) PySpark
3 34 (2.24%) Kafka
4 33 (2.17%) Node.js
5 32 (2.10%) XML
6 29 (1.91%) JSON
7 26 (1.71%) Pandas
8 25 (1.64%) REST
9 20 (1.31%) Middleware
10 19 (1.25%) .NET
10 19 (1.25%) Regular Expression
10 19 (1.25%) XMPP
11 18 (1.18%) CSS
12 17 (1.12%) FastAPI
12 17 (1.12%) HTML
13 16 (1.05%) LDAP
14 15 (0.99%) Playwright
15 14 (0.92%) pytest
15 14 (0.92%) Swagger
16 13 (0.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 103 (6.77%) Cloud Native
1 103 (6.77%) Onboarding
2 68 (4.47%) Management Information System
3 63 (4.14%) Data Structures
4 50 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 48 (3.16%) Data Centre
6 46 (3.02%) Low-Code
7 45 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (2.96%) Driving Licence
8 44 (2.89%) Embedded Systems
9 42 (2.76%) Algorithms
9 42 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
12 31 (2.04%) Life Science
12 31 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
13 26 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (1.51%) IoT
14 23 (1.51%) Robotics
15 21 (1.38%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.97%) Linux
2 80 (5.26%) Windows
3 30 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.25%) Unix
5 6 (0.39%) Android
5 6 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.26%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.26%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) ThreadX
9 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.066%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (24.33%) Problem-Solving
2 323 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 309 (20.32%) Agile
4 278 (18.28%) AI
5 253 (16.63%) CI/CD
6 202 (13.28%) Analytics
7 198 (13.02%) Test Automation
8 197 (12.95%) Migration
9 168 (11.05%) Business Intelligence
10 167 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 165 (10.85%) Mentoring
12 161 (10.59%) Decision-Making
13 160 (10.52%) Verification and Validation
14 158 (10.39%) Data Validation
15 154 (10.12%) DevOps
16 153 (10.06%) Data Modelling
17 145 (9.53%) Software Engineering
18 136 (8.94%) Data Governance
19 135 (8.88%) Data Migration
19 135 (8.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 381 (25.05%) Python
2 335 (22.02%) SQL
3 70 (4.60%) C++
4 66 (4.34%) C
5 58 (3.81%) Java
6 50 (3.29%) Go
7 39 (2.56%) C#
7 39 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 32 (2.10%) MATLAB
9 29 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 26 (1.71%) Bash
11 24 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 18 (1.18%) Embedded C
12 18 (1.18%) Embedded C++
13 16 (1.05%) Scala
14 15 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.85%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.59%) VBA
17 8 (0.53%) ABAP
17 8 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 294 (19.33%) Degree
2 175 (11.51%) Security Cleared
3 94 (6.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 85 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 73 (4.80%) Master's Degree
6 50 (3.29%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (1.91%) Chartered Engineer
9 26 (1.71%) HNC
10 23 (1.51%) CISSP
11 22 (1.45%) CISA
11 22 (1.45%) SANS
12 20 (1.31%) CISM
13 19 (1.25%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.25%) PhD
14 17 (1.12%) ACCA
14 17 (1.12%) CIMA
14 17 (1.12%) PMI Certification
15 16 (1.05%) HND
16 13 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (18.21%) Data Quality
2 187 (12.29%) QA
3 54 (3.55%) GDPR
4 38 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 36 (2.37%) GRC
6 25 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.18%) IEC 61508
8 17 (1.12%) NIST
9 16 (1.05%) PMO
10 15 (0.99%) IFRS
11 14 (0.92%) ISO 9001
12 13 (0.85%) GAAP
12 13 (0.85%) GxP
12 13 (0.85%) ISO 26262
12 13 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 12 (0.79%) COBIT
13 12 (0.79%) SLA
14 11 (0.72%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.59%) GMP
15 9 (0.59%) MISRA
System Software
1 63 (4.14%) Docker
2 53 (3.48%) Firmware
3 42 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 26 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (1.31%) 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 68 (4.47%) Terraform
2 62 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.24%) Grafana
4 23 (1.51%) Functional Safety
5 18 (1.18%) 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 (0.39%) Puppet
10 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.26%) Nessus
10 4 (0.26%) Nmap
10 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.20%) Argo
11 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.20%) Rancher
11 3 (0.20%) yum
Vendors
1 219 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.18%) SAP
3 91 (5.98%) Oracle
4 51 (3.35%) Salesforce
5 43 (2.83%) Databricks
6 33 (2.17%) Red Hat
6 33 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 29 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
8 27 (1.78%) VMware
9 26 (1.71%) Cisco
10 22 (1.45%) Google
10 22 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.45%) Tenable
11 17 (1.12%) Adobe
12 16 (1.05%) IBM
13 15 (0.99%) McAfee
14 14 (0.92%) Citrix
15 13 (0.85%) Foundry
16 11 (0.72%) Splunk
17 10 (0.66%) Informatica