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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 179 204
Rank change year-on-year +15 +25 -70
Permanent jobs citing Validation 774 949 783
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.68% 1.58% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 1.88% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 429 353 477
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,375 £36,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% -6.24% -

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 39,563 50,539 43,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.75% 83.95% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,533 26,190 33,176
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,138
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +20 249 £80,000 +14.29% 448
South East +17 204 £52,500 -19.23% 258
North of England -15 112 £52,500 +15.38% 122
Midlands +70 80 £43,750 -12.50% 108
South West +18 67 £50,000 -16.67% 138
North West -11 67 £53,000 +11.15% 86
East of England -20 52 £59,000 +7.27% 148
West Midlands +41 51 £47,500 -5.00% 75
Yorkshire -7 32 £60,000 +50.00% 25
East Midlands +35 29 £42,500 -5.56% 32
North East +2 13 £35,000 -30.00% 12
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 19 (2.45%) Confluence
2 18 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.29%) SugarCRM
5 9 (1.16%) Apache
6 8 (1.03%) CMS
7 7 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.65%) SAS
9 4 (0.52%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) Appian
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.13%) FileNet
12 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 48 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (2.45%) Simulink
4 18 (2.33%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.29%) Mathcad
6 9 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) Elementor
8 2 (0.26%) Revit
8 2 (0.26%) Weka
9 1 (0.13%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.13%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.13%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.13%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 26 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.52%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.39%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.26%) Endur
6 2 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.26%) Primavera
6 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 105 (13.57%) Azure
2 74 (9.56%) AWS
3 71 (9.17%) Power Platform
4 34 (4.39%) SaaS
5 23 (2.97%) GCP
6 22 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.33%) Amazon S3
8 17 (2.20%) Serverless
9 16 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (2.07%) GitHub
10 15 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (1.55%) Snowflake
12 11 (1.42%) Amazon SageMaker
12 11 (1.42%) Datadog
13 10 (1.29%) dbt
13 10 (1.29%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.20%) LAN
2 13 (1.68%) Ethernet
2 13 (1.68%) Firewall
3 11 (1.42%) Modbus
4 8 (1.03%) Profibus
5 7 (0.90%) DNS
5 7 (0.90%) Internet
6 6 (0.78%) CHAP
6 6 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.65%) BGP
7 5 (0.65%) Network Security
7 5 (0.65%) NX-OS
7 5 (0.65%) OSPF
7 5 (0.65%) WAN
8 4 (0.52%) 3GPP
8 4 (0.52%) DHCP
8 4 (0.52%) MPLS
8 4 (0.52%) VLAN
9 3 (0.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (8.53%) Power BI
2 35 (4.52%) Tableau
3 28 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (2.97%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.45%) BigQuery
6 18 (2.33%) Metadata
7 14 (1.81%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.68%) Big Data
9 12 (1.55%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.78%) GIS
12 6 (0.78%) Looker
12 6 (0.78%) MySQL
13 5 (0.65%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 62 (8.01%) JIRA
2 34 (4.39%) Git
3 30 (3.88%) Rational DOORS
4 26 (3.36%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.33%) Postman
6 14 (1.81%) Selenium
7 12 (1.55%) GitLab
8 10 (1.29%) SoapUI
9 8 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.03%) JMeter
10 7 (0.90%) MLflow
11 6 (0.78%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.78%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.78%) TestRail
12 5 (0.65%) TestNG
12 5 (0.65%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.52%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.52%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 305 (39.41%) Social Skills
2 233 (30.10%) Finance
3 157 (20.28%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (7.62%) Law
5 51 (6.59%) Manufacturing
6 50 (6.46%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (6.33%) Marketing
8 43 (5.56%) Electronics
9 42 (5.43%) Banking
10 37 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (4.39%) Retail
12 33 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (4.13%) Financial Institution
14 28 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 28 (3.62%) Telecoms
15 27 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (3.23%) Aerospace
17 23 (2.97%) Billing
17 23 (2.97%) Public Sector
18 19 (2.45%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 114 (14.73%) Senior
2 113 (14.60%) Analyst
3 93 (12.02%) Lead
4 60 (7.75%) Systems Engineer
5 41 (5.30%) Data Analyst
6 35 (4.52%) Business Analyst
7 34 (4.39%) Data Engineer
8 33 (4.26%) Architect
9 29 (3.75%) Support Engineer
10 28 (3.62%) Applications Engineer
11 26 (3.36%) Applications Support
11 26 (3.36%) Test Engineer
12 25 (3.23%) Developer
12 25 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
13 23 (2.97%) Data Quality Analyst
13 23 (2.97%) Quality Analyst
13 23 (2.97%) Team Leader
14 22 (2.84%) Administrator
14 22 (2.84%) Applications Support Engineer
15 17 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.49%) REST
2 21 (2.71%) Middleware
3 20 (2.58%) XML
4 19 (2.45%) JSON
5 17 (2.20%) scikit-learn
6 16 (2.07%) Pandas
7 15 (1.94%) Kafka
7 15 (1.94%) TensorFlow
8 14 (1.81%) PyTorch
9 11 (1.42%) HTML
9 11 (1.42%) React
10 8 (1.03%) CSS
10 8 (1.03%) Playwright
10 8 (1.03%) PySpark
10 8 (1.03%) Web Services
11 7 (0.90%) NumPy
11 7 (0.90%) pytest
12 6 (0.78%) Hugging Face
12 6 (0.78%) SOAP
12 6 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.66%) Management Information System
2 38 (4.91%) Life Science
3 37 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 30 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 27 (3.49%) Operational Technology
7 23 (2.97%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.33%) SCADA
9 16 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.55%) Credit Risk
11 11 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 9 (1.16%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.03%) Cloud Native
13 8 (1.03%) Driving Licence
13 8 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.03%) IoT
13 8 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.01%) Linux
2 30 (3.88%) Windows
3 12 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.39%) Unix
7 2 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (25.71%) Agile
2 194 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (14.86%) Data Validation
4 112 (14.47%) Verification and Validation
5 107 (13.82%) Migration
6 99 (12.79%) Analytics
7 95 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (11.24%) Decision-Making
9 84 (10.85%) Mentoring
10 79 (10.21%) Data Analysis
11 78 (10.08%) Software Engineering
11 78 (10.08%) Test Automation
12 76 (9.82%) ETL
12 76 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 76 (9.82%) Systems Engineering
13 75 (9.69%) Business Intelligence
13 75 (9.69%) DevOps
14 74 (9.56%) Data Management
15 72 (9.30%) CI/CD
16 68 (8.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 164 (21.19%) Python
2 157 (20.28%) SQL
3 33 (4.26%) Java
4 26 (3.36%) MATLAB
5 24 (3.10%) C
6 22 (2.84%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.45%) C++
8 16 (2.07%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.55%) R
10 11 (1.42%) Bash
10 11 (1.42%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.42%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.03%) Ladder Logic
12 6 (0.78%) C#
13 5 (0.65%) Scala
14 4 (0.52%) Go
15 3 (0.39%) Bicep
15 3 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 247 (31.91%) Degree
2 74 (9.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 70 (9.04%) Security Cleared
4 55 (7.11%) Master's Degree
5 43 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 35 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (2.58%) HNC
9 15 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.81%) CCNA
10 14 (1.81%) CCNP
11 13 (1.68%) ACCA
12 12 (1.55%) CCIE
13 11 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
14 10 (1.29%) CISA
14 10 (1.29%) ISTQB
14 10 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
14 10 (1.29%) PhD
15 9 (1.16%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (14.08%) Data Quality
2 96 (12.40%) QA
3 40 (5.17%) GxP
4 30 (3.88%) SLA
5 29 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 26 (3.36%) Accessibility
7 23 (2.97%) GDPR
8 11 (1.42%) ISO 20022
8 11 (1.42%) NIST
8 11 (1.42%) SEPA
9 9 (1.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 9 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 7 (0.90%) COBIT
11 7 (0.90%) TARGET2
12 5 (0.65%) ARP4761
12 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.52%) NCSC
13 4 (0.52%) WCAG
14 3 (0.39%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 39 (5.04%) Docker
2 30 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.33%) Firmware
4 13 (1.68%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.78%) vSphere
6 4 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.52%) vCloud
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Flume
7 2 (0.26%) Ceph
7 2 (0.26%) HDFS
7 2 (0.26%) Lustre
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.13%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) pfSense
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.58%) Terraform
3 18 (2.33%) Grafana
4 16 (2.07%) Ansible
5 10 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.65%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.65%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.52%) Rundeck
8 3 (0.39%) Kibana
9 2 (0.26%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.26%) logstash
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.26%) Nessus
9 2 (0.26%) Oozie
9 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.13%) Argo
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.13%) yum
10 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.36%) SAP
3 36 (4.65%) VMware
4 27 (3.49%) Cisco
5 21 (2.71%) Oracle
6 18 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.81%) Foundry
8 13 (1.68%) CheckPoint
8 13 (1.68%) F5
9 12 (1.55%) IBM
10 11 (1.42%) Siemens
11 10 (1.29%) MathWorks
12 9 (1.16%) Allen-Bradley
13 8 (1.03%) Databricks
13 8 (1.03%) Intapp
13 8 (1.03%) Rockwell
13 8 (1.03%) Software AG
13 8 (1.03%) Splunk
14 7 (0.90%) Informatica
14 7 (0.90%) ServiceNow