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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 81 194
Rank change year-on-year -22 +113 -4
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,583 1,574 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 3.62% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 4.03% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 976 469 552
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £36,025
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.06%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £71,936
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -12.70%

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 66,240 39,044 63,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.89% 89.88% 81.85%
Number of salaries quoted 46,785 22,556 43,778
10th Percentile £31,175 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 26 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 26 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 +74 452 £75,000 -6.25% 396
South East -39 346 £55,000 - 226
North of England +103 332 £55,000 +15.57% 146
North West +85 200 £55,000 +15.35% 82
Midlands -57 189 £42,500 -22.73% 111
South West -31 122 £50,000 -4.94% 89
East of England -74 110 £62,500 +9.65% 88
West Midlands +11 102 £44,000 -26.67% 66
East Midlands -73 85 £42,500 - 45
Yorkshire +1 67 £44,000 +3.53% 34
North East +3 65 £55,000 +41.94% 31
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 57 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 53 (3.35%) Apache
4 28 (1.77%) SharePoint
5 26 (1.64%) Confluence
6 17 (1.07%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.76%) SAS
9 5 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.32%) CMS
10 4 (0.25%) Kinematics
11 3 (0.19%) Artix
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
13 1 (0.063%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.063%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.063%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.063%) WinCC
Applications
1 93 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.33%) Simulink
6 13 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.51%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.32%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.25%) Sketch
11 3 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.19%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.19%) Productboard
11 3 (0.19%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.13%) Mathcad
12 2 (0.13%) Solid Edge
13 1 (0.063%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.063%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.69%) SAP MDG
4 10 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
7 5 (0.32%) iTrent
7 5 (0.32%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG-BP
8 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) 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
10 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 213 (13.46%) Azure
2 206 (13.01%) AWS
3 152 (9.60%) Power Platform
4 78 (4.93%) GCP
5 69 (4.36%) SaaS
6 57 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.78%) Serverless
9 42 (2.65%) Amazon S3
10 40 (2.53%) GitHub
11 29 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.39%) Entra ID
12 22 (1.39%) Snowflake
13 21 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
14 20 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
15 18 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.23%) Broadband
2 47 (2.97%) Firewall
3 41 (2.59%) DNS
4 24 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.39%) Network Security
5 22 (1.39%) Wireless
6 21 (1.33%) VPN
7 20 (1.26%) WAN
8 16 (1.01%) Ethernet
9 14 (0.88%) MQTT
9 14 (0.88%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.82%) Internet
11 12 (0.76%) CHAP
11 12 (0.76%) HTTP
11 12 (0.76%) LAN
12 10 (0.63%) NGN
13 9 (0.57%) BGP
13 9 (0.57%) NAS
13 9 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (9.03%) Power BI
2 59 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (3.54%) Tableau
4 54 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (3.10%) SQL Server
6 40 (2.53%) Metadata
7 35 (2.21%) Data Lake
8 33 (2.08%) MongoDB
9 29 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.58%) BigQuery
11 23 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
12 22 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (1.39%) DynamoDB
12 22 (1.39%) MySQL
13 21 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (1.26%) Spark SQL
15 18 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (1.07%) Oracle Database
17 16 (1.01%) Parquet
18 15 (0.95%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 96 (6.06%) JIRA
2 89 (5.62%) Git
3 48 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.65%) GitLab
5 31 (1.96%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.39%) Snyk
7 16 (1.01%) Selenium
8 15 (0.95%) LabVIEW
9 13 (0.82%) IBM UrbanCode
9 13 (0.82%) Postman
10 12 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.69%) JMeter
12 10 (0.63%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.44%) Burp Suite
13 7 (0.44%) MLflow
13 7 (0.44%) Rational Rhapsody
14 6 (0.38%) GDB
14 6 (0.38%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.32%) Hudson
General
1 497 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 433 (27.35%) Finance
3 388 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (7.90%) Aerospace
5 123 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 122 (7.71%) Manufacturing
7 118 (7.45%) Electronics
8 95 (6.00%) Banking
9 68 (4.30%) Law
10 66 (4.17%) Retail
11 62 (3.92%) Public Sector
12 55 (3.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 50 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
14 48 (3.03%) Marketing
15 47 (2.97%) Legal
16 45 (2.84%) Games
17 37 (2.34%) Automotive
18 28 (1.77%) Telecoms
19 27 (1.71%) Advertising
20 26 (1.64%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 292 (18.45%) Senior
2 246 (15.54%) Analyst
3 127 (8.02%) Lead
4 116 (7.33%) Systems Engineer
5 101 (6.38%) Test Engineer
6 97 (6.13%) Architect
7 89 (5.62%) Data Engineer
8 79 (4.99%) Business Analyst
9 74 (4.67%) Developer
10 72 (4.55%) Validation Engineer
11 69 (4.36%) Data Analyst
12 59 (3.73%) Consultant
13 49 (3.10%) Software Engineer
14 48 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
15 43 (2.72%) Support Engineer
16 42 (2.65%) Embedded Engineer
17 39 (2.46%) IT Manager
18 38 (2.40%) Data Scientist
19 36 (2.27%) Project Manager
19 36 (2.27%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.84%) RESTful
2 38 (2.40%) Kafka
3 36 (2.27%) PySpark
4 34 (2.15%) Node.js
5 32 (2.02%) XML
6 28 (1.77%) JSON
7 26 (1.64%) Pandas
8 25 (1.58%) REST
9 21 (1.33%) .NET
9 21 (1.33%) Middleware
10 20 (1.26%) CSS
11 19 (1.20%) HTML
11 19 (1.20%) Regular Expression
11 19 (1.20%) XMPP
12 17 (1.07%) LDAP
12 17 (1.07%) Playwright
13 16 (1.01%) FastAPI
14 14 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.88%) React
15 13 (0.82%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 109 (6.89%) Cloud Native
1 109 (6.89%) Onboarding
2 71 (4.49%) Management Information System
3 62 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 55 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 52 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 47 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (2.84%) Driving Licence
7 45 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
8 44 (2.78%) Low-Code
9 42 (2.65%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (2.02%) Video\Live Streaming
12 31 (1.96%) Life Science
13 28 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.52%) AI Agents
16 23 (1.45%) IoT
16 23 (1.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.95%) Linux
2 83 (5.24%) Windows
3 32 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.20%) Unix
5 6 (0.38%) Android
5 6 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.25%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.13%) ThreadX
9 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.063%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
2 349 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 335 (21.16%) Agile
4 294 (18.57%) AI
5 269 (16.99%) CI/CD
6 213 (13.46%) Analytics
7 208 (13.14%) Test Automation
8 205 (12.95%) Migration
9 185 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 176 (11.12%) Mentoring
11 170 (10.74%) Decision-Making
12 168 (10.61%) Verification and Validation
13 166 (10.49%) Business Intelligence
14 164 (10.36%) DevOps
15 160 (10.11%) Software Engineering
16 155 (9.79%) Data Modelling
16 155 (9.79%) Data Validation
17 145 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 139 (8.78%) Data Analysis
19 138 (8.72%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 391 (24.70%) Python
2 347 (21.92%) SQL
3 75 (4.74%) C++
4 68 (4.30%) C
5 66 (4.17%) Java
6 53 (3.35%) Go
7 45 (2.84%) JavaScript
8 40 (2.53%) C#
9 34 (2.15%) MATLAB
10 29 (1.83%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.71%) Bash
12 22 (1.39%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.14%) Embedded C
13 18 (1.14%) Embedded C++
13 18 (1.14%) Scala
14 14 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.88%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.51%) ABAP
15 8 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 305 (19.27%) Degree
2 197 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 105 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 102 (6.44%) SC Cleared
5 74 (4.67%) Master's Degree
6 61 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (1.83%) Chartered Engineer
9 27 (1.71%) CISSP
10 26 (1.64%) HNC
11 23 (1.45%) CISA
12 22 (1.39%) SANS
13 21 (1.33%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.33%) CISM
14 20 (1.26%) PhD
15 19 (1.20%) PMI Certification
16 18 (1.14%) ACCA
16 18 (1.14%) CIMA
17 16 (1.01%) HND
18 15 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (17.88%) Data Quality
2 199 (12.57%) QA
3 55 (3.47%) GDPR
4 47 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 38 (2.40%) GRC
6 25 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.26%) IEC 61508
8 19 (1.20%) NIST
9 17 (1.07%) PMO
10 15 (0.95%) IFRS
11 14 (0.88%) GxP
11 14 (0.88%) ISO 9001
12 13 (0.82%) GAAP
12 13 (0.82%) ISO 26262
12 13 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 13 (0.82%) SLA
13 12 (0.76%) COBIT
14 11 (0.69%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.57%) MISRA
15 9 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (4.30%) Docker
2 56 (3.54%) Firmware
3 41 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 27 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
6 21 (1.33%) vSphere
7 10 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.13%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.063%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.063%) KVM
10 1 (0.063%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 72 (4.55%) Terraform
2 68 (4.30%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.21%) Grafana
4 24 (1.52%) Functional Safety
5 20 (1.26%) Ansible
6 16 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.63%) Cilium
8 7 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.44%) Kibana
8 7 (0.44%) SCCM
9 6 (0.38%) Puppet
10 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.25%) Nessus
11 4 (0.25%) Nmap
12 3 (0.19%) Argo
12 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.19%) Rancher
12 3 (0.19%) WMI
12 3 (0.19%) yum
Vendors
1 229 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.00%) SAP
3 90 (5.69%) Oracle
4 51 (3.22%) Salesforce
5 45 (2.84%) Databricks
6 35 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.90%) Cisco
9 29 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
9 29 (1.83%) VMware
10 25 (1.58%) Google
11 23 (1.45%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.39%) Tenable
13 15 (0.95%) IBM
13 15 (0.95%) McAfee
14 14 (0.88%) Adobe
15 13 (0.82%) Citrix
16 12 (0.76%) Splunk
17 11 (0.69%) Foundry
17 11 (0.69%) Informatica