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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 74 190
Rank change year-on-year -41 +116 -7
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,352 1,529 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.64% 3.88% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 4.18% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 814 419 718
10th Percentile £35,375 £40,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,875 £72,483
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -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 60,235 36,560 77,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.70% 82.34%
Number of salaries quoted 42,304 19,913 56,146
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,266
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +69 386 £75,000 - 297
South East -36 307 £55,000 - 241
North of England +79 276 £55,000 +15.35% 150
North West +77 175 £55,000 +15.35% 76
Midlands -65 162 £40,000 -30.43% 120
East of England -74 107 £60,000 +5.26% 85
West Midlands -4 97 £44,000 -32.31% 69
South West -48 94 £53,000 -3.64% 112
East Midlands -76 63 £30,000 -42.31% 51
Yorkshire -6 60 £50,000 +18.69% 53
North East -4 41 £55,000 +15.79% 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 51 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 42 (3.11%) Apache
4 20 (1.48%) Confluence
5 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.81%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.52%) Appian
7 7 (0.52%) SAS
8 5 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.37%) CMS
8 5 (0.37%) Kinematics
9 3 (0.22%) Artix
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.074%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 88 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.96%) Simulink
7 8 (0.59%) SOLIDWORKS
7 8 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.37%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.30%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.30%) Sketch
10 3 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
10 3 (0.22%) Productboard
10 3 (0.22%) Solid Edge
10 3 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.15%) Fusion 360
12 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.074%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.074%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 33 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 33 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.74%) SAP ERP
3 9 (0.67%) SAP MDG
4 8 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.37%) iTrent
5 5 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.37%) SAP MDG-BP
6 4 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.15%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.074%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.074%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.074%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (12.94%) Azure
2 147 (10.87%) AWS
3 127 (9.39%) Power Platform
4 68 (5.03%) GCP
5 59 (4.36%) SaaS
6 53 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (2.81%) Serverless
8 37 (2.74%) Amazon S3
9 35 (2.59%) GitHub
10 27 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 25 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (1.85%) Snowflake
12 20 (1.48%) Entra ID
13 19 (1.41%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.26%) dbt
14 17 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (1.04%) OpenShift
16 13 (0.96%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.81%) Broadband
2 42 (3.11%) Firewall
3 34 (2.51%) DNS
4 22 (1.63%) CHAP
5 21 (1.55%) WAN
6 17 (1.26%) SD-WAN
6 17 (1.26%) Wireless
7 16 (1.18%) Network Security
8 14 (1.04%) 5G
8 14 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 14 (1.04%) VPN
9 12 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.74%) HTTP
10 10 (0.74%) LAN
10 10 (0.74%) MQTT
11 9 (0.67%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.67%) NAS
12 7 (0.52%) WebEx
13 6 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (0.37%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (9.25%) Power BI
2 56 (4.14%) Tableau
3 53 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (3.55%) SQL Server
5 41 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 30 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.14%) Metadata
9 23 (1.70%) BigQuery
9 23 (1.70%) Data Lake
10 22 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 19 (1.41%) Spark SQL
12 18 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
13 17 (1.26%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (1.11%) DynamoDB
14 15 (1.11%) MySQL
15 14 (1.04%) Parquet
15 14 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.96%) Impala
Development Applications
1 67 (4.96%) JIRA
2 65 (4.81%) Git
3 42 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 33 (2.44%) GitLab
5 31 (2.29%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.63%) Snyk
7 15 (1.11%) Postman
8 14 (1.04%) Selenium
9 13 (0.96%) IBM UrbanCode
10 12 (0.89%) LabVIEW
11 11 (0.81%) MLflow
12 10 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.74%) Eclipse
12 10 (0.74%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.67%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.67%) JMeter
14 6 (0.44%) Rational Rhapsody
15 5 (0.37%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.37%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 399 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 354 (26.18%) Finance
3 307 (22.71%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.84%) Aerospace
5 96 (7.10%) Electronics
6 94 (6.95%) Banking
7 93 (6.88%) Manufacturing
8 81 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 52 (3.85%) Law
10 49 (3.62%) Retail
11 46 (3.40%) Legal
12 42 (3.11%) Marketing
13 40 (2.96%) Public Sector
14 39 (2.88%) Games
14 39 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 33 (2.44%) Financial Institution
16 31 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (2.07%) Automotive
18 26 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (1.63%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 228 (16.86%) Senior
2 221 (16.35%) Analyst
3 133 (9.84%) Systems Engineer
4 97 (7.17%) Lead
4 97 (7.17%) Test Engineer
5 91 (6.73%) Architect
6 85 (6.29%) Validation Engineer
7 74 (5.47%) Business Analyst
8 70 (5.18%) Data Engineer
9 62 (4.59%) Developer
10 61 (4.51%) Data Analyst
11 47 (3.48%) Principal Engineer
12 40 (2.96%) Integration Engineer
13 37 (2.74%) Embedded Engineer
14 36 (2.66%) IT Manager
15 35 (2.59%) Consultant
16 34 (2.51%) Security Architect
17 33 (2.44%) Junior
18 32 (2.37%) Project Manager
19 31 (2.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.03%) RESTful
2 35 (2.59%) REST
3 31 (2.29%) PySpark
4 29 (2.14%) JSON
5 27 (2.00%) Kafka
5 27 (2.00%) Pandas
6 25 (1.85%) pytest
7 24 (1.78%) XML
8 23 (1.70%) Middleware
8 23 (1.70%) Node.js
9 20 (1.48%) .NET
10 18 (1.33%) Playwright
10 18 (1.33%) Regular Expression
10 18 (1.33%) Swagger
10 18 (1.33%) XMPP
11 15 (1.11%) CSS
11 15 (1.11%) LDAP
11 15 (1.11%) OAuth
12 14 (1.04%) PyTorch
12 14 (1.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 77 (5.70%) Cloud Native
2 73 (5.40%) Management Information System
3 67 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 53 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 50 (3.70%) Low-Code
6 35 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.51%) Driving Licence
8 33 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
9 32 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 32 (2.37%) Product Ownership
10 31 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (2.29%) Data Centre
10 31 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (2.29%) Video\Live Streaming
11 30 (2.22%) Algorithms
11 30 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (2.00%) Life Science
13 21 (1.55%) Robotics
14 18 (1.33%) PKI
15 17 (1.26%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 80 (5.92%) Linux
2 60 (4.44%) Windows
3 25 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.78%) Unix
5 18 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.52%) Android
7 4 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.30%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.22%) AIX
8 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.15%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.074%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.074%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
2 266 (19.67%) Agile
3 254 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 228 (16.86%) AI
5 226 (16.72%) CI/CD
6 197 (14.57%) Test Automation
7 184 (13.61%) Verification and Validation
8 183 (13.54%) Analytics
9 157 (11.61%) Data Validation
10 147 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
11 146 (10.80%) DevOps
12 144 (10.65%) Data Modelling
13 143 (10.58%) Migration
14 136 (10.06%) Decision-Making
15 134 (9.91%) Software Engineering
16 128 (9.47%) Data Governance
17 123 (9.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 123 (9.10%) Stakeholder Management
18 122 (9.02%) Machine Learning
19 120 (8.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 319 (23.59%) Python
2 292 (21.60%) SQL
3 56 (4.14%) C++
3 56 (4.14%) Java
4 52 (3.85%) C
5 49 (3.62%) Go
6 34 (2.51%) C#
7 31 (2.29%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.78%) Bash
8 24 (1.78%) MATLAB
8 24 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 19 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.11%) Embedded C
10 15 (1.11%) Embedded C++
11 13 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.89%) Scala
13 11 (0.81%) TypeScript
14 9 (0.67%) VBA
15 8 (0.59%) ABAP
16 7 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 270 (19.97%) Degree
2 154 (11.39%) Security Cleared
3 102 (7.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 73 (5.40%) SC Cleared
5 71 (5.25%) Master's Degree
6 43 (3.18%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.66%) Chartered Engineer
9 32 (2.37%) CISA
9 32 (2.37%) CISSP
9 32 (2.37%) SANS
10 29 (2.14%) CISM
11 24 (1.78%) HNC
12 22 (1.63%) CGEIT
12 22 (1.63%) FFIEC
13 20 (1.48%) HND
14 15 (1.11%) PMI Certification
15 14 (1.04%) ACCA
15 14 (1.04%) CIMA
16 12 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (16.64%) Data Quality
2 131 (9.69%) QA
3 56 (4.14%) GDPR
4 40 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 39 (2.88%) GRC
6 28 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 25 (1.85%) NIST
8 22 (1.63%) COBIT
9 19 (1.41%) IFRS
10 18 (1.33%) IEC 61508
11 15 (1.11%) PMO
11 15 (1.11%) SLA
12 12 (0.89%) GAAP
12 12 (0.89%) ISO 9001
13 11 (0.81%) GMP
13 11 (0.81%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.67%) ISO 26262
15 8 (0.59%) Good Clinical Practice
15 8 (0.59%) GxP
System Software
1 62 (4.59%) Docker
2 40 (2.96%) Firmware
3 37 (2.74%) Active Directory
4 22 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.41%) vSphere
6 16 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.37%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.15%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.074%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.074%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.074%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 61 (4.51%) Terraform
3 26 (1.92%) Grafana
4 21 (1.55%) Functional Safety
5 15 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.96%) Ansible
7 10 (0.74%) Cilium
7 10 (0.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 9 (0.67%) SCCM
9 7 (0.52%) Kibana
10 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.22%) Puppet
12 2 (0.15%) Argo
12 2 (0.15%) BMC PATROL
12 2 (0.15%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 2 (0.15%) Rancher
12 2 (0.15%) yum
13 1 (0.074%) MOM
Vendors
1 180 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 88 (6.51%) Oracle
3 80 (5.92%) SAP
4 45 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 37 (2.74%) Databricks
6 33 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.37%) Red Hat
8 29 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
9 26 (1.92%) VMware
10 22 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.63%) Tenable
11 21 (1.55%) Adobe
12 19 (1.41%) Cisco
13 17 (1.26%) Google
14 14 (1.04%) Citrix
14 14 (1.04%) McAfee
15 12 (0.89%) Foundry
16 10 (0.74%) OpenAI
17 9 (0.67%) Splunk
18 8 (0.59%) IBM