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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 82 194
Rank change year-on-year -22 +112 -2
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,570 1,576 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 3.64% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 4.05% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 973 467 562
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 - - -14.06%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,915
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 65,989 38,936 64,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 89.93% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 46,599 22,465 44,364
10th Percentile £31,250 £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 25 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 25 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 +71 446 £75,000 -4.76% 404
South East -39 346 £55,000 - 222
North of England +107 328 £55,000 +15.57% 145
North West +77 198 £55,000 +15.35% 81
Midlands -54 190 £42,500 -22.73% 109
South West -38 119 £50,000 -4.94% 88
East of England -73 109 £62,500 +9.65% 85
West Midlands +5 103 £44,000 -29.60% 64
East Midlands -73 85 £42,500 -5.56% 45
Yorkshire +1 67 £44,000 +3.53% 35
North East +2 63 £55,000 +41.94% 30
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 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (3.50%) Apache Spark
3 52 (3.31%) Apache
4 28 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 25 (1.59%) Confluence
6 17 (1.08%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.83%) 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 (0.064%) Appian
13 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.064%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 92 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.34%) Simulink
6 13 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.64%) 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 (0.064%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.70%) SAP MDG
4 10 (0.64%) 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 (13.57%) Azure
2 204 (12.99%) AWS
3 153 (9.75%) Power Platform
4 77 (4.90%) GCP
5 69 (4.39%) SaaS
6 57 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.80%) Serverless
9 42 (2.68%) Amazon S3
10 39 (2.48%) GitHub
11 29 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.40%) Entra ID
12 22 (1.40%) Snowflake
13 21 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (1.27%) Amazon EMR
14 20 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.27%) Broadband
2 47 (2.99%) Firewall
3 41 (2.61%) DNS
4 23 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.40%) Network Security
5 22 (1.40%) Wireless
6 21 (1.34%) VPN
7 20 (1.27%) WAN
8 16 (1.02%) Ethernet
9 14 (0.89%) MQTT
9 14 (0.89%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.83%) Internet
11 12 (0.76%) CHAP
11 12 (0.76%) HTTP
11 12 (0.76%) LAN
12 10 (0.64%) NGN
13 9 (0.57%) BGP
13 9 (0.57%) NAS
13 9 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (9.17%) Power BI
2 59 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (3.57%) Tableau
4 53 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (3.18%) SQL Server
6 40 (2.55%) Metadata
7 34 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 33 (2.10%) MongoDB
9 29 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.59%) BigQuery
11 23 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
12 22 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (1.40%) DynamoDB
12 22 (1.40%) MySQL
13 21 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (1.27%) Spark SQL
15 18 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (1.08%) Oracle Database
17 16 (1.02%) Parquet
18 15 (0.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 95 (6.05%) JIRA
2 87 (5.54%) Git
3 48 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.68%) GitLab
5 31 (1.97%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.40%) Snyk
7 16 (1.02%) Selenium
8 15 (0.96%) LabVIEW
9 13 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
9 13 (0.83%) Postman
10 12 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.70%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.70%) JMeter
12 10 (0.64%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.45%) Burp Suite
13 7 (0.45%) MLflow
13 7 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
14 6 (0.38%) GDB
14 6 (0.38%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.32%) Hudson
General
1 495 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 427 (27.20%) Finance
3 385 (24.52%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (7.83%) Aerospace
5 121 (7.71%) Manufacturing
6 119 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 118 (7.52%) Electronics
8 93 (5.92%) Banking
9 66 (4.20%) Law
9 66 (4.20%) Retail
10 61 (3.89%) Public Sector
11 53 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 49 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (3.06%) Marketing
14 46 (2.93%) Legal
15 45 (2.87%) Games
16 37 (2.36%) Automotive
17 28 (1.78%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.72%) Advertising
19 26 (1.66%) Billing
Job Titles
1 289 (18.41%) Senior
2 244 (15.54%) Analyst
3 126 (8.03%) Lead
4 115 (7.32%) Systems Engineer
5 100 (6.37%) Test Engineer
6 96 (6.11%) Architect
7 89 (5.67%) Data Engineer
8 78 (4.97%) Business Analyst
9 73 (4.65%) Developer
10 72 (4.59%) Validation Engineer
11 69 (4.39%) Data Analyst
12 59 (3.76%) Consultant
13 46 (2.93%) Principal Engineer
13 46 (2.93%) Software Engineer
14 43 (2.74%) Support Engineer
15 42 (2.68%) Embedded Engineer
16 39 (2.48%) IT Manager
17 37 (2.36%) Data Scientist
18 36 (2.29%) Project Manager
18 36 (2.29%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.87%) RESTful
2 37 (2.36%) Kafka
3 36 (2.29%) PySpark
4 34 (2.17%) Node.js
5 31 (1.97%) XML
6 27 (1.72%) JSON
7 25 (1.59%) Pandas
7 25 (1.59%) REST
8 20 (1.27%) .NET
8 20 (1.27%) CSS
8 20 (1.27%) Middleware
9 19 (1.21%) HTML
9 19 (1.21%) Regular Expression
9 19 (1.21%) XMPP
10 17 (1.08%) LDAP
10 17 (1.08%) Playwright
11 16 (1.02%) FastAPI
12 14 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (0.89%) React
13 13 (0.83%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 108 (6.88%) Onboarding
2 107 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 71 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 62 (3.95%) Data Structures
5 55 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 50 (3.18%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (2.87%) Driving Licence
8 45 (2.87%) Embedded Systems
8 45 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (2.80%) Low-Code
10 43 (2.74%) Algorithms
11 37 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 32 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
13 31 (1.97%) Life Science
14 28 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
16 24 (1.53%) Robotics
17 23 (1.46%) IoT
18 22 (1.40%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 110 (7.01%) Linux
2 83 (5.29%) Windows
3 32 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.21%) 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
8 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) ThreadX
9 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
2 347 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 332 (21.15%) Agile
4 291 (18.54%) AI
5 268 (17.07%) CI/CD
6 212 (13.50%) Analytics
7 208 (13.25%) Test Automation
8 203 (12.93%) Migration
9 180 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 174 (11.08%) Mentoring
11 170 (10.83%) Decision-Making
12 167 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
13 166 (10.57%) Verification and Validation
14 164 (10.45%) DevOps
15 157 (10.00%) Software Engineering
16 156 (9.94%) Data Validation
17 155 (9.87%) Data Modelling
18 144 (9.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 138 (8.79%) Data Migration
20 137 (8.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 391 (24.90%) Python
2 345 (21.97%) SQL
3 76 (4.84%) C++
4 68 (4.33%) C
5 65 (4.14%) Java
6 53 (3.38%) Go
7 43 (2.74%) JavaScript
8 39 (2.48%) C#
9 34 (2.17%) MATLAB
10 28 (1.78%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.72%) Bash
12 22 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.15%) Embedded C
13 18 (1.15%) Embedded C++
13 18 (1.15%) Scala
14 15 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.89%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.51%) ABAP
16 8 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 302 (19.24%) Degree
2 197 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 103 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 102 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 75 (4.78%) Master's Degree
6 61 (3.89%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (1.85%) Chartered Engineer
9 27 (1.72%) CISSP
10 26 (1.66%) HNC
11 23 (1.46%) CISA
12 22 (1.40%) SANS
13 21 (1.34%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.34%) CISM
13 21 (1.34%) PhD
14 18 (1.15%) ACCA
14 18 (1.15%) CIMA
14 18 (1.15%) PMI Certification
15 16 (1.02%) HND
16 14 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (18.03%) Data Quality
2 198 (12.61%) QA
3 54 (3.44%) GDPR
4 47 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 37 (2.36%) GRC
6 25 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.21%) IEC 61508
7 19 (1.21%) NIST
8 17 (1.08%) PMO
9 15 (0.96%) IFRS
10 14 (0.89%) ISO 9001
11 13 (0.83%) GAAP
11 13 (0.83%) GxP
11 13 (0.83%) ISO 26262
11 13 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 12 (0.76%) COBIT
12 12 (0.76%) SLA
13 11 (0.70%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.57%) MISRA
14 9 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (4.33%) Docker
2 56 (3.57%) Firmware
3 41 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 27 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.66%) Embedded Firmware
6 21 (1.34%) vSphere
7 10 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.13%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.064%) KVM
10 1 (0.064%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 72 (4.59%) Terraform
2 67 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.23%) Grafana
4 24 (1.53%) Functional Safety
5 20 (1.27%) Ansible
6 16 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.64%) Cilium
8 7 (0.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.45%) Kibana
8 7 (0.45%) 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
1 225 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.05%) SAP
3 91 (5.80%) Oracle
4 51 (3.25%) Salesforce
5 46 (2.93%) Databricks
6 35 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.17%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.91%) Cisco
9 29 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
9 29 (1.85%) VMware
10 24 (1.53%) Google
11 23 (1.46%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.40%) Tenable
13 15 (0.96%) IBM
13 15 (0.96%) McAfee
14 14 (0.89%) Adobe
15 13 (0.83%) Citrix
16 12 (0.76%) Splunk
17 11 (0.70%) Foundry
17 11 (0.70%) Informatica