Verification and Validation Jobs in England

Verification and Validation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Verification and Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Verification and Validation over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 607 624
Rank change year-on-year +536 +17 +211
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 1,640 241 325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.54% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 337 159 52
10th Percentile - £40,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -10.20% +6.52%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £61,967 £75,000 -
UK median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.51% - -2.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Verification and 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 43,396 73,150 88,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.61% 85.81% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,950 53,950 52,213
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,000 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,237
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Verification and Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in England

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Verification and Validation in England.

Salary trend for Verification and Validation in England

Verification and Validation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Verification and Validation in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Verification and Validation in England

Verification and 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 Verification and Validation within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Midlands +258 469 £52,000 -5.45% 27
South East +264 430 £60,000 +9.10% 71
East of England +152 285 £70,000 +21.74% 48
East Midlands +175 279 £52,000 +22.35% 5
North of England +240 252 £47,683 -5.58% 35
North West +164 211 £47,683 -13.30% 27
West Midlands +168 190 - - 20
South West +207 187 £52,600 -4.36% 47
Yorkshire +110 41 £37,500 -16.67% 4
London +107 13 - - 26
Verification and Validation
UK

Verification and Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 277 (16.89%) Simulink
2 72 (4.39%) Mathcad
3 1 (0.061%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 40 (2.44%) AWS
2 6 (0.37%) Amazon S3
2 6 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (0.37%) GitHub
2 6 (0.37%) Serverless
3 1 (0.061%) Azure
3 1 (0.061%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 568 (34.63%) Bluetooth
2 566 (34.51%) 5G
3 564 (34.39%) Wi-Fi
4 563 (34.33%) LTE
4 563 (34.33%) Wireless
5 562 (34.27%) GSM
5 562 (34.27%) UMTS
6 10 (0.61%) Modbus
7 4 (0.24%) 4G
7 4 (0.24%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.24%) WAN
8 3 (0.18%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.061%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 240 (14.63%) Rational DOORS
2 51 (3.11%) JIRA
3 27 (1.65%) Git
4 8 (0.49%) Subversion
5 4 (0.24%) CppUnit
6 3 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.061%) LabVIEW
General
1 577 (35.18%) Electronics
2 43 (2.62%) Military
3 29 (1.77%) Aerospace
4 20 (1.22%) Social Skills
5 12 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (0.49%) Manufacturing
7 7 (0.43%) Legal
7 7 (0.43%) Public Sector
8 6 (0.37%) Games
8 6 (0.37%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.30%) Finance
10 4 (0.24%) Aviation
11 3 (0.18%) Automotive
12 2 (0.12%) Marketing
13 1 (0.061%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.061%) Avionics
13 1 (0.061%) Back Office
13 1 (0.061%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.061%) Retail
Job Titles
1 601 (36.65%) Test Engineer
2 568 (34.63%) Electronics Engineer
3 562 (34.27%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 479 (29.21%) Principal Engineer
5 473 (28.84%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 267 (16.28%) Systems Engineer
7 241 (14.70%) Integration Engineer
8 240 (14.63%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 239 (14.57%) System Verification Engineer
9 239 (14.57%) Validation Engineer
10 190 (11.59%) Engineering Manager
11 136 (8.29%) Requirements Manager
12 134 (8.17%) Senior
13 81 (4.94%) Principal Modelling Engineer
14 64 (3.90%) Mathematical Modeller
15 39 (2.38%) Software Test Engineer
16 38 (2.32%) Senior Software Test Engineer
16 38 (2.32%) Senior Test Engineer
17 18 (1.10%) Requirements Engineer
18 17 (1.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (0.79%) Qt
2 7 (0.43%) CSS
2 7 (0.43%) HTML
3 6 (0.37%) Django
3 6 (0.37%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.061%) .NET
4 1 (0.061%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.061%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.061%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.061%) Blazor
4 1 (0.061%) JSON
4 1 (0.061%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 562 (34.27%) Driving Licence
2 20 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
3 19 (1.16%) Algorithms
4 12 (0.73%) IoT
5 10 (0.61%) SCADA
6 8 (0.49%) FPGA
7 6 (0.37%) Client/Server
7 6 (0.37%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.24%) CPLD
8 4 (0.24%) NHS
8 4 (0.24%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.18%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.18%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.12%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.061%) Analogue Electronics
11 1 (0.061%) EPoS
11 1 (0.061%) Lidar
11 1 (0.061%) Robotics
11 1 (0.061%) Verilog
11 1 (0.061%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.67%) Linux
2 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.061%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,640 (100.00%) Validation
2 968 (59.02%) Systems Engineering
3 674 (41.10%) Coaching
4 575 (35.06%) Mentoring
5 569 (34.70%) Customer Requirements
6 562 (34.27%) Test Strategy
7 513 (31.28%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 382 (23.29%) Mathematics
9 337 (20.55%) SysML
10 243 (14.82%) Requirements Management
11 223 (13.60%) Software Engineering
12 199 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
13 196 (11.95%) Digital Twin
14 190 (11.59%) Project Planning
15 113 (6.89%) Physics
16 88 (5.37%) Problem-Solving
17 75 (4.57%) Mathematical Modelling
18 72 (4.39%) Performance Analysis
19 65 (3.96%) Test Automation
20 62 (3.78%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 284 (17.32%) MATLAB
2 100 (6.10%) Python
3 45 (2.74%) C
4 37 (2.26%) C++
5 14 (0.85%) Ada
6 12 (0.73%) C#
7 8 (0.49%) SQL
8 7 (0.43%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.37%) Ladder Logic
9 6 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.24%) Perl
10 4 (0.24%) R
11 1 (0.061%) Bash
11 1 (0.061%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 1,196 (72.93%) Degree
2 759 (46.28%) HND
3 663 (40.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 268 (16.34%) Chartered Engineer
5 205 (12.50%) HNC
6 149 (9.09%) ISTQB
7 59 (3.60%) Master's Degree
8 23 (1.40%) Security Cleared
9 19 (1.16%) SC Cleared
10 6 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 36 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 16 (0.98%) ARP4754
3 16 (0.98%) DO-254
3 16 (0.98%) IEC 61508
4 2 (0.12%) QA
5 1 (0.061%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.061%) GAMP
5 1 (0.061%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.061%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.061%) NIST
5 1 (0.061%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (0.73%) Firmware
2 8 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 72 (4.39%) MathWorks
2 47 (2.87%) IBM
3 7 (0.43%) Siemens
4 4 (0.24%) Agilent
5 3 (0.18%) Xilinx
6 2 (0.12%) SAP
7 1 (0.061%) EMC
7 1 (0.061%) Lotus
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.061%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.061%) Xamarin