Verification and Validation Job Trends in Essex

Verification and Validation
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Verification and Validation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 0.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £56,500 - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £76,250 - -
90th Percentile £78,500 - -
East of England median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +36.36% - -21.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 509 437 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 80.28% 70.94% 93.05%
Number of salaries quoted 343 256 289
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.51% -1.05%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -15.09% -1.85% +2.86%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in Essex

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Verification and Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Verification and Validation

Verification and Validation
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Verification and Validation in Essex over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Verification and Validation in Essex

Verification and Validation
Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Chelmsford - 1 £60,000 -
Verification and Validation
East of England

Verification and Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) LabVIEW
1 1 (33.33%) Redmine
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Communications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Development Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DSP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Communications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Development Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DSP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior FPGA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Testing Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) VHDL
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) FPGA
2 1 (33.33%) GNSS
2 1 (33.33%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (33.33%) FPGA Design
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 1 (33.33%) Schematic Capture
3 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ECSS
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Mentor Graphics