Validation Job Trends in Gloucester

Validation
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 29 43
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +22
Permanent jobs citing Validation 12 3 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 5.22% 3.03% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 3.30% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 -
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £51,250 £52,600 £29,000
% change year-on-year -2.57% +81.38% -1.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 91 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucester 78.70% 91.92% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 91 61 181
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,095 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £75,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £54,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.66% +5.20% -9.09%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Validation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Validation job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Validation
Salary Trend in Gloucester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (8.33%) Test and Validation Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Tester
2 1 (8.33%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Coaching
3 5 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (41.67%) Kanban
3 5 (41.67%) Requirements Analysis
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
3 5 (41.67%) SDLC
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Requirements Management
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Bash
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Go
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Argo
2 5 (41.67%) Rancher
2 5 (41.67%) yum
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform