Validation Job Trends in Guildford

Validation
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +63
Permanent jobs citing Validation 2 6 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 0.87% 4.76% 8.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 5.17% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 - £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £45,500
75th Percentile £52,500 - £45,750
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median annual salary £42,500 £40,748 £45,500
% change year-on-year +4.30% -10.44% -12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 190 116 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 82.61% 92.06% 91.93%
Number of salaries quoted 163 59 177
10th Percentile £29,000 £39,750 £25,950
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,790 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% +17.45% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £69,700
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Guildford

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Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Validation

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Informatics
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Ticket Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 2 (100.00%) GxP
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) QNAP
1 2 (100.00%) Synology
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam