Verification and Validation Job Trends in Guildford

Verification and Validation
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Verification and Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 4 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 0.81% - 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% - 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £43,750 - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £50,000
75th Percentile £81,250 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - £59,250
Surrey median annual salary £77,500 - £50,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 344 129 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 69.49% 86.00% 87.00%
Number of salaries quoted 274 100 221
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,438 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £92,500 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,750 £71,250
Surrey median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Verification and Validation job vacancy trend in Guildford

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in Guildford

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Verification and Validation

Verification and Validation
Salary Histogram in Guildford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Verification and Validation in Guildford over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Verification and Validation in Guildford

Verification and Validation
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 (50.00%) Bluetooth
1 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (50.00%) Gigabit Ethernet
1 2 (50.00%) GSM
1 2 (50.00%) RS-232
1 2 (50.00%) RS-485
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
1 2 (50.00%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Wearables
3 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Handset
1 2 (50.00%) IoT
1 2 (50.00%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Design for Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Schematic Capture
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Experimental Design
3 1 (25.00%) FMEA
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Degree