Validation Job Trends in Hampshire

Validation
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 95 86
Rank change year-on-year +16 -9 +27
Permanent jobs citing Validation 42 59 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 1.69% 2.23% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 2.72% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32 22 10
10th Percentile - £40,500 £38,563
25th Percentile £39,625 £51,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £90,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -54.17% +41.18% -1.01%
75th Percentile £55,000 £102,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,310 £110,000 -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.96% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,991 2,168 1,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.12% 82.00% 88.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 1,281 1,203
10th Percentile £27,250 £33,000 £29,550
25th Percentile £33,313 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% -5.45%
75th Percentile £62,825 £72,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Validation
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Validation

Validation
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in Hampshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Validation in Hampshire

Validation
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Southampton +16 9 £41,250 -54.17% 4
Portsmouth 0 9 £52,500 +1.25% 20
Andover - 7 £41,250 - 2
Winchester - 6 £41,250 - 1
Basingstoke - 2 - - 5
Fareham - 2 £55,000 - 1
Southsea - 2 - - 1
Waterlooville -3 1 - -
Tadley - 1 - -
Petersfield - 1 - - 2
Eastleigh - 1 £60,000 - 3
Validation
South East

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) GNU Octave
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.38%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.76%) SaaS
3 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.38%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) InfiniBand
1 1 (2.38%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) Robot Framework
3 2 (4.76%) Selenium
3 2 (4.76%) TestRail
4 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Aerospace
3 4 (9.52%) Electronics
4 3 (7.14%) Automotive
5 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Military
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Applications Engineer
2 15 (35.71%) Applications Support
2 15 (35.71%) Applications Support Engineer
2 15 (35.71%) Support Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Requirements Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Manual Tester
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Test Technician
6 2 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.38%) CSS
2 1 (2.38%) HTML
2 1 (2.38%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.38%) Middleware
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.38%) RESTful
2 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
1 2 (4.76%) RISC-V
2 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Data Analysis
1 18 (42.86%) Incident Management
1 18 (42.86%) Problem Management
1 18 (42.86%) Task Automation
2 11 (26.19%) Systems Engineering
3 8 (19.05%) Systems Thinking
4 7 (16.67%) Agile
4 7 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 7 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
5 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (14.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 5 (11.90%) Asset Management
6 5 (11.90%) Risk Management
6 5 (11.90%) Supply Chain Management
6 5 (11.90%) V-Model
7 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.52%) Software Testing
7 4 (9.52%) Waterfall
8 3 (7.14%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (7.14%) Bash
3 2 (4.76%) C
3 2 (4.76%) Embedded C
3 2 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (2.38%) C++
4 1 (2.38%) Java
4 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.38%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Degree
2 9 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (45.24%) QA
2 18 (42.86%) SLA
3 8 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (4.76%) ISO 9000
5 2 (4.76%) JTAG
6 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
1 3 (7.14%) Firmware
2 1 (2.38%) Ceph
2 1 (2.38%) Lustre
2 1 (2.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) Grafana
2 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Nessus
2 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) IBM
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) ANSYS
3 1 (2.38%) EMC
3 1 (2.38%) Keysight
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce