Validation Jobs in London

Validation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Validation over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 255 214
Rank change year-on-year +77 -41 +6
Permanent jobs citing Validation 246 283 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.93% 1.20% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.32% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 113 172 266
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,725 £95,000
England median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.36% -12.00% +7.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,254 21,475 31,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.28% 90.91% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6,959 15,836 23,027
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,162
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,287 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -6.28% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in London

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Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation in London.

Salary trend for Validation in London

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Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in London

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Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the London region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Central London +20 44 £67,500 -6.90% 32
East London - 17 £83,000 - 3
West London +34 14 £90,000 +20.00% 89
South London -8 10 £50,000 -28.57% 7
North London -8 4 £60,000 -15.79%
Validation
England

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.22%) CMS
2 3 (1.22%) Confluence
2 3 (1.22%) SAS
3 2 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.81%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.41%) MTS
Applications
1 17 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.47%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.66%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.81%) Autodesk Inventor
4 2 (0.81%) CATIA
4 2 (0.81%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.41%) SPSS
5 1 (0.41%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Endur
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 42 (17.07%) AWS
2 32 (13.01%) Azure
3 21 (8.54%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.72%) GCP
5 18 (7.32%) GitHub
6 10 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (3.25%) Pulumi
9 7 (2.85%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.44%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 6 (2.44%) Serverless
11 5 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.03%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (1.63%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (1.63%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.16%) Broadband
2 8 (3.25%) 5G
2 8 (3.25%) Bluetooth
3 7 (2.85%) LAN
4 5 (2.03%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.03%) Network Security
5 4 (1.63%) 4G
5 4 (1.63%) GSM
5 4 (1.63%) LTE
5 4 (1.63%) UMTS
5 4 (1.63%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.63%) WAN
5 4 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.63%) Wireless
6 3 (1.22%) Firewall
7 2 (0.81%) DNS
8 1 (0.41%) DKIM
8 1 (0.41%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (6.10%) Power BI
3 12 (4.88%) Tableau
4 10 (4.07%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.85%) Big Data
7 7 (2.85%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.44%) Delta Lake
8 6 (2.44%) MySQL
9 5 (2.03%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.81%) Airbyte
11 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.81%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.81%) Metadata
11 2 (0.81%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.81%) Tableau Desktop
12 1 (0.41%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 16 (6.50%) Git
2 14 (5.69%) Postman
3 11 (4.47%) JIRA
4 10 (4.07%) SoapUI
5 9 (3.66%) JMeter
6 8 (3.25%) Selenium
7 5 (2.03%) Gradle
7 5 (2.03%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.03%) Maven
8 4 (1.63%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.63%) Locust
8 4 (1.63%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.63%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.22%) Mocha
9 3 (1.22%) MSTest
9 3 (1.22%) NUnit
9 3 (1.22%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.81%) Gatling
10 2 (0.81%) GitLab
10 2 (0.81%) TestRail
General
1 111 (45.12%) Social Skills
2 77 (31.30%) Finance
3 55 (22.36%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (13.82%) Games
5 28 (11.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 25 (10.16%) Banking
7 14 (5.69%) Legal
7 14 (5.69%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.47%) Front Office
9 9 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.66%) Telecoms
10 8 (3.25%) Financial Institution
10 8 (3.25%) Marketing
11 7 (2.85%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.03%) Advertising
12 5 (2.03%) Publishing
13 4 (1.63%) Electronics
13 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.22%) Law
14 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (28.46%) Senior
2 33 (13.41%) Analyst
3 29 (11.79%) Senior Manager
4 25 (10.16%) Engineering Manager
4 25 (10.16%) Senior Service Manager
4 25 (10.16%) ServiceNow Manager
5 20 (8.13%) Data Engineer
6 16 (6.50%) Developer
6 16 (6.50%) Test Engineer
7 13 (5.28%) IT Manager
8 12 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
9 9 (3.66%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.25%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.25%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.25%) Lead
11 7 (2.85%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.85%) Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (2.44%) Architect
12 6 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (2.44%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.10%) Kafka
2 11 (4.47%) React
3 10 (4.07%) YAML
4 8 (3.25%) Loki
5 7 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (2.85%) JSON
5 7 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (2.44%) CSS
6 6 (2.44%) HTML
6 6 (2.44%) Spring
7 5 (2.03%) GraphQL
7 5 (2.03%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (2.03%) RESTful
7 5 (2.03%) Web Services
7 5 (2.03%) XML
8 4 (1.63%) Jest
8 4 (1.63%) NestJS
8 4 (1.63%) Next.js
8 4 (1.63%) Playwright
8 4 (1.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.01%) Product Ownership
2 27 (10.98%) Management Information System
3 25 (10.16%) Video\Live Streaming
4 9 (3.66%) IoT
4 9 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.85%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.03%) Derivative
8 5 (2.03%) Mobile Games
8 5 (2.03%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.63%) CCTV
9 4 (1.63%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.63%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.63%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.63%) NHS
10 3 (1.22%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.22%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.03%) Linux
2 4 (1.63%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (21.95%) Agile
3 52 (21.14%) Roadmaps
4 46 (18.70%) Computer Science
5 43 (17.48%) Software Engineering
6 40 (16.26%) Analytics
7 38 (15.45%) Project Management
8 37 (15.04%) Mentoring
9 35 (14.23%) Change Management
10 33 (13.41%) Cybersecurity
10 33 (13.41%) Test Automation
11 31 (12.60%) CI/CD
11 31 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (11.79%) Data Security
12 29 (11.79%) Incident Management
13 28 (11.38%) Deployment Automation
14 27 (10.98%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (10.98%) ITSM
14 27 (10.98%) Software Delivery
15 25 (10.16%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (29.27%) Python
2 60 (24.39%) SQL
3 13 (5.28%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.88%) C#
4 12 (4.88%) TypeScript
5 11 (4.47%) C
5 11 (4.47%) Go
5 11 (4.47%) Java
5 11 (4.47%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.47%) R
6 9 (3.66%) T-SQL
7 8 (3.25%) Bash
7 8 (3.25%) C++
8 5 (2.03%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.63%) Ladder Logic
9 4 (1.63%) Ruby
9 4 (1.63%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.81%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (34.96%) Degree
2 40 (16.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.28%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.28%) Security Cleared
4 11 (4.47%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.07%) ISTQB
6 8 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.85%) CCNP
8 6 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.44%) PhD
8 6 (2.44%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.03%) Check Point Certification
9 5 (2.03%) PMP
10 4 (1.63%) HND
11 2 (0.81%) CCIE
11 2 (0.81%) CCSE
11 2 (0.81%) CISA
11 2 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.01%) Data Quality
2 26 (10.57%) QA
3 23 (9.35%) GxP
4 10 (4.07%) GDPR
5 8 (3.25%) Good Clinical Practice
6 7 (2.85%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.85%) IFRS
6 7 (2.85%) IFRS 9
7 5 (2.03%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.63%) PMO
9 3 (1.22%) COBIT
9 3 (1.22%) GMP
9 3 (1.22%) NIST
10 2 (0.81%) NCSC
11 1 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.41%) MiFID
11 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (6.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (10.98%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.91%) Terraform
3 14 (5.69%) Grafana
4 9 (3.66%) Argo
5 6 (2.44%) Ansible
5 6 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 28 (11.38%) ServiceNow
2 25 (10.16%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.07%) Hitachi
4 8 (3.25%) Databricks
5 7 (2.85%) CheckPoint
5 7 (2.85%) Cisco
5 7 (2.85%) F5
5 7 (2.85%) Google
5 7 (2.85%) Splunk
6 6 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.03%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.03%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.03%) New Relic
8 4 (1.63%) Adobe
8 4 (1.63%) Dell
8 4 (1.63%) Informatica
8 4 (1.63%) Siemens
9 3 (1.22%) Talend
10 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.81%) Solace