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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 254 215
Rank change year-on-year +76 -39 +6
Permanent jobs citing Validation 252 280 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.97% 1.17% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.29% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 118 172 253
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £42,950
25th Percentile £51,563 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
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% +8.70%

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 12,300 21,691 30,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.24% 90.27% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,989 15,892 22,392
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £116,250
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 31 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 31 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 +5 41 £73,750 +0.68% 26
East London - 16 £83,000 - 5
West London +24 14 £90,000 +20.00% 18
South London -5 11 £50,000 -28.57% 7
North London -11 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 6 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.19%) CMS
2 3 (1.19%) Confluence
2 3 (1.19%) SAS
3 2 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.79%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) MTS
Applications
1 15 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.37%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.79%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.79%) CATIA
3 2 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) SPSS
4 1 (0.40%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Endur
1 2 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.06%) AWS
2 33 (13.10%) Azure
3 21 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 20 (7.94%) GCP
5 17 (6.75%) GitHub
6 11 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.57%) Pulumi
9 8 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.38%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 6 (2.38%) Serverless
12 5 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.98%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.59%) Boomi
13 4 (1.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.92%) Broadband
2 8 (3.17%) 5G
3 7 (2.78%) Bluetooth
3 7 (2.78%) LAN
4 5 (1.98%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (1.98%) Network Security
5 4 (1.59%) 4G
5 4 (1.59%) GSM
5 4 (1.59%) LTE
5 4 (1.59%) UMTS
5 4 (1.59%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.59%) WAN
5 4 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.59%) Wireless
6 3 (1.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.79%) DNS
7 2 (0.79%) Internet
7 2 (0.79%) MPLS
8 1 (0.40%) DKIM
8 1 (0.40%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
1 15 (5.95%) Power BI
2 13 (5.16%) Tableau
3 9 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.78%) Big Data
5 7 (2.78%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.38%) Delta Lake
6 6 (2.38%) MySQL
6 6 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.79%) Airbyte
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.79%) Metadata
9 2 (0.79%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.79%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 15 (5.95%) Git
2 13 (5.16%) JIRA
3 12 (4.76%) Postman
4 9 (3.57%) JMeter
5 8 (3.17%) Selenium
5 8 (3.17%) SoapUI
6 6 (2.38%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.98%) Gradle
7 5 (1.98%) Maven
8 4 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.59%) Locust
8 4 (1.59%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.59%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.19%) Mocha
9 3 (1.19%) MSTest
9 3 (1.19%) NUnit
9 3 (1.19%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.79%) GitLab
10 2 (0.79%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.79%) TestRail
General
1 114 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 86 (34.13%) Finance
3 55 (21.83%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (13.10%) Games
5 25 (9.92%) Banking
5 25 (9.92%) Pharmaceutical
6 16 (6.35%) Legal
7 14 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.76%) Front Office
9 11 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (3.57%) Marketing
10 9 (3.57%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.17%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.78%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.38%) Advertising
13 6 (2.38%) Law
13 6 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.38%) Retail
14 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.59%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 70 (27.78%) Senior
2 38 (15.08%) Analyst
3 27 (10.71%) Senior Manager
4 25 (9.92%) Engineering Manager
4 25 (9.92%) Senior Service Manager
4 25 (9.92%) ServiceNow Manager
5 20 (7.94%) Data Engineer
6 17 (6.75%) Developer
7 14 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 13 (5.16%) Delivery Manager
8 13 (5.16%) IT Manager
9 10 (3.97%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.57%) Lead
11 8 (3.17%) Data Analyst
11 8 (3.17%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.78%) Network Engineer
13 6 (2.38%) Architect
13 6 (2.38%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (2.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.35%) Kafka
2 11 (4.37%) React
3 10 (3.97%) YAML
4 9 (3.57%) Loki
5 8 (3.17%) JSON
6 7 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.38%) Spring
7 6 (2.38%) Web Services
7 6 (2.38%) XML
8 5 (1.98%) CSS
8 5 (1.98%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.98%) HTML
8 5 (1.98%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (1.98%) REST
8 5 (1.98%) RESTful
8 5 (1.98%) SOAP
9 4 (1.59%) Jest
9 4 (1.59%) NestJS
9 4 (1.59%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.10%) Product Ownership
2 27 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 25 (9.92%) Video\Live Streaming
4 10 (3.97%) IoT
5 9 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.98%) CCTV
8 5 (1.98%) Derivative
8 5 (1.98%) Mobile Games
8 5 (1.98%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.59%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.59%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.59%) NHS
10 3 (1.19%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.59%) Linux
2 3 (1.19%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (23.41%) Agile
3 49 (19.44%) Roadmaps
4 46 (18.25%) Computer Science
5 43 (17.06%) Software Engineering
6 42 (16.67%) Analytics
7 41 (16.27%) Project Management
8 39 (15.48%) Mentoring
9 35 (13.89%) Change Management
10 34 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (12.70%) CI/CD
13 30 (11.90%) Test Automation
14 29 (11.51%) Incident Management
15 28 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
16 27 (10.71%) ITSM
16 27 (10.71%) Software Delivery
17 26 (10.32%) Data Security
18 25 (9.92%) Migration
18 25 (9.92%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 74 (29.37%) Python
2 59 (23.41%) SQL
3 12 (4.76%) Go
4 11 (4.37%) Java
4 11 (4.37%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.37%) R
4 11 (4.37%) TypeScript
5 10 (3.97%) C
5 10 (3.97%) C#
5 10 (3.97%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.57%) Bash
7 7 (2.78%) C++
7 7 (2.78%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.98%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.59%) Ruby
9 4 (1.59%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.19%) Ladder Logic
10 3 (1.19%) Scala
10 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 88 (34.92%) Degree
2 40 (15.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (5.95%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.16%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.97%) ISTQB
7 8 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.17%) PhD
8 7 (2.78%) CCNP
9 6 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (2.38%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.98%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.98%) Check Point Certification
10 5 (1.98%) PMP
11 4 (1.59%) HND
12 2 (0.79%) ACCA
12 2 (0.79%) CCIE
12 2 (0.79%) CIMA
12 2 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.52%) QA
3 23 (9.13%) GxP
4 12 (4.76%) GDPR
5 9 (3.57%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.78%) IFRS
6 7 (2.78%) IFRS 9
7 5 (1.98%) Good Clinical Practice
7 5 (1.98%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.19%) COBIT
8 3 (1.19%) GMP
8 3 (1.19%) NIST
9 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.79%) NCSC
9 2 (0.79%) PMO
10 1 (0.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.40%) AICPA
10 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.40%) MiFID
10 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (6.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (11.51%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.54%) Terraform
3 16 (6.35%) Grafana
4 9 (3.57%) Argo
5 7 (2.78%) Ansible
5 7 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.59%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 30 (11.90%) ServiceNow
2 26 (10.32%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.37%) Hitachi
4 8 (3.17%) Splunk
5 7 (2.78%) CheckPoint
5 7 (2.78%) Cisco
5 7 (2.78%) Databricks
5 7 (2.78%) F5
5 7 (2.78%) Google
6 6 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.98%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.98%) Informatica
7 5 (1.98%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.98%) New Relic
8 4 (1.59%) Adobe
8 4 (1.59%) Dell
8 4 (1.59%) Oracle
8 4 (1.59%) Talend
9 3 (1.19%) Siemens
10 2 (0.79%) OpenLink