Validation Job Trends in Luton

Validation
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Luton 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 13 23 14
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +17
Permanent jobs citing Validation 2 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Luton 2.70% 3.60% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 3.67% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £67,500 £103,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £70,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year - -34.88% +53.57%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £111,250
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year - -34.88% +53.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 109 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Luton 74.32% 98.20% 80.28%
Number of salaries quoted 32 43 46
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £30,500 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% -32.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,800 £111,250
Bedfordshire median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -8.70%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Luton

Validation
Salary Trend in Luton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Electronics
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) JSON-LD
2 1 (50.00%) Pandas
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (50.00%) Linked Data
2 1 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (50.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Domain Models
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Reference Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SHACL
2 1 (50.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP