Validation Job Trends in Maidstone

Validation
Kent > Maidstone

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Maidstone requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Maidstone 0.72% 1.75% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.17% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 - -
75th Percentile £28,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median annual salary £53,500 £41,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.49% -25.45% +22.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Maidstone

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 Maidstone.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63 46 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Maidstone 45.65% 80.70% 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 48 28 152
10th Percentile £26,775 £26,100 £21,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £30,375 £23,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £42,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% +6.88% +5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £87,500 £51,113
90th Percentile £55,000 - £62,500
Kent median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Maidstone

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Maidstone

Validation
Salary Trend in Maidstone

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Maidstone citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Maidstone citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Maidstone 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 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA