Validation Jobs in Manchester

Validation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 119 158
Rank change year-on-year -6 +39 +38
Permanent jobs citing Validation 31 94 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.41% 1.83% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 2.11% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 23 36 17
10th Percentile £38,950 - £35,006
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -16.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £88,500 £85,000 £84,629
North West median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% -4.76% +9.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,095 4,460 4,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.10% 86.69% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,301 3,407 2,566
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £69,650 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Manchester

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Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Validation in Manchester

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Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in Manchester

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Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 7 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
Bolton - 1 £47,500 - 8
Salford - 1 £55,000 - 4
Wigan - 1 £39,000 -
Validation
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.23%) dbt
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.23%) npm
3 1 (3.23%) Serverless
3 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
3 1 (3.23%) Stitch
3 1 (3.23%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.45%) Big Data
3 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.45%) MySQL
3 2 (6.45%) Power BI
3 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.45%) JMeter
1 2 (6.45%) LoadRunner
1 2 (6.45%) NeoLoad
1 2 (6.45%) REST Assured
1 2 (6.45%) Selenium
1 2 (6.45%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (61.29%) Social Skills
2 17 (54.84%) Manufacturing
3 12 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (29.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (29.03%) Retail
5 7 (22.58%) Finance
6 4 (12.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (6.45%) Tech for Good
8 1 (3.23%) Banking
8 1 (3.23%) Electronics
8 1 (3.23%) Marketing
8 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Analyst
2 9 (29.03%) Applications Support
2 9 (29.03%) Applications Support Analyst
2 9 (29.03%) Support Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Product Owner
3 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Data Scientist
4 2 (6.45%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) IT Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) IT Support
4 2 (6.45%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) QA Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) QA Leader
4 2 (6.45%) QA Officer
5 1 (3.23%) Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) NumPy
2 2 (6.45%) Pandas
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.23%) Classic ASP
3 1 (3.23%) CSS
3 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.23%) HTML
3 1 (3.23%) J2EE
3 1 (3.23%) Jest
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) Spring
3 1 (3.23%) Vitest
3 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) ASIC
3 2 (6.45%) FPGA
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Verilog
3 2 (6.45%) VHDL
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.23%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (35.48%) Computer Science
3 10 (32.26%) Agile
4 9 (29.03%) Translating Business Requirements
5 8 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (19.35%) Prototyping
6 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
8 4 (12.90%) Analytics
8 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (12.90%) Workflow
9 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (9.68%) Customer Experience
9 3 (9.68%) Information Security
9 3 (9.68%) Machine Learning
9 3 (9.68%) Requirements Analysis
9 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
9 3 (9.68%) User Experience
9 3 (9.68%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) SQL
2 9 (29.03%) C-shell
2 9 (29.03%) Korn
2 9 (29.03%) Shell Script
3 7 (22.58%) PL/SQL
4 6 (19.35%) Python
5 1 (3.23%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) C++
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.23%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Degree
2 9 (29.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (29.03%) PhD
3 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) GMP
2 2 (6.45%) GxP
3 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Oracle
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Talend