Validation Job Trends in the North of England

Validation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 205 220
Rank change year-on-year +103 +15 +2
Permanent jobs citing Validation 310 115 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.49% 1.22% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.35% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 231 74 93
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,358 £40,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,592 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.57% +0.19% -13.70%
75th Percentile £68,125 £54,313 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,100 £59,625 £78,383
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,015 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.03% +0.03% -13.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,626 8,513 14,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.23% 90.38% 79.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10,946 4,212 10,706
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,203 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,950 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Validation job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Validation

Validation
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Validation in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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
North West +82 192 £55,000 +15.35% 64
Yorkshire +3 62 £44,000 +4.45% 34
North East -7 56 £55,000 +29.41% 25
Validation
England

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (6.45%) Apache
2 18 (5.81%) Apache Spark
3 17 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (4.52%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.65%) Confluence
8 2 (0.65%) IIS
9 1 (0.32%) CMS
9 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.61%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.65%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 22 (7.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (3.23%) SAP ERP
4 5 (1.61%) iTrent
4 5 (1.61%) SAP MDG
4 5 (1.61%) SAP MDG-BP
5 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (12.90%) AWS
2 39 (12.58%) Azure
3 35 (11.29%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.84%) Serverless
5 14 (4.52%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.19%) GCP
7 12 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (3.87%) Amazon EMR
8 10 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.26%) SaaS
10 7 (2.26%) Textract
11 6 (1.94%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.94%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.61%) Boomi
12 5 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.61%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.61%) GitHub
12 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.94%) SD-WAN
1 6 (1.94%) WAN
2 5 (1.61%) Internet
3 4 (1.29%) Broadband
3 4 (1.29%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.29%) Cisco Wireless
3 4 (1.29%) LAN
3 4 (1.29%) WebEx
3 4 (1.29%) Wireless
3 4 (1.29%) WLAN
4 3 (0.97%) HTTP
4 3 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.65%) BGP
5 2 (0.65%) DMZ
5 2 (0.65%) IPsec
5 2 (0.65%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.32%) Firewall
6 1 (0.32%) PBX
6 1 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.65%) Power BI
2 13 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (3.87%) DynamoDB
4 11 (3.55%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.90%) Metadata
5 9 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.90%) Tableau
6 6 (1.94%) Big Data
6 6 (1.94%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.97%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.97%) Looker
8 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.97%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.65%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.65%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (7.42%) JIRA
2 14 (4.52%) GitLab
3 12 (3.87%) Snyk
4 4 (1.29%) Git
5 3 (0.97%) Hudson
5 3 (0.97%) Postman
6 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.65%) JMeter
7 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.32%) Gatling
7 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.32%) Locust
7 1 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 89 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 85 (27.42%) Finance
3 74 (23.87%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.03%) Law
5 27 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (8.06%) Public Sector
7 24 (7.74%) Manufacturing
8 23 (7.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 21 (6.77%) Retail
10 20 (6.45%) Aerospace
11 15 (4.84%) Electronics
12 13 (4.19%) Legal
12 13 (4.19%) Marketing
13 12 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.61%) Banking
16 4 (1.29%) Advertising
16 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
18 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 63 (20.32%) Senior
2 62 (20.00%) Analyst
3 27 (8.71%) Test Engineer
4 26 (8.39%) Business Analyst
5 23 (7.42%) Lead
6 22 (7.10%) Architect
7 20 (6.45%) Validation Engineer
8 18 (5.81%) Data Engineer
9 17 (5.48%) Integration Engineer
10 15 (4.84%) Senior Integration Engineer
11 14 (4.52%) IT Manager
12 13 (4.19%) Accountant
12 13 (4.19%) Systems Accountant
13 12 (3.87%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (3.87%) Data Analyst
13 12 (3.87%) Developer
13 12 (3.87%) Security Architect
13 12 (3.87%) Senior Architect
13 12 (3.87%) Senior Security Architect
13 12 (3.87%) Senior Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.23%) PySpark
2 8 (2.58%) CSS
2 8 (2.58%) HTML
2 8 (2.58%) Middleware
2 8 (2.58%) Node.js
3 7 (2.26%) REST
3 7 (2.26%) XML
4 5 (1.61%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.61%) SAP ALE
4 5 (1.61%) Web Dynpro
4 5 (1.61%) XBRL
5 4 (1.29%) Entity Framework
5 4 (1.29%) Kafka
6 3 (0.97%) FastAPI
6 3 (0.97%) Flask
6 3 (0.97%) JSON
6 3 (0.97%) React
6 3 (0.97%) Vue
7 2 (0.65%) Playwright
7 2 (0.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.13%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.48%) Data Structures
2 17 (5.48%) Life Science
3 16 (5.16%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.87%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.23%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.61%) Replication
10 4 (1.29%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.29%) Analogue Electronics
10 4 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.29%) FPGA
10 4 (1.29%) Java Card
10 4 (1.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
1 2 (0.65%) Linux
2 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (22.26%) Agile
2 63 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (16.77%) Migration
5 44 (14.19%) Analytics
5 44 (14.19%) CI/CD
5 44 (14.19%) Data Validation
5 44 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (13.87%) ERP
7 41 (13.23%) Business Intelligence
8 40 (12.90%) Mentoring
9 39 (12.58%) Decision-Making
10 37 (11.94%) AI
10 37 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 37 (11.94%) User Acceptance Testing
11 35 (11.29%) Data Governance
11 35 (11.29%) Data Migration
12 34 (10.97%) DevOps
13 32 (10.32%) Data Modelling
14 31 (10.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (23.87%) SQL
2 54 (17.42%) Python
3 16 (5.16%) Java
4 10 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.58%) Scala
6 7 (2.26%) C#
7 6 (1.94%) C
7 6 (1.94%) C++
8 5 (1.61%) ABAP
8 5 (1.61%) Bash
8 5 (1.61%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.32%) Ladder Logic
10 1 (0.32%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 60 (19.35%) Degree
2 33 (10.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 30 (9.68%) Security Cleared
4 21 (6.77%) SC Cleared
5 17 (5.48%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.23%) HNC
7 9 (2.90%) ACCA
7 9 (2.90%) CIMA
8 6 (1.94%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.61%) PMP
10 4 (1.29%) ISEB
11 3 (0.97%) RIBA
12 2 (0.65%) CCIE
12 2 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.65%) IIBA
12 2 (0.65%) PhD
13 1 (0.32%) CBAP
13 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 41 (13.23%) QA
3 13 (4.19%) GRC
4 12 (3.87%) Accessibility
5 10 (3.23%) IEC 61508
6 8 (2.58%) GDPR
7 7 (2.26%) GMP
8 6 (1.94%) PMO
9 5 (1.61%) TickIT
10 4 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.65%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.65%) SLA
12 1 (0.32%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (4.19%) Docker
2 12 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.26%) Firmware
4 6 (1.94%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (4.84%) Terraform
2 9 (2.90%) Functional Safety
3 7 (2.26%) Grafana
4 3 (0.97%) Ansible
4 3 (0.97%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 40 (12.90%) SAP
2 38 (12.26%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.13%) Oracle
4 16 (5.16%) Databricks
5 12 (3.87%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (3.87%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.87%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.87%) Tenable
6 8 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.94%) Adobe
7 6 (1.94%) Cisco
8 5 (1.61%) Ariba
9 4 (1.29%) Aruba
9 4 (1.29%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.29%) Juniper
9 4 (1.29%) Splunk
10 3 (0.97%) Informatica
10 3 (0.97%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.65%) ANSYS
11 2 (0.65%) Google