Validation Jobs in the North of England

Validation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 166 223
Rank change year-on-year +77 +57 +36
Permanent jobs citing Validation 360 259 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.29% 1.50% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 1.79% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 204 112 58
10th Percentile £42,650 £33,650 £34,263
25th Percentile - £36,750 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £51,264 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.99% -2.35% +9.95%
75th Percentile £51,240 £57,500 £77,036
90th Percentile £61,967 £71,915 £86,250
England median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.36% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and 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 10,358 14,485 16,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.54% 83.83% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,755 11,127 8,023
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation in the North of England.

Salary trend for Validation in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
North West +62 303 £47,683 -2.19% 146
Yorkshire +44 53 £47,500 -7.82% 63
North East +45 4 £56,750 +5.58% 21
Validation
England

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 111 (30.83%) Simulink
2 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 8 (2.22%) Power Platform
2 6 (1.67%) Azure
3 4 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (0.83%) AWS
5 2 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.56%) Serverless
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.28%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.28%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.28%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.28%) Azure WebJobs
6 1 (0.28%) dbt
6 1 (0.28%) GitHub
6 1 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.28%) npm
6 1 (0.28%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.28%) Stitch
6 1 (0.28%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) 5G
1 4 (1.11%) Bluetooth
1 4 (1.11%) GSM
1 4 (1.11%) LTE
1 4 (1.11%) UMTS
1 4 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (1.11%) Wireless
2 2 (0.56%) DNS
3 1 (0.28%) DHCP
3 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.28%) FlexRay
3 1 (0.28%) IGMP
3 1 (0.28%) MQTT
3 1 (0.28%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.22%) Power BI
2 4 (1.11%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.83%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.56%) Big Data
4 2 (0.56%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.56%) MySQL
4 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (15.56%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (1.11%) Git
3 3 (0.83%) Selenium
4 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.56%) JMeter
4 2 (0.56%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.56%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.56%) REST Assured
4 2 (0.56%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.28%) JIRA
5 1 (0.28%) Postman
5 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (8.89%) Manufacturing
2 31 (8.61%) Social Skills
3 30 (8.33%) Electronics
4 18 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.06%) Retail
8 10 (2.78%) Finance
9 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.83%) Marketing
11 3 (0.83%) Military
12 2 (0.56%) Automotive
12 2 (0.56%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.56%) Publishing
12 2 (0.56%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.28%) Aviation
13 1 (0.28%) Back Office
13 1 (0.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 138 (38.33%) Systems Engineer
2 82 (22.78%) Engineering Manager
3 44 (12.22%) Senior
4 33 (9.17%) Requirements Manager
5 29 (8.06%) Electronics Engineer
6 26 (7.22%) Principal Engineer
7 23 (6.39%) Analyst
7 23 (6.39%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 18 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
8 18 (5.00%) System Verification Engineer
8 18 (5.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 18 (5.00%) Validation Engineer
9 16 (4.44%) Instrumentation Engineer
9 16 (4.44%) Senior Electrical Engineer
10 10 (2.78%) QA Officer
11 9 (2.50%) Applications Support
11 9 (2.50%) Applications Support Analyst
11 9 (2.50%) Support Analyst
12 5 (1.39%) Requirements Engineer
12 5 (1.39%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.83%) .NET
1 3 (0.83%) Kafka
1 3 (0.83%) REST
1 3 (0.83%) SOAP
2 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (0.56%) Blazor
2 2 (0.56%) CSS
2 2 (0.56%) HTML
2 2 (0.56%) NumPy
2 2 (0.56%) Pandas
3 1 (0.28%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (0.28%) Classic ASP
3 1 (0.28%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.28%) J2EE
3 1 (0.28%) Jest
3 1 (0.28%) React
3 1 (0.28%) Skia Graphics Library
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.06%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 6 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.11%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.11%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.56%) ASIC
6 2 (0.56%) FPGA
6 2 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.56%) Life Science
6 2 (0.56%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.56%) Verilog
6 2 (0.56%) VHDL
7 1 (0.28%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.28%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.28%) EPoS
7 1 (0.28%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.28%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.28%) Robotics
7 1 (0.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.06%) Linux
2 2 (0.56%) Android
2 2 (0.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.28%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (78.89%) Systems Engineering
2 242 (67.22%) Verification and Validation
3 170 (47.22%) Mathematics
4 163 (45.28%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 119 (33.06%) Software Engineering
6 111 (30.83%) Digital Twin
6 111 (30.83%) SysML
7 88 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 62 (17.22%) Requirements Management
9 58 (16.11%) Physics
10 55 (15.28%) Project Planning
11 38 (10.56%) Coaching
12 36 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
13 30 (8.33%) Data Analysis
14 26 (7.22%) Change Management
15 25 (6.94%) Chemistry
16 24 (6.67%) Monte Carlo Method
17 23 (6.39%) Agile
17 23 (6.39%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 115 (31.94%) MATLAB
2 24 (6.67%) SQL
3 9 (2.50%) C-shell
3 9 (2.50%) Korn
3 9 (2.50%) Shell Script
4 8 (2.22%) Python
5 7 (1.94%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.11%) Perl
6 4 (1.11%) R
7 3 (0.83%) C#
7 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.56%) VBScript
9 1 (0.28%) Bash
9 1 (0.28%) C++
9 1 (0.28%) Java
9 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.28%) VB
9 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 284 (78.89%) Degree
2 140 (38.89%) HND
3 136 (37.78%) HNC
4 131 (36.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 72 (20.00%) Chartered Engineer
6 64 (17.78%) Master's Degree
7 24 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
8 13 (3.61%) PhD
9 12 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.94%) Security Cleared
11 5 (1.39%) SC Cleared
12 4 (1.11%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.28%) MCP
14 1 (0.28%) MCSA
14 1 (0.28%) MCSE
14 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.44%) ARP4754
1 16 (4.44%) DO-254
1 16 (4.44%) IEC 61508
1 16 (4.44%) QA
2 13 (3.61%) GMP
3 8 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.56%) GxP
5 1 (0.28%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) NCSC
5 1 (0.28%) PSD2
5 1 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (0.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.28%) Grafana
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.28%) SCCM
2 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (2.50%) Microsoft
1 9 (2.50%) Oracle
2 8 (2.22%) Salesforce
3 5 (1.39%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.56%) SAP
5 1 (0.28%) Google
5 1 (0.28%) McAfee
5 1 (0.28%) Symantec
5 1 (0.28%) Talend
5 1 (0.28%) VMware
5 1 (0.28%) Xamarin