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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 169 223
Rank change year-on-year +75 +54 +54
Permanent jobs citing Validation 400 261 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.47% 1.49% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 1.79% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 228 115 60
10th Percentile £42,850 £34,100 £35,321
25th Percentile - £37,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £51,528 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -1.85% +12.40%
75th Percentile £51,240 £57,500 £77,715
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 10,957 14,590 16,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.99% 83.40% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,706 11,215 7,943
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 15 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 15 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 +63 346 £47,683 -3.67% 137
Yorkshire +28 50 £47,500 -7.82% 55
North East +38 4 £56,750 +5.58% 23
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 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 140 (35.00%) Simulink
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 9 (2.25%) Power Platform
2 7 (1.75%) Azure
3 4 (1.00%) AWS
3 4 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (0.50%) dbt
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (0.50%) Serverless
4 2 (0.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (0.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.25%) Azure Storage
5 1 (0.25%) Azure WebJobs
5 1 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.25%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.25%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.00%) 5G
1 8 (2.00%) Bluetooth
1 8 (2.00%) GSM
1 8 (2.00%) LTE
1 8 (2.00%) UMTS
1 8 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
1 8 (2.00%) Wireless
2 2 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.25%) DHCP
3 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.25%) FlexRay
3 1 (0.25%) IGMP
3 1 (0.25%) MQTT
3 1 (0.25%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.25%) Power BI
2 4 (1.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.75%) Big Data
3 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.75%) Tableau
4 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.50%) MySQL
4 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (16.25%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (1.00%) Git
3 3 (0.75%) Selenium
4 2 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.50%) JMeter
4 2 (0.50%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.50%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.50%) REST Assured
4 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.25%) JIRA
5 1 (0.25%) MLflow
5 1 (0.25%) Postman
5 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (8.75%) Electronics
2 33 (8.25%) Manufacturing
2 33 (8.25%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 12 (3.00%) Retail
6 11 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.50%) Finance
8 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.00%) Marketing
8 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.75%) Military
10 2 (0.50%) Automotive
10 2 (0.50%) Publishing
11 1 (0.25%) Aviation
11 1 (0.25%) Back Office
11 1 (0.25%) Law
11 1 (0.25%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 176 (44.00%) Systems Engineer
2 82 (20.50%) Engineering Manager
3 44 (11.00%) Senior
4 42 (10.50%) Electronics Engineer
5 33 (8.25%) Requirements Manager
6 22 (5.50%) Analyst
7 20 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
8 17 (4.25%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 16 (4.00%) Instrumentation Engineer
9 16 (4.00%) Senior Electrical Engineer
10 12 (3.00%) Integration Engineer
10 12 (3.00%) System Verification Engineer
10 12 (3.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
10 12 (3.00%) Validation Engineer
11 11 (2.75%) Test Engineer
12 10 (2.50%) QA Officer
13 9 (2.25%) Applications Support
13 9 (2.25%) Applications Support Analyst
13 9 (2.25%) Support Analyst
14 8 (2.00%) Electronics Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.75%) .NET
1 3 (0.75%) Kafka
1 3 (0.75%) REST
1 3 (0.75%) SOAP
2 2 (0.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (0.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (0.50%) Blazor
2 2 (0.50%) CSS
2 2 (0.50%) HTML
2 2 (0.50%) NumPy
2 2 (0.50%) Pandas
3 1 (0.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.25%) Classic ASP
3 1 (0.25%) J2EE
3 1 (0.25%) JSON
3 1 (0.25%) Node.js
3 1 (0.25%) RESTful
3 1 (0.25%) WPF
3 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (2.50%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.25%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 8 (2.00%) Driving Licence
4 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.50%) ASIC
7 2 (0.50%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (0.50%) FPGA
7 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.50%) Life Science
7 2 (0.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.50%) Verilog
7 2 (0.50%) VHDL
8 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.25%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.25%) EPoS
8 1 (0.25%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.25%) Robotics
8 1 (0.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.75%) Linux
2 2 (0.50%) Android
2 2 (0.50%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (79.00%) Systems Engineering
2 270 (67.50%) Verification and Validation
3 201 (50.25%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 193 (48.25%) Mathematics
5 148 (37.00%) Software Engineering
6 140 (35.00%) Digital Twin
6 140 (35.00%) SysML
7 88 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 71 (17.75%) Requirements Management
9 55 (13.75%) Project Planning
10 52 (13.00%) Physics
11 44 (11.00%) Requirements Gathering
12 38 (9.50%) Data Analysis
13 36 (9.00%) Coaching
14 28 (7.00%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (6.50%) Change Management
16 24 (6.00%) Agile
16 24 (6.00%) Chemistry
16 24 (6.00%) Monte Carlo Method
17 16 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 144 (36.00%) MATLAB
2 25 (6.25%) SQL
3 10 (2.50%) Python
4 9 (2.25%) C-shell
4 9 (2.25%) Korn
4 9 (2.25%) Shell Script
5 7 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.25%) R
7 4 (1.00%) Perl
8 3 (0.75%) C#
8 3 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.50%) Java
9 2 (0.50%) VBScript
10 1 (0.25%) Bash
10 1 (0.25%) C++
10 1 (0.25%) PHP
10 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.25%) VB
10 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 320 (80.00%) Degree
2 182 (45.50%) HND
3 174 (43.50%) HNC
4 137 (34.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 72 (18.00%) Chartered Engineer
6 65 (16.25%) Master's Degree
7 24 (6.00%) Numerate Degree
8 14 (3.50%) PhD
9 12 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.50%) Security Cleared
11 5 (1.25%) SC Cleared
12 4 (1.00%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.25%) MCP
14 1 (0.25%) MCSA
14 1 (0.25%) MCSE
14 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.00%) ARP4754
1 16 (4.00%) DO-254
1 16 (4.00%) IEC 61508
1 16 (4.00%) QA
2 12 (3.00%) GMP
3 8 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) GxP
5 1 (0.25%) NCSC
5 1 (0.25%) PSD2
5 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (0.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.25%) Grafana
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.25%) SCCM
2 1 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (2.25%) Microsoft
1 9 (2.25%) Oracle
2 7 (1.75%) Salesforce
3 5 (1.25%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.50%) SAP
5 1 (0.25%) Google
5 1 (0.25%) McAfee
5 1 (0.25%) Symantec
5 1 (0.25%) Talend
5 1 (0.25%) VMware
5 1 (0.25%) Xamarin