Validation Jobs in Reading

Validation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 42 107
Rank change year-on-year -12 +65 -10
Permanent jobs citing Validation 8 78 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.56% 4.54% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 5.15% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7 37 8
10th Percentile £46,000 £39,000 -
25th Percentile £51,125 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -32.26% +36.47%
75th Percentile £68,670 £63,750 £80,313
90th Percentile £75,404 £70,250 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +23.81% -32.26% +40.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 442 1,515 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 86.33% 88.24% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 235 910 785
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £39,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -12.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £103,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Validation in Reading

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in Reading over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Games
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Master Data Manager
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Management
1 3 (37.50%) Data Validation
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) Data Mapping
2 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Master Data Management
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (12.50%) API Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Budgeting
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lineage
3 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) GxP
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) SAP