Validation Jobs in Scotland

Validation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 129 155
Rank change year-on-year +113 +26 +58
Permanent jobs citing Validation 305 171 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.82% 2.54% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.76% 2.73% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 199 30 18
10th Percentile - £32,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £55,801 £45,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,283 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -4.94% +18.28%
75th Percentile £60,265 £54,907 £77,715
90th Percentile - £72,433 £103,911
UK median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.51% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,594 6,257 4,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.05% 92.89% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,424 2,232
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,488
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Scotland

Validation
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Validation in Scotland

Validation
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Validation in Scotland

Validation
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Scotland 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
South Ayrshire - 83 £58,033 - 3
East Ayrshire - 64 £58,033 - 2
Ayrshire - 46 £58,033 - 6
Glasgow +117 30 £58,033 +10.54% 18
North Ayrshire - 24 £58,033 - 1
Fife -2 18 - - 2
Edinburgh -10 17 £80,000 +13.35% 30
Moray - 17 - -
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 7
North Lanarkshire - 2 - - 1
Validation
UK

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (0.66%) CMS
Applications
1 207 (67.87%) Simulink
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 2 (0.66%) Adobe Analytics
1 2 (0.66%) AWS
1 2 (0.66%) Contentsquare
1 2 (0.66%) Google Analytics
2 1 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (0.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (0.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (0.33%) Azure
2 1 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (0.33%) GitHub
2 1 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (0.33%) npm
2 1 (0.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (14.10%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (0.66%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.33%) GitLab
3 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (7.21%) Finance
2 16 (5.25%) Legal
3 8 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (2.62%) Marketing
4 7 (2.30%) Front Office
5 4 (1.31%) Manufacturing
5 4 (1.31%) Social Skills
6 2 (0.66%) Banking
6 2 (0.66%) Electronics
6 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 207 (67.87%) Systems Engineer
2 38 (12.46%) Engineering Manager
2 38 (12.46%) Requirements Manager
3 29 (9.51%) Principal Engineer
3 29 (9.51%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 24 (7.87%) Integration Engineer
4 24 (7.87%) System Verification Engineer
4 24 (7.87%) Systems Integration Engineer
4 24 (7.87%) Validation Engineer
5 8 (2.62%) Product Owner
6 6 (1.97%) Risk Officer
7 5 (1.64%) Requirements Engineer
8 4 (1.31%) Senior
8 4 (1.31%) Software Engineer
9 3 (0.98%) Test Engineer
10 2 (0.66%) Data Scientist
10 2 (0.66%) Development Engineer
10 2 (0.66%) QA Officer
10 2 (0.66%) Senior Test Engineer
10 2 (0.66%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (0.33%) J2EE
1 1 (0.33%) Jest
1 1 (0.33%) Kafka
1 1 (0.33%) Node.js
1 1 (0.33%) Playwright
1 1 (0.33%) React
1 1 (0.33%) REST
1 1 (0.33%) Spring
1 1 (0.33%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.62%) Product Ownership
2 2 (0.66%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (0.33%) Credit Risk
3 1 (0.33%) Market Risk
3 1 (0.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.33%) AIX
1 1 (0.33%) Linux
1 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.33%) Solaris
1 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (90.49%) Verification and Validation
2 274 (89.84%) Systems Engineering
3 245 (80.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 239 (78.36%) Mathematics
5 213 (69.84%) Software Engineering
6 207 (67.87%) Digital Twin
6 207 (67.87%) SysML
7 43 (14.10%) Requirements Management
7 43 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (8.52%) Coaching
9 25 (8.20%) Physics
10 20 (6.56%) Agile
11 9 (2.95%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (2.95%) Product Backlog
11 9 (2.95%) Product Vision
12 8 (2.62%) Agile Coaching
12 8 (2.62%) Model Validation
12 8 (2.62%) Product Requirements
12 8 (2.62%) Quantitative Analysis
12 8 (2.62%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 207 (67.87%) MATLAB
2 8 (2.62%) Python
3 2 (0.66%) C#
4 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 244 (80.00%) Degree
2 207 (67.87%) HNC
2 207 (67.87%) HND
3 43 (14.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.30%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.30%) PhD
5 2 (0.66%) CCA
5 2 (0.66%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.66%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.98%) QA
2 2 (0.66%) GMP
3 1 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.98%) Terraform
2 1 (0.33%) Ansible
2 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.66%) Adobe
2 2 (0.66%) Google
2 2 (0.66%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (0.33%) Databricks
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle
3 1 (0.33%) Red Hat