Verification and Validation Jobs in Scotland

Verification and Validation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Verification and Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Verification and Validation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 216 249
Rank change year-on-year -9 +33 -65
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 53 11 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.79% 0.23% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.25% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Verification and Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,255 4,450 5,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.28% 90.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 2,229 2,790
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,440 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,654 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +9.82% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in Scotland

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Verification and Validation in Scotland

Verification and 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 Verification and Validation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Glasgow -94 19 £60,000 - 6
Fife +3 14 - - 1
Stirling - 14 - -
Edinburgh - 6 - - 2
Verification and Validation
UK

Verification and 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:

Applications
1 41 (77.36%) Simulink
2 35 (66.04%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.98%) BlazeMeter
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Cucumber
1 9 (16.98%) Cypress.io
1 9 (16.98%) Gradle
1 9 (16.98%) Jenkins
1 9 (16.98%) JIRA
1 9 (16.98%) JMeter
1 9 (16.98%) Maven
General
1 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (16.98%) Finance
1 9 (16.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 9 (16.98%) Law
1 9 (16.98%) Marketing
1 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 32 (60.38%) Systems Engineer
2 29 (54.72%) Control Systems Engineer
2 29 (54.72%) Lead
3 17 (32.08%) Lead Systems Engineer
4 14 (26.42%) Principal Engineer
4 14 (26.42%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 11 (20.75%) Team Leader
6 9 (16.98%) Java Engineer
6 9 (16.98%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (16.98%) QA Engineer
6 9 (16.98%) QA Software Engineer
6 9 (16.98%) Software Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) Senior
7 6 (11.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) Ext JS
1 9 (16.98%) React
1 9 (16.98%) Spring
1 9 (16.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (77.36%) Renewable Energy
2 35 (66.04%) Algorithms
3 9 (16.98%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) Validation
2 41 (77.36%) Commercialisation
2 41 (77.36%) Decarbonisation
2 41 (77.36%) Prototyping
3 35 (66.04%) Change Management
3 35 (66.04%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 35 (66.04%) Rapid Prototyping
4 9 (16.98%) Agile
4 9 (16.98%) BDD
4 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (16.98%) Data Validation
4 9 (16.98%) Electronic Trading
4 9 (16.98%) Manual Testing
4 9 (16.98%) Regression Testing
4 9 (16.98%) Risk Management
4 9 (16.98%) TDD
4 9 (16.98%) Test Automation
4 9 (16.98%) Test Scripting
4 9 (16.98%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (77.36%) MATLAB
2 9 (16.98%) Java
2 9 (16.98%) JavaScript
2 9 (16.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
1 6 (11.32%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) TOWER Software