Data Validation Job Trends in the South East

Data Validation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 288 289
Rank change year-on-year +33 +1 +63
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 15 18 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.14% 0.20% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.23% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £44,750 £33,129 £31,100
25th Percentile £51,875 £37,607 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,920 £45,072 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.82% -26.11% -6.15%
75th Percentile £69,840 £52,536 £69,500
90th Percentile £69,888 £57,014 £74,300
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Data 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Validation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Data Validation job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Validation
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Validation in the South East

Data Validation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Thames Valley +15 7 £63,920 +41.82% 8
Berkshire - 6 £69,840 - 6
Kent - 4 - -
West Sussex - 2 £70,000 - 1
Hampshire - 2 £52,500 - 2
Buckinghamshire +8 1 £58,000 +28.68% 1
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) SAP BPC
2 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
1 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.67%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Appium
2 1 (6.67%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
2 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.67%) TestNG
2 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Games
5 1 (6.67%) Automotive
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Junior
3 1 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Junior Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Data Migration Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) Playwright
2 1 (6.67%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Validation
2 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 5 (33.33%) User Experience
3 4 (26.67%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) Data Mapping
3 4 (26.67%) Internal Audit
3 4 (26.67%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Data Governance Strategy
4 3 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 3 (20.00%) Data Management
4 3 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 3 (20.00%) Data Security
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) API Testing
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) ACCA
1 4 (26.67%) CIMA
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (26.67%) QA
2 4 (26.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Control-M
1 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) Foundry
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Palantir