Validation Jobs in the South West

Validation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 83 116
Rank change year-on-year +54 +33 +2
Permanent jobs citing Validation 238 299 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.83% 3.08% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 3.77% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 108 89 50
10th Percentile - £36,875 £48,675
25th Percentile - £41,250 £57,482
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -28.00% +54.33%
75th Percentile £52,888 £62,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £61,500 £65,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.36% -12.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,242 7,925 6,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.08% 81.59% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,822 5,692 3,503
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 South West

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation in the South West.

Salary trend for Validation in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the South West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bristol +41 101 £52,600 -4.36% 66
Dorset +42 56 £54,000 +35.00% 10
Gloucestershire +54 38 £52,600 +10.74% 54
Devon +11 23 £61,500 +44.71% 14
Somerset +14 12 - - 21
Wiltshire +4 6 £52,500 +50.00% 10
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England

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (0.84%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.42%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 90 (37.82%) Simulink
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.42%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.42%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 9 (3.78%) GCP
2 8 (3.36%) AWS
3 7 (2.94%) Azure
3 7 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.68%) Vertex AI
5 2 (0.84%) GitHub
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.42%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.42%) SaaS
6 1 (0.42%) Serverless
6 1 (0.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.14%) 5G
2 12 (5.04%) SD-WAN
2 12 (5.04%) WAN
3 9 (3.78%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.10%) Bluetooth
4 5 (2.10%) GSM
4 5 (2.10%) LTE
4 5 (2.10%) UMTS
4 5 (2.10%) Wireless
5 3 (1.26%) Broadband
6 1 (0.42%) DNS
6 1 (0.42%) HbbTV
6 1 (0.42%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.94%) Power BI
2 5 (2.10%) Big Data
2 5 (2.10%) BigQuery
2 5 (2.10%) Data Hub
2 5 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.10%) Looker
2 5 (2.10%) Tableau
3 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (29.41%) Rational DOORS
2 37 (15.55%) JIRA
3 4 (1.68%) Git
3 4 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.26%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.84%) GitLab
6 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 21 (8.82%) Social Skills
2 17 (7.14%) Finance
3 13 (5.46%) Electronics
4 10 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.78%) Banking
6 8 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.52%) Military
8 4 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.68%) Marketing
9 3 (1.26%) Games
10 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (41.18%) Systems Engineer
2 51 (21.43%) Principal Engineer
2 51 (21.43%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 31 (13.03%) Engineering Manager
4 28 (11.76%) Requirements Manager
5 19 (7.98%) Senior
6 15 (6.30%) Lead
7 14 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
7 14 (5.88%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 13 (5.46%) Software Engineer
8 13 (5.46%) Validation Engineer
9 8 (3.36%) Project Leader
9 8 (3.36%) Senior Project Leader
9 8 (3.36%) Software Project Leader
9 8 (3.36%) Technical Leader
9 8 (3.36%) Technical Project Leader
10 7 (2.94%) Electronics Engineer
11 6 (2.52%) System Verification Engineer
12 5 (2.10%) Provisioning Engineer
12 5 (2.10%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.68%) CSS
1 4 (1.68%) HTML
1 4 (1.68%) Pandas
1 4 (1.68%) XGBoost
2 3 (1.26%) Node.js
3 2 (0.84%) .NET
3 2 (0.84%) .NET Core
3 2 (0.84%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.84%) OAuth
3 2 (0.84%) OAuth2
3 2 (0.84%) OpenID
3 2 (0.84%) REST
3 2 (0.84%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.42%) ADO
4 1 (0.42%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.42%) CSS3
4 1 (0.42%) Jest
4 1 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.42%) Playwright
4 1 (0.42%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.04%) Self-Driving Car
2 9 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.10%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.10%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.10%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.68%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.68%) GNSS
5 3 (1.26%) Acoustics
5 3 (1.26%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.26%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.42%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.42%) Lidar
7 1 (0.42%) Life Science
7 1 (0.42%) Robotics
7 1 (0.42%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.36%) Linux
2 2 (0.84%) Windows
3 1 (0.42%) Android
3 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (74.37%) Systems Engineering
2 175 (73.53%) Verification and Validation
3 153 (64.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 116 (48.74%) Software Engineering
5 96 (40.34%) Mathematics
5 96 (40.34%) SysML
6 90 (37.82%) Digital Twin
7 66 (27.73%) Requirements Management
8 37 (15.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (14.71%) Mentoring
9 35 (14.71%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
10 26 (10.92%) Agile
11 23 (9.66%) Test Automation
12 20 (8.40%) Requirements Analysis
13 18 (7.56%) Customer Requirements
14 16 (6.72%) Coaching
15 15 (6.30%) Computer Science
16 13 (5.46%) Project Management
17 12 (5.04%) B2B
17 12 (5.04%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 90 (37.82%) MATLAB
2 9 (3.78%) Python
3 8 (3.36%) SQL
4 7 (2.94%) C
5 6 (2.52%) C++
6 5 (2.10%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.68%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.84%) Java
8 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.42%) Bash
9 1 (0.42%) VB
9 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 131 (55.04%) Degree
2 96 (40.34%) HND
3 90 (37.82%) HNC
4 42 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (14.71%) Chartered Engineer
6 13 (5.46%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.94%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.26%) PhD
9 1 (0.42%) MCP
9 1 (0.42%) MCSA
9 1 (0.42%) MCSE
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.04%) PMO
2 5 (2.10%) QA
3 4 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.26%) GMP
4 3 (1.26%) WCAG
5 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (3.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.42%) Firmware
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.84%) Podman
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
3 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (14.71%) IBM
2 5 (2.10%) Google
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.68%) Intel
4 3 (1.26%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.84%) EMC
5 2 (0.84%) Graphcore
6 1 (0.42%) McAfee
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle
6 1 (0.42%) Remedy
6 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.42%) Symantec
6 1 (0.42%) VMware