Validation Job Trends in Surrey

Validation
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 56 53
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 +29
Permanent jobs citing Validation 21 52 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.29% 4.32% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 4.71% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 10
10th Percentile - - £44,000
25th Percentile - - £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,748 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% -19.31% -2.88%
75th Percentile - £51,811 £67,500
90th Percentile - £71,724 -
South East median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,321 1,104 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.84% 91.62% 89.74%
Number of salaries quoted 751 487 676
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,552
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,625 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £74,375
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Surrey

Validation
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Validation

Validation
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 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
Farnham - 1 - -
Leatherhead - 1 - -
Validation
South East

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) 5G
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (47.62%) Pharmaceutical
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Data Manager
1 10 (47.62%) Junior
2 6 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Test Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Test Technician
3 3 (14.29%) Test Validation Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Life Science
2 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Clinical Data Management
1 10 (47.62%) Data Acquisition
1 10 (47.62%) Data Cleansing
1 10 (47.62%) Data Collection
1 10 (47.62%) Data Management
1 10 (47.62%) Data Visualisation
1 10 (47.62%) Digital Transformation Strategy
1 10 (47.62%) Visualisation
2 6 (28.57%) Architectural Design
2 6 (28.57%) Change Management
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 6 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
2 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (4.76%) Agile
3 1 (4.76%) Business Continuity
3 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Degree
2 6 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (28.57%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (47.62%) Good Clinical Practice
2 1 (4.76%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.76%) pfSense
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Grafana
1 1 (4.76%) Puppet
1 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.76%) Juniper