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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 83 108
Rank change year-on-year +16 +25 -26
Permanent jobs citing Validation 55 14 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.41% 1.18% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 1.33% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 35 5 6
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £81,150 £71,000 -
South East median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £54,995
% change year-on-year +7.62% -4.54% -8.34%

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 1,678 1,056 1,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 73.53% 88.81% 86.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 693 1,032
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,585 £35,000 £35,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £84,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -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
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Validation in Surrey

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 17 August 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
Guildford -11 14 £64,745 - 5
Staines - 12 £48,000 -
Farnham -3 2 £59,490 - 2
Chertsey - 2 £80,000 -
Reigate - 2 - -
Woking -22 1 £81,000 - 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - - 1
Warlingham - 1 - -
Caterham - 1 - -
Leatherhead - 1 - -
Epsom - 1 - -
Godalming - 1 £45,000 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.45%) GCP
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (1.82%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (1.82%) GitHub
4 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.82%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) Ethernet
1 4 (7.27%) RS-232
1 4 (7.27%) RS-485
1 4 (7.27%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (5.45%) Bluetooth
2 3 (5.45%) Broadband
2 3 (5.45%) Gigabit Ethernet
2 3 (5.45%) GSM
2 3 (5.45%) Wireless
2 3 (5.45%) ZigBee
3 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.82%) BGP
4 1 (1.82%) DNS
4 1 (1.82%) Firewall
4 1 (1.82%) IPsec
4 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.82%) SNMP
4 1 (1.82%) SSL
4 1 (1.82%) VLAN
4 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
1 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.82%) Impala
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.82%) Parquet
3 1 (1.82%) Power BI
3 1 (1.82%) Spark SQL
3 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (5.45%) JIRA
3 2 (3.64%) Git
4 1 (1.82%) GitLab
4 1 (1.82%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (34.55%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (29.09%) Finance
3 14 (25.45%) Aerospace
4 13 (23.64%) Social Skills
5 11 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (12.73%) Electronics
7 5 (9.09%) Italian Language
7 5 (9.09%) Japanese Language
7 5 (9.09%) Legal
7 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing
8 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (5.45%) Wearables
9 2 (3.64%) Billing
9 2 (3.64%) Games
9 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.64%) Retail
9 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.82%) Banking
10 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) OAT Tester
2 9 (16.36%) Tester
3 8 (14.55%) Senior
4 7 (12.73%) Principal Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Lead
5 5 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Hardware Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Data Migration Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Lead Tester
7 3 (5.45%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Billing Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) Flash
1 3 (5.45%) REST
2 2 (3.64%) JSON
2 2 (3.64%) Web Services
3 1 (1.82%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.82%) LangChain
3 1 (1.82%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.82%) Pandas
3 1 (1.82%) PySpark
3 1 (1.82%) RESTful
3 1 (1.82%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Onboarding
2 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 4 (7.27%) IoT
3 4 (7.27%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.45%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Handset
4 3 (5.45%) PCIe
5 2 (3.64%) Acoustics
5 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) FPGA
6 1 (1.82%) PKI
6 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
1 3 (5.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (34.55%) Agile
2 19 (34.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (29.09%) Verification and Validation
4 14 (25.45%) Software Engineering
5 13 (23.64%) DevOps
5 13 (23.64%) User Acceptance Testing
6 12 (21.82%) Change Management
7 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 11 (20.00%) Defect Management
7 11 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
8 10 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 10 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (16.36%) Operational Acceptance Testing
10 8 (14.55%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (14.55%) Scenario Testing
10 8 (14.55%) Software Testing
10 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (10.91%) AI
11 6 (10.91%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.55%) Python
2 4 (7.27%) SQL
3 2 (3.64%) C#
3 2 (3.64%) C++
3 2 (3.64%) Go
3 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.82%) Bash
4 1 (1.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 15 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (25.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (14.55%) Degree
5 7 (12.73%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) ACCA
6 2 (3.64%) CIMA
6 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.82%) CCNP
7 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.82%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.82%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.64%) QA
2 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) GRC
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Firmware
2 3 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Ansible
1 1 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (1.82%) Grafana
1 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.64%) Adaptive Insights
3 2 (3.64%) SAP
3 2 (3.64%) Workday
4 1 (1.82%) Ariba
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco
4 1 (1.82%) Foundry
4 1 (1.82%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) Lattice Semiconductor
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) Xilinx