Data Validation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Validation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Validation over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 235 236
Rank change year-on-year +86 +1 +26
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 22 5 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 0.074% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.087% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,250 -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.26% -37.33%
75th Percentile £71,875 £55,000 £48,000
90th Percentile £79,000 £68,500 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +38.30% -37.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,806 5,737 5,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.88% 85.18% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 4,015 3,158
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,833 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the Thames Valley

Data Validation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Validation in the Thames Valley

Data Validation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Validation in the Thames Valley

Data Validation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire +66 21 £53,750 -23.21% 9
Buckinghamshire +47 1 £60,000 +51.90% 5
Data Validation
South East

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) Azure
2 18 (81.82%) AWS
2 18 (81.82%) GCP
2 18 (81.82%) Snowflake
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (86.36%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (81.82%) Data Lake
2 18 (81.82%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 18 (81.82%) Law
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Lead
1 18 (81.82%) Senior
2 1 (4.55%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) Data Manager
2 1 (4.55%) IT Support
2 1 (4.55%) Master Data Manager
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Validation
2 20 (90.91%) Data Governance
2 20 (90.91%) Data Management
2 20 (90.91%) Data Strategy
2 20 (90.91%) Master Data Management
3 19 (86.36%) Analytics
3 19 (86.36%) Data Engineering
3 19 (86.36%) Data Pipeline
4 18 (81.82%) Anomaly Detection
4 18 (81.82%) Asset Management
4 18 (81.82%) Data Architecture
4 18 (81.82%) Data Modelling
4 18 (81.82%) Data Stewardship
4 18 (81.82%) Data Transformation
4 18 (81.82%) ETL
4 18 (81.82%) Matrix Organization
4 18 (81.82%) Metadata Management
4 18 (81.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (81.82%) Use Case
5 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) SQL
2 18 (81.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (86.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (95.45%) Data Quality
2 18 (81.82%) Accessibility
2 18 (81.82%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.55%) Salesforce