Validation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Validation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 90 120
Rank change year-on-year +61 +30 +36
Permanent jobs citing Validation 220 176 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.18% 2.61% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.72% 3.07% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 22 90 64
10th Percentile £46,000 £34,425 £29,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £39,123 £34,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,875 £78,750 £78,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £54,125
% change year-on-year +4.76% -3.00% +3.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 2,849 5,732 5,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.92% 85.12% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 4,012 3,148
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,087 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,625 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Validation in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in the Thames Valley

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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 Validation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Buckinghamshire +89 135 £60,000 +50.00% 34
Oxfordshire +42 54 £55,000 +0.92% 35
Berkshire -19 31 £65,000 +23.81% 55
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South East

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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:

Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Simulink
1 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.55%) Azure
2 19 (8.64%) AWS
3 18 (8.18%) GCP
3 18 (8.18%) Snowflake
4 2 (0.91%) Azure AKS
4 2 (0.91%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 156 (70.91%) 5G
1 156 (70.91%) Bluetooth
1 156 (70.91%) GSM
1 156 (70.91%) LTE
1 156 (70.91%) UMTS
1 156 (70.91%) Wi-Fi
1 156 (70.91%) Wireless
2 2 (0.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.45%) Broadband
3 1 (0.45%) DVB
3 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.45%) Internet
3 1 (0.45%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (8.18%) Data Lake
2 18 (8.18%) Metadata
3 2 (0.91%) MySQL
4 1 (0.45%) GIS
4 1 (0.45%) Looker
4 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.18%) Git
2 5 (2.27%) JIRA
3 4 (1.82%) Subversion
4 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 162 (73.64%) Electronics
2 22 (10.00%) Law
3 19 (8.64%) Aerospace
4 10 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.73%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.27%) Aviation
6 5 (2.27%) Health Technology
6 5 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.27%) Marketing
7 4 (1.82%) Automotive
8 3 (1.36%) Finance
8 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.91%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.91%) Legal
9 2 (0.91%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 160 (72.73%) Electronics Engineer
2 158 (71.82%) Test Engineer
3 156 (70.91%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 27 (12.27%) Senior
5 18 (8.18%) Lead
6 4 (1.82%) Developer
6 4 (1.82%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 2 (0.91%) Administrator
7 2 (0.91%) Analyst
7 2 (0.91%) Architect
7 2 (0.91%) Azure Architect
7 2 (0.91%) Control Systems Engineer
7 2 (0.91%) Data Engineer
7 2 (0.91%) Product Manager
7 2 (0.91%) Salesforce Administrator
7 2 (0.91%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (0.91%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.91%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (0.45%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (0.45%) FPGA/VHDL Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.91%) Qt
2 2 (0.91%) FHIR
2 2 (0.91%) REST
3 1 (0.45%) .NET
3 1 (0.45%) CSS
3 1 (0.45%) HTML
3 1 (0.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 156 (70.91%) Driving Licence
2 15 (6.82%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (2.27%) FPGA
4 4 (1.82%) CPLD
5 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.91%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.45%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.45%) Lidar
6 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.45%) NHS
6 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.45%) Robotics
6 1 (0.45%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.45%) Unix
2 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (80.00%) Verification and Validation
2 160 (72.73%) Customer Requirements
3 159 (72.27%) Mentoring
4 156 (70.91%) Coaching
4 156 (70.91%) Test Strategy
5 22 (10.00%) Analytics
5 22 (10.00%) Data Validation
6 21 (9.55%) Data Management
6 21 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (9.09%) Data Governance
7 20 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (9.09%) Data Strategy
7 20 (9.09%) Master Data Management
8 19 (8.64%) Data Engineering
8 19 (8.64%) Test Automation
8 19 (8.64%) Use Case
9 18 (8.18%) Asset Management
9 18 (8.18%) Data Architecture
9 18 (8.18%) Data Modelling
9 18 (8.18%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 39 (17.73%) Python
2 22 (10.00%) SQL
3 21 (9.55%) C
4 20 (9.09%) C++
5 7 (3.18%) MATLAB
6 4 (1.82%) C#
7 1 (0.45%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.45%) Java
7 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.45%) Rust
7 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 186 (84.55%) Degree
2 157 (71.36%) HND
3 5 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.91%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.55%) Data Quality
1 21 (9.55%) QA
2 18 (8.18%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.91%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (0.91%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (0.91%) HAZOP
4 1 (0.45%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.45%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (1.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.91%) Terraform
2 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (1.82%) Agilent
2 3 (1.36%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.91%) SAP
4 1 (0.45%) Altera
4 1 (0.45%) EMC
4 1 (0.45%) Freescale
4 1 (0.45%) Google
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle