Verification and Validation Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Verification and Validation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Verification and Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 173 166
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 +10
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 8 10 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.27% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.30% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £58,000 - £47,500
25th Percentile £68,125 £43,750 £51,095
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £50,000 £61,584
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -18.81% +11.97%
75th Percentile £85,000 £60,938 £70,875
90th Percentile - £64,875 £72,263
South East median annual salary £70,450 £62,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +12.72% +22.55% -7.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Verification and 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 3,248 3,322 2,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.27% 90.62% 92.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,740 1,597 2,095
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Verification and Validation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Verification and Validation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Verification and Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Verification and Validation

Verification and Validation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Verification and Validation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Verification and Validation in the Thames Valley

Verification and 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 Verification and Validation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Oxfordshire +22 5 £85,000 +61.90% 4
Berkshire -2 3 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Verification and Validation
South East

Verification and Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SpaceWire
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) JMeter
1 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Software Validation Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Verification Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Validation Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Verification Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (25.00%) Key Management
2 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (25.00%) Physics
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Dependency Management
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (12.50%) ECSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware