Data Validation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 690 687
Rank change year-on-year +167 -3 +64
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 59 81 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.11% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.14% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 27 59 8
10th Percentile £37,002 £33,250 £25,875
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year - +62.16% -32.73%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,341 £53,188
90th Percentile £102,410 £72,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £63,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% +10.00% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,156 59,884 56,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 83.47% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,178 41,267 29,022
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Validation in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
South East +100 34 £60,500 -6.92% 119
South West +102 9 £98,420 +39.45% 45
North of England +46 9 £42,500 - 92
North West +1 7 £39,000 +4.70% 37
West Midlands +63 4 £57,500 +17.35% 39
Midlands +47 4 £57,500 +17.35% 72
East of England - 3 - - 60
Yorkshire +62 1 £42,500 - 40
North East +42 1 £47,500 -13.64% 16
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 36 (61.02%) Azure
2 34 (57.63%) GCP
3 33 (55.93%) AWS
4 25 (42.37%) Snowflake
5 18 (30.51%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.78%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (6.78%) Vertex AI
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.69%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (57.63%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (44.07%) Data Lake
3 25 (42.37%) Metadata
4 18 (30.51%) Power BI
5 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
6 6 (10.17%) Big Data
6 6 (10.17%) BigQuery
6 6 (10.17%) Tableau
7 5 (8.47%) Data Hub
7 5 (8.47%) Looker
8 3 (5.08%) MySQL
9 1 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.69%) HBase
9 1 (1.69%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.69%) QlikView
9 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 25 (42.37%) Law
2 19 (32.20%) Finance
3 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
4 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.25%) Banking
5 5 (8.47%) Billing
6 4 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.39%) Games
9 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (52.54%) Lead
2 28 (47.46%) Senior
3 10 (16.95%) Data Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Lead Data Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Provisioning Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Data Scientist
6 4 (6.78%) Insight Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) IT Manager
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (5.08%) Administrator
7 3 (5.08%) Data Administrator
7 3 (5.08%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Power Platform Developer
9 1 (1.69%) AWS Data Engineer
9 1 (1.69%) Migration Analyst
9 1 (1.69%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) Pandas
1 4 (6.78%) XGBoost
2 1 (1.69%) .NET
2 1 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.69%) Kafka
2 1 (1.69%) Plotly
2 1 (1.69%) PySpark
2 1 (1.69%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.69%) REST
2 1 (1.69%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.78%) CMDB
3 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) IoT
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) Validation
2 33 (55.93%) Data Pipeline
3 32 (54.24%) Data Governance
3 32 (54.24%) Data Management
4 31 (52.54%) Data Engineering
4 31 (52.54%) Data Modelling
4 31 (52.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (50.85%) ETL
6 28 (47.46%) Analytics
6 28 (47.46%) Asset Management
7 26 (44.07%) Data Strategy
7 26 (44.07%) Master Data Management
8 25 (42.37%) Data Transformation
9 24 (40.68%) Anomaly Detection
9 24 (40.68%) Data Architecture
9 24 (40.68%) Data Stewardship
9 24 (40.68%) Matrix Organization
9 24 (40.68%) Metadata Management
9 24 (40.68%) Use Case
10 19 (32.20%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 38 (64.41%) SQL
2 31 (52.54%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) Bash
4 1 (1.69%) Java
4 1 (1.69%) PROC SQL
4 1 (1.69%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (42.37%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) DBS Check
2 4 (6.78%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (67.80%) Data Quality
2 29 (49.15%) QA
3 27 (45.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Kibana
2 1 (1.69%) logstash
2 1 (1.69%) Oozie
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) Google
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.39%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) Informatica
5 1 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Talend