Data Validation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 511 501
Rank change year-on-year +65 -10 +148
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 63 55 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 40 21 32
10th Percentile - £30,143 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £46,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -17.91% +27.62%
75th Percentile £69,840 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £78,375 £73,886 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.04% +6.52% -

All Process & 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 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Validation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Data Validation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Validation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Validation

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 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Midlands +25 21 £35,000 +2.94% 6
South East +33 15 £63,920 +41.82% 19
East Midlands +3 12 £42,500 +41.67% 3
East of England +25 9 £72,500 - 2
North of England +15 9 £50,000 +9.89% 13
West Midlands +14 9 £35,000 -26.32% 3
South West +11 6 £77,500 +7.65% 1
North West +22 4 £65,000 +42.86% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £42,500 - 10
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East +11 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £60,000 - 2
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) SAP BPC
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.59%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.59%) SAP Business One
4 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.98%) Power Platform
2 10 (15.87%) Azure
3 4 (6.35%) AWS
4 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (4.76%) dbt
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (4.76%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.17%) OCI
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.59%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.59%) GCP
6 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.59%) SaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) Power BI
2 11 (17.46%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (12.70%) Tableau
4 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 6 (9.52%) BigQuery
5 6 (9.52%) Metadata
6 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.17%) DB2
8 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.59%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.59%) Power Query
9 1 (1.59%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (1.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) Postman
3 1 (1.59%) Appium
3 1 (1.59%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.59%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) JUnit
3 1 (1.59%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.59%) Selenium
3 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.59%) TestNG
3 1 (1.59%) TestRail
3 1 (1.59%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (36.51%) Finance
2 21 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 13 (20.63%) Law
5 10 (15.87%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Manufacturing
6 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.35%) Marketing
8 3 (4.76%) Electronics
8 3 (4.76%) Games
8 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.17%) Retail
10 1 (1.59%) Automotive
10 1 (1.59%) Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Legal
10 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (46.03%) Analyst
2 12 (19.05%) Oracle Analyst
3 11 (17.46%) Junior
3 11 (17.46%) Junior Analyst
4 10 (15.87%) Junior Support Analyst
4 10 (15.87%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
4 10 (15.87%) Oracle Payroll Support
4 10 (15.87%) Oracle Support Analyst
4 10 (15.87%) Support Analyst
5 9 (14.29%) Data Analyst
6 7 (11.11%) Lead
7 6 (9.52%) Data Quality Analyst
7 6 (9.52%) Quality Analyst
8 5 (7.94%) Senior
9 4 (6.35%) Consultant
9 4 (6.35%) Coordinator
9 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Project Coordinator
10 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) JSON
2 3 (4.76%) Pandas
2 3 (4.76%) PySpark
2 3 (4.76%) XML
3 2 (3.17%) Playwright
3 2 (3.17%) REST
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.59%) CSS
4 1 (1.59%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.59%) HTML
4 1 (1.59%) JSON-LD
4 1 (1.59%) Kafka
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
1 4 (6.35%) Onboarding
1 4 (6.35%) Semantic Web
2 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.76%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.59%) Linked Data
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Validation
2 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (25.40%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (23.81%) ETL
4 15 (23.81%) Migration
5 13 (20.63%) Process Improvement
6 11 (17.46%) Data Analysis
6 11 (17.46%) Data Cleansing
7 10 (15.87%) Data Governance
7 10 (15.87%) End-to-End Testing
7 10 (15.87%) ERP
7 10 (15.87%) System Testing
7 10 (15.87%) Visualisation
8 9 (14.29%) Project Management
9 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.70%) Data Management
9 8 (12.70%) Data Migration
9 8 (12.70%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (9.52%) Agile
10 6 (9.52%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 36 (57.14%) SQL
2 15 (23.81%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) Java
4 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.59%) SHACL
5 1 (1.59%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) ACCA
3 4 (6.35%) CIMA
4 3 (4.76%) Degree
5 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (34.92%) Data Quality
2 13 (20.63%) QA
3 4 (6.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.59%) GDPR
5 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Control-M
1 1 (1.59%) Kibana
1 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Oracle
2 10 (15.87%) SAP
3 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
5 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.59%) Foundry
5 1 (1.59%) Magma
5 1 (1.59%) Palantir
5 1 (1.59%) Planon