Verification and Validation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Verification and Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Verification and Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Verification and Validation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 489 598
Rank change year-on-year +2 +109 -74
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 280 287 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.47% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.49% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 150 31 67
10th Percentile £40,750 £47,500 £34,990
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £57,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £71,000 £67,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Verification and Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,303 58,729 66,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 95.63% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,097 30,137 41,486
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in the UK excluding London

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Verification and Validation in the UK excluding London

Verification and Validation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Verification and Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Verification and Validation in the UK excluding London

Verification and 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 Verification and Validation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 +22 76 £54,995 -0.01% 61
Scotland -9 53 £60,000 - 10
East of England -9 45 £57,500 +4.55% 35
South West -9 42 £55,000 -18.52% 37
Midlands -49 32 £55,000 - 36
North of England +49 28 £50,500 - 14
West Midlands -22 25 £55,000 - 24
North West - 22 £55,000 - 11
East Midlands -26 7 £42,500 - 12
Yorkshire +86 5 £45,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 2
Verification and Validation
UK

Verification and 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 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 60 (21.43%) Simulink
2 44 (15.71%) Stateflow
3 8 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.71%) TargetLink
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.36%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.36%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.36%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (3.21%) BlazeMeter
2 2 (0.71%) Azure
2 2 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (0.71%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.36%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.79%) Bluetooth
1 5 (1.79%) LAN
1 5 (1.79%) Network Security
1 5 (1.79%) WAN
2 4 (1.43%) Firewall
2 4 (1.43%) Multicast
2 4 (1.43%) OSPF
2 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.07%) 4G
4 2 (0.71%) RS-232
5 1 (0.36%) 3G
5 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.36%) GPRS
5 1 (0.36%) Modbus
5 1 (0.36%) RS-485
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
1 6 (2.14%) SQL Server
1 6 (2.14%) Tableau
2 4 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (0.71%) Big Data
3 2 (0.71%) Power BI
3 2 (0.71%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (8.57%) JIRA
1 24 (8.57%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (3.93%) Rational Rhapsody
3 9 (3.21%) Cucumber
3 9 (3.21%) Cypress.io
3 9 (3.21%) Gradle
3 9 (3.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.21%) JMeter
3 9 (3.21%) Maven
4 6 (2.14%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.43%) Git
5 4 (1.43%) GitLab
5 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.71%) Appium
6 2 (0.71%) Selenium
7 1 (0.36%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 64 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.07%) Electronics
3 23 (8.21%) Automotive
4 22 (7.86%) Aerospace
5 19 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.07%) Military
7 16 (5.71%) Marketing
8 15 (5.36%) Finance
9 14 (5.00%) Manufacturing
10 11 (3.93%) Retail
11 10 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (3.21%) Law
13 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.14%) Legal
14 5 (1.79%) Games
14 5 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.79%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 95 (33.93%) Systems Engineer
2 69 (24.64%) Lead
3 57 (20.36%) Software Engineer
4 43 (15.36%) Senior
5 31 (11.07%) Control Systems Engineer
6 17 (6.07%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 17 (6.07%) Principal Engineer
6 17 (6.07%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 15 (5.36%) Electronics Engineer
7 15 (5.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 15 (5.36%) Team Leader
8 13 (4.64%) Embedded Engineer
8 13 (4.64%) Validation Engineer
9 12 (4.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 11 (3.93%) Developer
10 11 (3.93%) Hardware Engineer
11 10 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (3.57%) Verification Engineer
12 9 (3.21%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.21%) QA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.57%) React
2 9 (3.21%) Ext JS
2 9 (3.21%) Spring
2 9 (3.21%) Spring Boot
3 6 (2.14%) PyTorch
3 6 (2.14%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.79%) WPF
5 4 (1.43%) Akka
6 3 (1.07%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (0.71%) OpenCV
7 2 (0.71%) Playwright
7 2 (0.71%) Qt
7 2 (0.71%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.71%) wxWidgets
8 1 (0.36%) .NET
8 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.36%) HTML
8 1 (0.36%) HTML5
8 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.64%) Algorithms
2 41 (14.64%) Renewable Energy
3 19 (6.79%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.57%) Robotics
5 9 (3.21%) Market Risk
6 6 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.43%) Augmented Reality
8 4 (1.43%) FMCG
8 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.43%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.43%) SCADA
8 4 (1.43%) Verilog
8 4 (1.43%) VHDL
8 4 (1.43%) Virtual Reality
9 3 (1.07%) Analogue Electronics
9 3 (1.07%) ASIC
10 2 (0.71%) AS400
10 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.71%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.57%) Linux
2 8 (2.86%) Windows
3 2 (0.71%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (100.00%) Validation
2 97 (34.64%) Systems Engineering
3 69 (24.64%) Software Engineering
4 53 (18.93%) Prototyping
5 46 (16.43%) Commercialisation
6 43 (15.36%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 42 (15.00%) Agile
8 41 (14.64%) Decarbonisation
9 36 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
9 36 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (12.50%) Change Management
10 35 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
11 33 (11.79%) Visualisation
12 27 (9.64%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
13 25 (8.93%) Physics
13 25 (8.93%) Software Testing
14 23 (8.21%) Requirements Management
15 22 (7.86%) Mathematics
16 18 (6.43%) Project Management
16 18 (6.43%) UML
Programming Languages
1 71 (25.36%) MATLAB
2 35 (12.50%) C
3 33 (11.79%) C#
4 26 (9.29%) Python
5 20 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 20 (7.14%) SQL
6 13 (4.64%) C++
7 9 (3.21%) Java
8 7 (2.50%) Embedded C
9 5 (1.79%) XAML
10 4 (1.43%) Ada
10 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.43%) R
10 4 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.71%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.71%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.36%) Fortran
13 1 (0.36%) Lua
Qualifications
1 106 (37.86%) Security Cleared
2 104 (37.14%) Degree
3 52 (18.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 39 (13.93%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.36%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.29%) HND
7 11 (3.93%) HNC
7 11 (3.93%) PhD
8 8 (2.86%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.79%) Chartered Engineer
9 5 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.71%) NVQ Level 4
12 1 (0.36%) CBAP
12 1 (0.36%) CCNP
12 1 (0.36%) IIBA
12 1 (0.36%) MCAD
12 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.36%) QA
2 14 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 13 (4.64%) Def Stans
4 6 (2.14%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.71%) ECSS
5 2 (0.71%) ISO 14001
5 2 (0.71%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.71%) JTAG
6 1 (0.36%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.36%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 16 (5.71%) Firmware
2 5 (1.79%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.14%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.21%) TOWER Software
3 8 (2.86%) EMC
4 6 (2.14%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.14%) SAP
4 6 (2.14%) Thales
5 5 (1.79%) Cisco
5 5 (1.79%) IBM
6 4 (1.43%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.43%) Google
7 3 (1.07%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.71%) MathWorks
9 1 (0.36%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.36%) CA
9 1 (0.36%) NCR
9 1 (0.36%) VMware