Data Validation Jobs

Data Validation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 613 766 866
Rank change year-on-year +153 +100 +122
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 87 146 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44 103 44
10th Percentile £40,375 £35,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £102,410 £95,000 £87,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +55.41% -29.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,687 84,865 98,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.50% 85.91% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,769 59,922 58,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £75,533 £72,500 £81,251
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Validation.

Salary trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 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
England +125 82 £52,500 -12.50% 134
UK excluding London +160 56 £58,750 +2.17% 81
South East +100 28 £60,000 -7.69% 31
Work from Home +109 27 £60,000 +9.09% 255
London +77 25 £46,500 -32.36% 69
South West +122 9 £98,420 +39.45% 7
West Midlands +40 9 £56,250 +14.80% 8
Midlands +37 9 £56,250 +14.80% 13
North of England +52 8 £40,750 -4.12% 19
North West +11 7 £39,000 +11.43% 7
East of England - 2 - - 9
Yorkshire +64 1 £42,500 - 8

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.68%) AWS
1 38 (43.68%) Azure
2 30 (34.48%) GCP
3 22 (25.29%) Snowflake
4 19 (21.84%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.60%) Vertex AI
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
8 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.45%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.45%) Serverless
9 2 (2.30%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (39.08%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (31.03%) Data Lake
3 21 (24.14%) Metadata
4 19 (21.84%) Power BI
5 8 (9.20%) Big Data
5 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
6 7 (8.05%) Tableau
7 5 (5.75%) BigQuery
7 5 (5.75%) Data Hub
7 5 (5.75%) Looker
8 4 (4.60%) MySQL
9 3 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.45%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.45%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.15%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.15%) Power Query
10 1 (1.15%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 6 (6.90%) JMeter
2 5 (5.75%) Postman
3 3 (3.45%) Git
3 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.45%) JIRA
3 3 (3.45%) Locust
3 3 (3.45%) Robot Framework
3 3 (3.45%) Selenium
4 2 (2.30%) Axure RP
4 2 (2.30%) Gatling
4 2 (2.30%) GitLab
4 2 (2.30%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.30%) SoapUI
4 2 (2.30%) TestRail
General
1 27 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.59%) Finance
3 22 (25.29%) Law
4 19 (21.84%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.34%) Banking
6 7 (8.05%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.45%) Billing
9 2 (2.30%) Front Office
9 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.15%) Advertising
10 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Legal
10 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (37.93%) Senior
2 26 (29.89%) Lead
3 16 (18.39%) Data Engineer
4 14 (16.09%) Analyst
5 8 (9.20%) Data Manager
6 7 (8.05%) Senior Manager
7 6 (6.90%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Provisioning Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Data Scientist
9 4 (4.60%) Insight Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) IT Manager
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Data Scientist
9 4 (4.60%) Systems Analyst
10 3 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Business Systems Analyst
10 3 (3.45%) Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) Pandas
1 4 (4.60%) XGBoost
2 3 (3.45%) Kafka
2 3 (3.45%) pytest
2 3 (3.45%) REST
2 3 (3.45%) YAML
3 2 (2.30%) JSON
3 2 (2.30%) JWT
3 2 (2.30%) OAuth
3 2 (2.30%) PySpark
3 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.30%) SAML
4 1 (1.15%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.15%) Flask
4 1 (1.15%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.15%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.15%) JSON-LD
4 1 (1.15%) RESTful
4 1 (1.15%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.15%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.60%) CMDB
2 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.30%) IoT
5 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.15%) Equities
5 1 (1.15%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.15%) PMI
5 1 (1.15%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.15%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Validation
2 41 (47.13%) Data Management
3 38 (43.68%) Analytics
4 36 (41.38%) Data Pipeline
5 35 (40.23%) Data Modelling
5 35 (40.23%) ETL
6 32 (36.78%) Data Engineering
7 31 (35.63%) Data Governance
8 28 (32.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (29.89%) Data Transformation
10 25 (28.74%) Asset Management
11 24 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (27.59%) Data Strategy
12 23 (26.44%) Master Data Management
13 22 (25.29%) Data Architecture
13 22 (25.29%) Mentoring
13 22 (25.29%) Use Case
14 21 (24.14%) Anomaly Detection
14 21 (24.14%) Data Stewardship
14 21 (24.14%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (62.07%) SQL
2 36 (41.38%) Python
3 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (2.30%) SHACL
3 2 (2.30%) SPARQL
4 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.15%) Bash
4 1 (1.15%) Groovy
4 1 (1.15%) Java
4 1 (1.15%) Scala
4 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (35.63%) Degree
2 8 (9.20%) SC Cleared
2 8 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.60%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.60%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (57.47%) Data Quality
2 39 (44.83%) QA
3 23 (26.44%) Accessibility
4 7 (8.05%) Good Clinical Practice
5 3 (3.45%) GDPR
6 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (12.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.90%) Databricks
2 6 (6.90%) Google
2 6 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.60%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle
5 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.15%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.15%) Talend
5 1 (1.15%) Yardi