V-Model Job Trends

V-Model
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring V-Model skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 679 694
Rank change year-on-year +46 +15 +214
Permanent jobs citing V-Model 18 32 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.058% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.064% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 9 22 18
10th Percentile - - £50,875
25th Percentile £36,500 £46,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £47,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £47,000 £51,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £48,150 £53,750 £79,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -12.04% -1.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

V-Model 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 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

V-Model
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing V-Model relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

V-Model job vacancy trend in the UK

V-Model
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing V-Model.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing V-Model

V-Model
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing V-Model within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +59 15 £45,500 -4.21% 17
UK excluding London +45 14 £45,000 -5.26% 18
South East +14 10 £45,000 -5.26% 7
East of England - 3 - - 8
Work from Home - 2 £48,000 - 10
South West +6 1 - - 2
London - 1 £48,000 -

V-Model
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (16.67%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (11.11%) Subversion
4 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) French Language
3 1 (5.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Design Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 4 (22.22%) Test Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Support
4 1 (5.56%) Graduate
4 1 (5.56%) Graduate Design Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Graduate Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SOAP
1 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
2 10 (55.56%) Validation
3 9 (50.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 9 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
4 6 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 6 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 6 (33.33%) Supply Chain Management
4 6 (33.33%) SysML
4 6 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
5 5 (27.78%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) Requirements Management
6 4 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (22.22%) Manual Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Mathematics
6 4 (22.22%) Physics
6 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
7 3 (16.67%) Digital Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) MATLAB
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) Degree
3 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (38.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
6 1 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Terminal Server
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
1 3 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) VMware
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) Juniper
2 2 (11.11%) McAfee