Validation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 163 132 183
Rank change year-on-year -31 +51 +108
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,174 3,315 2,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.16% 2.64% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.76% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 506 1,087 1,019
10th Percentile £36,875 £34,825 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £79,313 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £48,950
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.15% +3.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the UK

Validation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Validation in the UK

Validation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Validation in the UK

Validation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the UK over the 6 months to 28 November 2023. 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 -38 936 £62,500 +4.17% 1,126
UK excluding London -20 840 £55,000 +10.00% 894
Work from Home +24 474 £60,000 -7.69% 644
London -3 256 £72,500 -3.33% 269
South East -18 186 £65,000 +18.18% 249
South West +8 172 £52,750 +56.53% 114
Midlands -39 160 £52,150 +10.96% 184
North of England -21 139 £55,000 -4.35% 190
Scotland +37 116 £65,000 +14.04% 48
West Midlands -59 88 £50,000 +6.38% 138
North West +14 74 £80,674 +51.06% 106
East Midlands +57 72 £56,500 +25.56% 46
Yorkshire -10 56 £70,576 -8.93% 68
East of England -35 42 £74,000 +23.33% 116
Northern Ireland +70 40 - - 1
Wales +7 26 £51,528 -14.12% 23
North East +32 16 £70,000 +16.67% 18

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 39 (3.32%) SAS
2 25 (2.13%) Confluence
3 22 (1.87%) Apache
3 22 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.36%) IIS
5 12 (1.02%) Anypoint
6 11 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.17%) MS Exchange
10 1 (0.085%) CMS
Applications
1 80 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (5.28%) Simulink
3 50 (4.26%) SOLIDWORKS
4 45 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
5 42 (3.58%) Stateflow
6 41 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 12 (1.02%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.85%) Sketch
9 8 (0.68%) InVision
9 8 (0.68%) Windchill
10 7 (0.60%) OrCAD
11 6 (0.51%) CANalyzer
12 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.34%) Adobe XD
13 4 (0.34%) CATIA
14 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
15 2 (0.17%) Mathcad
15 2 (0.17%) SPSS
15 2 (0.17%) XMetaL
Business Applications
1 104 (8.86%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.60%) SAP QM
4 4 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.26%) Cerner Millennium
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.26%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.17%) Magento
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.17%) Primavera
6 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.085%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.085%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 208 (17.72%) Azure
2 137 (11.67%) AWS
3 103 (8.77%) GCP
4 49 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 24 (2.04%) SaaS
6 20 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (1.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 11 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (0.94%) Figma
9 10 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (0.85%) Dagster
9 10 (0.85%) PaaS
10 8 (0.68%) Amazon S3
10 8 (0.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (0.60%) Boomi
11 7 (0.60%) Serverless
11 7 (0.60%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.51%) dbt
12 6 (0.51%) GitHub
12 6 (0.51%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.09%) VSAT
2 47 (4.00%) WAN
3 39 (3.32%) TCP/IP
4 38 (3.24%) Firewall
5 26 (2.21%) SD-WAN
6 24 (2.04%) 5G
7 22 (1.87%) DNS
8 17 (1.45%) Internet
9 14 (1.19%) HTTP
10 8 (0.68%) BGP
10 8 (0.68%) J1939
10 8 (0.68%) MPLS
10 8 (0.68%) OSPF
10 8 (0.68%) SSL
10 8 (0.68%) Wireshark
11 7 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.60%) FabricPath
11 7 (0.60%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 49 (4.17%) Power BI
3 40 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (2.73%) Tableau
5 29 (2.47%) Data Lake
6 19 (1.62%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.02%) Big Data
9 11 (0.94%) Metadata
10 10 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.68%) GIS
12 8 (0.68%) QGIS
13 7 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 56 (4.77%) JIRA
2 26 (2.21%) Git
3 23 (1.96%) Selenium
4 21 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.36%) Visual Studio
6 10 (0.85%) eggPlant
7 8 (0.68%) AutoIt
7 8 (0.68%) JMeter
7 8 (0.68%) SoapUI
7 8 (0.68%) Subversion
7 8 (0.68%) TestLink
8 7 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.51%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.51%) GitLab
9 6 (0.51%) Xcode
10 5 (0.43%) Mocha
10 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 344 (29.30%) Finance
2 301 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 132 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (10.39%) Manufacturing
5 117 (9.97%) Telecoms
6 88 (7.50%) Retail
7 79 (6.73%) Automotive
8 77 (6.56%) Banking
9 71 (6.05%) Presentation Skills
10 65 (5.54%) Electronics
11 56 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 55 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
13 49 (4.17%) Aerospace
13 49 (4.17%) Marketing
14 48 (4.09%) Public Sector
15 33 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.87%) Retail Finance
17 15 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (1.19%) Military
18 14 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 236 (20.10%) Architect
2 176 (14.99%) Analyst
3 148 (12.61%) Solutions Architect
4 138 (11.75%) Senior
5 122 (10.39%) Consultant
6 108 (9.20%) Oracle Consultant
7 100 (8.52%) Systems Engineer
8 98 (8.35%) Lead
9 93 (7.92%) Enterprise Architect
10 89 (7.58%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
11 48 (4.09%) Software Architect
12 47 (4.00%) Software Engineer
13 41 (3.49%) Developer
14 39 (3.32%) Business Analyst
15 38 (3.24%) Data Analyst
16 35 (2.98%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 33 (2.81%) Control Systems Engineer
18 26 (2.21%) Cloud Architect
19 25 (2.13%) Test Engineer
20 24 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.64%) REST
2 30 (2.56%) Pandas
3 20 (1.70%) .NET
4 16 (1.36%) WebRTC
5 14 (1.19%) scikit-learn
6 13 (1.11%) JSON
7 12 (1.02%) NumPy
7 12 (1.02%) XML
8 11 (0.94%) HTML
9 10 (0.85%) Great Expectations
9 10 (0.85%) Kafka
9 10 (0.85%) RESTful
10 9 (0.77%) PyTorch
10 9 (0.77%) TensorFlow
10 9 (0.77%) XGBoost
11 8 (0.68%) EDI
12 6 (0.51%) Keras
12 6 (0.51%) PySpark
13 5 (0.43%) Middleware
14 4 (0.34%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.90%) Algorithms
2 64 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
3 53 (4.51%) Renewable Energy
4 52 (4.43%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 30 (2.56%) Taxonomies
6 28 (2.39%) Credit Risk
7 27 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 26 (2.21%) Embedded Systems
9 21 (1.79%) Clustering
10 19 (1.62%) GNSS
11 17 (1.45%) IoT
12 16 (1.36%) NHS
13 14 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (1.02%) Data Centre
16 11 (0.94%) Fixed Income
16 11 (0.94%) Onboarding
17 10 (0.85%) Market Risk
18 9 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 63 (5.37%) Linux
2 28 (2.39%) Windows
3 9 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.68%) Android
5 6 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.43%) Unix
7 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.26%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.085%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.085%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (30.66%) Agile
2 332 (28.28%) Actionable Insight
3 220 (18.74%) Model Validation
4 217 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
5 208 (17.72%) Data Validation
6 185 (15.76%) DevOps
7 174 (14.82%) Requirements Management
8 168 (14.31%) Computer Science
9 164 (13.97%) TOGAF
10 160 (13.63%) Migration
11 155 (13.20%) Mathematics
11 155 (13.20%) Physics
12 148 (12.61%) Requirements Analysis
13 137 (11.67%) Network Architecture
14 136 (11.58%) Decision-Making
15 126 (10.73%) Cybersecurity
16 119 (10.14%) Root Cause Analysis
17 110 (9.37%) Verification and Validation
18 108 (9.20%) Risk Management
19 107 (9.11%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 235 (20.02%) SQL
2 167 (14.22%) Python
3 62 (5.28%) MATLAB
4 48 (4.09%) R
5 46 (3.92%) C++
6 41 (3.49%) C
7 39 (3.32%) C#
8 23 (1.96%) Bash
9 18 (1.53%) Java
10 15 (1.28%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.77%) Perl
13 8 (0.68%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.43%) SOQL
14 5 (0.43%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.26%) Ada
15 3 (0.26%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 393 (33.48%) Degree
2 147 (12.52%) Security Cleared
3 128 (10.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 117 (9.97%) SC Cleared
5 114 (9.71%) TOGAF Certification
6 58 (4.94%) HNC
7 31 (2.64%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.94%) HND
10 10 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.85%) PhD
11 9 (0.77%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.68%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.60%) CCNP
13 7 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.51%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.43%) CCIE
15 5 (0.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (8.52%) QA
2 80 (6.81%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.81%) PMO
4 26 (2.21%) IFRS
4 26 (2.21%) IFRS 9
5 17 (1.45%) GDPR
6 15 (1.28%) ISO 26262
7 12 (1.02%) CRD IV
8 10 (0.85%) Automotive SPICE
8 10 (0.85%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.60%) GMP
9 7 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.60%) SLA
10 5 (0.43%) IEC 61508
10 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 4 (0.34%) GxP
11 4 (0.34%) NIST
12 3 (0.26%) DO-178B
12 3 (0.26%) HL7
12 3 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (4.26%) Docker
2 18 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.45%) Firmware
4 16 (1.36%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.62%) Ansible
2 19 (1.62%) Terraform
3 7 (0.60%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.43%) Kibana
4 5 (0.43%) Nagios
4 5 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.43%) Puppet
5 4 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.085%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.085%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.085%) IBM BigFix
6 1 (0.085%) Istio
6 1 (0.085%) linkerd
6 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.085%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.085%) WSUS
Vendors
1 142 (12.10%) Oracle
2 133 (11.33%) Microsoft
3 104 (8.86%) Hyperion
4 42 (3.58%) Salesforce
5 31 (2.64%) SAP
6 19 (1.62%) MuleSoft
6 19 (1.62%) VMware
7 18 (1.53%) Databricks
8 16 (1.36%) Google
9 15 (1.28%) CheckPoint
10 13 (1.11%) Adobe
10 13 (1.11%) EMC
11 12 (1.02%) Alteryx
11 12 (1.02%) Cisco
12 11 (0.94%) Calypso
13 9 (0.77%) Informatica
14 8 (0.68%) Juniper
14 8 (0.68%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.60%) IBM
15 7 (0.60%) Splunk