Validation Jobs

Validation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Validation over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 169 177
Rank change year-on-year +121 +8 +8
Permanent jobs citing Validation 2,945 1,812 1,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.24% 1.62% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.67% 1.98% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 856 775 649
10th Percentile £42,000 £35,500 £37,201
25th Percentile £47,683 £41,625 £47,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £62,086
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -11.41% +12.88%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £79,375 £85,000 £94,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,043
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.62% +19.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 51,917 91,690 87,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.38% 82.10% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,105 63,362 53,134
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,991 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Validation in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in the UK

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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 20 June 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
UK excluding London +112 2,600 £55,000 +4.76% 3,248
England +125 2,596 £53,750 -2.27% 4,995
Midlands +140 775 £55,000 +10.00% 531
South East +94 586 £60,000 +14.29% 856
East of England +92 399 £57,000 +3.64% 476
East Midlands +113 395 £47,500 +11.76% 189
West Midlands +135 380 £62,500 +19.05% 338
North of England +81 342 £47,683 -3.67% 652
Work from Home +23 308 £61,000 +10.91% 2,307
North West +74 292 £47,683 -4.63% 368
Scotland +129 266 £58,033 +11.60% 203
London +72 249 £76,250 +1.67% 1,993
South West +52 204 £52,600 +0.19% 443
Yorkshire +19 44 £42,125 -11.32% 239
Wales +33 33 £60,000 +41.18% 81
North East +45 6 £47,500 -9.52% 47
Northern Ireland +10 4 - - 52

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 14 (0.48%) Apache Spark
2 9 (0.31%) Confluence
3 7 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (0.24%) CMS
3 7 (0.24%) SAS
4 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.14%) Apache
5 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.10%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.068%) Kinematics
6 2 (0.068%) Mule
6 2 (0.068%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.068%) TPMS
7 1 (0.034%) MTS
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.034%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 681 (23.12%) Simulink
2 106 (3.60%) Mathcad
3 49 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 31 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.27%) Blender
7 7 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.068%) Autodesk Inventor
10 2 (0.068%) CATIA
10 2 (0.068%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.068%) Revit
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.034%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.034%) Stata
Business Applications
1 23 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.20%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.068%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.034%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.034%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.034%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.034%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 112 (3.80%) AWS
2 101 (3.43%) Azure
3 80 (2.72%) Power Platform
4 65 (2.21%) GCP
5 38 (1.29%) Snowflake
6 24 (0.81%) GitHub
7 16 (0.54%) Amazon S3
8 15 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (0.37%) Serverless
12 10 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (0.31%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (0.31%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (0.31%) SaaS
14 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (0.27%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.27%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 758 (25.74%) 5G
2 739 (25.09%) Wi-Fi
3 735 (24.96%) Wireless
4 732 (24.86%) LTE
5 731 (24.82%) GSM
5 731 (24.82%) UMTS
6 730 (24.79%) Bluetooth
7 81 (2.75%) Broadband
8 28 (0.95%) WAN
9 23 (0.78%) SD-WAN
10 20 (0.68%) Modbus
11 15 (0.51%) Ethernet
12 10 (0.34%) Profibus
13 8 (0.27%) Firewall
13 8 (0.27%) LAN
14 6 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.17%) 4G
15 5 (0.17%) DNS
15 5 (0.17%) Network Security
15 5 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (2.51%) Power BI
2 66 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 38 (1.29%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.15%) Metadata
6 33 (1.12%) Tableau
7 24 (0.81%) Oracle ODI
8 23 (0.78%) Big Data
9 17 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 17 (0.58%) MySQL
9 17 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 12 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (0.37%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.31%) Hadoop
14 8 (0.27%) QGIS
15 7 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (0.24%) Looker
15 7 (0.24%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 303 (10.29%) Rational DOORS
2 75 (2.55%) JIRA
3 63 (2.14%) Git
4 26 (0.88%) Selenium
5 20 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.31%) JMeter
7 8 (0.27%) Postman
7 8 (0.27%) Subversion
8 7 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.17%) GitLab
10 5 (0.17%) Rational Rhapsody
10 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.17%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.14%) CppUnit
11 4 (0.14%) Gradle
11 4 (0.14%) Locust
11 4 (0.14%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.14%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 819 (27.81%) Electronics
2 359 (12.19%) Social Skills
3 240 (8.15%) Aerospace
4 213 (7.23%) Automotive
4 213 (7.23%) Finance
5 165 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (2.99%) Games
6 88 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 61 (2.07%) Law
8 50 (1.70%) Marketing
9 45 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 44 (1.49%) Banking
11 35 (1.19%) Legal
12 28 (0.95%) Public Sector
13 27 (0.92%) Retail
14 24 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (0.78%) Front Office
16 22 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 800 (27.16%) Test Engineer
2 795 (26.99%) Electronics Engineer
3 730 (24.79%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 676 (22.95%) Systems Engineer
5 407 (13.82%) Senior
6 394 (13.38%) Principal Engineer
7 388 (13.17%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 292 (9.92%) Engineering Manager
9 196 (6.66%) Requirements Manager
10 151 (5.13%) Software Engineer
11 114 (3.87%) Requirements Engineer
12 104 (3.53%) Development Engineer
13 99 (3.36%) Software Development Engineer
14 95 (3.23%) Lead
15 88 (2.99%) Analyst
15 88 (2.99%) Validation Engineer
16 87 (2.95%) Mathematical Modeller
17 80 (2.72%) Senior Manager
18 79 (2.68%) ServiceNow Manager
19 78 (2.65%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.02%) Kafka
2 25 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (0.65%) React
4 14 (0.48%) REST
5 13 (0.44%) CSS
5 13 (0.44%) HTML
5 13 (0.44%) Qt
5 13 (0.44%) Spring
6 11 (0.37%) JSON
7 10 (0.34%) Pandas
7 10 (0.34%) YAML
8 9 (0.31%) SOAP
8 9 (0.31%) XML
9 8 (0.27%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.27%) GraphQL
9 8 (0.27%) Jest
9 8 (0.27%) Loki
9 8 (0.27%) Spring Boot
10 7 (0.24%) Node.js
10 7 (0.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 738 (25.06%) Driving Licence
2 108 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 105 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 79 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
5 46 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (1.32%) SCADA
7 37 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (1.19%) Algorithms
9 34 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 25 (0.85%) Operational Technology
11 23 (0.78%) Self-Driving Car
12 19 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
13 15 (0.51%) Biopharmaceutical
13 15 (0.51%) GNSS
14 12 (0.41%) FPGA
14 12 (0.41%) IoT
14 12 (0.41%) Life Science
14 12 (0.41%) Onboarding
15 9 (0.31%) Cloud Native
16 8 (0.27%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 37 (1.26%) Linux
2 23 (0.78%) Windows
3 6 (0.20%) Unix
3 6 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.14%) Android
5 3 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.10%) VMS
5 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.034%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.034%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,807 (61.36%) Verification and Validation
2 1,343 (45.60%) Systems Engineering
3 845 (28.69%) Mentoring
4 768 (26.08%) Coaching
5 760 (25.81%) Customer Requirements
6 751 (25.50%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 747 (25.37%) Test Strategy
8 651 (22.11%) Software Engineering
9 560 (19.02%) Mathematics
10 486 (16.50%) SysML
11 451 (15.31%) Agile
12 363 (12.33%) Digital Twin
13 341 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
14 332 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 318 (10.80%) Requirements Management
16 295 (10.02%) Software Testing
17 219 (7.44%) Computer Science
18 177 (6.01%) Test Automation
19 147 (4.99%) Project Planning
20 127 (4.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 705 (23.94%) MATLAB
2 307 (10.42%) Python
3 178 (6.04%) SQL
4 67 (2.28%) C
5 64 (2.17%) C++
6 31 (1.05%) PL/SQL
7 28 (0.95%) Java
8 25 (0.85%) R
9 24 (0.81%) Ada
10 23 (0.78%) C#
11 19 (0.65%) Bash
11 19 (0.65%) PowerShell
12 18 (0.61%) JavaScript
13 16 (0.54%) TypeScript
14 14 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.37%) T-SQL
16 10 (0.34%) Go
16 10 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
17 9 (0.31%) Perl
18 8 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1,700 (57.72%) Degree
2 1,150 (39.05%) HND
3 955 (32.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 424 (14.40%) HNC
5 128 (4.35%) Chartered Engineer
6 116 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 90 (3.06%) Master's Degree
8 89 (3.02%) ISTQB
9 67 (2.28%) Security Cleared
10 53 (1.80%) SC Cleared
11 40 (1.36%) PhD
12 33 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
13 14 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.41%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.37%) AWS Certification
16 9 (0.31%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.27%) CCNP
18 7 (0.24%) DV Cleared
19 6 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
19 6 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 95 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 84 (2.85%) QA
4 50 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 39 (1.32%) GxP
7 17 (0.58%) GDPR
8 16 (0.54%) ARP4754
8 16 (0.54%) DO-254
8 16 (0.54%) IEC 61508
9 15 (0.51%) PMO
10 11 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 10 (0.34%) GMP
12 8 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 7 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
13 7 (0.24%) IFRS
13 7 (0.24%) IFRS 9
14 6 (0.20%) NIST
15 5 (0.17%) Automotive SPICE
15 5 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (1.32%) Docker
2 23 (0.78%) Firmware
3 11 (0.37%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.10%) Apache Flume
6 3 (0.10%) HDFS
6 3 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.068%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.068%) vSphere
8 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.034%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 41 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 29 (0.98%) Terraform
3 22 (0.75%) Grafana
4 15 (0.51%) Ansible
5 11 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.27%) Argo
7 6 (0.20%) Functional Safety
7 6 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.10%) Kibana
8 3 (0.10%) logstash
8 3 (0.10%) Oozie
9 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.068%) Podman
9 2 (0.068%) Puppet
9 2 (0.068%) SCOM
9 2 (0.068%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.034%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.034%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.034%) SCCM
Vendors
1 107 (3.63%) MathWorks
2 94 (3.19%) ServiceNow
3 75 (2.55%) Microsoft
4 49 (1.66%) Oracle
5 38 (1.29%) SAP
6 34 (1.15%) IBM
7 32 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 18 (0.61%) Databricks
9 17 (0.58%) Google
10 14 (0.48%) Informatica
11 13 (0.44%) Cisco
11 13 (0.44%) Siemens
12 12 (0.41%) Splunk
13 11 (0.37%) Allen-Bradley
13 11 (0.37%) Rockwell
14 10 (0.34%) EMC
14 10 (0.34%) IFS
15 9 (0.31%) Hitachi
15 9 (0.31%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.31%) Talend