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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 182 196
Rank change year-on-year +24 +14 +23
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,844 2,093 3,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 2.07% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.17% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 780 636 1,070
10th Percentile £35,475 £36,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,402 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £59,313
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.37% +10.35%
75th Percentile £72,108 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -2.86%

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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 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
England +20 1,568 £55,000 -12.00% 848
UK excluding London +14 1,500 £52,500 -4.55% 700
Work from Home +12 488 £55,000 -8.33% 270
South East -2 349 £52,500 -4.55% 189
South West +47 295 £50,000 -28.00% 99
London -36 281 £75,000 +7.14% 199
Midlands -28 263 £52,500 -4.55% 144
North of England +62 257 £51,264 -2.35% 112
North West +44 163 £49,500 -5.71% 69
West Midlands -63 140 £54,500 -0.91% 99
Scotland +2 131 £51,797 -19.23% 47
East Midlands +49 123 £42,500 -20.93% 45
East of England -22 118 £55,000 -8.33% 121
Yorkshire +58 86 £51,528 -18.21% 33
Wales +33 51 £50,000 +16.10% 18
Northern Ireland +47 39 - - 4
North East -5 8 £53,750 -30.65% 11

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 35 (1.90%) SAS
2 24 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 20 (1.08%) Apache
4 18 (0.98%) IIS
5 15 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.70%) Documentum
7 9 (0.49%) Confluence
8 8 (0.43%) CMS
9 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.27%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.16%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.054%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.054%) WordPress
Applications
1 114 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.33%) Simulink
5 26 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.25%) Stateflow
7 14 (0.76%) OrCAD
8 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
9 12 (0.65%) Sketch
10 5 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.11%) EViews
12 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
12 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.11%) SPSS
12 2 (0.11%) TargetLink
12 2 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 25 (1.36%) Salesforce CRM
2 16 (0.87%) TrackWise
3 15 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.54%) SAP QM
5 9 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.27%) SAP CRM
7 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.22%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.22%) SAP WM
9 3 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
9 3 (0.16%) SAP PM
10 1 (0.054%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.054%) SAP PP
10 1 (0.054%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 160 (8.68%) Azure
2 120 (6.51%) AWS
3 70 (3.80%) Power Platform
4 43 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 27 (1.46%) SaaS
8 23 (1.25%) GitHub
9 22 (1.19%) GCP
10 21 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (0.76%) OCI
12 14 (0.76%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.70%) Figma
14 12 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (0.65%) OneDrive
14 12 (0.65%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (0.60%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 392 (21.26%) VSAT
2 59 (3.20%) Firewall
3 50 (2.71%) WAN
4 34 (1.84%) 5G
5 30 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.41%) Network Security
7 22 (1.19%) Ethernet
8 21 (1.14%) LAN
9 20 (1.08%) Wireless
10 19 (1.03%) Internet
11 18 (0.98%) Wireshark
12 17 (0.92%) DNS
12 17 (0.92%) VPN
13 15 (0.81%) DHCP
14 14 (0.76%) Bluetooth
15 13 (0.70%) RS-232
15 13 (0.70%) SD-WAN
16 7 (0.38%) 4G
16 7 (0.38%) J1939
17 6 (0.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.01%) SQL Server
2 60 (3.25%) Power BI
3 37 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (1.30%) Tableau
6 20 (1.08%) GIS
7 18 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.87%) Metadata
8 16 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (0.76%) Big Data
9 14 (0.76%) Data Lake
10 13 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
11 8 (0.43%) Data Mining
11 8 (0.43%) Power Query
12 7 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
14 4 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 140 (7.59%) JIRA
2 34 (1.84%) Git
3 33 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
4 30 (1.63%) Visual Studio
5 28 (1.52%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.98%) Selenium
7 15 (0.81%) Rational Rhapsody
8 14 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.65%) Maven
10 11 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.54%) GitLab
11 10 (0.54%) JMeter
11 10 (0.54%) Trac
12 9 (0.49%) Gradle
12 9 (0.49%) LabVIEW
13 7 (0.38%) Postman
14 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
15 3 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 453 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 302 (16.38%) Finance
3 299 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (8.30%) Manufacturing
5 147 (7.97%) Pharmaceutical
6 132 (7.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 123 (6.67%) Aerospace
8 122 (6.62%) Electronics
9 80 (4.34%) Law
9 80 (4.34%) Marketing
10 79 (4.28%) Banking
11 77 (4.18%) Automotive
12 74 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
13 68 (3.69%) Retail
14 54 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (2.55%) Legal
16 45 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
17 44 (2.39%) Telecoms
18 30 (1.63%) Military
19 24 (1.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 467 (25.33%) Architect
2 392 (21.26%) Software Architect
3 230 (12.47%) Senior
4 210 (11.39%) Lead
5 169 (9.16%) Analyst
6 160 (8.68%) Systems Engineer
7 121 (6.56%) Software Engineer
8 53 (2.87%) Technical Leader
9 52 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 47 (2.55%) IT Manager
11 45 (2.44%) Developer
12 42 (2.28%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 40 (2.17%) Hardware Engineer
13 40 (2.17%) Senior Software Engineer
14 38 (2.06%) Business Analyst
14 38 (2.06%) QA Manager
15 37 (2.01%) Consultant
16 36 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
17 32 (1.74%) Validation Engineer
18 31 (1.68%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.22%) HTML
2 34 (1.84%) XML
3 31 (1.68%) .NET
3 31 (1.68%) CSS
4 26 (1.41%) React
5 23 (1.25%) REST
6 21 (1.14%) JSON
7 20 (1.08%) Pandas
8 18 (0.98%) WebRTC
9 15 (0.81%) PyTorch
10 14 (0.76%) EDI
10 14 (0.76%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.70%) Spring
11 13 (0.70%) Spring Boot
12 12 (0.65%) .NET Core
12 12 (0.65%) Web Services
12 12 (0.65%) Yocto
13 11 (0.60%) AngularJS
13 11 (0.60%) Qt
13 11 (0.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 151 (8.19%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
3 72 (3.90%) Algorithms
4 47 (2.55%) Life Science
5 35 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.63%) Credit Risk
7 29 (1.57%) Robotics
8 24 (1.30%) FPGA
8 24 (1.30%) IoT
8 24 (1.30%) Taxonomies
9 22 (1.19%) Analogue Electronics
9 22 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 22 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
10 21 (1.14%) Biopharmaceutical
11 20 (1.08%) Onboarding
12 19 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (0.98%) Clustering
13 18 (0.98%) GNSS
13 18 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
14 17 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 131 (7.10%) Linux
2 50 (2.71%) Windows
3 19 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 17 (0.92%) Android
5 11 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.43%) Debian
7 8 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.16%) Unix
9 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (26.46%) Actionable Insight
2 459 (24.89%) Model Validation
3 455 (24.67%) Requirements Management
4 406 (22.02%) TOGAF
5 401 (21.75%) Network Architecture
6 394 (21.37%) Technical Architecture
7 392 (21.26%) Network Management
8 359 (19.47%) Agile
9 331 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
10 266 (14.43%) Verification and Validation
11 185 (10.03%) Project Management
12 174 (9.44%) Software Engineering
13 162 (8.79%) Systems Engineering
14 158 (8.57%) DevOps
15 145 (7.86%) Decision-Making
16 143 (7.75%) Data Validation
17 139 (7.54%) Computer Science
17 139 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 139 (7.54%) Mentoring
18 131 (7.10%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 226 (12.26%) Python
2 196 (10.63%) SQL
3 101 (5.48%) C
4 87 (4.72%) C#
5 77 (4.18%) MATLAB
6 71 (3.85%) C++
7 51 (2.77%) JavaScript
8 46 (2.49%) PowerShell
9 43 (2.33%) R
10 42 (2.28%) Java
11 23 (1.25%) Bash
12 19 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 18 (0.98%) Perl
14 12 (0.65%) Ada
15 10 (0.54%) Embedded C
15 10 (0.54%) XAML
16 7 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.38%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.33%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.33%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 511 (27.71%) Degree
2 315 (17.08%) Security Cleared
3 130 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 90 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 60 (3.25%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.01%) CISSP
8 36 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (1.63%) DBS Check
10 29 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.14%) HNC
12 20 (1.08%) CCSP
12 20 (1.08%) PhD
13 19 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (1.03%) HND
14 18 (0.98%) CISM
14 18 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.87%) SANS
16 14 (0.76%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (8.68%) QA
2 66 (3.58%) GMP
3 54 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (2.55%) NIST
5 41 (2.22%) Data Quality
6 40 (2.17%) PMO
7 30 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.52%) GLP
9 23 (1.25%) Good Clinical Practice
10 22 (1.19%) GxP
10 22 (1.19%) IFRS
10 22 (1.19%) IFRS 9
11 20 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 19 (1.03%) Def Stans
13 18 (0.98%) CRD IV
14 16 (0.87%) GDPR
15 13 (0.70%) Accessibility
15 13 (0.70%) Automotive SPICE
15 13 (0.70%) ISO 26262
16 11 (0.60%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 66 (3.58%) Docker
2 50 (2.71%) Firmware
3 33 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 32 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.87%) pfSense
7 14 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.54%) NFS
9 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (3.47%) Ansible
2 60 (3.25%) Terraform
3 56 (3.04%) Kubernetes
4 30 (1.63%) Functional Safety
5 17 (0.92%) Grafana
6 16 (0.87%) ZABBIX
7 15 (0.81%) Nmap
8 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 10 (0.54%) SCDPM
10 5 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.11%) Kibana
12 1 (0.054%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.054%) OpenNMS
12 1 (0.054%) Packer
12 1 (0.054%) Podman
12 1 (0.054%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.054%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.054%) Puppet
12 1 (0.054%) Salt
Vendors
1 194 (10.52%) Microsoft
2 54 (2.93%) Salesforce
3 51 (2.77%) SAP
4 45 (2.44%) VMware
5 34 (1.84%) Oracle
6 33 (1.79%) Google
7 31 (1.68%) Databricks
8 25 (1.36%) EMC
9 19 (1.03%) IBM
10 16 (0.87%) Fortinet
10 16 (0.87%) Juniper
10 16 (0.87%) Splunk
11 14 (0.76%) Cisco
11 14 (0.76%) Qualys
11 14 (0.76%) Rapid7
11 14 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 14 (0.76%) Thycotic
12 13 (0.70%) CheckPoint
12 13 (0.70%) Veeam
13 11 (0.60%) Nintex