Verification and Validation Jobs

Verification and Validation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Verification and Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Verification and Validation over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 632 684 910
Rank change year-on-year +52 +226 -181
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 264 319 334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.33% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 165 57 118
10th Percentile £40,750 £34,814 £34,990
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £39,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,288
Median % change year-on-year - -2.29% +12.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year - +14.58% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Verification and 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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in the UK

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Verification and Validation in the UK

Verification and Validation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Verification and Validation over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Verification and Validation in the UK

Verification and Validation
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Verification and Validation within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +31 247 £55,000 -12.00% 182
UK excluding London -18 247 £55,000 - 174
Work from Home +76 107 £55,000 - 56
South East +36 80 £54,995 -0.01% 49
South West -17 46 £55,000 -19.41% 32
East of England -4 45 £57,500 +4.55% 33
Midlands -47 32 £55,000 - 37
North of England +62 28 £50,500 - 22
West Midlands -35 25 £55,000 - 24
North West - 22 £55,000 - 19
London +88 13 £70,000 -22.22% 12
Scotland -55 12 £60,000 - 6
East Midlands -17 7 £42,500 - 13
Yorkshire +78 5 £45,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 2

Verification and 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 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (7.20%) Simulink
2 9 (3.41%) Stateflow
3 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.76%) TargetLink
6 1 (0.38%) CATIA
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.38%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.38%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (3.41%) BlazeMeter
2 4 (1.52%) dbt
2 4 (1.52%) Prefect
3 2 (0.76%) Azure
3 2 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (0.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.38%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) Bluetooth
1 5 (1.89%) LAN
1 5 (1.89%) Network Security
1 5 (1.89%) WAN
2 4 (1.52%) Firewall
2 4 (1.52%) Multicast
2 4 (1.52%) OSPF
2 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.14%) 4G
4 2 (0.76%) RS-232
5 1 (0.38%) 3G
5 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.38%) GPRS
5 1 (0.38%) Modbus
5 1 (0.38%) RS-485
5 1 (0.38%) SAN
5 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.27%) Relational Database
1 6 (2.27%) SQL Server
1 6 (2.27%) Tableau
2 4 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (0.76%) Big Data
3 2 (0.76%) Power BI
3 2 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (9.47%) JIRA
2 24 (9.09%) Rational DOORS
3 11 (4.17%) Rational Rhapsody
4 9 (3.41%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.41%) Cypress.io
4 9 (3.41%) Gradle
4 9 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.41%) JMeter
4 9 (3.41%) Maven
5 6 (2.27%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.52%) Git
6 4 (1.52%) GitLab
6 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.76%) Apache Continuum
7 2 (0.76%) Appium
7 2 (0.76%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.38%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 72 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.15%) Electronics
3 25 (9.47%) Automotive
4 23 (8.71%) Aerospace
5 22 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.82%) Military
7 16 (6.06%) Marketing
8 15 (5.68%) Finance
8 15 (5.68%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.17%) Retail
10 10 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (3.41%) Law
12 7 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.65%) Legal
13 6 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.89%) Games
14 5 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 73 (27.65%) Systems Engineer
2 58 (21.97%) Software Engineer
3 43 (16.29%) Lead
4 40 (15.15%) Senior
5 16 (6.06%) Validation Engineer
6 15 (5.68%) Electronics Engineer
7 14 (5.30%) Embedded Engineer
8 13 (4.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 13 (4.92%) Verification Engineer
9 11 (4.17%) Developer
9 11 (4.17%) Hardware Engineer
10 10 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (3.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 9 (3.41%) Architect
11 9 (3.41%) Integration Engineer
11 9 (3.41%) Java Engineer
11 9 (3.41%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (3.41%) QA Engineer
11 9 (3.41%) QA Software Engineer
12 8 (3.03%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.79%) React
2 9 (3.41%) Ext JS
2 9 (3.41%) Spring
2 9 (3.41%) Spring Boot
3 6 (2.27%) PyTorch
3 6 (2.27%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.89%) WPF
5 4 (1.52%) Akka
6 3 (1.14%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (0.76%) OpenCV
7 2 (0.76%) Playwright
7 2 (0.76%) Qt
7 2 (0.76%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.76%) wxWidgets
8 1 (0.38%) .NET
8 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.38%) HTML
8 1 (0.38%) HTML5
8 1 (0.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.58%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.79%) Robotics
4 9 (3.41%) Market Risk
5 6 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.52%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (1.52%) FMCG
7 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.52%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.52%) SCADA
7 4 (1.52%) Verilog
7 4 (1.52%) VHDL
7 4 (1.52%) Virtual Reality
8 3 (1.14%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (1.14%) ASIC
9 2 (0.76%) AS400
9 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.76%) State Machine
10 1 (0.38%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.79%) Linux
2 8 (3.03%) Windows
3 2 (0.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (100.00%) Validation
2 108 (40.91%) Systems Engineering
3 70 (26.52%) Software Engineering
4 51 (19.32%) Agile
5 38 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (12.50%) Visualisation
8 28 (10.61%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 28 (10.61%) Software Testing
9 26 (9.85%) Mentoring
9 26 (9.85%) Requirements Management
10 24 (9.09%) Decision-Making
11 23 (8.71%) Mathematics
12 20 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (7.58%) Physics
13 19 (7.20%) Project Management
13 19 (7.20%) Test Automation
13 19 (7.20%) V-Model
14 18 (6.82%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (6.82%) UML
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.64%) C
2 34 (12.88%) C#
3 33 (12.50%) Python
4 30 (11.36%) MATLAB
5 20 (7.58%) JavaScript
5 20 (7.58%) SQL
6 14 (5.30%) C++
7 9 (3.41%) Java
8 7 (2.65%) Embedded C
9 5 (1.89%) Ada
9 5 (1.89%) XAML
10 4 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.52%) R
10 4 (1.52%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.76%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.76%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.38%) Fortran
13 1 (0.38%) Lua
Qualifications
1 116 (43.94%) Security Cleared
2 102 (38.64%) Degree
3 54 (20.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 45 (17.05%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.92%) HND
6 12 (4.55%) HNC
7 11 (4.17%) PhD
8 10 (3.79%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.41%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.89%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.76%) NVQ Level 4
13 1 (0.38%) CBAP
13 1 (0.38%) CCNP
13 1 (0.38%) IIBA
13 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.20%) Def Stans
2 15 (5.68%) QA
3 14 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (2.27%) IEC 62304
5 4 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.76%) ECSS
6 2 (0.76%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.76%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.76%) JTAG
7 1 (0.38%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.38%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 16 (6.06%) Firmware
2 5 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.27%) Functional Safety
2 4 (1.52%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (3.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.41%) TOWER Software
3 8 (3.03%) EMC
4 6 (2.27%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.27%) SAP
4 6 (2.27%) Thales
5 5 (1.89%) Cisco
5 5 (1.89%) IBM
6 4 (1.52%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.52%) Google
7 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.76%) MathWorks
9 1 (0.38%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.38%) CA
9 1 (0.38%) NCR
9 1 (0.38%) VMware