Data Validation Job Trends in West Sussex

Data Validation
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Data Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 0.49% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
South East median annual salary £69,840 £45,072 £47,000
% change year-on-year +54.95% -4.10% -21.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Data 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 in West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 299 277 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 72.93% 88.50% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 214 140 255
10th Percentile £27,575 £29,850 £33,300
25th Percentile £33,500 £39,521 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.26% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £76,600
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +9.43% -3.64%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Validation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Data Validation job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Data Validation
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Data Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 8 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
Burgess Hill - 1 £70,000 -
Crawley - 1 - - 3
Data Validation
South East

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (50.00%) TestNG
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft