Data Validation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Validation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Data Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Validation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 523 655
Rank change year-on-year +153 +132 +111
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 27 69 18
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.20% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.22% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 23 52 14
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £33,875
25th Percentile £46,875 £48,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £46,701
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +17.77% -25.28%
75th Percentile £84,443 £72,433 £48,402
90th Percentile £102,410 £107,500 £53,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Data Validation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Validation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Validation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Validation.

Data Validation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Validation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
1 10 (37.04%) Power Platform
2 9 (33.33%) GCP
3 6 (22.22%) AWS
4 5 (18.52%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (14.81%) Vertex AI
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Stack
6 2 (7.41%) Figma
6 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
6 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Power BI
2 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (18.52%) Big Data
3 5 (18.52%) BigQuery
3 5 (18.52%) Data Hub
3 5 (18.52%) Looker
3 5 (18.52%) Tableau
4 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) Pinecone
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Axure RP
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (66.67%) Finance
2 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Banking
4 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Data Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Senior
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
3 5 (18.52%) Lead Data Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Provisioning Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Data Scientist
4 4 (14.81%) IT Manager
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Data Scientist
5 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Developer
6 2 (7.41%) ERP Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Product Owner
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Pandas
1 4 (14.81%) XGBoost
2 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.70%) Flask
2 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.70%) Hugging Face
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) CMDB
1 4 (14.81%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Validation
2 11 (40.74%) Decision-Making
2 11 (40.74%) Mentoring
3 10 (37.04%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (29.63%) Data Engineering
6 7 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (25.93%) Data Science
6 7 (25.93%) Machine Learning
7 6 (22.22%) Agile
7 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 6 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (22.22%) DevOps
7 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (22.22%) Visualisation
8 5 (18.52%) Analytics
8 5 (18.52%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) SHACL
3 1 (3.70%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Google
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce