Hybrid/Remote Validation Job Trends

Validation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 216 260
Rank change year-on-year +111 +44 -64
Permanent jobs citing Validation 599 232 274
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.63% 1.40% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 1.50% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 339 132 150
10th Percentile £36,750 £40,750 £42,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £62,759
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.40% -3.45%
75th Percentile £74,066 £76,563 £77,188
90th Percentile £95,500 £92,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -5.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 18,803 15,435 21,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.40% 92.94% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,575 8,949 15,283
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,549 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Validation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Validation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Validation

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Validation over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Validation salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 16 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.34%) Apache
3 9 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.50%) Confluence
4 8 (1.34%) Jupyter
5 6 (1.00%) SAS
6 3 (0.50%) Artix
7 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 47 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.17%) Simulink
5 8 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.00%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.67%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.67%) Mathcad
7 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.50%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.50%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.50%) Productboard
8 3 (0.50%) Sketch
8 3 (0.50%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.17%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.17%) Trello
9 1 (0.17%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 28 (4.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.67%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.83%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.83%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.67%) iTrent
5 4 (0.67%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.50%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.17%) Cognos Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.17%) Finacle
8 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 80 (13.36%) Azure
2 75 (12.52%) AWS
3 57 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 36 (6.01%) SaaS
5 28 (4.67%) Serverless
6 26 (4.34%) GCP
7 15 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 14 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (1.84%) Amazon EMR
10 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (1.34%) Azure Machine Learning
12 8 (1.34%) Datadog
13 7 (1.17%) Collibra
13 7 (1.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.68%) Broadband
2 9 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.34%) CHAP
3 8 (1.34%) DNS
3 8 (1.34%) Network Security
3 8 (1.34%) OSPF
4 7 (1.17%) 5G
4 7 (1.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (1.17%) VLAN
5 6 (1.00%) BGP
5 6 (1.00%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (1.00%) LAN
5 6 (1.00%) WAN
6 5 (0.83%) MPLS
7 4 (0.67%) DHCP
7 4 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (0.67%) Firewall
7 4 (0.67%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.67%) VXLAN
7 4 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.02%) Power BI
2 42 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (5.51%) MongoDB
4 29 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (3.17%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (2.84%) BigQuery
7 17 (2.84%) Metadata
8 16 (2.67%) Semantic Layer
9 13 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.84%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.84%) Power Query
11 9 (1.50%) Tableau
12 8 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.34%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.34%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (8.68%) JIRA
2 25 (4.17%) Git
3 22 (3.67%) Snyk
4 17 (2.84%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
6 14 (2.34%) LabVIEW
7 12 (2.00%) GitLab
8 6 (1.00%) JMeter
9 5 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.83%) Locust
10 4 (0.67%) Rational Rhapsody
11 3 (0.50%) Postman
11 3 (0.50%) Selenium
11 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.33%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
13 1 (0.17%) MLflow
13 1 (0.17%) Ranorex
13 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 248 (41.40%) Social Skills
2 175 (29.22%) Finance
3 153 (25.54%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (16.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (9.85%) Electronics
6 47 (7.85%) Manufacturing
7 45 (7.51%) Banking
7 45 (7.51%) Organisational Skills
8 37 (6.18%) Aerospace
8 37 (6.18%) Public Sector
9 36 (6.01%) Games
10 34 (5.68%) Telecoms
11 26 (4.34%) Legal
12 21 (3.51%) Retail
13 20 (3.34%) Billing
13 20 (3.34%) Marketing
14 17 (2.84%) Law
15 16 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (2.17%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 124 (20.70%) Senior
2 75 (12.52%) Analyst
3 63 (10.52%) Lead
4 52 (8.68%) Architect
5 47 (7.85%) Systems Engineer
6 44 (7.35%) Data Engineer
7 42 (7.01%) Developer
8 31 (5.18%) Data Scientist
9 29 (4.84%) Consultant
9 29 (4.84%) IT Manager
10 28 (4.67%) Project Manager
11 27 (4.51%) IT Project Manager
12 26 (4.34%) Cloud Architect
12 26 (4.34%) Senior Architect
13 25 (4.17%) Data Analyst
14 22 (3.67%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.67%) Cloud Security Architect
14 22 (3.67%) Security Architect
14 22 (3.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
14 22 (3.67%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.51%) RESTful
2 17 (2.84%) Node.js
3 15 (2.50%) REST
4 13 (2.17%) JSON
5 12 (2.00%) XML
6 11 (1.84%) .NET
7 10 (1.67%) React
8 9 (1.50%) PySpark
9 7 (1.17%) LangChain
10 6 (1.00%) Kafka
10 6 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
10 6 (1.00%) Pandas
10 6 (1.00%) scikit-learn
10 6 (1.00%) Streamlit
11 5 (0.83%) Gherkin
11 5 (0.83%) NumPy
11 5 (0.83%) ODBC
11 5 (0.83%) XGBoost
12 4 (0.67%) Playwright
12 4 (0.67%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.19%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.18%) Management Information System
3 35 (5.84%) Onboarding
4 34 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.68%) Video\Live Streaming
5 33 (5.51%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (5.18%) Low-Code
7 30 (5.01%) Data Centre
8 25 (4.17%) Driving Licence
9 23 (3.84%) Algorithms
10 21 (3.51%) Data Structures
11 20 (3.34%) Product Ownership
12 14 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
14 10 (1.67%) IoT
15 9 (1.50%) LIMS
16 8 (1.34%) Fibre Optics
16 8 (1.34%) Operational Technology
16 8 (1.34%) Virtual Team
17 7 (1.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.34%) Linux
2 17 (2.84%) Windows
3 6 (1.00%) Android
4 3 (0.50%) Unix
5 2 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (30.55%) Problem-Solving
2 174 (29.05%) Agile
3 171 (28.55%) AI
4 160 (26.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 117 (19.53%) CI/CD
6 110 (18.36%) Migration
7 106 (17.70%) Test Automation
8 98 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 95 (15.86%) Machine Learning
10 92 (15.36%) Data Migration
11 87 (14.52%) Mentoring
12 78 (13.02%) ERP
12 78 (13.02%) Roadmaps
12 78 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 76 (12.69%) Analytics
14 72 (12.02%) Decision-Making
15 71 (11.85%) Observability
16 69 (11.52%) DevOps
17 67 (11.19%) Software Engineering
18 65 (10.85%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 191 (31.89%) Python
2 134 (22.37%) SQL
3 31 (5.18%) Go
4 25 (4.17%) Java
5 23 (3.84%) MATLAB
6 22 (3.67%) C#
7 17 (2.84%) C++
8 15 (2.50%) C
9 10 (1.67%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.34%) Bash
11 8 (1.34%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.17%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.17%) R
13 4 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.67%) VBA
14 3 (0.50%) GLSL
14 3 (0.50%) Pascal
14 3 (0.50%) SHACL
14 3 (0.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 112 (18.70%) Degree
2 75 (12.52%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.01%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (5.18%) DV Cleared
6 27 (4.51%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.50%) PhD
8 12 (2.00%) CISSP
8 12 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.84%) PMP
10 10 (1.67%) SANS
11 9 (1.50%) CISM
12 8 (1.34%) CGEIT
12 8 (1.34%) CISA
12 8 (1.34%) FFIEC
13 7 (1.17%) ACCA
13 7 (1.17%) CIMA
13 7 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (19.70%) Data Quality
2 60 (10.02%) QA
3 30 (5.01%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.01%) GDPR
4 24 (4.01%) GRC
5 16 (2.67%) NIST
6 8 (1.34%) COBIT
6 8 (1.34%) GAAP
6 8 (1.34%) IFRS
7 7 (1.17%) GxP
7 7 (1.17%) PMO
8 6 (1.00%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.83%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.83%) SLA
9 5 (0.83%) WCAG
10 4 (0.67%) NCSC
10 4 (0.67%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 22 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (3.34%) Firmware
3 19 (3.17%) Docker
4 8 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (1.17%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (3.67%) Terraform
2 14 (2.34%) Grafana
3 13 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.17%) Ansible
5 5 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.67%) SCCM
7 3 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.17%) MOM
9 1 (0.17%) Nessus
9 1 (0.17%) Nmap
9 1 (0.17%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 89 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.35%) SAP
3 41 (6.84%) Oracle
4 26 (4.34%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.84%) Palo Alto
6 22 (3.67%) CrowdStrike
6 22 (3.67%) Tenable
7 18 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.67%) Cisco
9 11 (1.84%) Google
10 9 (1.50%) Databricks
11 8 (1.34%) Foundry
11 8 (1.34%) IBM
11 8 (1.34%) Workday
12 7 (1.17%) Adobe
12 7 (1.17%) Informatica
13 6 (1.00%) EMC
14 5 (0.83%) VMware
15 4 (0.67%) Hyperion
15 4 (0.67%) Mitel