Validation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Validation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Validation over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 212 237
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 +5
Permanent jobs citing Validation 209 503 611
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.38% 1.49% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.62% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 123 287 204
10th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £40,075
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,750 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £92,375
UK median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.51% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and 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 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £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%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Validation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Validation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Validation over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Validation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.91%) Confluence
2 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.96%) Apache
3 2 (0.96%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.39%) Simulink
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.96%) Autodesk Inventor
5 2 (0.96%) CATIA
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.96%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.48%) Blender
6 1 (0.48%) Maple
6 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.48%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Infor M3
2 3 (1.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 32 (15.31%) AWS
2 27 (12.92%) Power Platform
3 24 (11.48%) Azure
4 19 (9.09%) GCP
5 18 (8.61%) GitHub
6 7 (3.35%) Amazon S3
6 7 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.87%) Figma
7 6 (2.87%) Serverless
8 4 (1.91%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.91%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.91%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.91%) Vertex AI
9 3 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.22%) 5G
1 13 (6.22%) WAN
2 9 (4.31%) SD-WAN
3 7 (3.35%) Bluetooth
4 6 (2.87%) DNS
5 4 (1.91%) 4G
5 4 (1.91%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (1.91%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.44%) DHCP
7 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.48%) Broadband
8 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.48%) GSM
8 1 (0.48%) IGMP
8 1 (0.48%) Internet
8 1 (0.48%) LTE
8 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.48%) UMTS
8 1 (0.48%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.96%) Data Warehouse
1 25 (11.96%) Power BI
1 25 (11.96%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (3.83%) Data Lake
4 8 (3.83%) MySQL
5 7 (3.35%) BigQuery
5 7 (3.35%) Tableau
6 6 (2.87%) Big Data
6 6 (2.87%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.39%) Data Hub
7 5 (2.39%) Looker
8 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.44%) Triplestore
9 2 (0.96%) Airbyte
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.96%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 33 (15.79%) Git
2 8 (3.83%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.87%) Gradle
3 6 (2.87%) Maven
3 6 (2.87%) Postman
4 5 (2.39%) SoapUI
5 4 (1.91%) CppUnit
5 4 (1.91%) GitLab
5 4 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.91%) JIRA
5 4 (1.91%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.44%) Selenium
7 2 (0.96%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.96%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.48%) Appium
8 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.48%) JMeter
8 1 (0.48%) Locust
8 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
General
1 86 (41.15%) Social Skills
2 69 (33.01%) Finance
3 64 (30.62%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.75%) Manufacturing
5 26 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (11.48%) Marketing
7 21 (10.05%) Banking
8 15 (7.18%) Aerospace
9 12 (5.74%) Games
10 11 (5.26%) Retail
11 10 (4.78%) Legal
12 9 (4.31%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (4.31%) Public Sector
13 7 (3.35%) Law
14 6 (2.87%) Health Technology
15 5 (2.39%) Electronics
15 5 (2.39%) Military
16 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
17 3 (1.44%) Digital Health
18 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (18.18%) Analyst
1 38 (18.18%) Senior
2 23 (11.00%) Data Engineer
3 18 (8.61%) Software Engineer
4 13 (6.22%) Developer
5 11 (5.26%) Test Engineer
6 9 (4.31%) Administrator
6 9 (4.31%) Applications Support
6 9 (4.31%) Applications Support Analyst
6 9 (4.31%) Business Analyst
6 9 (4.31%) Embedded Engineer
6 9 (4.31%) Salesforce Administrator
6 9 (4.31%) Support Analyst
7 8 (3.83%) C Software Engineer
7 8 (3.83%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 8 (3.83%) C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (3.35%) Senior Developer
8 7 (3.35%) Senior Software Developer
8 7 (3.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.22%) Qt
2 12 (5.74%) Kafka
3 10 (4.78%) React
4 8 (3.83%) CSS
4 8 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (3.83%) HTML
4 8 (3.83%) RESTful
5 6 (2.87%) Django
5 6 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (2.87%) Spring
5 6 (2.87%) WebSockets
6 5 (2.39%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.91%) .NET
7 4 (1.91%) EDI
7 4 (1.91%) NestJS
7 4 (1.91%) Next.js
7 4 (1.91%) Pandas
7 4 (1.91%) REST
7 4 (1.91%) XGBoost
8 3 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.57%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (5.74%) IoT
3 11 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.31%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.31%) GNSS
5 9 (4.31%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.31%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 9 (4.31%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (3.35%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.35%) FPGA
6 7 (3.35%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.87%) Biopharmaceutical
7 6 (2.87%) Client/Server
7 6 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.87%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.87%) Mobile Games
7 6 (2.87%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.91%) CMDB
8 4 (1.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.35%) Linux
2 7 (3.35%) Windows
3 6 (2.87%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.44%) Android
6 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.48%) AIX
7 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 44 (21.05%) Analytics
4 43 (20.57%) Computer Science
5 38 (18.18%) Verification and Validation
6 37 (17.70%) Agile
6 37 (17.70%) Software Engineering
7 33 (15.79%) Software Testing
8 31 (14.83%) Data Modelling
9 28 (13.40%) CI/CD
9 28 (13.40%) ETL
10 26 (12.44%) Data Validation
11 25 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (11.48%) Mentoring
13 23 (11.00%) Data Engineering
14 21 (10.05%) DevOps
15 20 (9.57%) Decision-Making
16 19 (9.09%) Data Analytics
16 19 (9.09%) Manual Testing
16 19 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 73 (34.93%) SQL
2 60 (28.71%) Python
3 33 (15.79%) C
4 32 (15.31%) C++
5 13 (6.22%) C#
6 12 (5.74%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.26%) Java
7 11 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.78%) T-SQL
9 9 (4.31%) C-shell
9 9 (4.31%) Korn
10 8 (3.83%) MATLAB
11 7 (3.35%) Bash
11 7 (3.35%) Perl
11 7 (3.35%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.87%) Ladder Logic
13 4 (1.91%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 72 (34.45%) Degree
2 29 (13.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.22%) PhD
4 13 (6.22%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.31%) DBS Check
6 8 (3.83%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.35%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.91%) MRICS
10 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.96%) ACCA
11 2 (0.96%) CCA
11 2 (0.96%) CIMA
11 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.48%) ACSP
12 1 (0.48%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.35%) QA
2 25 (11.96%) Data Quality
3 12 (5.74%) PMO
4 7 (3.35%) GxP
5 5 (2.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 5 (2.39%) GMP
6 3 (1.44%) COBIT
6 3 (1.44%) GDPR
6 3 (1.44%) Good Clinical Practice
6 3 (1.44%) NIST
7 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.96%) Dublin Core
7 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.48%) IFRS
8 1 (0.48%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.48%) MiFID
8 1 (0.48%) NCSC
8 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (6.70%) Docker
2 5 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.91%) Firmware
4 3 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 18 (8.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.78%) Argo
3 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.44%) Ansible
4 3 (1.44%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.96%) Puppet
5 2 (0.96%) SCOM
6 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.70%) Oracle
2 14 (6.70%) SAP
3 13 (6.22%) Google
4 12 (5.74%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.87%) Infor
5 6 (2.87%) New Relic
5 6 (2.87%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.87%) Siemens
6 5 (2.39%) Databricks
7 4 (1.91%) Informatica
7 4 (1.91%) Intel
7 4 (1.91%) NEC
7 4 (1.91%) YouTube
8 3 (1.44%) Cisco
8 3 (1.44%) Dell
8 3 (1.44%) IBM
8 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.44%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.96%) Mentor Graphics