Validation Jobs in England

Validation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 177 204
Rank change year-on-year +19 +27 +34
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,586 1,883 2,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.83% 2.13% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 2.22% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 718 571 982
10th Percentile £35,640 £36,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £59,313
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.37% +7.84%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,606 84,635 130,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.09% 95.60% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 53,947 50,378 73,071
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in England

Validation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Validation in England

Validation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Validation in England

Validation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East -1 358 £52,500 -4.55% 233
South West +40 297 £50,000 -28.00% 106
London -44 284 £75,000 +7.14% 217
North of England +48 263 £51,000 -7.27% 123
Midlands -28 260 £51,250 -6.82% 168
North West +43 165 £49,000 -6.67% 83
West Midlands -66 135 £54,500 -0.91% 121
East Midlands +54 125 £42,500 -29.17% 47
East of England -31 119 £55,000 -8.33% 145
Yorkshire +51 88 £51,528 -10.42% 33
North East +1 10 £52,500 -32.26% 8
Validation
UK

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 24 (1.51%) SAS
2 17 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 14 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 13 (0.82%) Apache
4 13 (0.82%) Documentum
5 10 (0.63%) IIS
6 9 (0.57%) Confluence
7 8 (0.50%) CMS
8 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.32%) Kinematics
9 3 (0.19%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 105 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.71%) Simulink
5 24 (1.51%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.45%) Stateflow
7 14 (0.88%) OrCAD
8 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.13%) Fusion 360
11 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.13%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.13%) Windchill
12 1 (0.063%) EViews
12 1 (0.063%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.01%) TrackWise
2 14 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.57%) SAP QM
5 8 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.32%) SAP CRM
7 4 (0.25%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.25%) SAP WM
8 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.19%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.063%) SAP HCM
10 1 (0.063%) thinkFolio
10 1 (0.063%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 152 (9.58%) Azure
2 117 (7.38%) AWS
3 66 (4.16%) Power Platform
4 43 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (1.58%) SaaS
7 23 (1.45%) GitHub
8 22 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (1.39%) GCP
9 17 (1.07%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 15 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (0.82%) PowerApps
13 12 (0.76%) OCI
13 12 (0.76%) OneDrive
14 11 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (0.69%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.69%) ShareGate
15 8 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 242 (15.26%) VSAT
2 58 (3.66%) Firewall
3 40 (2.52%) WAN
4 32 (2.02%) 5G
5 30 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.64%) Network Security
7 23 (1.45%) Ethernet
8 21 (1.32%) LAN
8 21 (1.32%) Wireless
9 19 (1.20%) Internet
10 18 (1.13%) DNS
10 18 (1.13%) Wireshark
11 17 (1.07%) VPN
12 16 (1.01%) DHCP
13 14 (0.88%) RS-232
14 11 (0.69%) Bluetooth
14 11 (0.69%) SD-WAN
15 7 (0.44%) 4G
15 7 (0.44%) J1939
16 6 (0.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.04%) SQL Server
2 56 (3.53%) Power BI
3 36 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (1.45%) Tableau
6 19 (1.20%) GIS
7 17 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 14 (0.88%) Big Data
8 14 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
9 12 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (0.69%) Metadata
11 8 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.50%) Crystal Reports
11 8 (0.50%) Power Query
12 7 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (0.44%) Data Mining
12 7 (0.44%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.38%) SAP HANA
14 4 (0.25%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 118 (7.44%) JIRA
2 33 (2.08%) Rational DOORS
3 26 (1.64%) Git
4 25 (1.58%) Visual Studio
5 19 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 16 (1.01%) Selenium
7 15 (0.95%) Rational Rhapsody
8 11 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (0.63%) GitLab
9 10 (0.63%) Trac
10 9 (0.57%) LabVIEW
11 6 (0.38%) Postman
12 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.25%) Katalon Studio
14 3 (0.19%) Appium
14 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
14 3 (0.19%) ERwin
14 3 (0.19%) Maven
15 2 (0.13%) Apache Continuum
General
1 424 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 268 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
3 248 (15.64%) Finance
4 140 (8.83%) Manufacturing
4 140 (8.83%) Pharmaceutical
5 123 (7.76%) Aerospace
6 118 (7.44%) Electronics
7 98 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 77 (4.85%) Automotive
9 63 (3.97%) Banking
10 62 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
12 50 (3.15%) Law
13 47 (2.96%) Retail
13 47 (2.96%) Telecoms
14 46 (2.90%) Marketing
15 43 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
16 41 (2.59%) Legal
17 31 (1.95%) Military
18 24 (1.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 314 (19.80%) Architect
2 242 (15.26%) Software Architect
3 204 (12.86%) Senior
4 194 (12.23%) Lead
5 149 (9.39%) Systems Engineer
6 142 (8.95%) Analyst
7 101 (6.37%) Software Engineer
8 53 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 52 (3.28%) Technical Leader
10 47 (2.96%) IT Manager
11 41 (2.59%) Developer
12 40 (2.52%) Hardware Engineer
13 39 (2.46%) Senior Software Engineer
14 38 (2.40%) QA Manager
15 37 (2.33%) Business Analyst
16 35 (2.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 34 (2.14%) Consultant
18 31 (1.95%) Data Engineer
18 31 (1.95%) Validation Engineer
19 29 (1.83%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.27%) HTML
2 31 (1.95%) XML
3 29 (1.83%) CSS
4 24 (1.51%) .NET
5 21 (1.32%) JSON
6 16 (1.01%) Pandas
6 16 (1.01%) React
7 15 (0.95%) REST
8 14 (0.88%) EDI
9 12 (0.76%) .NET Core
9 12 (0.76%) Yocto
10 11 (0.69%) Qt
10 11 (0.69%) WPF
11 10 (0.63%) AngularJS
11 10 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
11 10 (0.63%) WebRTC
12 9 (0.57%) Middleware
12 9 (0.57%) NumPy
12 9 (0.57%) Web Services
13 8 (0.50%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 141 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 83 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
3 64 (4.04%) Algorithms
4 44 (2.77%) Life Science
5 33 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 29 (1.83%) Robotics
7 24 (1.51%) FPGA
7 24 (1.51%) IoT
8 23 (1.45%) Taxonomies
9 22 (1.39%) Analogue Electronics
9 22 (1.39%) Cloud Native
9 22 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
10 20 (1.26%) Biopharmaceutical
11 18 (1.13%) Security Operations Centre
12 17 (1.07%) Credit Risk
12 17 (1.07%) GNSS
12 17 (1.07%) Onboarding
13 16 (1.01%) NHS
13 16 (1.01%) PDA
14 15 (0.95%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 130 (8.20%) Linux
2 42 (2.65%) Windows
3 17 (1.07%) Android
3 17 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.50%) Debian
6 8 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.19%) Unix
8 1 (0.063%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (21.00%) Actionable Insight
2 305 (19.23%) Agile
3 304 (19.17%) Model Validation
3 304 (19.17%) Requirements Management
4 302 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
5 262 (16.52%) TOGAF
6 252 (15.89%) Verification and Validation
7 251 (15.83%) Network Architecture
8 250 (15.76%) Technical Architecture
9 243 (15.32%) Network Management
10 182 (11.48%) Project Management
11 160 (10.09%) Systems Engineering
12 151 (9.52%) Software Engineering
13 142 (8.95%) Computer Science
14 140 (8.83%) DevOps
15 136 (8.58%) Decision-Making
16 129 (8.13%) Collaborative Working
17 127 (8.01%) Mentoring
18 123 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
19 119 (7.50%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 204 (12.86%) Python
2 164 (10.34%) SQL
3 94 (5.93%) C
4 76 (4.79%) MATLAB
5 75 (4.73%) C#
6 66 (4.16%) C++
7 40 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 40 (2.52%) PowerShell
8 33 (2.08%) Java
8 33 (2.08%) R
9 22 (1.39%) Bash
10 17 (1.07%) Perl
10 17 (1.07%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.76%) Ada
12 10 (0.63%) Embedded C
12 10 (0.63%) XAML
13 7 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.44%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.38%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.38%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 494 (31.15%) Degree
2 302 (19.04%) Security Cleared
3 116 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 90 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 57 (3.59%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.33%) CISSP
9 31 (1.95%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.32%) HNC
12 19 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (1.20%) CCSP
12 19 (1.20%) HND
12 19 (1.20%) PhD
13 18 (1.13%) CISM
14 17 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (1.01%) SANS
16 14 (0.88%) CISA
16 14 (0.88%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (8.95%) QA
2 66 (4.16%) GMP
3 54 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (2.96%) NIST
5 43 (2.71%) Data Quality
6 37 (2.33%) PMO
7 30 (1.89%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.77%) GLP
9 23 (1.45%) Good Clinical Practice
10 22 (1.39%) GxP
11 19 (1.20%) Def Stans
12 17 (1.07%) GDPR
12 17 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 13 (0.82%) Automotive SPICE
13 13 (0.82%) IFRS
13 13 (0.82%) IFRS 9
13 13 (0.82%) ISO 26262
14 12 (0.76%) Accessibility
15 11 (0.69%) ISO 9001
16 10 (0.63%) CRD IV
System Software
1 66 (4.16%) Docker
2 50 (3.15%) Firmware
3 31 (1.95%) Active Directory
4 30 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 16 (1.01%) pfSense
5 16 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
7 10 (0.63%) NFS
8 4 (0.25%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.063%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (4.10%) Ansible
2 60 (3.78%) Terraform
3 56 (3.53%) Kubernetes
4 30 (1.89%) Functional Safety
5 17 (1.07%) Grafana
6 16 (1.01%) ZABBIX
7 15 (0.95%) Nmap
8 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 10 (0.63%) SCDPM
10 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) Kibana
12 1 (0.063%) Consul
12 1 (0.063%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.063%) OpenNMS
12 1 (0.063%) Packer
12 1 (0.063%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.063%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.063%) Puppet
12 1 (0.063%) Salt
Vendors
1 183 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 46 (2.90%) SAP
3 44 (2.77%) Salesforce
4 35 (2.21%) VMware
5 30 (1.89%) Oracle
6 28 (1.77%) Google
7 25 (1.58%) EMC
8 22 (1.39%) Databricks
9 19 (1.20%) IBM
10 16 (1.01%) Fortinet
10 16 (1.01%) Juniper
10 16 (1.01%) Splunk
11 14 (0.88%) Qualys
11 14 (0.88%) Rapid7
11 14 (0.88%) Thycotic
11 14 (0.88%) Veeam
12 13 (0.82%) Cisco
13 11 (0.69%) CheckPoint
13 11 (0.69%) Nintex
14 10 (0.63%) Alteryx