Validation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 152 192
Rank change year-on-year +10 +40 -8
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,492 1,339 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.96% 2.37% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.48% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 578 349 566
10th Percentile £34,925 £34,890 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £45,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +15.88% -1.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £85,000 £77,195
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,086 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.41% +12.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the UK excluding London

Validation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Validation in the UK excluding London

Validation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Validation in the UK excluding London

Validation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 0 367 £52,500 -4.55% 214
South West +29 301 £50,000 -28.00% 105
North of England +38 250 £50,000 -9.16% 129
Midlands -42 240 £50,000 -6.98% 139
North West +34 158 £50,000 -7.01% 81
West Midlands -71 133 £54,000 -1.82% 90
Scotland -12 126 £52,067 -11.47% 37
East of England -30 124 £55,000 -8.33% 141
East Midlands +39 107 £42,500 -10.53% 49
Yorkshire +21 82 £51,528 -6.39% 38
Wales +32 47 £45,000 +4.49% 10
Northern Ireland +45 39 - - 4
North East -5 10 £52,500 -32.26% 10
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Validation
UK

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (0.94%) SharePoint
2 13 (0.87%) Documentum
2 13 (0.87%) IIS
3 8 (0.54%) CMS
4 7 (0.47%) Confluence
4 7 (0.47%) SAS
5 5 (0.34%) Kinematics
6 3 (0.20%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (3.08%) Simulink
4 37 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.54%) Stateflow
6 18 (1.21%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.94%) OrCAD
8 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
8 12 (0.80%) Sketch
9 5 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.13%) Fusion 360
10 2 (0.13%) TargetLink
11 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.067%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.07%) TrackWise
2 14 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.47%) SAP QM
4 4 (0.27%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.067%) Lorenzo
7 1 (0.067%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-BP
7 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-F
7 1 (0.067%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 121 (8.11%) Azure
2 98 (6.57%) AWS
3 48 (3.22%) Power Platform
4 22 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (1.27%) SaaS
6 16 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (1.07%) GitHub
7 15 (1.01%) GCP
7 15 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 13 (0.87%) Figma
8 13 (0.87%) OCI
9 12 (0.80%) PowerApps
10 11 (0.74%) OneDrive
10 11 (0.74%) Power Automate
10 11 (0.74%) ShareGate
11 9 (0.60%) BlazeMeter
11 9 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (0.47%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (0.47%) Mavenlink
Communications & Networking
1 334 (22.39%) VSAT
2 41 (2.75%) Firewall
3 35 (2.35%) WAN
4 32 (2.14%) 5G
5 22 (1.47%) Ethernet
6 21 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.27%) Internet
8 18 (1.21%) Network Security
8 18 (1.21%) Wireless
9 17 (1.14%) VPN
10 15 (1.01%) DHCP
10 15 (1.01%) DNS
11 14 (0.94%) Bluetooth
12 13 (0.87%) RS-232
13 12 (0.80%) LAN
14 11 (0.74%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.60%) Wireshark
16 7 (0.47%) 4G
16 7 (0.47%) Broadband
16 7 (0.47%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.08%) Power BI
2 45 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (1.14%) Tableau
5 15 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.67%) GIS
8 9 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (0.60%) Power Query
9 8 (0.54%) Big Data
9 8 (0.54%) Crystal Reports
10 7 (0.47%) Metadata
11 6 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.13%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
15 1 (0.067%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 133 (8.91%) JIRA
2 33 (2.21%) Rational DOORS
3 26 (1.74%) Git
4 25 (1.68%) Visual Studio
5 21 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.01%) Rational Rhapsody
7 14 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.87%) Selenium
9 10 (0.67%) Trac
10 9 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.60%) Gradle
10 9 (0.60%) JMeter
10 9 (0.60%) LabVIEW
10 9 (0.60%) Maven
11 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.40%) GitLab
13 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.27%) Katalon Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Postman
13 4 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 339 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 238 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
3 177 (11.86%) Finance
4 142 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 131 (8.78%) Aerospace
6 126 (8.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 123 (8.24%) Electronics
8 116 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (4.96%) Automotive
10 69 (4.62%) Marketing
11 67 (4.49%) Law
12 55 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (3.28%) Telecoms
14 45 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (2.95%) Banking
16 38 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
17 34 (2.28%) Military
17 34 (2.28%) Retail
18 29 (1.94%) Legal
19 23 (1.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 387 (25.94%) Architect
2 335 (22.45%) Software Architect
3 176 (11.80%) Lead
4 169 (11.33%) Systems Engineer
5 157 (10.52%) Senior
6 111 (7.44%) Software Engineer
7 91 (6.10%) Analyst
8 55 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (2.82%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 42 (2.82%) Technical Leader
10 41 (2.75%) Hardware Engineer
11 39 (2.61%) IT Manager
12 38 (2.55%) QA Manager
13 36 (2.41%) Validation Engineer
14 35 (2.35%) Senior Software Engineer
15 32 (2.14%) Developer
16 30 (2.01%) Embedded Engineer
16 30 (2.01%) Test Engineer
17 24 (1.61%) Consultant
17 24 (1.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.88%) HTML
2 23 (1.54%) CSS
3 22 (1.47%) React
4 16 (1.07%) .NET
4 16 (1.07%) REST
4 16 (1.07%) XML
5 13 (0.87%) PyTorch
5 13 (0.87%) TensorFlow
5 13 (0.87%) WebRTC
6 12 (0.80%) EDI
7 11 (0.74%) WPF
8 10 (0.67%) JSON
8 10 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
8 10 (0.67%) Qt
8 10 (0.67%) Spring
8 10 (0.67%) Spring Boot
9 9 (0.60%) Ext JS
9 9 (0.60%) Yocto
10 8 (0.54%) Gherkin
10 8 (0.54%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 111 (7.44%) Management Information System
2 64 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 53 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (2.82%) Life Science
5 24 (1.61%) FPGA
5 24 (1.61%) Robotics
6 22 (1.47%) Analogue Electronics
6 22 (1.47%) IoT
7 21 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
8 20 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 19 (1.27%) Biopharmaceutical
10 17 (1.14%) GNSS
11 15 (1.01%) LIMS
12 14 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.94%) Cloud Native
13 13 (0.87%) Clustering
13 13 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.67%) Market Risk
14 10 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 132 (8.85%) Linux
2 34 (2.28%) Windows
3 11 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.60%) Android
4 9 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (0.54%) Debian
5 8 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.067%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (26.74%) Actionable Insight
2 394 (26.41%) Requirements Management
3 381 (25.54%) Model Validation
4 354 (23.73%) TOGAF
5 343 (22.99%) Network Architecture
6 335 (22.45%) Network Management
7 334 (22.39%) Technical Architecture
8 268 (17.96%) Verification and Validation
9 265 (17.76%) Agile
10 253 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
11 166 (11.13%) Systems Engineering
12 158 (10.59%) Software Engineering
13 144 (9.65%) DevOps
14 141 (9.45%) Project Management
15 128 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 123 (8.24%) SDLC
17 114 (7.64%) Computer Science
18 112 (7.51%) Mentoring
19 110 (7.37%) Collaborative Working
20 89 (5.97%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 143 (9.58%) Python
2 137 (9.18%) SQL
3 94 (6.30%) C
4 74 (4.96%) MATLAB
5 69 (4.62%) C#
6 59 (3.95%) C++
7 40 (2.68%) JavaScript
8 28 (1.88%) PowerShell
9 26 (1.74%) Java
10 21 (1.41%) Bash
11 17 (1.14%) Perl
11 17 (1.14%) R
12 12 (0.80%) Ada
13 10 (0.67%) Embedded C
13 10 (0.67%) XAML
14 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.40%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.40%) Fortran
15 6 (0.40%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.34%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 453 (30.36%) Degree
2 299 (20.04%) Security Cleared
3 117 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 70 (4.69%) DV Cleared
6 51 (3.42%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.01%) DBS Check
9 22 (1.47%) HNC
10 20 (1.34%) HND
11 19 (1.27%) CISSP
12 18 (1.21%) PhD
13 17 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.87%) CISM
16 12 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.74%) CISA
17 11 (0.74%) PCI QSA
18 10 (0.67%) Chartered Engineer
19 7 (0.47%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (9.12%) QA
2 66 (4.42%) GMP
3 32 (2.14%) PMO
4 31 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.88%) GLP
6 27 (1.81%) Data Quality
7 25 (1.68%) NIST
8 23 (1.54%) GxP
9 20 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 19 (1.27%) Good Clinical Practice
11 17 (1.14%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.94%) Automotive SPICE
12 14 (0.94%) ISO 26262
13 13 (0.87%) Def Stans
14 11 (0.74%) Accessibility
15 9 (0.60%) MISRA
16 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
17 7 (0.47%) GDPR
17 7 (0.47%) IFRS
17 7 (0.47%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 68 (4.56%) Docker
2 47 (3.15%) Firmware
3 30 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (1.74%) Active Directory
5 17 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (1.07%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.07%) pfSense
7 10 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
7 10 (0.67%) NFS
8 6 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.27%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (4.36%) Ansible
2 58 (3.89%) Kubernetes
3 56 (3.75%) Terraform
4 30 (2.01%) Functional Safety
5 16 (1.07%) Grafana
5 16 (1.07%) ZABBIX
6 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 10 (0.67%) SCDPM
7 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.40%) Nmap
Vendors
1 119 (7.98%) Microsoft
2 39 (2.61%) Salesforce
3 35 (2.35%) VMware
4 30 (2.01%) SAP
5 25 (1.68%) EMC
6 21 (1.41%) Google
7 20 (1.34%) Oracle
8 19 (1.27%) Databricks
9 16 (1.07%) Fortinet
9 16 (1.07%) Juniper
10 15 (1.01%) IBM
11 14 (0.94%) Veeam
12 13 (0.87%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.74%) Nintex
14 10 (0.67%) CheckPoint
14 10 (0.67%) McAfee
15 9 (0.60%) Cisco
15 9 (0.60%) TOWER Software
16 6 (0.40%) Apple
16 6 (0.40%) Minitab