Verification and Validation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Verification and 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 Verification and Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Verification and Validation over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 542 608
Rank change year-on-year +23 +66 -84
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 265 219 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.38% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.39% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 167 33 81
10th Percentile £40,750 £47,500 £34,990
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £35,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Verification and 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 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in the UK excluding London

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Verification and Validation in the UK excluding London

Verification and Validation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Verification and Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Verification and Validation in the UK excluding London

Verification and 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 Verification and Validation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +41 83 £54,995 -0.01% 59
South West -3 52 £55,000 -20.29% 37
East of England -10 51 £56,250 +2.27% 38
Midlands -52 32 £55,000 - 26
North of England +75 31 £50,500 - 27
West Midlands -35 25 £55,000 - 10
North West - 24 £55,000 - 21
Scotland -49 12 £60,000 - 9
East Midlands -18 7 £42,500 - 16
Yorkshire +81 6 £45,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
North East - 1 - - 3
Verification and Validation
UK

Verification and 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 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (7.55%) Simulink
2 9 (3.40%) Stateflow
3 8 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.75%) TargetLink
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.38%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.38%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (3.40%) BlazeMeter
2 3 (1.13%) Azure
3 2 (0.75%) AWS
3 2 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (0.75%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.38%) Asana
4 1 (0.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) Bluetooth
1 5 (1.89%) LAN
1 5 (1.89%) Network Security
1 5 (1.89%) WAN
2 4 (1.51%) Firewall
2 4 (1.51%) Multicast
2 4 (1.51%) OSPF
2 4 (1.51%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.75%) RS-232
5 1 (0.38%) 3G
5 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.38%) GPRS
5 1 (0.38%) Modbus
5 1 (0.38%) RS-485
5 1 (0.38%) SAN
5 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
1 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
1 6 (2.26%) Tableau
2 4 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (0.75%) Big Data
3 2 (0.75%) Power BI
3 2 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.38%) Metadata
4 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (9.06%) JIRA
1 24 (9.06%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (4.15%) Rational Rhapsody
3 9 (3.40%) Cucumber
3 9 (3.40%) Cypress.io
3 9 (3.40%) Gradle
3 9 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.40%) JMeter
3 9 (3.40%) Maven
4 6 (2.26%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.51%) Git
5 4 (1.51%) GitLab
5 4 (1.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.75%) Appium
6 2 (0.75%) Selenium
7 1 (0.38%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.38%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 68 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.47%) Electronics
3 25 (9.43%) Aerospace
4 23 (8.68%) Automotive
5 21 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (7.17%) Military
7 16 (6.04%) Finance
7 16 (6.04%) Marketing
8 14 (5.28%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.15%) Retail
10 10 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (3.40%) Law
12 6 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.26%) Legal
13 5 (1.89%) Games
13 5 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 83 (31.32%) Systems Engineer
2 58 (21.89%) Software Engineer
3 43 (16.23%) Senior
4 41 (15.47%) Lead
5 17 (6.42%) Validation Engineer
6 16 (6.04%) Electronics Engineer
7 15 (5.66%) Embedded Engineer
8 14 (5.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 13 (4.91%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 13 (4.91%) Verification Engineer
10 12 (4.53%) Developer
10 12 (4.53%) Hardware Engineer
11 10 (3.77%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (3.77%) RF Engineer
11 10 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (3.40%) Architect
12 9 (3.40%) Design Engineer
12 9 (3.40%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.40%) Java Software Engineer
12 9 (3.40%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.77%) React
2 9 (3.40%) Ext JS
2 9 (3.40%) Spring
2 9 (3.40%) Spring Boot
3 6 (2.26%) PyTorch
3 6 (2.26%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.89%) WPF
5 4 (1.51%) Akka
6 3 (1.13%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (0.75%) HTML
7 2 (0.75%) Middleware
7 2 (0.75%) OpenCV
7 2 (0.75%) Playwright
7 2 (0.75%) Qt
7 2 (0.75%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.75%) wxWidgets
8 1 (0.38%) .NET
8 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.38%) CSS
8 1 (0.38%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.30%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.55%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.77%) Robotics
4 9 (3.40%) Market Risk
5 6 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.89%) Verilog
6 5 (1.89%) VHDL
7 4 (1.51%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (1.51%) FMCG
7 4 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.51%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.51%) SCADA
7 4 (1.51%) Virtual Reality
8 3 (1.13%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (1.13%) ASIC
9 2 (0.75%) AS400
9 2 (0.75%) FPGA
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.75%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.77%) Linux
2 8 (3.02%) Windows
3 2 (0.75%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (100.00%) Validation
2 109 (41.13%) Systems Engineering
3 72 (27.17%) Software Engineering
4 45 (16.98%) Agile
5 39 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (13.58%) Cybersecurity
6 36 (13.58%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 33 (12.45%) Visualisation
8 25 (9.43%) Software Testing
9 24 (9.06%) Mathematics
9 24 (9.06%) Requirements Management
10 20 (7.55%) Physics
11 18 (6.79%) Project Management
11 18 (6.79%) Synthetic Environment
11 18 (6.79%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (6.79%) UML
12 17 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (6.42%) Decision-Making
12 17 (6.42%) Mentoring
12 17 (6.42%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.58%) C
2 34 (12.83%) C#
3 31 (11.70%) MATLAB
4 27 (10.19%) Python
5 21 (7.92%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.92%) SQL
6 15 (5.66%) C++
7 10 (3.77%) Java
8 7 (2.64%) Embedded C
9 5 (1.89%) Ada
9 5 (1.89%) XAML
10 4 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.51%) R
10 4 (1.51%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.75%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.75%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.38%) Fortran
13 1 (0.38%) Lua
Qualifications
1 112 (42.26%) Security Cleared
2 105 (39.62%) Degree
3 52 (19.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 40 (15.09%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.28%) HND
6 13 (4.91%) HNC
7 11 (4.15%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.15%) PhD
8 9 (3.40%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.89%) Chartered Engineer
9 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.75%) NVQ Level 4
12 1 (0.38%) CBAP
12 1 (0.38%) CCNP
12 1 (0.38%) IIBA
12 1 (0.38%) MCAD
12 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.66%) QA
2 14 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 13 (4.91%) Def Stans
4 6 (2.26%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.75%) ECSS
5 2 (0.75%) ISO 14001
5 2 (0.75%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.75%) JTAG
6 1 (0.38%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.38%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 16 (6.04%) Firmware
2 5 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.26%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (3.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.40%) EMC
2 9 (3.40%) TOWER Software
3 6 (2.26%) OpenAI
3 6 (2.26%) SAP
3 6 (2.26%) Thales
4 5 (1.89%) Cisco
4 5 (1.89%) Google
4 5 (1.89%) IBM
5 4 (1.51%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.75%) MathWorks
8 1 (0.38%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.38%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.38%) CA
8 1 (0.38%) NCR
8 1 (0.38%) TSYS
8 1 (0.38%) VMware