Validation Jobs

Validation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 160 181
Rank change year-on-year +122 +21 +16
Permanent jobs citing Validation 3,243 1,843 2,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.99% 1.86% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 2.17% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 953 779 637
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -12.00% +5.37%
75th Percentile £60,265 £72,216 £80,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £52,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year +9.64% -6.67% +18.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,790 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,810 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the UK

Validation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Validation in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in the UK

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Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. 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
UK excluding London +112 2,947 £57,560 +9.64% 1,390
England +123 2,807 £52,600 -4.36% 1,815
Midlands +98 912 £55,000 +4.76% 211
South East +106 606 £55,000 +4.76% 456
West Midlands +111 465 £65,000 +19.27% 140
East Midlands +74 447 £51,000 +20.00% 59
East of England +101 402 £57,000 +3.64% 252
North of England +63 390 £47,683 -6.99% 245
Scotland +150 339 £58,033 +12.04% 78
North West +65 331 £47,683 -3.67% 147
South West +55 253 £52,600 +5.20% 180
London +74 237 £72,500 -3.33% 642
Work from Home -29 215 £57,500 +4.55% 1,433
Yorkshire +31 55 £47,500 -7.82% 72
Wales +33 43 £60,000 +20.00% 27
Northern Ireland +6 7 - - 16
North East +46 4 £56,750 +5.58% 31

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (0.28%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.19%) Confluence
3 5 (0.15%) CMS
3 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.12%) Apache
4 4 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.12%) SAS
4 4 (0.12%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.062%) Kinematics
5 2 (0.062%) Mule
5 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.062%) TPMS
6 1 (0.031%) MTS
6 1 (0.031%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 761 (23.47%) Simulink
2 82 (2.53%) Mathcad
3 49 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 34 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.093%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.062%) Autodesk Inventor
10 2 (0.062%) Blender
10 2 (0.062%) CATIA
10 2 (0.062%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.031%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.031%) Maple
11 1 (0.031%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.031%) Revit
11 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.031%) Stata
Business Applications
1 23 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.19%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.062%) Endur
5 2 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.031%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.031%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.031%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.031%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.031%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.031%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 128 (3.95%) AWS
2 85 (2.62%) Azure
3 63 (1.94%) Power Platform
4 54 (1.67%) GCP
5 31 (0.96%) Snowflake
6 27 (0.83%) GitHub
7 16 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (0.43%) Amazon S3
10 12 (0.37%) Serverless
11 11 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (0.34%) PowerApps
12 10 (0.31%) Power Automate
13 9 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (0.25%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (0.22%) SaaS
16 6 (0.19%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 756 (23.31%) 5G
2 739 (22.79%) Wi-Fi
2 739 (22.79%) Wireless
3 736 (22.70%) Bluetooth
4 732 (22.57%) LTE
5 731 (22.54%) GSM
5 731 (22.54%) UMTS
6 22 (0.68%) WAN
7 18 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.40%) Modbus
9 9 (0.28%) DNS
9 9 (0.28%) LAN
10 8 (0.25%) 4G
11 6 (0.19%) Firewall
12 5 (0.15%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.15%) Internet
12 5 (0.15%) Network Security
13 4 (0.12%) Software-Defined Radio
13 4 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (1.76%) Power BI
3 47 (1.45%) Data Lake
4 38 (1.17%) SQL Server
5 27 (0.83%) Metadata
6 26 (0.80%) Tableau
7 22 (0.68%) Oracle ODI
8 19 (0.59%) Big Data
9 17 (0.52%) MySQL
10 16 (0.49%) NoSQL
11 15 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (0.43%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (0.34%) MongoDB
15 10 (0.31%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.25%) Looker
17 7 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
18 6 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
18 6 (0.19%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 330 (10.18%) Rational DOORS
2 92 (2.84%) JIRA
3 58 (1.79%) Git
4 32 (0.99%) Selenium
5 15 (0.46%) Postman
6 13 (0.40%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.37%) JMeter
7 12 (0.37%) SoapUI
8 10 (0.31%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.25%) Subversion
10 7 (0.22%) GitLab
11 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.15%) Gradle
12 5 (0.15%) Maven
12 5 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
13 4 (0.12%) CppUnit
13 4 (0.12%) Locust
13 4 (0.12%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.093%) TestRail
General
1 817 (25.19%) Electronics
2 246 (7.59%) Social Skills
3 239 (7.37%) Aerospace
4 220 (6.78%) Automotive
5 174 (5.37%) Finance
6 158 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
7 102 (3.15%) Manufacturing
8 74 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
9 52 (1.60%) Military
10 48 (1.48%) Banking
11 43 (1.33%) Marketing
12 40 (1.23%) Legal
13 39 (1.20%) Law
14 36 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (0.71%) Public Sector
16 21 (0.65%) Telecoms
17 20 (0.62%) Retail
18 18 (0.56%) Front Office
19 17 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 806 (24.85%) Test Engineer
2 766 (23.62%) Electronics Engineer
3 730 (22.51%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 729 (22.48%) Systems Engineer
5 719 (22.17%) Principal Engineer
6 713 (21.99%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 335 (10.33%) Senior
8 302 (9.31%) Validation Engineer
9 288 (8.88%) Integration Engineer
10 285 (8.79%) Systems Integration Engineer
11 276 (8.51%) System Verification Engineer
12 246 (7.59%) Engineering Manager
13 196 (6.04%) Requirements Manager
14 150 (4.63%) Requirements Engineer
15 147 (4.53%) Software Engineer
16 104 (3.21%) Development Engineer
17 99 (3.05%) Software Development Engineer
18 86 (2.65%) Analyst
19 81 (2.50%) Principal Modelling Engineer
20 79 (2.44%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (0.68%) Kafka
3 18 (0.56%) CSS
3 18 (0.56%) HTML
4 14 (0.43%) React
4 14 (0.43%) REST
5 13 (0.40%) Qt
6 10 (0.31%) JSON
6 10 (0.31%) Pandas
6 10 (0.31%) YAML
7 9 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.25%) GraphQL
8 8 (0.25%) SOAP
8 8 (0.25%) Spring
8 8 (0.25%) XML
9 7 (0.22%) Node.js
9 7 (0.22%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (0.22%) RESTful
10 6 (0.19%) Loki
10 6 (0.19%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 733 (22.60%) Driving Licence
2 37 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
3 35 (1.08%) Algorithms
4 33 (1.02%) Product Ownership
4 33 (1.02%) SCADA
5 32 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 28 (0.86%) Management Information System
6 28 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
8 24 (0.74%) Operational Technology
9 20 (0.62%) IoT
10 18 (0.56%) Self-Driving Car
11 14 (0.43%) FPGA
12 12 (0.37%) Biopharmaceutical
13 10 (0.31%) GNSS
14 9 (0.28%) Cloud Native
14 9 (0.28%) Manufacturing Execution System
14 9 (0.28%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.25%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (0.22%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.30%) Linux
2 20 (0.62%) Windows
3 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.15%) Android
4 5 (0.15%) Unix
5 4 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.093%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.093%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.031%) AIX
7 1 (0.031%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.031%) Solaris
7 1 (0.031%) VMS
7 1 (0.031%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,201 (67.87%) Verification and Validation
2 1,745 (53.81%) Systems Engineering
3 890 (27.44%) Coaching
4 858 (26.46%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 838 (25.84%) Mentoring
6 761 (23.47%) Customer Requirements
7 749 (23.10%) Test Strategy
8 746 (23.00%) Mathematics
9 659 (20.32%) Software Engineering
10 602 (18.56%) SysML
11 461 (14.22%) Digital Twin
12 435 (13.41%) Agile
13 348 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 342 (10.55%) Requirements Management
15 305 (9.40%) Software Testing
16 279 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
17 195 (6.01%) Physics
17 195 (6.01%) Project Planning
18 179 (5.52%) Test Automation
19 159 (4.90%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 782 (24.11%) MATLAB
2 264 (8.14%) Python
3 182 (5.61%) SQL
4 78 (2.41%) C
5 71 (2.19%) C++
6 33 (1.02%) PL/SQL
7 31 (0.96%) C#
8 25 (0.77%) JavaScript
9 24 (0.74%) Ada
10 20 (0.62%) Java
10 20 (0.62%) R
10 20 (0.62%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 17 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.49%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.46%) Bash
15 10 (0.31%) Perl
16 9 (0.28%) C-shell
16 9 (0.28%) Go
16 9 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1,952 (60.19%) Degree
2 1,218 (37.56%) HND
3 1,116 (34.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 496 (15.29%) HNC
5 269 (8.29%) Chartered Engineer
6 178 (5.49%) ISTQB
7 106 (3.27%) Master's Degree
8 62 (1.91%) Security Cleared
9 47 (1.45%) SC Cleared
10 44 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 33 (1.02%) PhD
12 26 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
13 13 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.40%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.28%) CCNP
15 8 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.22%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.22%) PMI Certification
17 6 (0.19%) Azure Certification
17 6 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (3.48%) QA
2 92 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 82 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 50 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 37 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.14%) GxP
6 30 (0.93%) GMP
7 21 (0.65%) GDPR
8 20 (0.62%) PMO
9 16 (0.49%) ARP4754
9 16 (0.49%) DO-254
9 16 (0.49%) Good Clinical Practice
9 16 (0.49%) IEC 61508
10 8 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 7 (0.22%) IFRS
11 7 (0.22%) IFRS 9
12 6 (0.19%) ISO 26262
12 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 6 (0.19%) NIST
13 5 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 30 (0.93%) Docker
2 17 (0.52%) Firmware
3 9 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.031%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.031%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.031%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.68%) Terraform
3 14 (0.43%) Grafana
4 9 (0.28%) Ansible
4 9 (0.28%) Argo
5 6 (0.19%) Progress Chef
5 6 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.15%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.093%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.062%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.062%) Podman
8 2 (0.062%) Puppet
8 2 (0.062%) SCOM
9 1 (0.031%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.031%) Nessus
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.031%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (2.56%) MathWorks
2 73 (2.25%) Microsoft
3 59 (1.82%) IBM
4 45 (1.39%) Oracle
5 29 (0.89%) SAP
6 27 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 19 (0.59%) Google
8 16 (0.49%) Databricks
9 15 (0.46%) Cisco
10 11 (0.34%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.31%) EMC
11 10 (0.31%) IFS
11 10 (0.31%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.31%) Siemens
12 9 (0.28%) CheckPoint
12 9 (0.28%) F5
13 8 (0.25%) Hitachi
13 8 (0.25%) Informatica
13 8 (0.25%) Splunk
14 7 (0.22%) Dell