Validation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 178 198
Rank change year-on-year +26 +20 +23
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,872 2,116 3,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 2.08% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.18% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 780 637 1,072
10th Percentile £35,475 £36,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,936 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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

Validation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Validation in the UK

Validation
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 8 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
England +15 1,585 £55,000 -12.00% 871
UK excluding London +14 1,523 £52,500 -4.55% 711
Work from Home +15 503 £55,000 -8.33% 274
South East -6 352 £52,500 -4.55% 188
South West +49 300 £50,000 -28.29% 102
London -34 283 £75,000 +7.14% 207
Midlands -25 265 £52,500 -4.55% 155
North of England +56 263 £51,264 -6.79% 113
North West +52 167 £49,500 -10.00% 67
West Midlands -62 140 £54,500 -0.91% 110
Scotland +1 135 £51,797 -11.93% 43
East Midlands +53 125 £42,500 -20.93% 44
East of England -33 117 £55,000 -8.33% 116
Yorkshire +49 88 £51,528 -18.21% 37
Wales +38 53 £50,000 +16.10% 19
Northern Ireland +54 41 - - 6
North East -2 8 £53,750 -30.65% 11

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 35 (1.87%) SAS
2 24 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 20 (1.07%) Apache
4 18 (0.96%) IIS
5 15 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.69%) Documentum
7 12 (0.64%) Anypoint
8 9 (0.48%) Confluence
9 8 (0.43%) CMS
10 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.27%) Kinematics
11 3 (0.16%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.053%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.053%) WordPress
Applications
1 114 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.30%) Simulink
5 26 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.23%) Stateflow
7 14 (0.75%) OrCAD
8 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
9 12 (0.64%) Sketch
10 5 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.11%) EViews
12 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
12 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.11%) SPSS
12 2 (0.11%) TargetLink
12 2 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 25 (1.34%) Salesforce CRM
2 16 (0.85%) TrackWise
3 15 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.53%) SAP QM
5 9 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.27%) SAP CRM
7 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.21%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP WM
9 3 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
9 3 (0.16%) SAP PM
10 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.053%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.053%) SAP HCM
10 1 (0.053%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 159 (8.49%) Azure
2 121 (6.46%) AWS
3 71 (3.79%) Power Platform
4 42 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 27 (1.44%) SaaS
8 23 (1.23%) GitHub
9 21 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (1.12%) GCP
10 15 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (0.75%) OCI
11 14 (0.75%) PowerApps
12 13 (0.69%) Figma
13 12 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (0.64%) OneDrive
13 12 (0.64%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (0.59%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 404 (21.58%) VSAT
2 58 (3.10%) Firewall
3 51 (2.72%) WAN
4 35 (1.87%) 5G
5 30 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.39%) Network Security
7 22 (1.18%) Ethernet
8 21 (1.12%) LAN
9 20 (1.07%) Wireless
10 19 (1.01%) Internet
11 18 (0.96%) Wireshark
12 17 (0.91%) VPN
13 16 (0.85%) DNS
14 15 (0.80%) DHCP
15 14 (0.75%) Bluetooth
15 14 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 13 (0.69%) RS-232
17 7 (0.37%) 4G
17 7 (0.37%) J1939
18 6 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 61 (3.26%) Power BI
3 37 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 24 (1.28%) Tableau
5 20 (1.07%) GIS
6 18 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 16 (0.85%) Metadata
7 16 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (0.75%) Big Data
8 14 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 12 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.48%) Power Query
11 8 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
11 8 (0.43%) Data Mining
12 7 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
14 4 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 141 (7.53%) JIRA
2 34 (1.82%) Git
3 33 (1.76%) Rational DOORS
4 29 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 27 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.96%) Selenium
7 15 (0.80%) Rational Rhapsody
8 14 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.64%) Maven
10 11 (0.59%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.53%) GitLab
11 10 (0.53%) JMeter
11 10 (0.53%) Trac
12 9 (0.48%) Gradle
12 9 (0.48%) LabVIEW
13 7 (0.37%) Postman
14 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.21%) Katalon Studio
15 3 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 467 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 302 (16.13%) Finance
3 300 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (8.17%) Manufacturing
5 147 (7.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 132 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 124 (6.62%) Aerospace
8 122 (6.52%) Electronics
9 80 (4.27%) Law
9 80 (4.27%) Marketing
10 79 (4.22%) Banking
11 77 (4.11%) Automotive
12 76 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
13 69 (3.69%) Retail
14 55 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (2.51%) Legal
16 46 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
17 44 (2.35%) Telecoms
18 30 (1.60%) Military
18 30 (1.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 494 (26.39%) Architect
2 404 (21.58%) Software Architect
3 230 (12.29%) Senior
4 210 (11.22%) Lead
5 170 (9.08%) Analyst
6 159 (8.49%) Systems Engineer
7 121 (6.46%) Software Engineer
8 53 (2.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (2.83%) Technical Leader
9 47 (2.51%) IT Manager
10 46 (2.46%) Developer
11 42 (2.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 40 (2.14%) Hardware Engineer
12 40 (2.14%) Senior Software Engineer
13 39 (2.08%) Business Analyst
14 38 (2.03%) Consultant
14 38 (2.03%) QA Manager
15 37 (1.98%) Solutions Architect
16 36 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
17 32 (1.71%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.19%) HTML
2 34 (1.82%) XML
3 32 (1.71%) .NET
4 31 (1.66%) CSS
5 26 (1.39%) React
6 23 (1.23%) REST
7 21 (1.12%) JSON
8 20 (1.07%) Pandas
9 18 (0.96%) WebRTC
10 15 (0.80%) PyTorch
11 14 (0.75%) EDI
11 14 (0.75%) TensorFlow
12 13 (0.69%) .NET Core
12 13 (0.69%) Spring
12 13 (0.69%) Spring Boot
13 12 (0.64%) Yocto
14 11 (0.59%) AngularJS
14 11 (0.59%) Qt
14 11 (0.59%) Web Services
14 11 (0.59%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 150 (8.01%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
3 72 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 47 (2.51%) Life Science
5 35 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.60%) Credit Risk
7 29 (1.55%) Robotics
8 25 (1.34%) Taxonomies
9 24 (1.28%) IoT
10 23 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 23 (1.23%) FPGA
11 22 (1.18%) Analogue Electronics
11 22 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
12 21 (1.12%) Biopharmaceutical
13 20 (1.07%) Onboarding
14 19 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (0.96%) Clustering
15 18 (0.96%) GNSS
15 18 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
16 17 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 132 (7.05%) Linux
2 50 (2.67%) Windows
3 19 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 17 (0.91%) Android
5 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.43%) Debian
7 8 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.16%) Unix
9 1 (0.053%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (27.62%) Actionable Insight
2 485 (25.91%) Model Validation
3 468 (25.00%) Requirements Management
4 419 (22.38%) TOGAF
5 413 (22.06%) Network Architecture
6 406 (21.69%) Technical Architecture
7 404 (21.58%) Network Management
8 374 (19.98%) Agile
9 331 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
10 264 (14.10%) Verification and Validation
11 184 (9.83%) Project Management
12 174 (9.29%) Software Engineering
13 162 (8.65%) Systems Engineering
14 161 (8.60%) DevOps
15 158 (8.44%) Decision-Making
16 144 (7.69%) Data Validation
17 140 (7.48%) Computer Science
17 140 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 139 (7.43%) Mentoring
19 132 (7.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 224 (11.97%) Python
2 197 (10.52%) SQL
3 101 (5.40%) C
4 88 (4.70%) C#
5 77 (4.11%) MATLAB
6 71 (3.79%) C++
7 51 (2.72%) JavaScript
8 46 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 42 (2.24%) Java
9 42 (2.24%) R
10 23 (1.23%) Bash
11 19 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 18 (0.96%) Perl
13 12 (0.64%) Ada
14 10 (0.53%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.53%) XAML
15 8 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.37%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.32%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.32%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 510 (27.24%) Degree
2 319 (17.04%) Security Cleared
3 131 (7.00%) SC Cleared
4 90 (4.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 69 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 60 (3.21%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.92%) CISSP
9 30 (1.60%) DBS Check
10 29 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.12%) HNC
12 20 (1.07%) CCSP
12 20 (1.07%) PhD
13 19 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (1.01%) HND
13 19 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
14 17 (0.91%) CISM
15 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.85%) SANS
16 14 (0.75%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (8.55%) QA
2 66 (3.53%) GMP
3 54 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (2.51%) NIST
5 42 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 40 (2.14%) PMO
7 30 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.50%) GLP
9 23 (1.23%) Good Clinical Practice
10 22 (1.18%) GxP
10 22 (1.18%) IFRS
10 22 (1.18%) IFRS 9
11 20 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 19 (1.01%) Def Stans
13 18 (0.96%) CRD IV
14 15 (0.80%) GDPR
15 13 (0.69%) Accessibility
15 13 (0.69%) Automotive SPICE
15 13 (0.69%) ISO 26262
16 11 (0.59%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 67 (3.58%) Docker
2 50 (2.67%) Firmware
3 33 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 32 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.85%) pfSense
7 14 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.53%) NFS
9 6 (0.32%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (3.42%) Ansible
2 61 (3.26%) Terraform
3 57 (3.04%) Kubernetes
4 30 (1.60%) Functional Safety
5 17 (0.91%) Grafana
6 16 (0.85%) ZABBIX
7 15 (0.80%) Nmap
8 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 10 (0.53%) SCDPM
10 5 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.11%) Kibana
12 1 (0.053%) Consul
12 1 (0.053%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.053%) OpenNMS
12 1 (0.053%) Packer
12 1 (0.053%) Podman
12 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.053%) Puppet
12 1 (0.053%) Salt
Vendors
1 193 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 65 (3.47%) Salesforce
3 51 (2.72%) SAP
4 45 (2.40%) VMware
5 34 (1.82%) Oracle
6 32 (1.71%) Google
7 31 (1.66%) Databricks
8 25 (1.34%) EMC
9 19 (1.01%) IBM
10 16 (0.85%) Fortinet
10 16 (0.85%) Juniper
10 16 (0.85%) Splunk
11 14 (0.75%) Cisco
11 14 (0.75%) Qualys
11 14 (0.75%) Rapid7
11 14 (0.75%) ServiceNow
11 14 (0.75%) Thycotic
12 13 (0.69%) CheckPoint
12 13 (0.69%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.69%) Veeam