Validation Jobs with Work from Home Options

Validation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 223 221 245
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 +6
Permanent jobs citing Validation 488 625 1,170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.44% 1.54% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.60% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 286 223 381
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,402 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £71,500 £77,715 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,000 £87,500
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,860 38,962 68,422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.20% 96.03% 97.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23,358 27,133 41,275
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Validation trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Validation.

Validation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Validation over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Validation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (3.07%) SAS
2 13 (2.66%) Documentum
3 7 (1.43%) Apache
3 7 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.61%) Confluence
5 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (7.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.53%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.66%) OrCAD
5 11 (2.25%) Simulink
6 10 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (1.02%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.82%) Stateflow
9 2 (0.41%) EViews
9 2 (0.41%) SPSS
10 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.20%) CATIA
10 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.66%) TrackWise
2 7 (1.43%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.20%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 99 (20.29%) Azure
2 84 (17.21%) AWS
3 22 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (3.89%) GCP
5 18 (3.69%) Power Platform
6 16 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (2.66%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (2.46%) GitHub
9 10 (2.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 7 (1.43%) Mavenlink
11 6 (1.23%) SaaS
12 4 (0.82%) dbt
12 4 (0.82%) Prefect
12 4 (0.82%) Vertex AI
13 3 (0.61%) Asana
13 3 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 2 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.94%) Firewall
2 20 (4.10%) Ethernet
2 20 (4.10%) TCP/IP
3 17 (3.48%) 5G
4 16 (3.28%) VPN
5 15 (3.07%) LAN
5 15 (3.07%) WAN
6 14 (2.87%) Network Security
6 14 (2.87%) Wireshark
7 12 (2.46%) RS-232
8 11 (2.25%) DHCP
8 11 (2.25%) DNS
9 9 (1.84%) Internet
10 6 (1.23%) IPv4
10 6 (1.23%) Wireless
11 5 (1.02%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.41%) 4G
12 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
13 1 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
13 1 (0.20%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.28%) Power BI
2 15 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (1.43%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.43%) Tableau
5 6 (1.23%) Big Data
6 5 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.41%) Metadata
8 2 (0.41%) OLAP
8 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.20%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.20%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 83 (17.01%) JIRA
2 28 (5.74%) Rational DOORS
3 14 (2.87%) Git
3 14 (2.87%) Rational Rhapsody
4 11 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.05%) Trac
6 8 (1.64%) Selenium
6 8 (1.64%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.02%) LabVIEW
7 5 (1.02%) Postman
8 4 (0.82%) GitLab
8 4 (0.82%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.61%) Maven
10 2 (0.41%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.41%) Appium
10 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.20%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.20%) Vagrant
General
1 165 (33.81%) Social Skills
2 90 (18.44%) Finance
3 80 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (13.93%) Aerospace
5 43 (8.81%) Electronics
6 36 (7.38%) Manufacturing
7 33 (6.76%) Retail
8 26 (5.33%) Military
9 25 (5.12%) Banking
10 23 (4.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 23 (4.71%) Telecoms
11 19 (3.89%) Automotive
12 14 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.66%) Games
14 10 (2.05%) Marketing
15 9 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.43%) Aviation
16 7 (1.43%) Billing
16 7 (1.43%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (15.98%) Lead
2 71 (14.55%) Analyst
3 68 (13.93%) Senior
4 54 (11.07%) Systems Engineer
5 53 (10.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (5.74%) Software Engineer
7 24 (4.92%) Business Analyst
8 21 (4.30%) Hardware Engineer
9 19 (3.89%) Developer
10 17 (3.48%) Consultant
10 17 (3.48%) IT Manager
11 15 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (3.07%) Validation Engineer
12 14 (2.87%) QA Manager
12 14 (2.87%) Salesforce Analyst
12 14 (2.87%) Systems Manager
13 13 (2.66%) Data Scientist
13 13 (2.66%) Design Engineer
13 13 (2.66%) Security Engineer
13 13 (2.66%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.84%) HTML
2 6 (1.23%) .NET
2 6 (1.23%) Middleware
2 6 (1.23%) Pandas
2 6 (1.23%) XGBoost
2 6 (1.23%) XML
3 5 (1.02%) CSS
3 5 (1.02%) Kafka
3 5 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.82%) Gherkin
4 4 (0.82%) PySpark
4 4 (0.82%) PyTorch
4 4 (0.82%) TensorFlow
4 4 (0.82%) Vue
4 4 (0.82%) Web Services
4 4 (0.82%) XSLT
5 3 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.61%) Spring
5 3 (0.61%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.41%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.22%) Management Information System
2 40 (8.20%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (4.10%) Algorithms
4 17 (3.48%) Life Science
4 17 (3.48%) Taxonomies
5 16 (3.28%) Credit Risk
6 14 (2.87%) FPGA
7 13 (2.66%) LIMS
7 13 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
8 12 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (2.25%) Analogue Electronics
10 10 (2.05%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.84%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.64%) PCIe
13 7 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.43%) IoT
14 6 (1.23%) Robotics
15 5 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
16 4 (0.82%) Augmented Reality
16 4 (0.82%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.21%) Linux
2 24 (4.92%) Windows
3 15 (3.07%) Android
4 13 (2.66%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (34.63%) Agile
2 108 (22.13%) Verification and Validation
3 106 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (18.65%) DevOps
5 87 (17.83%) Systems Engineering
6 78 (15.98%) Decision-Making
7 72 (14.75%) Actionable Insight
8 70 (14.34%) CI/CD
9 68 (13.93%) Data Validation
10 65 (13.32%) Scrum
10 65 (13.32%) SDLC
11 63 (12.91%) Continuous Integration
12 55 (11.27%) Kanban
13 54 (11.07%) Project Management
14 53 (10.86%) Continuous Deployment
14 53 (10.86%) Software Engineering
15 50 (10.25%) Collaborative Working
16 46 (9.43%) Process Improvement
17 44 (9.02%) Mentoring
18 39 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (16.19%) Python
2 57 (11.68%) SQL
3 34 (6.97%) C#
4 26 (5.33%) MATLAB
5 24 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 22 (4.51%) C
7 16 (3.28%) JavaScript
7 16 (3.28%) R
8 14 (2.87%) Java
9 10 (2.05%) C++
10 7 (1.43%) Ada
11 4 (0.82%) Groovy
11 4 (0.82%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.82%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.61%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.61%) PHP
13 2 (0.41%) Bash
13 2 (0.41%) Go
13 2 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 186 (38.11%) Security Cleared
2 125 (25.61%) Degree
3 81 (16.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 62 (12.70%) DV Cleared
5 48 (9.84%) SC Cleared
6 16 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (2.87%) CCSP
7 14 (2.87%) SANS
8 13 (2.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 13 (2.66%) CEH
8 13 (2.66%) CISSP
8 13 (2.66%) SSCP
9 8 (1.64%) ISEB
10 7 (1.43%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.23%) PhD
11 6 (1.23%) PMP
12 5 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.53%) QA
2 16 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.07%) GxP
3 15 (3.07%) NIST
4 13 (2.66%) GMP
4 13 (2.66%) Good Clinical Practice
4 13 (2.66%) PCI DSS
5 10 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.05%) IFRS
5 10 (2.05%) IFRS 9
6 6 (1.23%) CRD IV
7 3 (0.61%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.61%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.41%) AUTOSAR
8 2 (0.41%) ECSS
8 2 (0.41%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.20%) GAMP
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (13.11%) Docker
2 18 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (3.28%) Hyper-V
3 16 (3.28%) pfSense
4 15 (3.07%) Firmware
5 13 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (2.05%) Active Directory
6 10 (2.05%) NFS
7 4 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.82%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (12.91%) Ansible
2 60 (12.30%) Terraform
3 54 (11.07%) Kubernetes
4 16 (3.28%) Grafana
4 16 (3.28%) ZABBIX
5 14 (2.87%) Nmap
6 13 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.05%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 10 (2.05%) SCDPM
8 2 (0.41%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.20%) Consul
9 1 (0.20%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.20%) Packer
9 1 (0.20%) Podman
9 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 67 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.92%) Salesforce
3 23 (4.71%) VMware
4 21 (4.30%) Google
5 16 (3.28%) Fortinet
5 16 (3.28%) Juniper
6 13 (2.66%) Qualys
6 13 (2.66%) Rapid7
6 13 (2.66%) Splunk
6 13 (2.66%) Thycotic
7 12 (2.46%) Databricks
8 11 (2.25%) EMC
9 10 (2.05%) McAfee
9 10 (2.05%) Veeam
10 9 (1.84%) IBM
11 8 (1.64%) Oracle
12 5 (1.02%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.82%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.82%) Quadient
13 4 (0.82%) SAP