Data Validation Jobs

Data Validation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data 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 780 859 991
Rank change year-on-year +79 +132 -253
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 127 88 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.093% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.097% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 102 43 99
10th Percentile £39,450 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,938 £46,250 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £77,188 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,125 £89,500 £86,380
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -27.27% +39.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the UK 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
England +55 104 £65,000 +13.04% 46
UK excluding London +1 76 £60,000 +50.00% 27
Work from Home +77 54 £62,500 +31.58% 15
London +121 45 £75,000 +30.43% 19
South East -12 26 £65,000 +38.30% 6
Scotland - 16 £42,500 - 1
North of England +43 14 £47,500 -29.63% 6
South West - 10 £70,288 - 5
Midlands -8 8 £49,000 +83.18% 5
West Midlands -9 8 £49,000 +83.18% 2
Yorkshire +65 6 £42,500 -37.04% 3
North West - 5 £39,500 - 3
North East - 3 £55,000 -
Wales +9 1 £42,500 +30.77%
Isle of Man - 1 - -

Data 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 6 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.15%) Apache
3 3 (2.36%) Smallworld
Applications
1 18 (14.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.36%) AutoCAD
3 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.79%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.36%) SAP CRM
2 3 (2.36%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.47%) Azure
2 21 (16.54%) Power Platform
3 15 (11.81%) AWS
4 11 (8.66%) GCP
5 9 (7.09%) BlazeMeter
6 7 (5.51%) GitHub
7 6 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.72%) dbt
8 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.15%) Prefect
9 3 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.57%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.57%) Serverless
11 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.79%) SaaS
11 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.11%) SQL Server
2 21 (16.54%) Power BI
3 17 (13.39%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (7.87%) Tableau
6 8 (6.30%) Crystal Reports
7 7 (5.51%) Metadata
8 6 (4.72%) Big Data
8 6 (4.72%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.94%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.15%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.36%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (2.36%) GIS
11 3 (2.36%) Spatial Data
12 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.57%) Power Query
13 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.79%) KDB
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Jenkins
1 11 (8.66%) JIRA
2 10 (7.87%) JMeter
3 9 (7.09%) Cucumber
3 9 (7.09%) Cypress.io
3 9 (7.09%) Gradle
3 9 (7.09%) Maven
4 6 (4.72%) Git
5 4 (3.15%) Selenium
6 3 (2.36%) Subversion
6 3 (2.36%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.57%) GitLab
8 1 (0.79%) Postman
8 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 44 (34.65%) Finance
2 39 (30.71%) Social Skills
3 34 (26.77%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.02%) Marketing
5 13 (10.24%) Law
6 10 (7.87%) Banking
7 9 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.36%) Aviation
8 3 (2.36%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.36%) Retail
9 2 (1.57%) Games
9 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Legal
9 2 (1.57%) Publishing
10 1 (0.79%) Automotive
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (18.11%) Analyst
2 22 (17.32%) Lead
3 21 (16.54%) Senior
4 12 (9.45%) Data Engineer
5 10 (7.87%) DBA
5 10 (7.87%) Developer
6 9 (7.09%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) QA Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) QA Software Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) Software Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) Test Analyst
7 8 (6.30%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.30%) IT Manager
8 7 (5.51%) Data Scientist
8 7 (5.51%) Senior Data Scientist
9 6 (4.72%) Architect
9 6 (4.72%) Data Manager
10 5 (3.94%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.94%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.45%) Pandas
2 10 (7.87%) React
3 9 (7.09%) Ext JS
3 9 (7.09%) Spring
3 9 (7.09%) Spring Boot
4 7 (5.51%) XGBoost
5 6 (4.72%) HTML
5 6 (4.72%) PySpark
5 6 (4.72%) Web Services
6 5 (3.94%) Itk
6 5 (3.94%) XML
7 3 (2.36%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (2.36%) NumPy
8 2 (1.57%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.57%) pytest
9 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.79%) Laravel
9 1 (0.79%) PyQt
9 1 (0.79%) RESTful
9 1 (0.79%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.66%) Data Structures
3 9 (7.09%) Market Risk
4 6 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.94%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.94%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.57%) AS400
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) FMCG
8 1 (0.79%) iPhone
8 1 (0.79%) LIMS
8 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.57%) Unix
2 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.79%) Linux
2 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (100.00%) Validation
2 39 (30.71%) Agile
3 36 (28.35%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (25.98%) Decision-Making
5 26 (20.47%) Data Modelling
5 26 (20.47%) Data Science
6 24 (18.90%) Data Pipeline
7 23 (18.11%) Analytics
7 23 (18.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (17.32%) Data Analysis
8 22 (17.32%) Visualisation
9 20 (15.75%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (15.75%) Migration
9 20 (15.75%) Regression Testing
9 20 (15.75%) Test Automation
10 18 (14.17%) ETL
10 18 (14.17%) Mentoring
10 18 (14.17%) Software Testing
11 16 (12.60%) Verification and Validation
12 14 (11.02%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (60.63%) SQL
2 34 (26.77%) Python
3 15 (11.81%) Java
4 13 (10.24%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.72%) C
6 5 (3.94%) C++
6 5 (3.94%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.94%) R
6 5 (3.94%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.36%) Apex Code
7 3 (2.36%) Julia
7 3 (2.36%) MATLAB
7 3 (2.36%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.79%) C#
8 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.79%) PHP
8 1 (0.79%) Scala
8 1 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (16.54%) Degree
2 8 (6.30%) ISEB
3 7 (5.51%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (3.94%) MCAD
4 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.57%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.79%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (22.83%) QA
2 24 (18.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.15%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (10.24%) Databricks
2 10 (7.87%) Google
2 10 (7.87%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.09%) TOWER Software
4 4 (3.15%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.15%) SAP
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle
5 2 (1.57%) RedGate
6 1 (0.79%) Infor