Validation Jobs in the UK excluding London

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 Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 149 191
Rank change year-on-year +7 +42 -17
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,493 1,313 1,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.90% 2.35% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.46% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 578 353 569
10th Percentile £34,925 £35,147 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £45,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +19.01% -5.42%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £85,000 £77,012
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,086 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.41% +12.88% +2.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 63,715 53,455 71,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.19% 95.50% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 43,312 28,495 41,629
10th Percentile £27,500 £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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the UK excluding London

Validation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Validation in the UK excluding London

Validation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Validation in the UK excluding London

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 Validation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South East +3 372 £52,500 -6.67% 234
South West +32 303 £52,500 -24.40% 116
North of England +30 248 £50,000 -9.16% 123
Midlands -43 238 £50,000 -4.76% 132
North West +38 157 £50,000 -9.16% 82
West Midlands -72 132 £55,000 +2.33% 89
East of England -33 125 £55,000 -8.33% 153
Scotland -8 124 £52,067 -11.47% 39
East Midlands +34 106 £42,500 -10.53% 41
Yorkshire +30 82 £49,514 -10.04% 30
Wales +30 46 £45,000 +4.49% 14
Northern Ireland +43 39 £87,500 +20.69% 3
North East -12 9 £49,100 -36.65% 11
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Validation
UK

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 14 (0.94%) SharePoint
2 13 (0.87%) Documentum
3 12 (0.80%) IIS
4 8 (0.54%) CMS
5 7 (0.47%) Confluence
6 5 (0.33%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.067%) Apache
7 1 (0.067%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (3.15%) Simulink
4 37 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (1.47%) Stateflow
6 18 (1.21%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.94%) OrCAD
8 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
8 12 (0.80%) Sketch
9 5 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.13%) Fusion 360
10 2 (0.13%) TargetLink
11 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.067%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.07%) TrackWise
2 14 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.40%) SAP QM
5 4 (0.27%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
7 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.067%) Lorenzo
8 1 (0.067%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-BP
8 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.067%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 120 (8.04%) Azure
2 97 (6.50%) AWS
3 49 (3.28%) Power Platform
4 22 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (1.27%) SaaS
6 16 (1.07%) GCP
6 16 (1.07%) GitHub
7 15 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 14 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (0.94%) OCI
9 13 (0.87%) Figma
10 12 (0.80%) PowerApps
11 11 (0.74%) OneDrive
11 11 (0.74%) Power Automate
11 11 (0.74%) ShareGate
12 9 (0.60%) BlazeMeter
13 8 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.47%) Amazon SageMaker
14 7 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.47%) Mavenlink
Communications & Networking
1 324 (21.70%) VSAT
2 39 (2.61%) Firewall
3 33 (2.21%) WAN
4 32 (2.14%) 5G
5 22 (1.47%) Ethernet
6 20 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.27%) Internet
8 18 (1.21%) Wireless
9 17 (1.14%) Network Security
9 17 (1.14%) VPN
10 15 (1.00%) DHCP
10 15 (1.00%) DNS
11 14 (0.94%) Bluetooth
12 13 (0.87%) RS-232
13 11 (0.74%) LAN
13 11 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.54%) Wireshark
15 7 (0.47%) 4G
15 7 (0.47%) Broadband
15 7 (0.47%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (3.15%) Power BI
2 44 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 18 (1.21%) Tableau
5 15 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.80%) GIS
7 10 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (0.60%) Power Query
9 8 (0.54%) Big Data
9 8 (0.54%) Crystal Reports
10 7 (0.47%) Metadata
10 7 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (0.33%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.13%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 133 (8.91%) JIRA
2 33 (2.21%) Rational DOORS
3 27 (1.81%) Git
4 24 (1.61%) Visual Studio
5 20 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.00%) Rational Rhapsody
7 13 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.80%) Selenium
9 10 (0.67%) Trac
10 9 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.60%) Gradle
10 9 (0.60%) JMeter
10 9 (0.60%) LabVIEW
10 9 (0.60%) Maven
11 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.33%) GitLab
12 5 (0.33%) Subversion
13 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.27%) Katalon Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 337 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 238 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
3 175 (11.72%) Finance
4 141 (9.44%) Manufacturing
5 135 (9.04%) Aerospace
6 126 (8.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 125 (8.37%) Electronics
8 115 (7.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (4.96%) Automotive
10 69 (4.62%) Marketing
11 67 (4.49%) Law
12 53 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (3.35%) Telecoms
14 46 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (2.81%) Banking
16 38 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
17 36 (2.41%) Military
18 32 (2.14%) Retail
19 29 (1.94%) Legal
20 23 (1.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 376 (25.18%) Architect
2 325 (21.77%) Software Architect
3 177 (11.86%) Lead
3 177 (11.86%) Systems Engineer
4 156 (10.45%) Senior
5 112 (7.50%) Software Engineer
6 89 (5.96%) Analyst
7 55 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
8 43 (2.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 42 (2.81%) Technical Leader
10 41 (2.75%) Hardware Engineer
10 41 (2.75%) Validation Engineer
11 39 (2.61%) IT Manager
12 38 (2.55%) QA Manager
13 35 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
14 33 (2.21%) Developer
15 32 (2.14%) Embedded Engineer
16 30 (2.01%) Test Engineer
17 26 (1.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
18 24 (1.61%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.88%) HTML
2 23 (1.54%) CSS
3 21 (1.41%) React
4 17 (1.14%) XML
5 16 (1.07%) .NET
5 16 (1.07%) REST
6 12 (0.80%) EDI
6 12 (0.80%) PyTorch
6 12 (0.80%) TensorFlow
6 12 (0.80%) WebRTC
7 11 (0.74%) WPF
8 10 (0.67%) JSON
8 10 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
8 10 (0.67%) Qt
9 9 (0.60%) Ext JS
9 9 (0.60%) Spring
9 9 (0.60%) Spring Boot
9 9 (0.60%) Yocto
10 8 (0.54%) Gherkin
10 8 (0.54%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 112 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 65 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 54 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (2.81%) Life Science
5 24 (1.61%) FPGA
5 24 (1.61%) Robotics
6 22 (1.47%) Analogue Electronics
6 22 (1.47%) IoT
7 21 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
7 21 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.21%) Biopharmaceutical
10 17 (1.14%) GNSS
11 15 (1.00%) LIMS
12 14 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.87%) Cloud Native
14 12 (0.80%) Clustering
15 10 (0.67%) NHS
15 10 (0.67%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 132 (8.84%) Linux
2 33 (2.21%) Windows
3 11 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (0.54%) Android
5 8 (0.54%) Debian
5 8 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.067%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (25.92%) Actionable Insight
2 385 (25.79%) Requirements Management
3 370 (24.78%) Model Validation
4 345 (23.11%) TOGAF
5 333 (22.30%) Network Architecture
6 325 (21.77%) Network Management
7 324 (21.70%) Technical Architecture
8 276 (18.49%) Verification and Validation
9 264 (17.68%) Agile
10 253 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
11 172 (11.52%) Systems Engineering
12 161 (10.78%) Software Engineering
13 142 (9.51%) DevOps
13 142 (9.51%) Project Management
14 129 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 123 (8.24%) SDLC
16 115 (7.70%) Computer Science
17 114 (7.64%) Mentoring
18 110 (7.37%) Collaborative Working
19 88 (5.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 144 (9.65%) Python
2 138 (9.24%) SQL
3 95 (6.36%) C
4 77 (5.16%) MATLAB
5 70 (4.69%) C#
6 60 (4.02%) C++
7 41 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 26 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 25 (1.67%) Java
10 22 (1.47%) Bash
11 18 (1.21%) Perl
12 16 (1.07%) R
13 12 (0.80%) Ada
14 10 (0.67%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.67%) XAML
15 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.40%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.40%) Fortran
16 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 455 (30.48%) Degree
2 301 (20.16%) Security Cleared
3 119 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 72 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 51 (3.42%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.01%) DBS Check
9 24 (1.61%) HNC
10 22 (1.47%) HND
11 18 (1.21%) CISSP
12 17 (1.14%) PhD
12 17 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.87%) CISM
15 12 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.74%) Chartered Engineer
16 11 (0.74%) CISA
16 11 (0.74%) PCI QSA
17 8 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (8.98%) QA
2 66 (4.42%) GMP
3 32 (2.14%) PMO
4 30 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.88%) GLP
6 24 (1.61%) NIST
7 23 (1.54%) GxP
8 21 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 19 (1.27%) Good Clinical Practice
10 16 (1.07%) PCI DSS
11 15 (1.00%) Automotive SPICE
11 15 (1.00%) ISO 26262
12 13 (0.87%) Def Stans
13 11 (0.74%) Accessibility
14 9 (0.60%) MISRA
15 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.47%) GDPR
16 7 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
17 6 (0.40%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 68 (4.55%) Docker
2 48 (3.22%) Firmware
3 30 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (1.74%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 16 (1.07%) pfSense
5 16 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.67%) NFS
7 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.27%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (4.35%) Ansible
2 58 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 56 (3.75%) Terraform
4 30 (2.01%) Functional Safety
5 16 (1.07%) Grafana
5 16 (1.07%) ZABBIX
6 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 10 (0.67%) SCDPM
7 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 116 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 39 (2.61%) Salesforce
3 34 (2.28%) VMware
4 29 (1.94%) SAP
5 26 (1.74%) EMC
6 22 (1.47%) Google
7 21 (1.41%) Oracle
8 18 (1.21%) Databricks
9 16 (1.07%) Fortinet
9 16 (1.07%) Juniper
10 15 (1.00%) IBM
10 15 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 14 (0.94%) Veeam
12 11 (0.74%) Nintex
13 10 (0.67%) McAfee
14 9 (0.60%) CheckPoint
14 9 (0.60%) Cisco
14 9 (0.60%) TOWER Software
15 6 (0.40%) Apple
15 6 (0.40%) Atlassian