Validation Jobs in England

Validation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 174 202
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 +33
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,566 1,876 2,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.79% 2.15% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 2.25% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 718 576 984
10th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,813 £48,461 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.23% +7.94%
75th Percentile £72,250 £77,715 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,116 83,365 132,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.52% 95.60% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 54,232 49,528 73,258
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £33,326
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in England

Validation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Validation in England

Validation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in England over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Validation in England

Validation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the England region over the 6 months to 24 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
South East +5 358 £52,500 -4.55% 275
South West +34 301 £50,000 -28.00% 100
London -56 277 £75,000 +7.14% 253
North of England +47 256 £51,000 -5.15% 135
Midlands -38 245 £50,000 -9.09% 149
North West +43 163 £50,000 -4.76% 87
West Midlands -63 137 £54,000 -1.82% 96
East of England -19 124 £55,000 -8.33% 179
East Midlands +46 108 £42,500 -27.66% 51
Yorkshire +43 83 £51,528 -6.39% 35
North East -4 10 £52,500 -32.26% 14
Validation
UK

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (1.28%) SAS
2 14 (0.89%) Apache Spark
2 14 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.83%) Documentum
4 10 (0.64%) Apache
4 10 (0.64%) IIS
5 9 (0.57%) Confluence
6 8 (0.51%) CMS
7 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.32%) Kinematics
8 3 (0.19%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (2.81%) Simulink
4 40 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (1.53%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.47%) Stateflow
7 14 (0.89%) OrCAD
8 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.13%) Fusion 360
11 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.13%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.13%) Windchill
12 1 (0.064%) CATIA
12 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.02%) TrackWise
2 14 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.51%) SAP QM
5 5 (0.32%) SAP CRM
6 4 (0.26%) SAP BPC
6 4 (0.26%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.26%) SAP WM
7 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.19%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.064%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.064%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 155 (9.90%) Azure
2 119 (7.60%) AWS
3 69 (4.41%) Power Platform
4 43 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (1.47%) GitHub
6 23 (1.47%) SaaS
7 22 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
7 22 (1.40%) GCP
8 17 (1.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 15 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (0.83%) PowerApps
12 12 (0.77%) OneDrive
13 11 (0.70%) OCI
13 11 (0.70%) Power Automate
13 11 (0.70%) ShareGate
14 10 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 235 (15.01%) VSAT
2 58 (3.70%) Firewall
3 40 (2.55%) WAN
4 32 (2.04%) 5G
5 30 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.66%) Network Security
7 23 (1.47%) Ethernet
8 21 (1.34%) LAN
8 21 (1.34%) Wireless
9 19 (1.21%) Internet
10 18 (1.15%) DNS
10 18 (1.15%) Wireshark
11 17 (1.09%) VPN
12 16 (1.02%) DHCP
13 14 (0.89%) RS-232
14 11 (0.70%) Bluetooth
14 11 (0.70%) SD-WAN
15 7 (0.45%) 4G
15 7 (0.45%) J1939
16 6 (0.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.09%) SQL Server
2 59 (3.77%) Power BI
3 37 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (1.60%) Tableau
5 24 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (1.21%) GIS
7 16 (1.02%) Relational Database
8 14 (0.89%) Big Data
9 13 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
9 13 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (0.77%) Data Lake
11 11 (0.70%) Metadata
12 8 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
12 8 (0.51%) Power Query
13 7 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
13 7 (0.45%) Data Mining
13 7 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 6 (0.38%) SAP HANA
15 5 (0.32%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 121 (7.73%) JIRA
2 33 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
3 28 (1.79%) Git
4 25 (1.60%) Visual Studio
5 19 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 16 (1.02%) Selenium
7 15 (0.96%) Rational Rhapsody
8 11 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (0.64%) GitLab
9 10 (0.64%) Trac
10 9 (0.57%) LabVIEW
11 6 (0.38%) Postman
12 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.26%) Katalon Studio
14 3 (0.19%) Appium
14 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
14 3 (0.19%) ERwin
14 3 (0.19%) Maven
14 3 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 400 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 268 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
3 243 (15.52%) Finance
4 140 (8.94%) Pharmaceutical
5 139 (8.88%) Manufacturing
6 126 (8.05%) Aerospace
7 118 (7.54%) Electronics
8 97 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 77 (4.92%) Automotive
10 59 (3.77%) Banking
11 58 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
12 50 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
12 50 (3.19%) Law
13 47 (3.00%) Marketing
14 46 (2.94%) Telecoms
15 43 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
15 43 (2.75%) Retail
16 41 (2.62%) Legal
17 31 (1.98%) Military
18 24 (1.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 305 (19.48%) Architect
2 235 (15.01%) Software Architect
3 204 (13.03%) Senior
4 194 (12.39%) Lead
5 159 (10.15%) Systems Engineer
6 138 (8.81%) Analyst
7 100 (6.39%) Software Engineer
8 55 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 52 (3.32%) Technical Leader
10 46 (2.94%) IT Manager
11 42 (2.68%) Developer
12 41 (2.62%) Hardware Engineer
13 39 (2.49%) Senior Software Engineer
14 38 (2.43%) QA Manager
15 37 (2.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 36 (2.30%) Business Analyst
17 33 (2.11%) Validation Engineer
18 32 (2.04%) Consultant
19 30 (1.92%) Data Engineer
19 30 (1.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.30%) HTML
2 30 (1.92%) XML
3 29 (1.85%) CSS
4 24 (1.53%) .NET
5 20 (1.28%) JSON
6 16 (1.02%) Pandas
6 16 (1.02%) React
7 14 (0.89%) REST
8 13 (0.83%) EDI
9 12 (0.77%) .NET Core
9 12 (0.77%) Yocto
10 11 (0.70%) Qt
10 11 (0.70%) WPF
11 10 (0.64%) AngularJS
11 10 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
11 10 (0.64%) WebRTC
12 9 (0.57%) Middleware
12 9 (0.57%) NumPy
12 9 (0.57%) Web Services
13 8 (0.51%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.79%) Management Information System
2 66 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
3 64 (4.09%) Algorithms
4 44 (2.81%) Life Science
5 33 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 29 (1.85%) Robotics
7 24 (1.53%) FPGA
7 24 (1.53%) IoT
8 22 (1.40%) Analogue Electronics
8 22 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
9 21 (1.34%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.21%) Biopharmaceutical
11 18 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
12 17 (1.09%) GNSS
12 17 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 16 (1.02%) NHS
13 16 (1.02%) PDA
14 15 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (0.96%) LIMS
15 13 (0.83%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 132 (8.43%) Linux
2 42 (2.68%) Windows
3 17 (1.09%) Android
4 16 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.51%) Debian
7 8 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (20.63%) Actionable Insight
2 305 (19.48%) Agile
3 298 (19.03%) Requirements Management
4 296 (18.90%) Model Validation
5 283 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
6 264 (16.86%) Verification and Validation
7 255 (16.28%) TOGAF
8 244 (15.58%) Network Architecture
9 243 (15.52%) Technical Architecture
10 236 (15.07%) Network Management
11 181 (11.56%) Project Management
12 169 (10.79%) Systems Engineering
13 152 (9.71%) Software Engineering
14 142 (9.07%) DevOps
15 141 (9.00%) Computer Science
16 132 (8.43%) Collaborative Working
17 130 (8.30%) Mentoring
18 124 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
19 121 (7.73%) Decision-Making
20 114 (7.28%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 201 (12.84%) Python
2 165 (10.54%) SQL
3 93 (5.94%) C
4 76 (4.85%) MATLAB
5 73 (4.66%) C#
6 65 (4.15%) C++
7 40 (2.55%) JavaScript
8 39 (2.49%) PowerShell
9 33 (2.11%) Java
10 31 (1.98%) R
11 22 (1.40%) Bash
12 17 (1.09%) Perl
12 17 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.70%) Ada
14 10 (0.64%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.64%) XAML
15 7 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.45%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.38%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.38%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 489 (31.23%) Degree
2 302 (19.28%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 89 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 68 (4.34%) DV Cleared
6 56 (3.58%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.36%) CISSP
9 31 (1.98%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.40%) HNC
12 20 (1.28%) HND
13 19 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (1.21%) CCSP
13 19 (1.21%) PhD
14 18 (1.15%) CISM
15 17 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (1.02%) SANS
17 14 (0.89%) CISA
17 14 (0.89%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (9.07%) QA
2 66 (4.21%) GMP
3 54 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (3.00%) NIST
5 46 (2.94%) Data Quality
6 38 (2.43%) PMO
7 30 (1.92%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.79%) GLP
9 23 (1.47%) Good Clinical Practice
10 22 (1.40%) GxP
11 19 (1.21%) Def Stans
12 17 (1.09%) GDPR
12 17 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 13 (0.83%) Accessibility
13 13 (0.83%) Automotive SPICE
13 13 (0.83%) ISO 26262
14 11 (0.70%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.64%) IFRS
15 10 (0.64%) IFRS 9
15 10 (0.64%) NIST 800
System Software
1 68 (4.34%) Docker
2 50 (3.19%) Firmware
3 31 (1.98%) Active Directory
4 30 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 16 (1.02%) pfSense
5 16 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
7 10 (0.64%) NFS
8 4 (0.26%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (4.28%) Ansible
2 62 (3.96%) Terraform
3 58 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 30 (1.92%) Functional Safety
5 17 (1.09%) Grafana
6 16 (1.02%) ZABBIX
7 15 (0.96%) Nmap
8 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 10 (0.64%) SCDPM
10 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) Kibana
12 1 (0.064%) Consul
12 1 (0.064%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.064%) OpenNMS
12 1 (0.064%) Packer
12 1 (0.064%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.064%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.064%) Puppet
12 1 (0.064%) Salt
Vendors
1 166 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 45 (2.87%) SAP
3 44 (2.81%) Salesforce
4 35 (2.23%) VMware
5 29 (1.85%) Oracle
6 28 (1.79%) Google
7 26 (1.66%) EMC
8 21 (1.34%) Databricks
9 19 (1.21%) IBM
10 16 (1.02%) Fortinet
10 16 (1.02%) Juniper
10 16 (1.02%) Splunk
11 14 (0.89%) Qualys
11 14 (0.89%) Rapid7
11 14 (0.89%) Thycotic
11 14 (0.89%) Veeam
12 13 (0.83%) Cisco
13 11 (0.70%) CheckPoint
13 11 (0.70%) Nintex
14 10 (0.64%) Alteryx