Verification and Validation Jobs in England

Verification and Validation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Verification and Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Verification and Validation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 677 828
Rank change year-on-year +87 +151 -107
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 285 219 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.28% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 182 53 125
10th Percentile £40,750 £28,750 £34,994
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Verification and Validation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,968 78,333 138,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.62% 95.44% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56,258 48,146 73,664
10th Percentile £29,383 £34,308 £33,349
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,775 £44,178
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 £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in England

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Verification and Validation in England

Verification and Validation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Verification and Validation in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Verification and Validation in England

Verification and 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 Verification and Validation within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +38 89 £54,995 -0.01% 57
South West +4 60 £55,000 -20.29% 40
East of England -15 51 £57,500 +4.55% 35
North of England +44 37 £50,000 - 21
Midlands -79 31 £55,000 - 25
North West +2 26 £55,000 - 14
West Midlands -55 24 £55,000 - 11
London +61 14 £70,000 -22.22% 11
Yorkshire +73 10 £45,000 - 4
East Midlands -26 7 £42,500 - 14
North East - 1 - - 3
Verification and Validation
UK

Verification and 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 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (8.07%) Simulink
2 8 (2.81%) Stateflow
3 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.70%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.35%) CATIA
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.35%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.35%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.35%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (1.40%) dbt
1 4 (1.40%) Prefect
2 3 (1.05%) AWS
2 3 (1.05%) Azure
2 3 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (0.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.35%) Asana
4 1 (0.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.75%) Bluetooth
1 5 (1.75%) LAN
1 5 (1.75%) Network Security
1 5 (1.75%) WAN
2 4 (1.40%) Firewall
2 4 (1.40%) Multicast
2 4 (1.40%) OSPF
2 4 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.05%) 4G
4 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.70%) RS-232
5 1 (0.35%) 3G
5 1 (0.35%) GPRS
5 1 (0.35%) Modbus
5 1 (0.35%) RS-485
5 1 (0.35%) SAN
5 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.11%) Tableau
2 2 (0.70%) Big Data
2 2 (0.70%) Power BI
2 2 (0.70%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (0.70%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.35%) Metadata
3 1 (0.35%) MySQL
3 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (8.42%) Rational DOORS
2 17 (5.96%) JIRA
3 11 (3.86%) Rational Rhapsody
4 5 (1.75%) Git
5 4 (1.40%) GitLab
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.70%) Appium
6 2 (0.70%) Selenium
6 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.35%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.35%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 67 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.14%) Electronics
3 35 (12.28%) Aerospace
4 25 (8.77%) Automotive
5 24 (8.42%) Military
6 13 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.86%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.46%) Finance
8 7 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.46%) Marketing
8 7 (2.46%) Retail
9 5 (1.75%) Games
9 5 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.05%) Legal
12 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 99 (34.74%) Systems Engineer
2 52 (18.25%) Software Engineer
3 51 (17.89%) Senior
4 37 (12.98%) Lead
5 25 (8.77%) Validation Engineer
6 19 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 19 (6.67%) Verification Engineer
7 18 (6.32%) Embedded Engineer
8 17 (5.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 16 (5.61%) Electronics Engineer
10 13 (4.56%) Integration Engineer
11 12 (4.21%) Developer
11 12 (4.21%) Hardware Engineer
12 11 (3.86%) Systems Integration Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Senior Validation Engineer
14 9 (3.16%) Architect
14 9 (3.16%) Design Engineer
14 9 (3.16%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
14 9 (3.16%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.75%) PyTorch
1 5 (1.75%) TensorFlow
1 5 (1.75%) WPF
2 4 (1.40%) Akka
2 4 (1.40%) Middleware
3 3 (1.05%) Qt
3 3 (1.05%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.70%) HTML
4 2 (0.70%) Playwright
4 2 (0.70%) wxWidgets
5 1 (0.35%) .NET
5 1 (0.35%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.35%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.35%) CSS
5 1 (0.35%) Flash
5 1 (0.35%) OpenCV
5 1 (0.35%) React
5 1 (0.35%) REST
5 1 (0.35%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.77%) Management Information System
2 21 (7.37%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.51%) Robotics
4 8 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (2.11%) Verilog
6 5 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.75%) VHDL
7 4 (1.40%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (1.40%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.40%) SCADA
7 4 (1.40%) Virtual Reality
8 3 (1.05%) Acoustics
8 3 (1.05%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (1.05%) ASIC
8 3 (1.05%) FPGA
9 2 (0.70%) AS400
9 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.70%) State Machine
10 1 (0.35%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.21%) Linux
2 8 (2.81%) Windows
3 2 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (100.00%) Validation
2 129 (45.26%) Systems Engineering
3 71 (24.91%) Software Engineering
4 46 (16.14%) Agile
5 42 (14.74%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 34 (11.93%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (11.58%) Mathematics
8 31 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (9.82%) Requirements Management
10 26 (9.12%) Physics
11 25 (8.77%) Mentoring
12 24 (8.42%) Decision-Making
12 24 (8.42%) Visualisation
13 20 (7.02%) Software Testing
14 19 (6.67%) Project Management
14 19 (6.67%) V-Model
15 18 (6.32%) People Management
15 18 (6.32%) Synthetic Environment
15 18 (6.32%) UML
16 17 (5.96%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 42 (14.74%) C
2 41 (14.39%) Python
3 38 (13.33%) MATLAB
4 37 (12.98%) C#
5 20 (7.02%) C++
6 13 (4.56%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.81%) SQL
8 7 (2.46%) Embedded C
9 6 (2.11%) Ada
10 5 (1.75%) XAML
11 4 (1.40%) R
12 3 (1.05%) Bash
12 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.70%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.70%) PHP
14 1 (0.35%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.35%) Fortran
14 1 (0.35%) Java
14 1 (0.35%) Perl
14 1 (0.35%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 122 (42.81%) Security Cleared
2 114 (40.00%) Degree
3 54 (18.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 46 (16.14%) SC Cleared
5 18 (6.32%) HND
6 17 (5.96%) HNC
7 15 (5.26%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.86%) Master's Degree
9 10 (3.51%) PhD
10 5 (1.75%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.70%) NVQ Level 4
13 1 (0.35%) CBAP
13 1 (0.35%) IIBA
13 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.32%) Def Stans
2 12 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 7 (2.46%) IEC 62304
4 4 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.70%) ECSS
5 2 (0.70%) ISO 14001
5 2 (0.70%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.70%) JTAG
5 2 (0.70%) QA
6 1 (0.35%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.35%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 15 (5.26%) Firmware
2 5 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.11%) Functional Safety
2 4 (1.40%) Terraform
3 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (3.51%) EMC
2 7 (2.46%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.11%) Thales
4 5 (1.75%) Cisco
4 5 (1.75%) IBM
4 5 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.40%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.70%) MathWorks
7 2 (0.70%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.35%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.35%) CA
8 1 (0.35%) Google
8 1 (0.35%) NCR
8 1 (0.35%) TSYS
8 1 (0.35%) VMware