Validation Jobs in the North of England

Validation
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 214 274
Rank change year-on-year +44 +60 -39
Permanent jobs citing Validation 251 246 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.38% 1.49% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.54% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 106 68 81
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,733 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,875 £42,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,043 £45,041
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +22.21% +0.09%
75th Percentile £58,438 £77,715 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,915 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,895 16,001 17,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.86% 96.69% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 7,839 10,706
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,074 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Validation in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Validation in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North West +47 160 £50,000 -7.01% 88
Yorkshire +35 81 £51,528 -6.39% 36
North East -3 10 £52,500 -32.26% 15
Validation
England

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (2.39%) SAS
2 4 (1.59%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) Apache
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.80%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.40%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Simulink
5 1 (0.40%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG-BP
1 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG-F
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.15%) Azure
2 19 (7.57%) AWS
3 12 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.98%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.39%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.20%) Collibra
8 3 (1.20%) OCI
9 2 (0.80%) GCP
9 2 (0.80%) GitHub
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.40%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.40%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 99 (39.44%) VSAT
2 11 (4.38%) Firewall
3 10 (3.98%) LAN
3 10 (3.98%) Network Security
3 10 (3.98%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.98%) WAN
4 6 (2.39%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.59%) Internet
5 4 (1.59%) Multicast
5 4 (1.59%) OSPF
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) DNS
6 1 (0.40%) Microwave Backhaul
6 1 (0.40%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.98%) Power BI
2 8 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (2.79%) Power Query
4 4 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.20%) Metadata
6 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.40%) Looker
7 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (11.95%) JIRA
2 8 (3.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.59%) Katalon Studio
3 4 (1.59%) Postman
3 4 (1.59%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.20%) Selenium
5 2 (0.80%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) GitLab
6 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 46 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.94%) Finance
3 22 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.97%) Aerospace
5 13 (5.18%) Manufacturing
5 13 (5.18%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (4.78%) Banking
7 8 (3.19%) Retail
8 7 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.79%) Electronics
8 7 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.79%) Marketing
9 5 (1.99%) Games
9 5 (1.99%) Law
9 5 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Automotive
10 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.20%) Retail Finance
11 3 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 104 (41.43%) Architect
2 99 (39.44%) Software Architect
3 20 (7.97%) Analyst
3 20 (7.97%) Senior
4 17 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (6.77%) Project Manager
5 12 (4.78%) Systems Engineer
6 11 (4.38%) Developer
7 7 (2.79%) Electronics Engineer
7 7 (2.79%) IT Manager
7 7 (2.79%) IT Project Manager
7 7 (2.79%) Lead
8 6 (2.39%) Analyst Developer
8 6 (2.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 6 (2.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (2.39%) Design Engineer
8 6 (2.39%) Developer Analyst
8 6 (2.39%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 6 (2.39%) Security Engineer
8 6 (2.39%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.79%) Lightning Web Components
2 5 (1.99%) HTML
2 5 (1.99%) Web Services
2 5 (1.99%) WPF
2 5 (1.99%) XML
3 4 (1.59%) .NET
3 4 (1.59%) Akka
3 4 (1.59%) Gherkin
3 4 (1.59%) XSLT
4 2 (0.80%) Pandas
4 2 (0.80%) XGBoost
5 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.40%) CSS
5 1 (0.40%) JavaBeans
5 1 (0.40%) React
5 1 (0.40%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.40%) Servlets
5 1 (0.40%) Spring
5 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.40%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.38%) Management Information System
2 6 (2.39%) Biopharmaceutical
2 6 (2.39%) Credit Risk
2 6 (2.39%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (1.59%) NHS
3 4 (1.59%) Operational Technology
3 4 (1.59%) SCADA
4 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.80%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.40%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.40%) Linked Data
6 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.37%) Linux
2 12 (4.78%) Windows
3 6 (2.39%) Android
3 6 (2.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (41.04%) Network Architecture
1 103 (41.04%) Requirements Management
2 102 (40.64%) Model Validation
3 101 (40.24%) Actionable Insight
4 100 (39.84%) Network Management
5 99 (39.44%) Technical Architecture
5 99 (39.44%) TOGAF
6 48 (19.12%) Agile
7 31 (12.35%) Verification and Validation
8 29 (11.55%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (11.55%) DevOps
9 28 (11.16%) SDLC
10 23 (9.16%) Project Management
11 22 (8.76%) Collaborative Working
12 21 (8.37%) CI/CD
13 20 (7.97%) Computer Science
14 18 (7.17%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (7.17%) Kanban
14 18 (7.17%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (7.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.55%) SQL
2 27 (10.76%) Python
3 12 (4.78%) C#
4 11 (4.38%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.79%) C
5 7 (2.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (2.79%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.39%) R
7 5 (1.99%) Embedded C
7 5 (1.99%) XAML
8 4 (1.59%) Groovy
9 3 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.20%) Java
10 2 (0.80%) C++
11 1 (0.40%) ABAP
11 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (16.73%) Degree
2 25 (9.96%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.77%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.78%) CISSP
5 10 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.79%) HND
6 7 (2.79%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (2.39%) CCSP
7 6 (2.39%) CEH
7 6 (2.39%) CISA
7 6 (2.39%) CISM
7 6 (2.39%) PCI QSA
7 6 (2.39%) SANS
7 6 (2.39%) SSCP
8 5 (1.99%) HNC
8 5 (1.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (1.59%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.59%) CIPD
9 4 (1.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (4.78%) NIST
1 12 (4.78%) PCI DSS
2 10 (3.98%) QA
3 8 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.79%) GxP
4 7 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (2.39%) GLP
5 6 (2.39%) Good Clinical Practice
5 6 (2.39%) IEC 62304
6 5 (1.99%) IFRS
6 5 (1.99%) IFRS 9
7 4 (1.59%) CRD IV
8 3 (1.20%) GMP
8 3 (1.20%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.40%) GAMP
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (6.77%) Docker
2 6 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.59%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (6.77%) Ansible
1 17 (6.77%) Kubernetes
1 17 (6.77%) Terraform
2 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.39%) Nmap
Vendors
1 21 (8.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.59%) Salesforce
3 6 (2.39%) Civica
3 6 (2.39%) EMC
3 6 (2.39%) Qualys
3 6 (2.39%) Rapid7
3 6 (2.39%) SAP
3 6 (2.39%) Splunk
3 6 (2.39%) Thycotic
4 5 (1.99%) Cisco
4 5 (1.99%) Google
5 4 (1.59%) Databricks
5 4 (1.59%) Thales
5 4 (1.59%) VMware
6 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.20%) Oracle
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe
7 1 (0.40%) NEC
7 1 (0.40%) Veeam
7 1 (0.40%) WatchGuard