Validation Jobs

Validation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Validation over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 157 175
Rank change year-on-year +107 +18 +27
Permanent jobs citing Validation 2,407 1,862 2,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.66% 1.90% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 2.20% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 892 783 646
10th Percentile £43,277 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £60,449 £72,433 £80,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Validation in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in the UK

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Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2025. 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
UK excluding London +103 2,135 £57,500 +9.52% 1,044
England +100 2,024 £52,600 -4.36% 1,808
Midlands +99 717 £56,250 +7.14% 158
West Midlands +117 445 £66,250 +26.19% 101
South East +89 383 £55,000 +4.76% 304
North of England +83 352 £47,683 -6.99% 186
North West +69 298 £47,683 -2.19% 138
Scotland +113 297 £58,033 +10.54% 72
East Midlands +71 272 £51,000 +20.00% 53
South West +58 233 £52,600 +5.20% 136
London +57 227 £70,000 -8.20% 893
Work from Home -18 202 £57,000 +3.64% 833
East of England +50 111 £57,000 +3.64% 196
Yorkshire +39 50 £47,500 -7.82% 40
Wales +34 41 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Northern Ireland +6 7 - - 22
North East +47 4 £56,750 +5.58% 8

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 9 (0.37%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.17%) Apache
3 4 (0.17%) Confluence
3 4 (0.17%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.12%) CMS
4 3 (0.12%) SAS
5 2 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.083%) Kinematics
5 2 (0.083%) Mule
5 2 (0.083%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.083%) TPMS
6 1 (0.042%) MTS
6 1 (0.042%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 684 (28.42%) Simulink
2 82 (3.41%) Mathcad
3 47 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 33 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.50%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.083%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.083%) Autodesk Inventor
10 2 (0.083%) CATIA
11 1 (0.042%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.042%) Maple
11 1 (0.042%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.042%) Revit
11 1 (0.042%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.042%) SPSS
11 1 (0.042%) Stata
Business Applications
1 16 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.25%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.083%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.083%) Endur
5 2 (0.083%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.042%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.042%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.042%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.042%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.042%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 122 (5.07%) AWS
2 80 (3.32%) Azure
3 59 (2.45%) Power Platform
4 51 (2.12%) GCP
5 29 (1.20%) GitHub
6 25 (1.04%) Snowflake
7 16 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (0.54%) Amazon S3
9 13 (0.54%) Serverless
10 11 (0.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (0.46%) PowerApps
11 10 (0.42%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (0.42%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (0.29%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (0.25%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.37%) 5G
2 66 (2.74%) Wireless
3 65 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
4 63 (2.62%) Bluetooth
5 58 (2.41%) LTE
6 57 (2.37%) GSM
6 57 (2.37%) UMTS
7 20 (0.83%) WAN
8 16 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.46%) Modbus
10 9 (0.37%) 4G
10 9 (0.37%) DNS
10 9 (0.37%) Internet
10 9 (0.37%) LAN
11 5 (0.21%) 2G
11 5 (0.21%) 3G
11 5 (0.21%) Firewall
12 4 (0.17%) Network Security
12 4 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
12 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (2.20%) Power BI
3 42 (1.74%) Data Lake
4 38 (1.58%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.16%) Tableau
6 24 (1.00%) Metadata
7 19 (0.79%) MySQL
8 18 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (0.66%) Big Data
9 16 (0.66%) NoSQL
10 15 (0.62%) Oracle ODI
11 14 (0.58%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.46%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.33%) Looker
15 7 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.25%) Hadoop
16 6 (0.25%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 308 (12.80%) Rational DOORS
2 90 (3.74%) JIRA
3 58 (2.41%) Git
4 34 (1.41%) Selenium
5 15 (0.62%) Postman
6 13 (0.54%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.50%) JMeter
7 12 (0.50%) SoapUI
8 10 (0.42%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.33%) Subversion
10 7 (0.29%) GitLab
11 6 (0.25%) Gradle
11 6 (0.25%) Maven
11 6 (0.25%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.21%) Rational Rhapsody
13 4 (0.17%) CppUnit
13 4 (0.17%) Locust
13 4 (0.17%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 234 (9.72%) Social Skills
2 229 (9.51%) Aerospace
3 211 (8.77%) Automotive
4 166 (6.90%) Finance
5 147 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 138 (5.73%) Electronics
7 100 (4.15%) Manufacturing
8 76 (3.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 53 (2.20%) Military
10 44 (1.83%) Banking
10 44 (1.83%) Marketing
11 38 (1.58%) Legal
12 37 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 36 (1.50%) Law
14 24 (1.00%) Public Sector
15 22 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 20 (0.83%) Retail
18 16 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
19 13 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 691 (28.71%) Principal Engineer
2 685 (28.46%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 629 (26.13%) Systems Engineer
4 331 (13.75%) Senior
5 302 (12.55%) Validation Engineer
6 288 (11.97%) Integration Engineer
7 285 (11.84%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 276 (11.47%) System Verification Engineer
9 224 (9.31%) Engineering Manager
10 175 (7.27%) Requirements Manager
11 141 (5.86%) Requirements Engineer
12 140 (5.82%) Software Engineer
13 123 (5.11%) Test Engineer
14 95 (3.95%) Development Engineer
15 91 (3.78%) Electronics Engineer
16 90 (3.74%) Software Development Engineer
17 84 (3.49%) Analyst
18 81 (3.37%) Principal Modelling Engineer
19 77 (3.20%) Lead
20 74 (3.07%) Mathematical Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (0.91%) Kafka
2 20 (0.83%) CSS
2 20 (0.83%) HTML
3 18 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.58%) REST
5 13 (0.54%) React
6 12 (0.50%) Qt
7 10 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (0.42%) JSON
7 10 (0.42%) Pandas
7 10 (0.42%) YAML
8 9 (0.37%) Spring
9 8 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (0.33%) RESTful
9 8 (0.33%) SOAP
9 8 (0.33%) XML
10 7 (0.29%) GraphQL
10 7 (0.29%) Node.js
11 6 (0.25%) Loki
11 6 (0.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 61 (2.53%) Driving Licence
2 34 (1.41%) Algorithms
3 33 (1.37%) Product Ownership
4 31 (1.29%) SCADA
5 29 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 27 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
7 24 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 24 (1.00%) Operational Technology
7 24 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (0.91%) IoT
9 16 (0.66%) Self-Driving Car
10 14 (0.58%) FPGA
11 10 (0.42%) Biopharmaceutical
11 10 (0.42%) Cloud Native
11 10 (0.42%) Mobile App
12 9 (0.37%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 8 (0.33%) GNSS
14 7 (0.29%) Life Science
14 7 (0.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.74%) Linux
2 18 (0.75%) Windows
3 7 (0.29%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.25%) Android
5 5 (0.21%) Unix
6 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.042%) AIX
8 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.042%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.042%) Solaris
8 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,628 (67.64%) Systems Engineering
2 1,421 (59.04%) Verification and Validation
3 760 (31.57%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 668 (27.75%) Mathematics
5 592 (24.59%) Software Engineering
6 525 (21.81%) SysML
7 415 (17.24%) Agile
8 393 (16.33%) Digital Twin
9 320 (13.29%) Requirements Management
10 318 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 289 (12.01%) Software Testing
12 258 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
13 214 (8.89%) Coaching
14 191 (7.94%) Physics
15 185 (7.69%) Project Planning
16 172 (7.15%) Test Automation
17 166 (6.90%) Mentoring
18 149 (6.19%) Computer Science
19 127 (5.28%) Acceptance Criteria
20 101 (4.20%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 703 (29.21%) MATLAB
2 250 (10.39%) Python
3 182 (7.56%) SQL
4 76 (3.16%) C
5 68 (2.83%) C++
6 31 (1.29%) C#
7 28 (1.16%) JavaScript
8 26 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 20 (0.83%) Java
9 20 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 17 (0.71%) Ada
11 17 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.66%) R
12 16 (0.66%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.62%) Bash
14 10 (0.42%) Perl
15 9 (0.37%) C-shell
15 9 (0.37%) Go
15 9 (0.37%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1,189 (49.40%) Degree
2 1,065 (44.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 476 (19.78%) HND
4 427 (17.74%) HNC
5 268 (11.13%) Chartered Engineer
6 178 (7.40%) ISTQB
7 99 (4.11%) Master's Degree
8 63 (2.62%) Security Cleared
9 47 (1.95%) SC Cleared
10 44 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (1.16%) PhD
12 25 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
13 15 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.37%) CCNP
16 8 (0.33%) AWS Certification
16 8 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.29%) PMI Certification
18 6 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 6 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (4.82%) QA
2 87 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 82 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 43 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 36 (1.50%) GxP
6 35 (1.45%) GMP
7 32 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 22 (0.91%) GDPR
9 20 (0.83%) PMO
10 16 (0.66%) ARP4754
10 16 (0.66%) DO-254
10 16 (0.66%) IEC 61508
11 15 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
12 7 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 6 (0.25%) IFRS
13 6 (0.25%) IFRS 9
13 6 (0.25%) ISO 26262
13 6 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (1.29%) Docker
2 18 (0.75%) Firmware
3 10 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.042%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.042%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.042%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.87%) Terraform
3 13 (0.54%) Grafana
4 9 (0.37%) Argo
5 8 (0.33%) Ansible
6 6 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.21%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.12%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.083%) Podman
9 2 (0.083%) Puppet
9 2 (0.083%) SCOM
10 1 (0.042%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.042%) Nessus
10 1 (0.042%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.042%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (3.45%) MathWorks
2 70 (2.91%) Microsoft
3 52 (2.16%) IBM
4 38 (1.58%) Oracle
5 27 (1.12%) SAP
6 26 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 20 (0.83%) Google
8 16 (0.66%) Databricks
9 15 (0.62%) Cisco
10 10 (0.42%) EMC
10 10 (0.42%) IFS
11 9 (0.37%) CheckPoint
11 9 (0.37%) F5
11 9 (0.37%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.37%) Siemens
12 8 (0.33%) Hitachi
12 8 (0.33%) Informatica
12 8 (0.33%) Splunk
13 7 (0.29%) Dell
13 7 (0.29%) Infor