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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 151 157
Rank change year-on-year +84 +6 +45
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1,924 1,829 2,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.81% 1.97% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 2.27% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 778 790 692
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £36,138
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £61,000 £72,433 £82,500
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% +12.24%

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 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the UK

Validation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Validation in the UK

Validation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in the UK

Validation
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 2 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 +88 1,672 £57,500 +9.52% 1,031
England +88 1,609 £52,600 -4.36% 1,613
Midlands +85 513 £55,000 +4.76% 151
West Midlands +87 321 £66,250 +26.19% 88
North of England +91 304 £47,683 -4.63% 162
South East +59 295 £55,000 +4.76% 287
North West +80 257 £47,683 +12.20% 96
Scotland +97 245 £58,033 +10.54% 78
London +14 219 £70,000 -5.41% 729
South West +43 194 £52,600 +5.20% 135
East Midlands +59 192 £51,000 +20.00% 60
Work from Home -30 177 £56,000 +1.82% 758
East of England +38 90 £55,000 - 207
Yorkshire +33 43 £47,500 -7.82% 51
Wales +27 33 £57,500 +15.00% 25
Northern Ireland +7 5 - - 15
North East +33 4 £56,750 +3.18% 15

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 6 (0.31%) Apache Spark
1 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.26%) SAS
3 4 (0.21%) Apache
3 4 (0.21%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.16%) CMS
4 3 (0.16%) Confluence
5 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.10%) Kinematics
5 2 (0.10%) Mule
5 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.052%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.052%) TPMS
Applications
1 506 (26.30%) Simulink
2 60 (3.12%) Mathcad
3 55 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.16%) Maple
9 3 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Inventor
10 2 (0.10%) CATIA
11 1 (0.052%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.052%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.052%) Revit
11 1 (0.052%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.052%) SPSS
11 1 (0.052%) Stata
Business Applications
1 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.31%) Infor M3
3 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.10%) Endur
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.052%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.052%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.052%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.052%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 104 (5.41%) AWS
2 66 (3.43%) Azure
3 57 (2.96%) Power Platform
4 38 (1.98%) GCP
5 29 (1.51%) GitHub
6 14 (0.73%) Snowflake
7 13 (0.68%) Amazon S3
7 13 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (0.68%) Serverless
8 12 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (0.57%) PowerApps
10 10 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (0.52%) Power Automate
11 9 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (0.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (0.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.25%) 5G
2 14 (0.73%) SD-WAN
2 14 (0.73%) WAN
3 12 (0.62%) Wireless
4 10 (0.52%) 2G
4 10 (0.52%) 3G
4 10 (0.52%) 4G
4 10 (0.52%) Internet
4 10 (0.52%) Modbus
5 9 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.36%) Bluetooth
6 7 (0.36%) DNS
6 7 (0.36%) LAN
7 5 (0.26%) Firewall
8 4 (0.21%) RFID
8 4 (0.21%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.16%) FTP
9 3 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
10 2 (0.10%) LTE
10 2 (0.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (2.65%) Power BI
2 50 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 33 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 29 (1.51%) Tableau
6 18 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (0.88%) MySQL
8 15 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 14 (0.73%) Metadata
10 13 (0.68%) Big Data
11 12 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (0.57%) BigQuery
12 11 (0.57%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.57%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.42%) Looker
13 8 (0.42%) Oracle ODI
14 7 (0.36%) Data Mining
15 6 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.31%) Hadoop
15 6 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 207 (10.76%) Rational DOORS
2 89 (4.63%) JIRA
3 51 (2.65%) Git
4 37 (1.92%) Selenium
5 13 (0.68%) Postman
6 11 (0.57%) JMeter
6 11 (0.57%) SoapUI
7 10 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.47%) Subversion
9 6 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.31%) Gradle
9 6 (0.31%) Maven
10 5 (0.26%) GitLab
10 5 (0.26%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.21%) CppUnit
11 4 (0.21%) LabVIEW
11 4 (0.21%) MSTest
11 4 (0.21%) Rational Rhapsody
11 4 (0.21%) SpecFlow
General
1 218 (11.33%) Social Skills
2 148 (7.69%) Finance
3 141 (7.33%) Aerospace
4 127 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 122 (6.34%) Automotive
6 105 (5.46%) Manufacturing
7 80 (4.16%) Electronics
8 79 (4.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 54 (2.81%) Military
10 43 (2.23%) Marketing
11 39 (2.03%) Banking
11 39 (2.03%) Legal
12 35 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.09%) Law
14 19 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.88%) Retail
17 16 (0.83%) Public Sector
18 12 (0.62%) Games
19 11 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 552 (28.69%) Principal Engineer
2 542 (28.17%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 373 (19.39%) Systems Engineer
4 303 (15.75%) Validation Engineer
5 288 (14.97%) Integration Engineer
6 285 (14.81%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 277 (14.40%) System Verification Engineer
8 274 (14.24%) Senior
9 140 (7.28%) Engineering Manager
10 95 (4.94%) Requirements Engineer
11 90 (4.68%) Requirements Manager
12 83 (4.31%) Analyst
13 81 (4.21%) Principal Modelling Engineer
14 68 (3.53%) Lead
15 63 (3.27%) Test Engineer
16 53 (2.75%) Mathematical Modeller
17 51 (2.65%) Software Engineer
18 45 (2.34%) Senior Test Engineer
19 43 (2.23%) Software Test Engineer
20 41 (2.13%) Senior Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.20%) CSS
1 23 (1.20%) HTML
2 20 (1.04%) Kafka
3 14 (0.73%) Pandas
4 12 (0.62%) React
5 11 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (0.57%) REST
6 10 (0.52%) NumPy
7 9 (0.47%) Qt
7 9 (0.47%) Spring
8 8 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (0.42%) RESTful
8 8 (0.42%) SOAP
9 7 (0.36%) YAML
10 6 (0.31%) Django
10 6 (0.31%) JSON
10 6 (0.31%) Middleware
10 6 (0.31%) Node.js
10 6 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (1.92%) Product Ownership
2 33 (1.72%) Management Information System
3 30 (1.56%) SCADA
4 28 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
5 26 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (1.09%) IoT
6 21 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (1.04%) Operational Technology
8 19 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 14 (0.73%) Data Structures
9 14 (0.73%) FPGA
9 14 (0.73%) Self-Driving Car
10 10 (0.52%) Cloud Native
11 9 (0.47%) Driving Licence
11 9 (0.47%) Mobile App
11 9 (0.47%) Verilog
11 9 (0.47%) VHDL
12 8 (0.42%) GNSS
12 8 (0.42%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 7 (0.36%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.23%) Linux
2 19 (0.99%) Windows
3 10 (0.52%) Unix
4 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.31%) Android
6 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.10%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.052%) AIX
8 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.052%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.052%) Solaris
8 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.052%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,258 (65.38%) Systems Engineering
2 1,137 (59.10%) Verification and Validation
3 574 (29.83%) Mathematics
4 553 (28.74%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 524 (27.23%) Software Engineering
6 408 (21.21%) SysML
7 325 (16.89%) Digital Twin
8 307 (15.96%) Agile
9 226 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 220 (11.43%) Requirements Management
11 211 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
12 192 (9.98%) Physics
13 189 (9.82%) Software Testing
14 158 (8.21%) Coaching
15 154 (8.00%) Test Automation
16 143 (7.43%) Computer Science
17 140 (7.28%) Project Planning
18 101 (5.25%) Project Management
19 93 (4.83%) Mentoring
20 83 (4.31%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 528 (27.44%) MATLAB
2 214 (11.12%) Python
3 158 (8.21%) SQL
4 78 (4.05%) C
5 63 (3.27%) C++
6 32 (1.66%) JavaScript
7 31 (1.61%) C#
8 19 (0.99%) Java
9 18 (0.94%) PL/SQL
9 18 (0.94%) PowerShell
9 18 (0.94%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.88%) Shell Script
11 16 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 14 (0.73%) R
13 10 (0.52%) Ada
14 8 (0.42%) Bash
14 8 (0.42%) C-shell
14 8 (0.42%) Korn
14 8 (0.42%) Perl
15 7 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,043 (54.21%) Degree
2 769 (39.97%) BPSS Clearance
3 345 (17.93%) HNC
4 338 (17.57%) HND
5 267 (13.88%) Chartered Engineer
6 175 (9.10%) ISTQB
7 99 (5.15%) Master's Degree
8 48 (2.49%) Security Cleared
9 45 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (1.98%) SC Cleared
11 24 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
12 22 (1.14%) PhD
13 15 (0.78%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.52%) AWS Certification
16 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.36%) CCNP
18 6 (0.31%) Azure Certification
19 5 (0.26%) CCSA
19 5 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (5.93%) QA
2 72 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 45 (2.34%) GMP
5 38 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 28 (1.46%) GxP
7 24 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.94%) PMO
9 17 (0.88%) GDPR
10 16 (0.83%) ARP4754
10 16 (0.83%) DO-254
10 16 (0.83%) IEC 61508
11 11 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
12 6 (0.31%) ISO 26262
13 5 (0.26%) HAZOP
13 5 (0.26%) IFRS
13 5 (0.26%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.26%) NIST
14 4 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 3 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 28 (1.46%) Docker
2 16 (0.83%) Firmware
3 13 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.052%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.052%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.052%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (1.40%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.78%) Terraform
3 9 (0.47%) Grafana
4 8 (0.42%) Argo
5 6 (0.31%) Ansible
5 6 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.26%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.10%) Podman
10 1 (0.052%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.052%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.052%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (3.95%) Microsoft
2 61 (3.17%) MathWorks
3 52 (2.70%) IBM
4 29 (1.51%) Oracle
5 27 (1.40%) Salesforce
6 24 (1.25%) SAP
7 21 (1.09%) Google
8 14 (0.73%) Databricks
9 13 (0.68%) Cisco
9 13 (0.68%) EMC
10 10 (0.52%) IFS
11 8 (0.42%) Siemens
12 7 (0.36%) CheckPoint
12 7 (0.36%) Dell
12 7 (0.36%) F5
12 7 (0.36%) Infor
12 7 (0.36%) Informatica
13 6 (0.31%) New Relic
14 5 (0.26%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.26%) Splunk