About Us
Established 2006
Who We Are
From our head office based in the historic market town of Malmesbury, we have rapidly grown from an unknown name in the industry, to becoming an industry leader. Our client base is international and includes huge recognisable names from a wide variety of sectors. Our goal is to bring easy-to-use skills management tools and services to as many organisations as possible, small to global.
We have been established for over 20 years, we specialise in providing Skill Framework based services. For IT professionals, including the ‘Skills Framework for the Information Age’. SFIA is now the globally accepted common language for the skills and competencies required in the digital world.
What We Do
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At Assess Management Ltd (trading as ‘ValidateSkills.com’), we are accredited SFIA Partners, Consultants, and Training providers. Our services are wide ranging and include: introductory SFIA training, job role mapping against SFIA skill codes, and our IT Skills Analysis (ITSA) tool which utilises an advanced self-assessment process.
Our services don’t end with SFIA. Through ValidateSkills we offer skills framework design to implementation so that you can assess skills and knowledge of new applicants or existing employees directly against your needs as a business. In the case of businesses, schools, colleges, or awarding organisations, your students or employees can also benefit from its versatility to support their development.

Who We Are
Assess Management Ltd (ValidateSkills.com) is an accredited SFIA and CIISec partner delivering frameworks, assessments, training and consultancy for 20+ years.
SFIA Accreditation
We are a globally approved SFIA Foundation license holder, upholding their regulations with SFIA 9 through online services and support.
CIISec Approved
Approved providers of the CIISec (Chartered Institute of Information Security) Skills Framework to corporate mambers of CIISec.
Our Approach
Combine standard frameworks with evidence-based assessment, verification and analytics to embed a skills-first culture. Deliver a full development review using known skills framework or help you develop your own hybrid skills framework.
Our History
From early skills management via an ATS, exam based service to a globally recognized provider of online skills development portals services. Only 1 of 5 approved trainers of SFIA in the world. From implementing SFIA initiatives to building hybrid skills frameworks (e.g., defense sector), we have evolved our platform and services with client needs in mind. Put your trust in us.
A few words from our Managing Director

We’ve seen such exponential growth in the last decade. From just myself and my objective testing tool back in 2005, to growing to a global team of incredibly talented people and creating our acclaimed ITSA tool.
I’m so proud of what we have become, and I’m very excited to see where we’re heading. From helping small organisations to understand skills management to providing large scale hybrid skills development to global organisations, they’ve all been deliver with passion.
Kevin Tibbs, Managing Director
