Validation Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Validation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 48 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Validation 25 20 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.32% 2.95% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 3.35% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 1
10th Percentile £391 £319 -
25th Percentile £404 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +16.41% +7.38%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £444
90th Percentile £603 £718 -
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +8.42% -8.65% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £76.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.00% - -
75th Percentile £77.25 £52.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £37.46 £50.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -25.08% -33.33% +134.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 666 597 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.33% 87.92% 83.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 396 392
10th Percentile £249 £200 £275
25th Percentile £383 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £595
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 16 21
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.62 £21.63 £14.54
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +257.03%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.25 £68.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £24.60
% change year-on-year -12.60% -12.24% +38.98%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Validation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Validation

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Birmingham

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Validation

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Aareon QL
1 1 (4.00%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (4.00%) NEC Housing
1 1 (4.00%) OPENHousing
1 1 (4.00%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) AWS
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (76.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (64.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Marketing
4 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Law
5 2 (8.00%) Legal
5 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Site Engineer
1 11 (44.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 11 (44.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Pega Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Pega Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Chief Technology Officer
5 1 (4.00%) Integration Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Legal Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Service Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (20.00%) REST
3 3 (12.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Replication
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 11 (44.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) Debian
3 2 (8.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (56.00%) Data Modelling
2 14 (56.00%) Migration
3 13 (52.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 12 (48.00%) Change Management
4 12 (48.00%) Containerisation
4 12 (48.00%) DevOps
4 12 (48.00%) Observability
5 11 (44.00%) Computer Science
5 11 (44.00%) Dashboard Development
5 11 (44.00%) Data Ingestion
5 11 (44.00%) Incident Response
5 11 (44.00%) Performance Metrics
5 11 (44.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 11 (44.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Agile
6 4 (16.00%) Data Integration
6 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (16.00%) Use Case
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) C++
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Degree
2 11 (44.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (8.00%) Firmware
3 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (44.00%) Ansible
2 11 (44.00%) Kibana
2 11 (44.00%) Puppet
3 2 (8.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Splunk
2 3 (12.00%) Pega
3 2 (8.00%) Dell
3 2 (8.00%) Isilon
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Aareon
4 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.00%) Capita
4 1 (4.00%) Civica
4 1 (4.00%) NEC
4 1 (4.00%) Northgate
4 1 (4.00%) Oneserve
4 1 (4.00%) Orchard
4 1 (4.00%) Sage
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Xero