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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 38 49
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +21
Contract jobs citing Validation 55 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.90% 2.46% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.08% 2.81% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 6 8
10th Percentile £323 £388 £328
25th Percentile £379 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £559 £569 £607
90th Percentile £650 £619 £641
West Midlands median daily rate £484 £415 £570
% change year-on-year +16.72% -27.19% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £45.00 - £57.50

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 777 463 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.37% 87.52% 80.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 308 405
10th Percentile £313 £163 £235
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £685 £689 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -0.62% -3.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 42
10th Percentile £16.79 - £13.33
25th Percentile £20.97 £12.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £30.55 £18.87 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -30.75% +30.77%
75th Percentile £57.19 £26.51 £47.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.78 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -

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 19 June 2026.

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 14 (25.45%) Confluence
2 3 (5.45%) SAS
3 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.82%) Apache
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) NetSuite
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.82%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.82%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.18%) AWS
2 16 (29.09%) Azure
3 15 (27.27%) GCP
4 12 (21.82%) GitHub
4 12 (21.82%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (10.91%) Amazon S3
6 5 (9.09%) dbt
7 3 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.45%) Serverless
7 3 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.82%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.82%) Matillion
9 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) NAS
1 2 (3.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (7.27%) Metadata
4 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.64%) Power BI
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.64%) Tableau
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.82%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) JIRA
2 14 (25.45%) Cucumber
2 14 (25.45%) Git
2 14 (25.45%) JMeter
2 14 (25.45%) JUnit
2 14 (25.45%) Selenium
2 14 (25.45%) WebDriver
3 13 (23.64%) Jenkins
4 8 (14.55%) GitLab
5 1 (1.82%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.82%) Gatling
5 1 (1.82%) Maven
5 1 (1.82%) Metasploit
5 1 (1.82%) Postman
5 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.82%) sqlmap
General
1 22 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Finance
4 6 (10.91%) Banking
4 6 (10.91%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Marketing
5 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Publishing
7 1 (1.82%) Billing
7 1 (1.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 12 (21.82%) Analyst
2 11 (20.00%) Tester
3 10 (18.18%) Senior
4 9 (16.36%) Automation Tester
5 7 (12.73%) Lead
5 7 (12.73%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (12.73%) Senior Tester
6 6 (10.91%) Data Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Data Analyst
8 4 (7.27%) Project Manager
8 4 (7.27%) Site Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Splunk Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Automation Test Lead
9 3 (5.45%) Consultant
9 3 (5.45%) Insight Analyst
9 3 (5.45%) Oracle Project Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Systems Tester
9 3 (5.45%) Test Leader
10 2 (3.64%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.45%) Spring
1 14 (25.45%) WireMock
2 4 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.64%) .NET
3 2 (3.64%) REST
3 2 (3.64%) XML
3 2 (3.64%) XSLT
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.82%) Itk
4 1 (1.82%) JSON
4 1 (1.82%) Kafka
4 1 (1.82%) Playwright
4 1 (1.82%) PySpark
4 1 (1.82%) SLSA
4 1 (1.82%) Swagger
4 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Distributed Architecture
1 12 (21.82%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.45%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.45%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.64%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.82%) Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Unix
2 5 (9.09%) Linux
3 4 (7.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (34.55%) Observability
2 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
2 18 (32.73%) Migration
3 16 (29.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 14 (25.45%) BDD
5 14 (25.45%) Data Validation
5 14 (25.45%) End-to-End Testing
5 14 (25.45%) Load Testing
5 14 (25.45%) Microservices
5 14 (25.45%) TDD
5 14 (25.45%) Test Strategy
6 13 (23.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 12 (21.82%) Agile
7 12 (21.82%) Workshop Facilitation
8 11 (20.00%) ETL
8 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.00%) Stress Testing
9 10 (18.18%) Analytics
9 10 (18.18%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) SQL
2 15 (27.27%) Python
3 4 (7.27%) Bash
4 2 (3.64%) Java
4 2 (3.64%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.82%) C
5 1 (1.82%) C++
5 1 (1.82%) Groovy
5 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.82%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.27%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.91%) QA
3 2 (3.64%) GMP
3 2 (3.64%) GxP
3 2 (3.64%) PMO
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (32.73%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.64%) vSphere
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 14 (25.45%) Grafana
2 14 (25.45%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.27%) Ansible
3 4 (7.27%) Kibana
3 4 (7.27%) Puppet
4 3 (5.45%) Terraform
5 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Oracle
2 5 (9.09%) Splunk
3 3 (5.45%) Cognos
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.45%) SAP
3 3 (5.45%) Teradata
4 2 (3.64%) Remedy
4 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.64%) Veeam
4 2 (3.64%) VMware
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) Informatica
5 1 (1.82%) Sonatype
5 1 (1.82%) Workday