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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 52 57
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Validation 24 19 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.35% 2.57% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 3.00% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 3
10th Percentile £400 £249 £363
25th Percentile £403 £463 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £430
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +19.32% +1.06%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £472
90th Percentile £600 £715 £489
West Midlands median daily rate £503 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.89% -13.64% +22.22%
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 and 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 640 633 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.26% 85.54% 83.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 418 427
10th Percentile £240 £199 £270
25th Percentile £387 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 16 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +205.56%
75th Percentile £23.52 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £27.56 £56.25 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.01 £21.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.96% -12.82% +41.24%

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 28 November 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 19 (79.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Marketing
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Site Engineer
1 7 (29.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 7 (29.17%) Splunk Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Pega Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Pega Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Chief Operating Officer
5 1 (4.17%) Chief Technology Officer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Data Integration Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (20.83%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Taxonomies
3 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) CMDB
4 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Unix
3 2 (8.33%) Debian
3 2 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 10 (41.67%) Migration
4 9 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 8 (33.33%) Observability
6 7 (29.17%) Change Management
6 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
6 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
6 7 (29.17%) Dashboard Development
6 7 (29.17%) Data Ingestion
6 7 (29.17%) DevOps
6 7 (29.17%) Incident Response
6 7 (29.17%) Performance Metrics
6 7 (29.17%) Proactive Monitoring
6 7 (29.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (16.67%) Agile
8 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
8 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (12.50%) vSphere
3 2 (8.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
1 7 (29.17%) Kibana
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
1 7 (29.17%) Puppet
2 2 (8.33%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (12.50%) Pega
2 3 (12.50%) VMware
3 2 (8.33%) Dell
3 2 (8.33%) Isilon
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.17%) Sage
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Xero