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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 45 46
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing Validation 44 10 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.87% 1.78% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.89% 2.04% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 4 9
10th Percentile £365 £381 £253
25th Percentile £425 £396 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £428 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% +0.59% +21.43%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £600
90th Percentile £700 £563 £637
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £508 £450
% change year-on-year -8.87% +12.78% -5.26%

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 747 490 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.72% 87.19% 81.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 324 393
10th Percentile £313 £164 £226
25th Percentile £400 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £638
90th Percentile £675 £639 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 50 17
10th Percentile £13.45 - £13.70
25th Percentile £23.11 £12.62 £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -52.83% +58.42%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £52.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.89 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.73 £24.34 £21.75
% change year-on-year +26.25% +11.91% -19.44%

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 18 August 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 11 (25.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.82%) SAS
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.27%) Navisworks
1 1 (2.27%) ProjectWise
1 1 (2.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) NetSuite
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) AWS
3 11 (25.00%) GCP
3 11 (25.00%) GitHub
4 10 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.27%) Matillion
6 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.27%) SaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) BGP
1 1 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (2.27%) NX-OS
1 1 (2.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.82%) Metadata
3 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.82%) Power BI
4 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.27%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) JIRA
2 12 (27.27%) Git
3 11 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 11 (25.00%) JMeter
3 11 (25.00%) JUnit
3 11 (25.00%) Selenium
3 11 (25.00%) WebDriver
4 10 (22.73%) Jenkins
5 8 (18.18%) GitLab
6 2 (4.55%) Yeoman
7 1 (2.27%) Burp Suite
7 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.27%) Gatling
7 1 (2.27%) Metasploit
7 1 (2.27%) Postman
7 1 (2.27%) sqlmap
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.27%) Billing
7 1 (2.27%) Local Government
7 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Senior
2 9 (20.45%) Tester
3 7 (15.91%) Analyst
3 7 (15.91%) Automation Tester
4 6 (13.64%) Senior Automation Tester
4 6 (13.64%) Senior Tester
5 5 (11.36%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Lead
5 5 (11.36%) Project Manager
6 4 (9.09%) Consultant
6 4 (9.09%) Oracle Project Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Data Insight Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Insight Data Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Lead Data Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Oracle Financials Project Manager
8 2 (4.55%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.55%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.00%) Spring
1 11 (25.00%) WireMock
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (6.82%) .NET
3 3 (6.82%) REST
4 2 (4.55%) XML
4 2 (4.55%) XSLT
5 1 (2.27%) Itk
5 1 (2.27%) JSON
5 1 (2.27%) Playwright
5 1 (2.27%) PySpark
5 1 (2.27%) Swagger
5 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Distributed Architecture
2 9 (20.45%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.82%) Credit Risk
4 3 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.27%) CMDB
6 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Migration
2 14 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
3 13 (29.55%) Data Migration
4 12 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 11 (25.00%) BDD
5 11 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 11 (25.00%) Load Testing
5 11 (25.00%) Microservices
5 11 (25.00%) Observability
5 11 (25.00%) TDD
5 11 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 11 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 10 (22.73%) Data Validation
6 10 (22.73%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (22.73%) Stress Testing
6 10 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (20.45%) Agile
8 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) SQL
2 8 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (4.55%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.27%) Bicep
4 1 (2.27%) C
4 1 (2.27%) C#
4 1 (2.27%) C++
4 1 (2.27%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) QA
3 2 (4.55%) PMO
4 1 (2.27%) ISO 19650
4 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.27%) NIST
4 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.55%) vSphere
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (29.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (25.00%) Grafana
2 11 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.55%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.27%) Ansible
4 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Oracle
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.09%) SAP
3 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.82%) Teradata
5 2 (4.55%) Veeam
5 2 (4.55%) VMware
6 1 (2.27%) Autodesk
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco
6 1 (2.27%) Informatica
6 1 (2.27%) Red Hat