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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 56 50
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing Validation 37 13 17
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.04% 2.18% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 2.45% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 12
10th Percentile £331 £381 £219
25th Percentile £416 £396 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £428 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% -5.00% +15.46%
75th Percentile £585 £500 £553
90th Percentile £774 £545 £624
West Midlands median daily rate £473 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.42% - -5.00%

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 765 530 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.52% 88.93% 82.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 349 392
10th Percentile £309 £200 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £586 £559 £638
90th Percentile £688 £639 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 52 10
10th Percentile £13.45 - £21.18
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.62 £29.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -62.26% +81.82%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £55.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £57.53
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £24.31
% change year-on-year +21.61% +0.11% -11.59%

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 17 September 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 3 (8.11%) Confluence
1 3 (8.11%) SAS
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) AutoCAD
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.70%) Navisworks
2 1 (2.70%) ProjectWise
2 1 (2.70%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) NetSuite
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.70%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) GitHub
3 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.41%) AWS
4 2 (5.41%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Ethernet VPN
1 4 (10.81%) NX-OS
1 4 (10.81%) VXLAN
2 3 (8.11%) BGP
3 2 (5.41%) TACACS
4 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.70%) VLAN
4 1 (2.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (8.11%) Metadata
1 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (8.11%) Power BI
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Git
2 5 (13.51%) GitLab
3 3 (8.11%) JIRA
4 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.41%) JMeter
4 2 (5.41%) JUnit
4 2 (5.41%) Selenium
4 2 (5.41%) WebDriver
4 2 (5.41%) Yeoman
5 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.70%) Gatling
General
1 7 (18.92%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Marketing
5 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle Project Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.11%) .NET Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Automation Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Data Insight Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Insight Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Insight Data Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.11%) Lead Data Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Network Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Financials Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Data Centre Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (10.81%) REST
2 3 (8.11%) JSON
2 3 (8.11%) YAML
3 2 (5.41%) Spring
3 2 (5.41%) WireMock
3 2 (5.41%) XML
3 2 (5.41%) XSLT
4 1 (2.70%) Itk
4 1 (2.70%) Playwright
4 1 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Credit Risk
2 3 (8.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Acoustics
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.70%) CMDB
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Migration
2 12 (32.43%) Data Migration
3 9 (24.32%) Data Modelling
4 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (21.62%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (18.92%) ETL
5 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (16.22%) Analytics
6 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.51%) Data Extraction
7 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.51%) Stress Testing
7 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
8 4 (10.81%) Cutover Planning
8 4 (10.81%) Data Validation
8 4 (10.81%) GitOps
8 4 (10.81%) Machine Learning
9 3 (8.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) Python
2 8 (21.62%) SQL
3 2 (5.41%) C#
3 2 (5.41%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
4 1 (2.70%) C
4 1 (2.70%) C++
4 1 (2.70%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO 19650
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
1 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (10.81%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.41%) vSphere
3 1 (2.70%) Firmware
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Ansible
1 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Grafana
2 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle
4 4 (10.81%) Cisco
4 4 (10.81%) VMware
5 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.11%) SAP
5 3 (8.11%) Teradata
6 2 (5.41%) Infoblox
6 2 (5.41%) Veeam
7 1 (2.70%) Autodesk
7 1 (2.70%) Nexthink
7 1 (2.70%) Symantec
7 1 (2.70%) Zscaler