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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 50 62
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing Validation 21 20 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.26% 2.78% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.32% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 4
10th Percentile £398 £232 £298
25th Percentile £425 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £390
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +28.29% -13.39%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £458
90th Percentile £605 £719 £483
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £489 £545
% change year-on-year +2.25% -10.28% +21.11%

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 593 602 672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.94% 83.61% 83.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 390 441
10th Percentile £250 £200 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £750 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 10 25
10th Percentile £12.62 £19.65 £13.87
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% +26.88% +62.16%
75th Percentile £23.56 £54.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.70 £23.05 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.80% -16.18% +55.19%

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 16 October 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 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (4.76%) PaaS
1 1 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 18 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (52.38%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (33.33%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Marketing
4 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Law
6 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Site Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Splunk Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Consultant
4 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Pega Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Pega Consultant
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Chief Operating Officer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Data Migration Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Legal Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (14.29%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Taxonomies
3 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) CMDB
4 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
1 6 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (52.38%) Data Modelling
3 9 (42.86%) Migration
4 7 (33.33%) Observability
5 6 (28.57%) Change Management
5 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 6 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
5 6 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
5 6 (28.57%) DevOps
5 6 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 6 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
5 6 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (19.05%) Agile
7 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Bash
1 6 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 5 (23.81%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (23.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Ansible
1 6 (28.57%) Kibana
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 6 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Splunk
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Pega
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.76%) Sage
5 1 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Xero