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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 45 51
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 +15
Contract jobs citing Validation 54 11 13
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.77% 1.94% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.86% 2.24% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 5 9
10th Percentile £324 £384 £253
25th Percentile £403 £405 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £600
90th Percentile £707 £550 £637
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £547
% change year-on-year +11.76% -22.34% +15.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £37.50 £37.46 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% -34.85% -

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 787 492 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.08% 86.93% 79.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 327 416
10th Percentile £313 £163 £231
25th Percentile £400 £355 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -1.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £583 £572 £594
90th Percentile £685 £675 £703
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 45 27
10th Percentile £18.04 - £13.22
25th Percentile £24.75 £12.62 £14.81
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -27.42% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £22.08 £43.00
90th Percentile - £26.51 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £19.00
% change year-on-year +54.15% +16.05% -24.38%

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 July 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 (25.93%) Confluence
2 4 (7.41%) SAS
3 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.85%) Apache
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.85%) Navisworks
1 1 (1.85%) ProjectWise
1 1 (1.85%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) NetSuite
1 3 (5.56%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.85%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.85%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) AWS
2 19 (35.19%) Azure
3 15 (27.78%) GCP
4 12 (22.22%) GitHub
4 12 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 5 (9.26%) dbt
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.56%) Serverless
7 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.85%) Matillion
8 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) NAS
1 2 (3.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (9.26%) Metadata
3 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.56%) Power BI
5 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.70%) Tableau
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.85%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (29.63%) JIRA
2 14 (25.93%) Cucumber
2 14 (25.93%) Git
2 14 (25.93%) JMeter
2 14 (25.93%) JUnit
2 14 (25.93%) Selenium
2 14 (25.93%) WebDriver
3 13 (24.07%) Jenkins
4 8 (14.81%) GitLab
5 2 (3.70%) Yeoman
6 1 (1.85%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.85%) Gatling
6 1 (1.85%) Maven
6 1 (1.85%) Metasploit
6 1 (1.85%) Postman
6 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.85%) sqlmap
General
1 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.67%) Finance
4 7 (12.96%) Banking
5 6 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.41%) Marketing
7 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.70%) Publishing
9 1 (1.85%) Billing
9 1 (1.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Analyst
2 11 (20.37%) Tester
3 10 (18.52%) Senior
4 9 (16.67%) Automation Tester
5 8 (14.81%) Data Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Lead
6 7 (12.96%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (12.96%) Senior Tester
7 6 (11.11%) Data Analyst
8 5 (9.26%) Project Manager
9 4 (7.41%) Insight Analyst
9 4 (7.41%) Oracle Project Manager
10 3 (5.56%) Automation Test Lead
10 3 (5.56%) Consultant
10 3 (5.56%) Data Insight Analyst
10 3 (5.56%) Insight Data Analyst
10 3 (5.56%) Lead Data Analyst
10 3 (5.56%) Oracle Financials Project Manager
10 3 (5.56%) Systems Tester
10 3 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) Spring
1 14 (25.93%) WireMock
2 5 (9.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.70%) .NET
3 2 (3.70%) REST
3 2 (3.70%) XML
3 2 (3.70%) XSLT
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.85%) Itk
4 1 (1.85%) JSON
4 1 (1.85%) Kafka
4 1 (1.85%) Playwright
4 1 (1.85%) PySpark
4 1 (1.85%) SLSA
4 1 (1.85%) Swagger
4 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Distributed Architecture
1 12 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.41%) Credit Risk
2 4 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.85%) Clustering
5 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (3.70%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) CI/CD
1 17 (31.48%) Migration
2 16 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (27.78%) Observability
3 15 (27.78%) Test Automation
4 14 (25.93%) BDD
4 14 (25.93%) Data Validation
4 14 (25.93%) End-to-End Testing
4 14 (25.93%) Load Testing
4 14 (25.93%) Microservices
4 14 (25.93%) TDD
4 14 (25.93%) Test Strategy
5 13 (24.07%) Analytics
5 13 (24.07%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 13 (24.07%) ETL
6 12 (22.22%) Stress Testing
6 12 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
7 11 (20.37%) Agile
7 11 (20.37%) Data Migration
7 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) SQL
2 12 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (3.70%) Java
3 2 (3.70%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.85%) Bicep
4 1 (1.85%) C
4 1 (1.85%) C++
4 1 (1.85%) Groovy
4 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.26%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) PMO
4 1 (1.85%) GMP
4 1 (1.85%) GxP
4 1 (1.85%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) NIST
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.70%) vSphere
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 14 (25.93%) Grafana
2 14 (25.93%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.56%) Terraform
4 2 (3.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Oracle
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) SAP
2 4 (7.41%) Teradata
3 3 (5.56%) Cognos
4 2 (3.70%) Remedy
4 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.70%) Veeam
4 2 (3.70%) VMware
5 1 (1.85%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) Informatica
5 1 (1.85%) Sonatype
5 1 (1.85%) Splunk
5 1 (1.85%) Workday