Validation Jobs in Birmingham

Validation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Validation over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 122 120
Rank change year-on-year +85 -2 +41
Permanent jobs citing Validation 86 23 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.01% 0.83% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 1.02% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 17
10th Percentile £50,375 £32,355 £33,775
25th Percentile £53,750 £39,638 £34,452
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,450 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.72% -8.75% +4.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £70,938 £78,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £85,000 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.27% -0.91% +22.22%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,359 2,265 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 94.90% 82.04% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 760 1,831 1,373
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,000 £31,300
25th Percentile £42,688 £40,988 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,957 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Birmingham

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Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Validation in Birmingham

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Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (27.91%) Simulink
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.98%) Azure
2 4 (4.65%) AWS
2 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.49%) GCP
3 3 (3.49%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.33%) Lucidchart
4 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.16%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.16%) SaaS
5 1 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) Power BI
1 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.49%) Big Data
3 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.33%) Looker
3 2 (2.33%) Metadata
3 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) ER Studio
1 2 (2.33%) ERwin
1 2 (2.33%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (1.16%) Git
2 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.16%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.16%) Vagrant
General
1 23 (26.74%) Aerospace
1 23 (26.74%) Automotive
2 8 (9.30%) Finance
3 7 (8.14%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.49%) Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.33%) Advertising
6 2 (2.33%) Billing
6 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 53 (61.63%) Principal Engineer
1 53 (61.63%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 23 (26.74%) Systems Engineer
3 17 (19.77%) Integration Engineer
3 17 (19.77%) System Verification Engineer
3 17 (19.77%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 17 (19.77%) Validation Engineer
4 14 (16.28%) Requirements Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Development Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Software Development Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Software Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Principal Modelling Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Principal Software Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Senior
9 4 (4.65%) Contracts Manager
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Development Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Software Development Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.33%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.65%) EDI
2 1 (1.16%) Middleware
2 1 (1.16%) NumPy
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (1.16%) Pandas
2 1 (1.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Linux
1 2 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Unix
2 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (81.40%) Systems Engineering
2 32 (37.21%) Verification and Validation
3 26 (30.23%) Agile
4 23 (26.74%) Software Testing
5 15 (17.44%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 15 (17.44%) Project Planning
5 15 (17.44%) SysML
6 14 (16.28%) Acceptance Criteria
7 12 (13.95%) Software Engineering
8 5 (5.81%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (5.81%) Supplier Management
9 4 (4.65%) Analytics
9 4 (4.65%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (4.65%) Contract Management
9 4 (4.65%) Cost Control
9 4 (4.65%) Data Governance
9 4 (4.65%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (4.65%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (4.65%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.91%) MATLAB
2 6 (6.98%) SQL
3 3 (3.49%) Python
4 1 (1.16%) C
4 1 (1.16%) Groovy
4 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (80.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 20 (23.26%) Degree
3 17 (19.77%) Chartered Engineer
3 17 (19.77%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.65%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.65%) MRICS
5 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.33%) GMP
2 2 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.16%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Ansible
1 1 (1.16%) Functional Safety
1 1 (1.16%) Grafana
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (4.65%) Databricks
1 4 (4.65%) NEC
1 4 (4.65%) SAP
1 4 (4.65%) YouTube
2 3 (3.49%) Oracle
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.16%) BMC
4 1 (1.16%) Datix
4 1 (1.16%) Facebook
4 1 (1.16%) Juniper
4 1 (1.16%) MathWorks
4 1 (1.16%) Remedy