Data Validation Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Validation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 131 89
Rank change year-on-year +7 -42 -
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 13 2 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.50% 0.086% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.097% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £30,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% - -
75th Percentile £43,750 - -
90th Percentile £62,250 - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Data 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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,045 2,052 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.11% 88.07% 88.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 874 1,118
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,625 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,592 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.70% -4.82% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Validation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Data Validation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Validation
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Validation in the East Midlands

Data Validation
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 7 £35,000 - 2
Leicestershire - 5 £42,500 - 2
Derbyshire - 1 £60,000 - 2
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP Business One
1 1 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) dbt
2 1 (7.69%) BigCommerce
2 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) BigQuery
1 6 (46.15%) Tableau
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
4 1 (7.69%) Power Query
4 1 (7.69%) SAP HANA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Data Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Data Quality Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Quality Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Junior
3 4 (30.77%) Junior Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Junior Support Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle Payroll Support
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle Support Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Support Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) ERP Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
5 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Validation
2 7 (53.85%) Migration
3 6 (46.15%) Data Cleansing
3 6 (46.15%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (46.15%) Visualisation
4 4 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) System Testing
5 3 (23.08%) ETL
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (7.69%) Data Integration
7 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
7 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
7 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Magma
2 1 (7.69%) SAP