Validation Job Trends in the Midlands

Validation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 55 166
Rank change year-on-year -34 +111 -39
Permanent jobs citing Validation 269 259 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.72% 4.62% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 5.39% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 159 48 40
10th Percentile £30,000 - £33,725
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,563 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,900 £60,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,923 4,807 7,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.87% 85.72% 78.74%
Number of salaries quoted 7,743 2,883 3,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Validation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Validation

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Validation in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 2026. 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
West Midlands +33 154 £50,000 -9.09% 235
East Midlands -51 115 £48,372 +13.82% 106
Validation
England

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.37%) Apache
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 10 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (3.72%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.97%) Simulink
3 7 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.86%) OrCAD
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.37%) CATIA
6 1 (0.37%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.37%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.37%) Solid Edge
6 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.86%) Infor M3
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.37%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.67%) Power Platform
2 19 (7.06%) Azure
3 15 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.72%) Serverless
5 9 (3.35%) AWS
6 8 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.60%) GitHub
8 6 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.86%) GCP
9 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (1.86%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (1.12%) Oracle CX
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.74%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.55%) Modbus
2 14 (5.20%) VLAN
3 13 (4.83%) OSPF
4 12 (4.46%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.72%) Ethernet
6 8 (2.97%) VPN
6 8 (2.97%) Wireshark
7 7 (2.60%) DMZ
7 7 (2.60%) IPv4
7 7 (2.60%) LAN
7 7 (2.60%) WAN
7 7 (2.60%) Wireless
8 6 (2.23%) BGP
8 6 (2.23%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (2.23%) MQTT
8 6 (2.23%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.23%) ZigBee
9 5 (1.86%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (1.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.67%) Power BI
2 12 (4.46%) Tableau
3 7 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.86%) Metadata
5 4 (1.49%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (1.49%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.49%) GIS
5 4 (1.49%) Parquet
5 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.12%) DTS
6 3 (1.12%) MySQL
6 3 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 20 (7.43%) Git
2 13 (4.83%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.46%) GitLab
4 10 (3.72%) Snyk
5 9 (3.35%) Selenium
6 8 (2.97%) Eclipse
6 8 (2.97%) LabVIEW
7 7 (2.60%) JIRA
8 6 (2.23%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.23%) GDB
8 6 (2.23%) JMeter
9 5 (1.86%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.86%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.86%) Postman
9 5 (1.86%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.86%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.49%) Burp Suite
10 4 (1.49%) Gatling
10 4 (1.49%) HP UFT
10 4 (1.49%) Robot Framework
General
1 68 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 67 (24.91%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (18.22%) Manufacturing
4 47 (17.47%) Electronics
5 42 (15.61%) Finance
6 27 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (8.18%) Banking
8 21 (7.81%) Retail
9 18 (6.69%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (6.69%) Public Sector
10 17 (6.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (5.58%) Telecoms
12 9 (3.35%) Aerospace
13 8 (2.97%) Automotive
14 6 (2.23%) Marketing
14 6 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.86%) Law
15 5 (1.86%) Military
16 4 (1.49%) Social Housing
17 3 (1.12%) Games
Job Titles
1 47 (17.47%) Senior
2 33 (12.27%) Lead
3 25 (9.29%) Automation Engineer
4 20 (7.43%) Analyst
5 19 (7.06%) Developer
6 17 (6.32%) Data Scientist
7 16 (5.95%) Embedded Engineer
8 15 (5.58%) QA Specialist
8 15 (5.58%) Validation Specialist
9 14 (5.20%) Statistician
10 12 (4.46%) Architect
11 11 (4.09%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (3.72%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.72%) Electronics Engineer
12 10 (3.72%) Performance Manager
12 10 (3.72%) Security Architect
12 10 (3.72%) Senior Architect
12 10 (3.72%) Senior Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.72%) Senior Security Architect
12 10 (3.72%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.72%) XML
2 7 (2.60%) Playwright
3 6 (2.23%) Yocto
4 5 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.86%) Terraform
5 4 (1.49%) .NET
5 4 (1.49%) EDI
5 4 (1.49%) PySpark
5 4 (1.49%) pytest
5 4 (1.49%) Unity DI Container
5 4 (1.49%) YAML
6 3 (1.12%) RESTful
7 2 (0.74%) Blazor
7 2 (0.74%) Django
7 2 (0.74%) Matplotlib
7 2 (0.74%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.74%) REST
7 2 (0.74%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.74%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.41%) SCADA
2 27 (10.04%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.69%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.46%) Embedded Systems
5 11 (4.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.09%) IoT
6 10 (3.72%) NHS
7 9 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.97%) ARM Cortex
8 8 (2.97%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.97%) Robotics
9 7 (2.60%) Client/Server
9 7 (2.60%) Driving Licence
10 6 (2.23%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.23%) Device Driver
10 6 (2.23%) FMCG
11 5 (1.86%) Analogue Electronics
12 4 (1.49%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.12%) Credit Risk
13 3 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.32%) Linux
2 6 (2.23%) Android
2 6 (2.23%) Windows
3 4 (1.49%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.74%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (18.22%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (15.61%) AI
4 42 (15.61%) Computer Science
5 41 (15.24%) Test Automation
6 39 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (14.13%) Agile
8 36 (13.38%) CI/CD
9 34 (12.64%) Customer Requirements
10 30 (11.15%) Risk Management
11 29 (10.78%) Data Science
11 29 (10.78%) Decision-Making
12 28 (10.41%) Software Testing
13 26 (9.67%) ERP
13 26 (9.67%) Verification and Validation
14 24 (8.92%) Migration
15 23 (8.55%) Analytics
15 23 (8.55%) Data Management
16 22 (8.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (18.96%) Python
1 51 (18.96%) SQL
2 20 (7.43%) C
3 17 (6.32%) Java
4 11 (4.09%) C++
5 10 (3.72%) Embedded C
5 10 (3.72%) MATLAB
6 4 (1.49%) Bash
7 3 (1.12%) C#
7 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.37%) R
8 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 92 (34.20%) Degree
2 34 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 28 (10.41%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.43%) Master's Degree
5 14 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.23%) PMP
8 5 (1.86%) HND
9 4 (1.49%) HNC
10 3 (1.12%) CISA
10 3 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.74%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.37%) ACCA
12 1 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.37%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.41%) Data Quality
2 27 (10.04%) QA
3 10 (3.72%) GRC
4 6 (2.23%) GDPR
4 6 (2.23%) ISO 9001
4 6 (2.23%) JTAG
5 3 (1.12%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.74%) MISRA
6 2 (0.74%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) GxP
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 27 (10.04%) Firmware
2 19 (7.06%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.49%) Ansible
1 4 (1.49%) Grafana
1 4 (1.49%) HP Fortify
2 3 (1.12%) Functional Safety
2 3 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.46%) Cisco
2 12 (4.46%) Oracle
3 10 (3.72%) CrowdStrike
3 10 (3.72%) EMC
3 10 (3.72%) Palo Alto
3 10 (3.72%) Tenable
4 8 (2.97%) SAP
5 5 (1.86%) Infor
6 4 (1.49%) Veracode
7 3 (1.12%) Google
7 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.74%) Cadence
9 1 (0.37%) ANSYS
9 1 (0.37%) Apple
9 1 (0.37%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.37%) NCR
9 1 (0.37%) Planview
9 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.37%) Siemens