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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 200 96
Rank change year-on-year +60 -104 -41
Permanent jobs citing Validation 75 74 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.29% 0.83% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.01% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 47 39 75
10th Percentile £32,826 £34,000 £31,950
25th Percentile £41,125 £36,875 £44,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £61,563 £53,750 £58,875
90th Percentile £75,900 £58,800 £82,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -9.84% +1.67%

All Process and 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 4,813 7,330 4,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.10% 81.96% 93.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,171 3,238 3,658
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,763
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -0.59%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,800 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 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
West Midlands +50 49 £50,000 - 72
East Midlands +34 26 £42,500 -5.56% 38
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 4 (5.33%) CMS
2 2 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.67%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.33%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.67%) Azure
1 5 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.00%) AWS
2 3 (4.00%) dbt
3 2 (2.67%) GitHub
3 2 (2.67%) Power Automate
3 2 (2.67%) SaaS
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (1.33%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.33%) BigCommerce
4 1 (1.33%) Datadog
4 1 (1.33%) GCP
4 1 (1.33%) OCI
4 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) Ethernet
1 8 (10.67%) Modbus
1 8 (10.67%) Profibus
2 4 (5.33%) 3GPP
3 2 (2.67%) Firewall
3 2 (2.67%) Internet
3 2 (2.67%) MPLS
4 1 (1.33%) Broadband
4 1 (1.33%) NAS
4 1 (1.33%) PuTTY
4 1 (1.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.00%) Tableau
2 10 (13.33%) BigQuery
3 5 (6.67%) Power BI
4 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.67%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.33%) Big Data
6 1 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.33%) HBase
6 1 (1.33%) MySQL
6 1 (1.33%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.33%) QlikView
6 1 (1.33%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) JIRA
2 6 (8.00%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (4.00%) Git
4 2 (2.67%) Postman
4 2 (2.67%) Selenium
5 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.33%) JMeter
5 1 (1.33%) JUnit
5 1 (1.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.33%) Locust
5 1 (1.33%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.33%) TestComplete
5 1 (1.33%) TestRail
5 1 (1.33%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 13 (17.33%) Finance
5 11 (14.67%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (13.33%) Electronics
7 8 (10.67%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (10.67%) Retail
8 4 (5.33%) Aerospace
8 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
9 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.67%) Automotive
10 2 (2.67%) Avionics
10 2 (2.67%) Back Office
10 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.33%) Law
11 1 (1.33%) Legal
11 1 (1.33%) Local Government
11 1 (1.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Analyst
2 15 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) Data Analyst
4 9 (12.00%) Data Quality Analyst
4 9 (12.00%) Lead
4 9 (12.00%) Quality Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) Control Systems Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) IT Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Junior
8 3 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Requirements Manager
8 3 (4.00%) Systems Manager
9 2 (2.67%) Administrator
9 2 (2.67%) Architect
9 2 (2.67%) Business Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.67%) XML
2 1 (1.33%) .NET
2 1 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.33%) JSON
2 1 (1.33%) Kafka
2 1 (1.33%) ODBC
2 1 (1.33%) Playwright
2 1 (1.33%) Plotly
2 1 (1.33%) PySpark
2 1 (1.33%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.33%) REST
2 1 (1.33%) Shiny
2 1 (1.33%) SOAP
2 1 (1.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) SCADA
2 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) TM Forum
4 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.33%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.33%) Replication
5 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) Migration
2 19 (25.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (25.33%) Data Cleansing
3 18 (24.00%) Data Validation
4 17 (22.67%) Agile
4 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (21.33%) ERP
6 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
6 12 (16.00%) Visualisation
7 11 (14.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (14.67%) Verification and Validation
8 10 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
8 10 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
9 9 (12.00%) Data Migration
9 9 (12.00%) Systems Engineering
10 8 (10.67%) Mechatronics
10 8 (10.67%) Test Automation
10 8 (10.67%) Time Management
11 7 (9.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.67%) SQL
2 15 (20.00%) Python
3 8 (10.67%) Ladder Logic
4 3 (4.00%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.67%) R
6 1 (1.33%) Bash
6 1 (1.33%) C++
6 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.33%) Groovy
6 1 (1.33%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (32.00%) Degree
2 9 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (12.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.33%) City & Guilds
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.33%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 15 (20.00%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 4 (5.33%) NCSC
4 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.67%) NIST
5 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.67%) SLA
6 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.33%) COSHH
6 1 (1.33%) PMO
6 1 (1.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.33%) DFS Replication
2 1 (1.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Grafana
1 2 (2.67%) Terraform
2 1 (1.33%) Ansible
2 1 (1.33%) Kibana
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) logstash
2 1 (1.33%) Oozie
2 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.33%) SAP
3 8 (10.67%) Allen-Bradley
3 8 (10.67%) Rockwell
3 8 (10.67%) Siemens
4 5 (6.67%) Oracle
5 3 (4.00%) IBM
6 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.33%) BMC
7 1 (1.33%) BT
7 1 (1.33%) Civica
7 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.33%) IFS
7 1 (1.33%) Informatica
7 1 (1.33%) Juniper
7 1 (1.33%) Magma
7 1 (1.33%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.33%) Remedy