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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 131 108
Rank change year-on-year -4 -23 -40
Permanent jobs citing Validation 86 100 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.05% 1.61% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.77% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 50 42 95
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £36,150
25th Percentile £32,500 £47,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £52,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.62% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £59,375 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,601 £71,250 £74,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -15.20%

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 6,529 5,641 6,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.08% 91.07% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,635 2,504 5,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +8 56 £37,500 -28.57% 74
East Midlands -4 29 £35,000 -32.69% 54
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 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.16%) CATIA
4 1 (1.16%) Simulink
4 1 (1.16%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.16%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (6.98%) Azure
2 6 (6.98%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.81%) SaaS
4 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.16%) AWS
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.16%) BigCommerce
5 1 (1.16%) Datadog
5 1 (1.16%) dbt
5 1 (1.16%) GitHub
5 1 (1.16%) PaaS
5 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
2 1 (1.16%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.16%) WAN
2 1 (1.16%) WebEx
2 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (8.14%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.98%) Power BI
4 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.16%) Looker
5 1 (1.16%) Metadata
5 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.16%) Power Query
5 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (15.12%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (10.47%) JIRA
3 3 (3.49%) Git
4 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.33%) Postman
4 2 (2.33%) TestRail
5 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.16%) JMeter
5 1 (1.16%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.16%) Locust
5 1 (1.16%) Maven
5 1 (1.16%) Selenium
5 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.16%) SpecFlow
General
1 33 (38.37%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Manufacturing
4 10 (11.63%) Law
5 7 (8.14%) Finance
6 5 (5.81%) Retail
7 4 (4.65%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Automotive
8 3 (3.49%) Electronics
8 3 (3.49%) Marketing
8 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.33%) Games
9 2 (2.33%) Legal
9 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Advertising
10 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (30.23%) Analyst
2 20 (23.26%) Systems Engineer
3 14 (16.28%) Support Analyst
4 12 (13.95%) Junior
4 12 (13.95%) Junior Analyst
4 12 (13.95%) Oracle Analyst
4 12 (13.95%) Senior
5 11 (12.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) Junior Support Analyst
6 10 (11.63%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
6 10 (11.63%) Oracle Payroll Support
6 10 (11.63%) Oracle Support Analyst
7 9 (10.47%) Principal Engineer
7 9 (10.47%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Systems Analyst
9 5 (5.81%) ERP Analyst
10 4 (4.65%) Administrator
10 4 (4.65%) ERP Support
11 3 (3.49%) Data Analyst
11 3 (3.49%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.65%) REST
2 3 (3.49%) Node.js
2 3 (3.49%) React
2 3 (3.49%) Vue
3 2 (2.33%) .NET
3 2 (2.33%) CSS
3 2 (2.33%) Deno
3 2 (2.33%) HTML
3 2 (2.33%) JSON
3 2 (2.33%) Laravel
3 2 (2.33%) OpenCV
3 2 (2.33%) Playwright
3 2 (2.33%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.33%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (2.33%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.33%) XML
3 2 (2.33%) Yii
4 1 (1.16%) ODBC
4 1 (1.16%) SOAP
4 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
1 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
1 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
2 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.33%) CUDA
2 2 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (2.33%) Lidar
2 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.33%) Robotics
2 2 (2.33%) Self-Driving Car
3 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Windows
2 2 (2.33%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.16%) Android
3 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.07%) Problem-Solving
1 25 (29.07%) Systems Engineering
2 23 (26.74%) Verification and Validation
3 19 (22.09%) Data Validation
3 19 (22.09%) Migration
3 19 (22.09%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 18 (20.93%) ERP
5 15 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (17.44%) Requirements Management
6 14 (16.28%) Agile
6 14 (16.28%) User Acceptance Testing
7 13 (15.12%) End-to-End Testing
7 13 (15.12%) System Testing
8 12 (13.95%) Data Cleansing
8 12 (13.95%) Mentoring
9 11 (12.79%) Process Improvement
10 10 (11.63%) Data Migration
11 9 (10.47%) Analytics
11 9 (10.47%) Project Planning
11 9 (10.47%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 36 (41.86%) SQL
2 10 (11.63%) Python
3 4 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.49%) C++
5 2 (2.33%) Java
5 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.33%) PHP
5 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.16%) C
6 1 (1.16%) Embedded C
6 1 (1.16%) Groovy
6 1 (1.16%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (30.23%) Degree
2 23 (26.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.81%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.33%) PhD
6 1 (1.16%) HNC
6 1 (1.16%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.09%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 11 (12.79%) QA
3 3 (3.49%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (2.33%) GDPR
5 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.16%) NIST
5 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.49%) Terraform
2 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.44%) Oracle
3 6 (6.98%) SAP
4 3 (3.49%) IBM
5 1 (1.16%) Aruba
5 1 (1.16%) BMC
5 1 (1.16%) Cisco
5 1 (1.16%) Databricks
5 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.16%) Ekahau
5 1 (1.16%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.16%) IFS
5 1 (1.16%) Juniper
5 1 (1.16%) Magma
5 1 (1.16%) Remedy
5 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.16%) Sonatype