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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 58 185
Rank change year-on-year -15 +127 -70
Permanent jobs citing Validation 318 257 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.03% 4.61% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 5.30% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 175 46 39
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £33,450
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 £70,000 £63,438 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,900 £58,800
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -15.38%

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 11,090 4,849 7,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.71% 86.92% 80.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,806 2,818 3,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,406 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,264 £45,390 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -9.22% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +45 174 £47,500 -13.64% 244
East Midlands -35 144 £50,000 +17.65% 139
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England

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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 12 (3.77%) CMS
2 3 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.63%) Apache
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.14%) OrCAD
3 9 (2.83%) Simulink
3 9 (2.83%) SOLIDWORKS
4 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.89%) Notion
6 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.94%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.31%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (2.20%) Infor M3
2 3 (0.94%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.31%) Maximo
4 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (11.01%) Power Platform
2 27 (8.49%) Azure
3 14 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (3.46%) GitHub
5 10 (3.14%) AWS
6 9 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.89%) Serverless
8 5 (1.57%) GCP
8 5 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.26%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.94%) Oracle CX
10 3 (0.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (0.94%) Tricentis Tosca
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.63%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.38%) Modbus
2 18 (5.66%) VLAN
3 17 (5.35%) OSPF
4 13 (4.09%) Ethernet
4 13 (4.09%) TCP/IP
5 12 (3.77%) VPN
6 11 (3.46%) DMZ
6 11 (3.46%) IPv4
7 9 (2.83%) Wireshark
8 7 (2.20%) LAN
8 7 (2.20%) WAN
8 7 (2.20%) Wireless
9 6 (1.89%) BGP
9 6 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (1.89%) MQTT
9 6 (1.89%) Structured Cabling
9 6 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.89%) ZigBee
10 5 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.69%) Power BI
2 12 (3.77%) Tableau
3 7 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.26%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (1.26%) Delta Lake
4 4 (1.26%) GIS
4 4 (1.26%) Metadata
4 4 (1.26%) Parquet
4 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.94%) MySQL
5 3 (0.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.63%) DTS
6 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (6.92%) Git
2 15 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.09%) GitLab
4 12 (3.77%) LabVIEW
5 10 (3.14%) JIRA
6 9 (2.83%) Eclipse
7 6 (1.89%) GDB
7 6 (1.89%) Snyk
8 5 (1.57%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.57%) JMeter
8 5 (1.57%) Selenium
9 4 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.26%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (1.26%) Postman
9 4 (1.26%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.26%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.26%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.26%) Zephyr
General
1 86 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 83 (26.10%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (21.70%) Manufacturing
4 65 (20.44%) Electronics
5 62 (19.50%) Finance
6 48 (15.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (6.60%) Banking
7 21 (6.60%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (6.29%) Marketing
8 20 (6.29%) Retail
9 18 (5.66%) Telecoms
10 15 (4.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (4.72%) Public Sector
11 12 (3.77%) Aerospace
12 11 (3.46%) Automotive
13 10 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (2.52%) French Language
15 5 (1.57%) Law
15 5 (1.57%) Military
16 4 (1.26%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 43 (13.52%) Senior
2 36 (11.32%) Automation Engineer
3 33 (10.38%) Lead
4 23 (7.23%) Analyst
5 19 (5.97%) Design Engineer
5 19 (5.97%) Developer
5 19 (5.97%) Electronics Engineer
6 17 (5.35%) Data Scientist
7 15 (4.72%) Embedded Engineer
7 15 (4.72%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (4.40%) Architect
8 14 (4.40%) Electrical Engineer
8 14 (4.40%) Statistician
9 13 (4.09%) Test Engineer
10 12 (3.77%) Control Systems Engineer
10 12 (3.77%) Electronics Design Engineer
11 11 (3.46%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 11 (3.46%) QA Specialist
11 11 (3.46%) Validation Specialist
12 10 (3.14%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.46%) XML
2 7 (2.20%) .NET
3 6 (1.89%) Terraform
3 6 (1.89%) Yocto
4 4 (1.26%) Blazor
4 4 (1.26%) Django
4 4 (1.26%) EDI
4 4 (1.26%) Playwright
4 4 (1.26%) PySpark
4 4 (1.26%) pytest
4 4 (1.26%) Unity DI Container
4 4 (1.26%) YAML
5 3 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.94%) REST
5 3 (0.94%) RESTful
6 2 (0.63%) JSON
6 2 (0.63%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.63%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.63%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (13.21%) SCADA
2 28 (8.81%) Management Information System
3 20 (6.29%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (5.03%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.40%) Data Centre
6 12 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (3.46%) IoT
7 11 (3.46%) Robotics
8 10 (3.14%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.14%) NHS
9 9 (2.83%) FMCG
10 8 (2.52%) Analogue Electronics
10 8 (2.52%) Client/Server
10 8 (2.52%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.89%) ARM Cortex
11 6 (1.89%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.89%) Device Driver
12 5 (1.57%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.97%) Linux
2 6 (1.89%) Android
2 6 (1.89%) Windows
3 3 (0.94%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (18.55%) Cybersecurity
4 50 (15.72%) Computer Science
4 50 (15.72%) Customer Requirements
5 46 (14.47%) AI
5 46 (14.47%) Business Intelligence
6 45 (14.15%) Agile
7 44 (13.84%) Test Automation
8 37 (11.64%) CI/CD
8 37 (11.64%) Verification and Validation
9 34 (10.69%) Decision-Making
9 34 (10.69%) Risk Management
10 32 (10.06%) Data Science
11 31 (9.75%) ERP
12 29 (9.12%) Analytics
12 29 (9.12%) Data Modelling
12 29 (9.12%) Software Testing
13 28 (8.81%) Project Management
14 27 (8.49%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 56 (17.61%) Python
1 56 (17.61%) SQL
2 21 (6.60%) C
3 19 (5.97%) Java
4 11 (3.46%) C++
4 11 (3.46%) Embedded C
5 9 (2.83%) MATLAB
6 6 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.57%) Bash
7 5 (1.57%) C#
8 3 (0.94%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.94%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.63%) R
10 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 116 (36.48%) Degree
2 43 (13.52%) Security Cleared
3 33 (10.38%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.86%) Master's Degree
5 15 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.77%) HND
7 10 (3.14%) HNC
8 8 (2.52%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.52%) PMP
9 3 (0.94%) CISA
9 3 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.63%) ACCA
10 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.63%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.63%) CIMA
10 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.64%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.23%) QA
3 11 (3.46%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.46%) GDPR
4 8 (2.52%) GRC
5 6 (1.89%) ISO 9001
5 6 (1.89%) JTAG
6 5 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.63%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.31%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.31%) GAMP
9 1 (0.31%) GxP
9 1 (0.31%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (9.12%) Firmware
2 20 (6.29%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (2.20%) Docker
4 6 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.57%) Ansible
3 3 (0.94%) Grafana
3 3 (0.94%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.31%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.29%) Salesforce
3 19 (5.97%) EMC
4 12 (3.77%) Adobe
4 12 (3.77%) Cisco
4 12 (3.77%) Oracle
4 12 (3.77%) Samsung
4 12 (3.77%) TikTok
5 8 (2.52%) SAP
6 7 (2.20%) Cadence
6 7 (2.20%) Infor
7 6 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.89%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.89%) Tenable
8 4 (1.26%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.26%) Siemens
9 3 (0.94%) Google
9 3 (0.94%) Veracode
10 2 (0.63%) Keysight
10 2 (0.63%) Rockwell