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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 55 181
Rank change year-on-year -25 +126 -56
Permanent jobs citing Validation 284 257 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.81% 4.57% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 5.31% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 166 45 39
10th Percentile £31,125 - £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 £69,688 £63,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £79,375 £75,900 £58,800
England median annual salary £58,250 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.91% -4.35% -11.54%

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 11,006 4,837 7,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.97% 86.04% 79.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,823 2,860 3,798
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.46% -5.66%

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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 26 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 26 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 +48 163 £50,000 -9.09% 243
East Midlands -52 121 £50,000 +17.65% 110
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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 3 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.35%) Apache
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 11 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.52%) SOLIDWORKS
3 9 (3.17%) Simulink
4 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.46%) OrCAD
5 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.70%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.35%) CATIA
7 1 (0.35%) Notion
7 1 (0.35%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.35%) Solid Edge
7 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.11%) Infor M3
2 3 (1.06%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.35%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.35%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (9.86%) Power Platform
2 21 (7.39%) Azure
3 15 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.52%) AWS
4 10 (3.52%) Serverless
5 9 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.46%) GitHub
7 6 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.76%) GCP
8 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (1.76%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.06%) Oracle CX
10 2 (0.70%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.70%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (0.70%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.70%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.70%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.15%) Modbus
2 15 (5.28%) VLAN
3 14 (4.93%) OSPF
4 12 (4.23%) Ethernet
4 12 (4.23%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.17%) VPN
5 9 (3.17%) Wireshark
6 8 (2.82%) DMZ
6 8 (2.82%) IPv4
7 7 (2.46%) LAN
7 7 (2.46%) WAN
7 7 (2.46%) Wireless
8 6 (2.11%) BGP
8 6 (2.11%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (2.11%) MQTT
8 6 (2.11%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.11%) ZigBee
9 5 (1.76%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (1.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.86%) Power BI
2 12 (4.23%) Tableau
3 7 (2.46%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.76%) Metadata
5 4 (1.41%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (1.41%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.41%) GIS
5 4 (1.41%) Parquet
5 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.06%) DTS
6 3 (1.06%) MySQL
6 3 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 21 (7.39%) Git
2 14 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.23%) GitLab
4 10 (3.52%) Snyk
5 9 (3.17%) Eclipse
5 9 (3.17%) LabVIEW
6 8 (2.82%) Selenium
7 7 (2.46%) JIRA
8 6 (2.11%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.11%) GDB
8 6 (2.11%) JMeter
9 5 (1.76%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.76%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.76%) Postman
9 5 (1.76%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.76%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.41%) Burp Suite
10 4 (1.41%) Gatling
10 4 (1.41%) HP UFT
10 4 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 73 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 71 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (19.72%) Manufacturing
4 54 (19.01%) Electronics
5 45 (15.85%) Finance
6 29 (10.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (7.75%) Banking
8 21 (7.39%) Retail
9 19 (6.69%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (6.34%) Public Sector
11 17 (5.99%) Pharmaceutical
12 15 (5.28%) Telecoms
13 10 (3.52%) Automotive
14 9 (3.17%) Aerospace
15 7 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (2.11%) Marketing
17 5 (1.76%) Law
17 5 (1.76%) Military
18 4 (1.41%) Social Housing
19 2 (0.70%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 48 (16.90%) Senior
2 33 (11.62%) Lead
3 28 (9.86%) Automation Engineer
4 21 (7.39%) Analyst
5 19 (6.69%) Developer
6 17 (5.99%) Data Scientist
6 17 (5.99%) Embedded Engineer
7 14 (4.93%) Electronics Engineer
7 14 (4.93%) Statistician
8 13 (4.58%) Architect
8 13 (4.58%) Design Engineer
8 13 (4.58%) QA Specialist
8 13 (4.58%) Validation Specialist
9 12 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.52%) Cloud Security Architect
11 10 (3.52%) Senior Architect
11 10 (3.52%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.52%) XML
2 6 (2.11%) Playwright
2 6 (2.11%) Terraform
2 6 (2.11%) Yocto
3 5 (1.76%) .NET
3 5 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.41%) EDI
4 4 (1.41%) PySpark
4 4 (1.41%) pytest
4 4 (1.41%) Unity DI Container
4 4 (1.41%) YAML
5 3 (1.06%) RESTful
6 2 (0.70%) Blazor
6 2 (0.70%) Django
6 2 (0.70%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.70%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.70%) REST
6 2 (0.70%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.70%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.27%) SCADA
2 28 (9.86%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.34%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.93%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (3.87%) IoT
7 10 (3.52%) NHS
8 9 (3.17%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.17%) Robotics
9 8 (2.82%) ARM Cortex
9 8 (2.82%) FMCG
10 7 (2.46%) Client/Server
10 7 (2.46%) Driving Licence
11 6 (2.11%) Analogue Electronics
11 6 (2.11%) Cloud Native
11 6 (2.11%) Device Driver
12 4 (1.41%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.34%) Linux
2 6 (2.11%) Android
2 6 (2.11%) Windows
3 4 (1.41%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.70%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 54 (19.01%) Cybersecurity
4 45 (15.85%) Computer Science
5 41 (14.44%) Agile
5 41 (14.44%) AI
5 41 (14.44%) Business Intelligence
5 41 (14.44%) Test Automation
6 38 (13.38%) Customer Requirements
7 36 (12.68%) CI/CD
8 32 (11.27%) Risk Management
9 31 (10.92%) Data Science
10 30 (10.56%) Decision-Making
10 30 (10.56%) Software Testing
11 29 (10.21%) Verification and Validation
12 28 (9.86%) ERP
13 26 (9.15%) Migration
14 24 (8.45%) Data Management
14 24 (8.45%) Project Management
14 24 (8.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.01%) SQL
2 53 (18.66%) Python
3 21 (7.39%) C
4 18 (6.34%) Java
5 11 (3.87%) C++
5 11 (3.87%) Embedded C
5 11 (3.87%) MATLAB
6 5 (1.76%) Bash
7 3 (1.06%) C#
7 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.35%) R
9 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 100 (35.21%) Degree
2 36 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 29 (10.21%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.39%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.82%) HND
6 8 (2.82%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.46%) HNC
7 7 (2.46%) PMP
8 3 (1.06%) CISA
8 3 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.70%) ACCA
9 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.70%) CIMA
9 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.70%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.56%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.45%) QA
3 10 (3.52%) GRC
4 7 (2.46%) GDPR
5 6 (2.11%) ISO 9001
5 6 (2.11%) JTAG
6 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.06%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.70%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.70%) MISRA
7 2 (0.70%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) GxP
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
8 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 29 (10.21%) Firmware
2 20 (7.04%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.41%) Docker
5 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.76%) Ansible
2 4 (1.41%) Grafana
2 4 (1.41%) HP Fortify
2 4 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.06%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.58%) EMC
3 12 (4.23%) Cisco
3 12 (4.23%) Oracle
4 10 (3.52%) CrowdStrike
4 10 (3.52%) Palo Alto
4 10 (3.52%) Tenable
5 8 (2.82%) SAP
6 6 (2.11%) Infor
7 4 (1.41%) Cadence
7 4 (1.41%) Veracode
8 3 (1.06%) Google
8 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.06%) Siemens
9 2 (0.70%) Rockwell
9 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.35%) ANSYS
10 1 (0.35%) Apple
10 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.35%) Planview