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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 41 148
Rank change year-on-year -67 +107 -62
Permanent jobs citing Validation 165 301 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.29% 6.00% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 6.71% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 105 60 95
10th Percentile £30,000 £46,050 £36,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £47,000 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £57,750
90th Percentile £68,450 - £65,800
England median annual salary £56,465 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.83% +1.82% -12.00%

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 9,122 4,484 10,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 71.16% 89.41% 79.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,877 2,470 7,475
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,863 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £49,795 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +4.83% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

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

Validation
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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -15 100 £44,000 -32.31% 93
East Midlands -84 63 £30,000 -42.31% 51
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:

Applications
1 16 (9.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.82%) Solid Edge
2 3 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.21%) CATIA
3 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.21%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.61%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.61%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 25 (15.15%) Power Platform
2 14 (8.48%) Azure
3 10 (6.06%) Serverless
4 8 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.42%) SaaS
7 4 (2.42%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.82%) AWS
8 3 (1.82%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.82%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.21%) Datadog
9 2 (1.21%) dbt
9 2 (1.21%) GCP
9 2 (1.21%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.21%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.21%) PaaS
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) Wireless
2 5 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.42%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.42%) Broadband
3 4 (2.42%) MQTT
3 4 (2.42%) ZigBee
4 3 (1.82%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.21%) Firewall
5 2 (1.21%) Modbus
5 2 (1.21%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.21%) SMS
5 2 (1.21%) WAN
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.61%) DNS
6 1 (0.61%) IPsec
6 1 (0.61%) SNMP
6 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.61%) VPN
6 1 (0.61%) WebEx
6 1 (0.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.15%) Power BI
2 10 (6.06%) Tableau
3 8 (4.85%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (4.24%) Metadata
5 6 (3.64%) Power Query
6 3 (1.82%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.21%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.21%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.21%) Looker
7 2 (1.21%) MySQL
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.61%) DTS
8 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.06%) Snyk
2 8 (4.85%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.24%) GitLab
4 6 (3.64%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.64%) Git
4 6 (3.64%) Selenium
5 5 (3.03%) JMeter
6 4 (2.42%) GDB
6 4 (2.42%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (2.42%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.42%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.82%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.82%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.82%) Gatling
7 3 (1.82%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.82%) JIRA
7 3 (1.82%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.82%) Postman
7 3 (1.82%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.21%) Locust
General
1 35 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.12%) Finance
4 17 (10.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (9.09%) Banking
5 15 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.85%) Law
7 7 (4.24%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.64%) Games
8 6 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.03%) Electronics
9 5 (3.03%) Retail
10 4 (2.42%) iGaming
10 4 (2.42%) Marketing
10 4 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.21%) Automotive
12 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.61%) Legal
13 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (17.58%) Senior
2 28 (16.97%) Analyst
3 18 (10.91%) Junior
4 17 (10.30%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (9.70%) Developer
6 15 (9.09%) Data Scientist
7 14 (8.48%) Statistician
8 12 (7.27%) Junior Analyst
9 11 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 10 (6.06%) Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Cloud Security Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Security Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Senior Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Senior Security Architect
11 9 (5.45%) Administrator
11 9 (5.45%) Data Analyst
11 9 (5.45%) Oracle Analyst
12 8 (4.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.64%) Playwright
2 4 (2.42%) pytest
2 4 (2.42%) Unity DI Container
2 4 (2.42%) Yocto
3 2 (1.21%) .NET
3 2 (1.21%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.21%) OpenCV
3 2 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.21%) Pandas
3 2 (1.21%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.21%) REST
3 2 (1.21%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.61%) EDI
4 1 (0.61%) JSON
4 1 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.61%) RESTful
4 1 (0.61%) Spring
4 1 (0.61%) XML
4 1 (0.61%) XSLT
4 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.64%) ARM Cortex
3 6 (3.64%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (3.64%) NHS
4 5 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.42%) Device Driver
5 4 (2.42%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.42%) IoT
6 3 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.82%) Robotics
6 3 (1.82%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.21%) CSOC
7 2 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.21%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.21%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.24%) Linux
2 3 (1.82%) Kali Linux
3 2 (1.21%) Android
3 2 (1.21%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.21%) FreeRTOS
3 2 (1.21%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (23.03%) AI
3 27 (16.36%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (15.15%) CI/CD
5 25 (15.15%) Decision-Making
6 24 (14.55%) Actionable Insight
7 21 (12.73%) Computer Science
7 21 (12.73%) Risk Management
8 19 (11.52%) Data Validation
8 19 (11.52%) Process Improvement
8 19 (11.52%) Statistics
9 18 (10.91%) Collaborative Working
9 18 (10.91%) Data Science
9 18 (10.91%) Machine Learning
9 18 (10.91%) Roadmaps
10 17 (10.30%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (9.70%) Analytics
11 16 (9.70%) Deep Learning
11 16 (9.70%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 43 (26.06%) SQL
2 36 (21.82%) Python
3 9 (5.45%) C++
4 7 (4.24%) C
4 7 (4.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.24%) Java
5 4 (2.42%) Bash
5 4 (2.42%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.82%) VBA
7 2 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.21%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.61%) Groovy
8 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.61%) R
8 1 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (18.18%) Degree
2 13 (7.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.24%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.42%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.82%) CISA
7 3 (1.82%) HND
8 2 (1.21%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.21%) HNC
8 2 (1.21%) PhD
9 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.73%) Data Quality
2 20 (12.12%) QA
3 12 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 10 (6.06%) GRC
5 6 (3.64%) Accessibility
6 5 (3.03%) GDPR
7 4 (2.42%) JTAG
8 3 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.21%) IEC 61508
9 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (1.21%) MISRA
9 2 (1.21%) MISRA C
9 2 (1.21%) SLA
9 2 (1.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.61%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.61%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.61%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.61%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.42%) Firmware
3 3 (1.82%) Docker
4 2 (1.21%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.03%) Grafana
2 4 (2.42%) Terraform
3 3 (1.82%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.21%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.88%) Oracle
3 10 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
3 10 (6.06%) Palo Alto
3 10 (6.06%) Tenable
4 6 (3.64%) SAP
5 4 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.82%) Cisco
6 3 (1.82%) Veracode
7 2 (1.21%) Databricks
7 2 (1.21%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.21%) Google
7 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.61%) Apple
8 1 (0.61%) Aruba
8 1 (0.61%) Ekahau
8 1 (0.61%) Juniper
8 1 (0.61%) Meraki
8 1 (0.61%) Sonatype