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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 105 118
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 -39
Permanent jobs citing Validation 143 122 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.17% 2.50% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.80% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 97 58 109
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £47,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £58,000
90th Percentile £68,750 - £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -11.41%

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 8,983 4,350 9,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 73.67% 89.19% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,291 2,606 7,083
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,820 £65,000 £61,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -16 92 £44,360 -33.04% 77
East Midlands -50 49 £32,000 -37.25% 39
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 23 (16.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.10%) Solid Edge
3 3 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.40%) CATIA
4 2 (1.40%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.70%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.70%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.70%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.59%) Power Platform
2 9 (6.29%) Azure
3 7 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (4.90%) Serverless
4 6 (4.20%) SaaS
5 5 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.80%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.10%) AWS
7 3 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.10%) Datadog
7 3 (2.10%) dbt
7 3 (2.10%) PaaS
7 3 (2.10%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.10%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.40%) GCP
8 2 (1.40%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.40%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) Broadband
2 3 (2.10%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.40%) HTTP
3 2 (1.40%) Modbus
3 2 (1.40%) SMS
4 1 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.70%) Firewall
4 1 (0.70%) IPsec
4 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.70%) WAN
4 1 (0.70%) WebEx
4 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.70%) Wireless
4 1 (0.70%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.59%) Power BI
2 10 (6.99%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (4.20%) Power Query
3 6 (4.20%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.50%) Metadata
5 4 (2.80%) Tableau
6 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.40%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.40%) Looker
6 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.70%) DTS
7 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (4.90%) Snyk
3 6 (4.20%) Cucumber
3 6 (4.20%) Selenium
4 5 (3.50%) JIRA
4 5 (3.50%) JMeter
5 4 (2.80%) Git
5 4 (2.80%) Postman
6 3 (2.10%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.10%) Locust
6 3 (2.10%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.40%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.40%) Gatling
7 2 (1.40%) GitLab
7 2 (1.40%) HP UFT
7 2 (1.40%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.40%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.40%) TestRail
8 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 39 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.49%) Manufacturing
3 13 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (6.99%) Law
5 8 (5.59%) Games
6 7 (4.90%) Electronics
6 7 (4.90%) Marketing
6 7 (4.90%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.50%) Finance
7 5 (3.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.50%) Retail
8 4 (2.80%) Automotive
8 4 (2.80%) iGaming
8 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.70%) Advertising
11 1 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (24.48%) Analyst
2 30 (20.98%) Senior
3 24 (16.78%) Systems Engineer
4 21 (14.69%) Junior
5 16 (11.19%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 15 (10.49%) Junior Analyst
7 14 (9.79%) Support Analyst
8 11 (7.69%) Oracle Analyst
9 10 (6.99%) Administrator
9 10 (6.99%) Junior Support Analyst
9 10 (6.99%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
9 10 (6.99%) Oracle Payroll Support
9 10 (6.99%) Oracle Support Analyst
10 9 (6.29%) Data Analyst
10 9 (6.29%) Lead
11 8 (5.59%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (5.59%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 7 (4.90%) Security Architect
12 7 (4.90%) Senior Architect
12 7 (4.90%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.20%) Playwright
2 3 (2.10%) Gherkin
2 3 (2.10%) Node.js
2 3 (2.10%) React
2 3 (2.10%) REST
2 3 (2.10%) Vue
3 2 (1.40%) .NET
3 2 (1.40%) CSS
3 2 (1.40%) Deno
3 2 (1.40%) HTML
3 2 (1.40%) Laravel
3 2 (1.40%) OpenCV
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.40%) Pandas
3 2 (1.40%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.40%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (1.40%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.40%) XML
3 2 (1.40%) Yii
4 1 (0.70%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.90%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.10%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.10%) Robotics
3 3 (2.10%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.40%) ARM Cortex
4 2 (1.40%) CSOC
4 2 (1.40%) CUDA
4 2 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (1.40%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (1.40%) Lidar
4 2 (1.40%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.40%) PKI
4 2 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.40%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.40%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.40%) FreeRTOS
1 2 (1.40%) Kali Linux
1 2 (1.40%) Linux
1 2 (1.40%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (0.70%) Android
2 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (16.78%) Systems Engineering
3 24 (16.78%) Verification and Validation
4 20 (13.99%) Data Validation
4 20 (13.99%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 19 (13.29%) AI
5 19 (13.29%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (12.59%) CI/CD
6 18 (12.59%) Migration
6 18 (12.59%) Process Improvement
7 17 (11.89%) Decision-Making
8 16 (11.19%) Computer Science
9 15 (10.49%) Agile
9 15 (10.49%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (10.49%) End-to-End Testing
9 15 (10.49%) ERP
10 14 (9.79%) SDLC
10 14 (9.79%) System Testing
11 13 (9.09%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 47 (32.87%) SQL
2 17 (11.89%) Python
3 7 (4.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.20%) C++
4 6 (4.20%) Java
5 4 (2.80%) C
5 4 (2.80%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.10%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.10%) VBA
7 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.40%) PHP
7 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.70%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.70%) Groovy
8 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (19.58%) Degree
2 22 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (5.59%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.50%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.80%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.10%) HND
7 2 (1.40%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.40%) HNC
7 2 (1.40%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.40%) PhD
8 1 (0.70%) CISA
8 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.38%) QA
2 19 (13.29%) Data Quality
3 18 (12.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 7 (4.90%) Accessibility
4 7 (4.90%) GRC
5 6 (4.20%) GDPR
6 3 (2.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (2.10%) WCAG
7 2 (1.40%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.40%) MISRA
7 2 (1.40%) MISRA C
7 2 (1.40%) SLA
8 1 (0.70%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.70%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.80%) Docker
2 4 (2.80%) Firmware
3 2 (1.40%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.50%) Grafana
1 5 (3.50%) Terraform
2 4 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.40%) Functional Safety
3 2 (1.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 24 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.79%) Oracle
3 7 (4.90%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (4.90%) Palo Alto
3 7 (4.90%) Tenable
4 4 (2.80%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.80%) SAP
5 2 (1.40%) Cisco
5 2 (1.40%) Databricks
5 2 (1.40%) Google
5 2 (1.40%) Veracode
6 1 (0.70%) Aruba
6 1 (0.70%) Ekahau
6 1 (0.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.70%) IFS
6 1 (0.70%) Juniper
6 1 (0.70%) Sonatype