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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 186 92
Rank change year-on-year +49 -94 -37
Permanent jobs citing Validation 81 78 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.34% 0.89% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.06% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 49 42 69
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,375 £44,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +6.38%
75th Percentile £61,875 £53,750 £57,250
90th Percentile £75,900 £58,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.93% +2.92%

All Process and 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 4,931 7,327 4,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.82% 83.99% 92.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,306 3,274 3,530
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,367 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 26 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +49 51 £47,500 -5.00% 61
East Midlands +36 30 £42,500 -10.53% 30
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 4 (4.94%) CMS
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.23%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (6.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.23%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (6.17%) Azure
2 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.70%) AWS
3 3 (3.70%) dbt
3 3 (3.70%) SaaS
4 2 (2.47%) GitHub
4 2 (2.47%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (1.23%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.23%) BigCommerce
5 1 (1.23%) Datadog
5 1 (1.23%) GCP
5 1 (1.23%) OCI
5 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.23%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.64%) Ethernet
1 7 (8.64%) Modbus
1 7 (8.64%) Profibus
2 4 (4.94%) 3GPP
3 2 (2.47%) Firewall
3 2 (2.47%) Internet
3 2 (2.47%) MPLS
4 1 (1.23%) Broadband
4 1 (1.23%) HTTP
4 1 (1.23%) NAS
4 1 (1.23%) PuTTY
4 1 (1.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) Tableau
2 10 (12.35%) BigQuery
3 5 (6.17%) Power BI
3 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.47%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.23%) Big Data
6 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.23%) HBase
6 1 (1.23%) Impala
6 1 (1.23%) Looker
6 1 (1.23%) Metadata
6 1 (1.23%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.23%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.23%) Power Query
6 1 (1.23%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) JIRA
1 9 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (4.94%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) Postman
3 2 (2.47%) Selenium
4 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.23%) JMeter
4 1 (1.23%) JUnit
4 1 (1.23%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.23%) Locust
4 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.23%) TestComplete
4 1 (1.23%) TestRail
4 1 (1.23%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (18.52%) Manufacturing
4 13 (16.05%) Finance
5 11 (13.58%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (12.35%) Electronics
7 8 (9.88%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (9.88%) Retail
8 5 (6.17%) Aerospace
9 4 (4.94%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.70%) Automotive
10 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.47%) Avionics
11 2 (2.47%) Back Office
11 2 (2.47%) Marketing
11 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.23%) Advertising
12 1 (1.23%) Games
12 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (25.93%) Analyst
2 18 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 11 (13.58%) Data Analyst
4 9 (11.11%) Data Quality Analyst
4 9 (11.11%) Lead
4 9 (11.11%) Quality Analyst
5 7 (8.64%) Control Systems Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Systems Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) IT Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Senior
9 3 (3.70%) ERP Analyst
9 3 (3.70%) Junior
9 3 (3.70%) QA Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Requirements Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Systems Manager
10 2 (2.47%) Architect
10 2 (2.47%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.47%) REST
1 2 (2.47%) XML
2 1 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.23%) Deno
2 1 (1.23%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.23%) HTML
2 1 (1.23%) JSON
2 1 (1.23%) Kafka
2 1 (1.23%) Laravel
2 1 (1.23%) Node.js
2 1 (1.23%) ODBC
2 1 (1.23%) Playwright
2 1 (1.23%) Plotly
2 1 (1.23%) PySpark
2 1 (1.23%) React
2 1 (1.23%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.23%) Shiny
2 1 (1.23%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (1.23%) Vue
2 1 (1.23%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) SCADA
2 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.47%) TM Forum
4 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.23%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.23%) Replication
5 1 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.23%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Unix
2 1 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.63%) Migration
2 20 (24.69%) Data Cleansing
3 19 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (22.22%) Agile
4 18 (22.22%) Data Validation
4 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (20.99%) ERP
6 16 (19.75%) Verification and Validation
7 14 (17.28%) Systems Engineering
8 13 (16.05%) Mentoring
9 12 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (14.81%) Visualisation
10 10 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (12.35%) Data Visualisation
11 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
11 9 (11.11%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 9 (11.11%) Requirements Management
11 9 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
12 8 (9.88%) Test Automation
12 8 (9.88%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.57%) SQL
2 16 (19.75%) Python
3 7 (8.64%) Ladder Logic
4 3 (3.70%) Java
5 2 (2.47%) C++
5 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.47%) R
6 1 (1.23%) Bash
6 1 (1.23%) C
6 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.23%) Embedded C
6 1 (1.23%) Groovy
6 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.23%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.23%) PHP
6 1 (1.23%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (32.10%) Degree
2 13 (16.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) City & Guilds
6 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.23%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.52%) Data Quality
1 15 (18.52%) QA
2 10 (12.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 4 (4.94%) NCSC
4 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.47%) NIST
5 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.47%) SLA
6 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.23%) COSHH
6 1 (1.23%) PMO
6 1 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.23%) DFS Replication
2 1 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) Grafana
1 2 (2.47%) Terraform
2 1 (1.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.23%) Kibana
2 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.23%) logstash
2 1 (1.23%) Oozie
2 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.35%) SAP
3 7 (8.64%) Allen-Bradley
3 7 (8.64%) Rockwell
3 7 (8.64%) Siemens
4 5 (6.17%) Oracle
5 3 (3.70%) IBM
6 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.23%) BMC
7 1 (1.23%) BT
7 1 (1.23%) Civica
7 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.23%) IFS
7 1 (1.23%) Informatica
7 1 (1.23%) Juniper
7 1 (1.23%) Magma
7 1 (1.23%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.23%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.23%) Remedy