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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 60 187
Rank change year-on-year -17 +127 -72
Permanent jobs citing Validation 301 259 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.91% 4.59% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 5.28% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 172 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% -4.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,438 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,900 £58,800
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.90% -14.62%

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 11,066 4,905 7,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.30% 86.88% 80.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,818 2,833 3,620
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.27% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £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% -1.64%

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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 5 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 5 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 +51 170 £47,500 -13.64% 268
East Midlands -43 131 £50,000 +17.65% 153
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 6 (1.99%) CMS
2 3 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.66%) Apache
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.66%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 14 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.99%) OrCAD
2 9 (2.99%) Simulink
2 9 (2.99%) SOLIDWORKS
3 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.33%) Notion
6 2 (0.66%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.33%) CANalyzer
7 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (2.33%) Infor M3
2 3 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.33%) Maximo
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.33%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 33 (10.96%) Power Platform
2 25 (8.31%) Azure
3 14 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.32%) AWS
5 9 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (2.99%) GitHub
6 8 (2.66%) Serverless
7 5 (1.66%) GCP
7 5 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.00%) Oracle CX
8 3 (1.00%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (0.66%) AWS IoT
9 2 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.63%) Modbus
2 17 (5.65%) VLAN
3 16 (5.32%) OSPF
4 13 (4.32%) Ethernet
5 12 (3.99%) TCP/IP
6 11 (3.65%) VPN
7 10 (3.32%) DMZ
7 10 (3.32%) IPv4
8 9 (2.99%) Wireshark
9 7 (2.33%) LAN
9 7 (2.33%) WAN
9 7 (2.33%) Wireless
10 6 (1.99%) BGP
10 6 (1.99%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (1.99%) MQTT
10 6 (1.99%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.99%) ZigBee
11 5 (1.66%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.66%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.96%) Power BI
2 12 (3.99%) Tableau
3 7 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.66%) Metadata
5 4 (1.33%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (1.33%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.33%) GIS
5 4 (1.33%) Parquet
5 4 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.00%) DTS
6 3 (1.00%) MySQL
6 3 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (7.31%) Git
2 14 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.99%) GitLab
4 10 (3.32%) LabVIEW
5 9 (2.99%) Eclipse
5 9 (2.99%) JIRA
6 8 (2.66%) Snyk
7 6 (1.99%) GDB
7 6 (1.99%) Selenium
8 5 (1.66%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.66%) JMeter
9 4 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.33%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (1.33%) Postman
9 4 (1.33%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.33%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.33%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.00%) Gatling
General
1 79 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 78 (25.91%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (20.93%) Manufacturing
4 58 (19.27%) Electronics
5 53 (17.61%) Finance
6 38 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (6.98%) Banking
8 20 (6.64%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (6.64%) Retail
9 17 (5.65%) Public Sector
9 17 (5.65%) Telecoms
10 16 (5.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (4.32%) Marketing
12 11 (3.65%) Aerospace
12 11 (3.65%) Automotive
13 8 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.66%) French Language
14 5 (1.66%) Law
14 5 (1.66%) Military
15 4 (1.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 45 (14.95%) Senior
2 33 (10.96%) Lead
3 31 (10.30%) Automation Engineer
4 23 (7.64%) Analyst
5 19 (6.31%) Developer
6 17 (5.65%) Data Scientist
7 16 (5.32%) Design Engineer
7 16 (5.32%) Electronics Engineer
7 16 (5.32%) Embedded Engineer
8 14 (4.65%) Architect
8 14 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (4.65%) Statistician
9 12 (3.99%) Electrical Engineer
9 12 (3.99%) QA Specialist
9 12 (3.99%) Validation Specialist
10 11 (3.65%) Control Systems Engineer
11 10 (3.32%) Performance Manager
11 10 (3.32%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 10 (3.32%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.32%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.32%) XML
2 6 (1.99%) .NET
2 6 (1.99%) Terraform
2 6 (1.99%) Yocto
3 5 (1.66%) Playwright
4 4 (1.33%) EDI
4 4 (1.33%) PySpark
4 4 (1.33%) pytest
4 4 (1.33%) Unity DI Container
4 4 (1.33%) YAML
5 3 (1.00%) Blazor
5 3 (1.00%) Django
5 3 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.00%) REST
5 3 (1.00%) RESTful
6 2 (0.66%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.66%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.66%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.66%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.96%) SCADA
2 29 (9.63%) Management Information System
3 17 (5.65%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (5.32%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (3.65%) IoT
7 10 (3.32%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.32%) NHS
7 10 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.32%) Robotics
8 9 (2.99%) FMCG
9 8 (2.66%) Driving Licence
10 7 (2.33%) ARM Cortex
10 7 (2.33%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.99%) Analogue Electronics
11 6 (1.99%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.99%) Device Driver
12 5 (1.66%) Credit Risk
13 3 (1.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.98%) Linux
2 6 (1.99%) Android
2 6 (1.99%) Windows
3 3 (1.00%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (22.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 56 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (15.61%) Computer Science
5 45 (14.95%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (14.62%) Agile
7 43 (14.29%) AI
7 43 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
8 41 (13.62%) Test Automation
9 37 (12.29%) CI/CD
10 34 (11.30%) Decision-Making
10 34 (11.30%) Risk Management
11 32 (10.63%) Data Science
12 31 (10.30%) Verification and Validation
13 30 (9.97%) ERP
14 29 (9.63%) Software Testing
15 28 (9.30%) Migration
16 27 (8.97%) Analytics
16 27 (8.97%) Project Management
17 26 (8.64%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 57 (18.94%) SQL
2 55 (18.27%) Python
3 21 (6.98%) C
4 18 (5.98%) Java
5 11 (3.65%) C++
5 11 (3.65%) Embedded C
6 10 (3.32%) MATLAB
7 5 (1.66%) Bash
7 5 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.33%) C#
9 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.66%) R
11 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 106 (35.22%) Degree
2 39 (12.96%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.30%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.31%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.65%) HND
7 9 (2.99%) HNC
7 9 (2.99%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.66%) PMP
9 3 (1.00%) CISA
9 3 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.66%) ACCA
10 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.66%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.66%) CIMA
10 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.66%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.30%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.97%) QA
3 9 (2.99%) GDPR
3 9 (2.99%) GRC
4 8 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.99%) ISO 9001
5 6 (1.99%) JTAG
6 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.66%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.66%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.33%) GAMP
9 1 (0.33%) GMP
9 1 (0.33%) GxP
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (9.63%) Firmware
2 20 (6.64%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.99%) Docker
5 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.66%) Ansible
1 5 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.00%) Grafana
2 3 (1.00%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.66%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.65%) EMC
3 12 (3.99%) Cisco
3 12 (3.99%) Oracle
4 11 (3.65%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.99%) SAP
6 8 (2.66%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (2.66%) Palo Alto
6 8 (2.66%) Tenable
7 7 (2.33%) Infor
8 6 (1.99%) Adobe
8 6 (1.99%) Cadence
8 6 (1.99%) Samsung
8 6 (1.99%) TikTok
9 4 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.00%) Google
10 3 (1.00%) Siemens
10 3 (1.00%) Veracode
11 2 (0.66%) Keysight
11 2 (0.66%) Rockwell